Help your students learn basic typing and online navigational skills. Throughout this Career and Technical Elective, students practice proper keyboarding techniques with the goal of increasing their typing speed and accuracy during daily lessons. Students also learn to create a variety of business documents, including electronic presentations and word-processing documents that utilize columns, graphics, and bulleted lists. 

This practical online course also gives students practice employing technical skills, effective communication skills, and productive work habits. As they learn to navigate the web, students discover how to identify reliable online sources and practice sending and receiving emails. Additional topics of study include computer hardware, operating systems, and file management.

• Computer hardware, software, and emerging business technologies
• Keyboarding fundamentals, including the number keypad and typing speed tests
• Keyboard shortcuts for both Windows and Mac operating systems
• Understanding and navigating computer operating systems and file management
• Configuring the desktop
• Word processing basics: writing, editing, formatting, and email composition
• Advanced word processing projects like creating newsletters
• Introduction to presentation software and its real-world applications
• Building presentations with text, graphics, effects, layout, and design
• Using the internet safely and effectively, including evaluating online resources
• History of the internet

Elective: Career and Technical

• Online Program

• Ignitia

No

One Semester

Not Applicable

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