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SYLLABUS
FOR THE STANDARD LEVEL ICT COURSE (CORE MODULE): |
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SECTIONS |
During
the course the student will be taught: |
In the
final examination and in practical work-related situations the student will
demonstrate the following: |
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COMMUNICATION |
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How to: |
Specific
skills. |
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E-mail: |
1 |
Read an
e-mail |
Open a
message |
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2 |
Send an
e-mail |
New
message, address, subject, reply, forward, carbon copy, blind carbon copy |
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3 |
Send a
file |
Attach
file(s) |
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4 |
Receive a
file |
Save
attached file |
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Internet: |
5 |
Locate
information from a website |
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6 |
Search for
information |
Search
using search engine |
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7 |
Download
information |
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DOCUMENT
PRODUCTION |
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How to: |
Specific
skills. |
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Enter
data: |
1 |
Load data |
Load from
an existing file |
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2 |
Key in
text and numbers |
Enter with
no more than 3 errors |
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3 |
Import
image - place and manipulate |
Import clip
art, import from digital source, import from file, import from website, move,
resize, crop, text wrap |
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Include
information downloaded from the Internet |
Position
text, graphic image, table, chart |
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Format
document: |
1 |
Set page size |
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2 |
Set page
orientation |
Portrait,
landscape |
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3 |
Set up
page numbers and position |
Header,
footer |
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4 |
Set
margins |
Top,
bottom, left, right |
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5 |
Set line
spacing |
Single,
1.5 times, double |
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6 |
Set
alignment |
Left,
centred, right, fully justified |
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Text
appearance & layout: |
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Use
indentation |
Indent
text or paragraph, hanging indent |
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2 |
Use bullet
points |
Bulleted
list |
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3 |
Insert and
use tables |
Number of rows
and columns |
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4 |
Control
pages |
Use page
break, widows orphans |
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5 |
Set font
size |
Point
size, increase, decrease |
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DATA
MANIPULATION |
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How to: |
Specific
skills. |
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Enter
data from different sources: |
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Load from
existing file |
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2 |
Enter data |
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Perform
calculations on numeric data: |
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Enter
formulae |
Calculated
field, run time calculation, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division,
sum, average, maximum, minimum, count |
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Reorganise
data: |
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Sort |
Ascending,
descending, alphanumeric, numeric, data |
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2 |
Select
subsets (groups) |
And, or,
not, >, <, =, Wildcards |
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Display
features used for report: |
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Display
fields |
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2 |
Display
text |
Titles |
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3 |
Use
specified layout |
Header,
footer, page layout, label production |
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D |
INTEGRATION |
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How to: |
Specific
skills. |
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1 |
Combine
text, image and numeric data into single file |
Import text,
import from database, import clip art, from digital source, from website,
cut, copy, paste |
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OUTPUT |
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How to: |
Specific
skills. |
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1 |
Save and
print document |
Draft
document, final copy, e-mail, file attachment |
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2 |
Save and
print data |
Database
report, data table |
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3 |
Save data
in format suitable for importing into text based document |
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