COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
Course Outline and Grading Policy

Course Description
This course is designed to give students reinforcement of the computer instruction received at the middle school. This reinforcement will prepare students to perform on computers at a high school level and enable them to deal more efficiently with future assignments. Emphasis will include proper keying methods and formatting of word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentation techniques. Microsoft Office software will be used.

Course Outline

Microsoft Word: Creating, editing, and formatting documents, moving and copying text, spell and grammar check, page numbering, headers/footers, footnotes, endnotes, search/replace, tables, sorting text, margins, line spacing and borders.

Microsoft Excel: Creating, editing, and formatting spreadsheets, plan and design a spreadsheet, create/display formulas, spell-check, find/replace, cut, copy and paste, tab, renaming worksheets, autofill, deleting and inserting cells, rows, and columns, applying text and cell attributes, name cells, ranges, and constants, create and modify charts.

Microsoft PowerPoint: Creating, editing, and formatting presentations, creation of slides, slide shows, transitions, templates and insertion of images.

Extra Help
Extra help will be offered during study hall, before school, or after school by appointment only.