Advanced Office and Collaboration Tools

This course focuses on creating and maintaining complex documents, such as reports and proposals, that contain text, data and images from multiple contributors. Students gain hands-on experience with the advanced features of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2010. They also use online collaboration tools, such as SharePoint 2010 or GoogleDocs.

The course offers recommended activities with step-by-step instructions and video guides. Students will also learn by exploring challenges that interest them in particular. They pick the tasks they want to master, learn through experimentation and guided online research, and explain their findings to the class in a blog. This approach lets students build a personal learning network/library of resources to help them keep their skills fresh in the future. Students may collaborate with others in the course or work on their own.

Note: The use of GoogleDocs is a core component of this course, and as such, participants will be required to create a Google account. Google Docs are hosted on servers located in the United States, and as such, are subject to the legislative requirements of the U.S.

Prerequisite: Computing Concepts or equivalent experience

Text: Web-based readings only

Not eligible for CBIS/CBA/DBA credit.