Digital Literacy (IT for Non-IT Professionals)

Overview

Digital Literacy is an introductory program intended for those who have limited or no working experience of computers. The major emphasis of the program is to develop the basic skills that are required to create a wide range of standardized business documents. The main objective of this course is to explain to a beginner how a computer works. This course covers basics of computer, Office productivity tools and internet and email.

Course Objective

Upon successful completion of the course, participants should be able to:

• Understand the software testing life cycle
• Understand various components of computers
• Work confidently with GUI base operating system
• Create various business documents using Word Processor
• Create electronic Spreadsheets
• Work with charts and graphs
• Understand internet and its functionalities.
• Sending and receiving emails
• Create presentations
• Working with animations in presentations

Course Outline

The contents of this course are designed to support the course objectives. The following focus areas are included in this course:

• Module 1: Knowing Computer
• Module 2: Computer using GUI based Operating System
• Module 3: Understanding Word Processing
• Module 4: Using Spreadsheet
• Module 5: Communication using the Internet
• Module 6: WWW and Web Browsers
• Module 7: Communication and Collaboration
• Module 8: Making Small Presentations

Course Deliverables