CIT 20600
Advanced Computer Applications
Course Instructional Objectives
Advanced Computer Applications
Course Instructional Objectives
Advanced Topics in Word
- Build upon and use content covered in prerequisite course.
- Create a multi-page document with page breaks, section breaks, headers and footers, footnotes, and a bibliography reflecting on new word processing learning.
- Generate mail merge documents from a source document and a database.
- Create a word processing tutorial that uses graphics and screen shots to explain the steps.
Tables, Graphics, OLE, VBA
- Build upon and use content covered in prerequisite course.
- Create, format, and modify tables.
- Create charts from numerical data in tables.
- Sum numerical data in tables.
- Insert linked or embedded objects from another program into a word processing document.
- Use VBA to create an automated procedure in a word processing program.
Charts and Analysis
- Within each application create and modify charts and/or embed or link charts from other applications.
Advanced Topics in Excel
- Build upon and use content covered in prerequisite course.
- Use financial functions and data tables to analyze financial data.
- Use range names to build formulas and functions.
- Use conditional formatting to highlight worksheet components meeting several conditions.
- Use printing functions to print multi-page spreadsheets that include row and column headings, gridlines, headers and footers, and print titles.
- Protect worksheets.
- Use database functions and operations such as sort, filter, query, subtotal, extract, analyze lists of information.
- Create a web query to import data for manipulation.
- Create templates and build worksheets from the templates.
- Group worksheets in one workbook and apply common formatting and formulas.
- Link multiple sheets in one work book to a summary sheet in the same workbook.
- Link multiple workbooks to a summary workbook.
- Create charts from spreadsheet data and enhance with graphic images.
Advanced Topics in PowerPoint
- Build upon and use content covered in prerequisite course.
- Use good design principles.
- Change theme colors and fonts to modify a presentation.
- Create custom backgrounds with images and/or colors.
- Adjust slide masters for various slide layouts within a presentation.
- Create and/or modify graphics and other images.
- Hyperlink to slides within a presentation or to files in other applications with/without action buttons.
- Run a slide show using hyperlinks.
- Create and format tables.
- Create charts from numerical data.
- Create a slide show tutorial based on researching new graphic presentation software learning and incorporate principles covered in the course.
- Critique another students tutorial and report findings in a word processing document.
Advanced Topics in Access
- Build upon and use content covered in prerequisite course.
- Create forms and reports using wizards.
- View data in forms and reports.
- Update fields and enter data.
- Group, sort, subtotal, and total amounts in reports.
- Filter records, update fields, add/delete fields and create subforms in forms.
- Change the controls on forms and reports.
- Use Yes/No, Date, Memo, OLE Object, Attachment and Hyperlink fields
- Use Date, Memo and Yes/No fields in a query.
- View object dependencies.
- Create and modify Macros, Switchboards, Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts.
- Import data and create a query.