Computing Skills for Life and Work - Beginners

Subject Contents/Topics to be covered:

• Keyboard and mouse skills (understand different keys, how to click the mouse and select)
• Employability skills will be used throughout the course (communication, time keeping, organisational skills)
• Word Processing (entering, editing basic text, saving and printing)
• Internet Explorer (basic searching for information on the internet, navigating web pages and using links).

Teaching/Learning Methods:

• Hands on practice by learners
• Tutor led sessions
• One to one tutor sessions
• Worksheets and exercises
• Textbooks

Assessment Pattern:

Continuous informal tasks throughout course (a completed personal learning plan tracking your learning, examples of tasks completed).

By the end of the course the learners will be able to:

• Use keyboard and mouse skills
• Move around the Windows environment
• Use Microsoft Word 2016 to understand how to select and make choices in a program
• Use basic word processing skills
• Access the internet to do simple searches
• Understand different applications.