Course Offerings

Computer Technology Basics: Digital Literacy for the Visually Impaired

Course ID: SEF-3001PZ2
Overview
Course Outline
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Intended Audience
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Course participants with little to no experience using computers will learn the basics. Instruction will focus on learning concepts and navigating computers, devices, and the Internet. By the end of the course, students will have understood computing hardware and software principles, online fundamentals for communicating, collaborating, and socially engaging, and application essentials for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations.

Course Objectives

Keyboarding:
• Identify keyboarding platforms
• Discuss techniques to improve typing speed
• Practice typing and using appropriate finger placement

Computing Fundamentals:
• Define basic concepts
• Identify various device types
• Manage desktop and cloud computing files, folders, and settings
• Navigate operating systems
• Review troubleshooting methods for basic computer problems

Online Essentials:
• Define commonly used Internet concepts
• Navigate the web
• Create, format, and manage email
• Create, manage, and share calendars
• Define, identify, and recall social media concepts and usages for business purposes
• Identify appropriate communication methods in given situations,
• Examine online collaboration tools
• Define streaming concepts and recognize online conference technologies
• Identify best practices for professional online identity management

Application Essentials:
• Define usages for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and database concepts
• Recognize common application elements
• Identify various device types
• Create, format, and manage files

Outline of Instruction

Contact Hours

CEUs

Industry Standard, State or National Certification

Certification

None

Website

None

Certification Learning Outcomes/Requirements

CE or CU Articulation

Prerequisites

None

Learning Supplies Needed

Laptops with Screen Reader software. Participants will need an external keyboard.

Clinical Site/Special Facilities

None

Requirements for Successful Completion

90% attendance
Demonstrate an understanding of at least 80% of course material taught.

Accreditation/Special Approval Requirements

N/A

Intended Audience

Individuals who want digital literacy, employment-readiness, or want to successfully prepare for the relevant industry certification exam.

Specific Industry or Business Support Needs

Office Clerk, Office Assistant, Administrative Assistant

Wake County Need for Industry Positions

ONET reports that Office Clerk occupations are projected to have large numbers of job openings. Likewise, Burning Glass Technologies shows that Wake County has a very high demand for the Office Assistant and Administrative Assistant occupations.