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Electronic Documents (MS Word)

  • XU online tutorials
  • Learning Express Library (set up an account in the library to use off-campus)
  • Microsoft Office online training
  • Add page numbers and dates
  • Customize headers and footers
  • Insert and modify tables
  • Insert text boxes, graphics and images
  • Create and alter numbered lists
  • Insert hypertext links
  • Set printing properties and preferences
  • Ctrl C, V, & X
  • Highlighting text
  • Word wrap
  • Page breaks
  • Section breaks
  • Footnotes
  • Hanging indentation
  • Change case
  • Change margins
  • Insert comments

Electronic Collaboration

  • Use Xavier's network resources for class-related and personal work
  • Be familiar with file management
  • Be informed of file back-up strategies
  • Join and participate in a listserv, blog or online bulletin board
  • Participate in an online discussion group or chat
  • Email (instructions are for Outlook, the client)
    • XU online tutorials
    • Learning Express Library (set up an account in the library to use off-campus)
    • Microsoft Office online training
    • Messaging - composing, sending, opening, replying, forwarding, deleting, addressing, recalling, attachments, out of office assistant, and searching for messages
    • Managing contacts - adding, creating from a message, sorting, finding, editing, and deleting.
    • Creating a signature
    • Archiving emails - auto archiving, drag and drop to personal folders.
  • Understand how to use Blackboard
  • Understand how to use MyXU, the campus portal
    • Accessing, customization, calendar, course studio, group studio
    • Video tour

Electronic Spreadsheets (MS Excel)

  • XU online tutorials
  • Learning Express Library (set up an account in the library to use off-campus)
  • Microsoft Office online training
  • Format the layout of the worksheet
  • Enter data
  • Formatting toolbar
  • Change the formatting within a cell
  • Select a range of cells and merge the cells
  • Move and copy cells
  • Insert rows and columns
  • Column & row width & height
  • Create a formula to analyze data
  • Create a function to perform repetitive calculations
  • Use the chart wizard to create a chart from a data display
  • Set printing preferences (print area, gridlines, orientation, etc.)
  • Describe the difference between a worksheet and a workbook
  • Import delimited data from another source
  • Sort data

Presentation Software (MS PowerPoint)

  • XU online tutorials
  • Learning Express Library (set up an account in the library to use off-campus)
  • Microsoft Office online training
  • Create a slide show using blank slides, autolayout or a design template
  • Create a slide master
  • Import tables, graphs and charts into a presentation
  • Insert text boxes, WordArt, lines and shapes
  • Manipulate an existing image for use in PowerPoint
  • Create lines and shapes
  • Use a variety of background styles
  • Prepare and insert an image as background
  • Incorporate animations, audio files and video files
  • Set printing preferences to create note pages and handouts
  • Insert a hyperlink
  • Incorporate slide transitions and custom animations
  • Use the slide sorter to edit and sequence a presentation

Publication Software (MS Publisher)

  • Microsoft Office online training
  • Create a publication from a template
  • Change the template of a publication
  • Create a “logo”
  • Create a table of contents
  • Add graphics to the publication
  • Insert and remove pages
  • Cut and paste content into the publication from another source

Graphics Software

  • Understand the different image file types (gif, jpg, bmp, tif)
  • Open an existing image
  • Resize an image maintaining proportions
  • Crop an image
  • Increase the size of the image’s canvas
  • Add text to an image
  • Change the colors in the image
  • Capture a screen shot on your computer or on the Web and import it into the graphics software
  • Scan a picture and open it in the graphics software

Database Software (Access):

  • XU online tutorials
  • Learning Express Library (set up an account in the library to use off-campus)
  • Microsoft Office online training
  • Understand basic concepts foundational to relational databases
  • Create simple data tables in Access
  • Enter, edit and manipulate data
  • Set data types and field properties
  • Create related tables in Access
  • Use & modify Autoforms
  • Create & customize forms using Form Wizard
  • Conduct a simple query
  • Add criteria to queries
  • Produce simple auto-reports and graphical reports

Student Research and Evaluation

Information Law and Ethics

Web Authoring Software (FrontPage)

  • Microsoft Office online training
  • Understand the basic concepts of good web design
  • Understand how web pages differ from other types of electronic documents
  • Understand how to plan a simple website
  • Know how to create a homepage and secondary page
  • Know how to add text to a page
  • Understand how to copy and paste text into a web page from another source
  • Know how to modify text on a page: bold, italics, size and color
  • Know how to change the background of a page
  • Understand the types of images tat can be used in webpages
  • Know how to add an image to a page
  • Understand how to align an image with text on a page
  • Know how to insert a table and enter information into the table
  • Know how to link to secondary page
  • Know how to link to an external website
  • Understand how to publish your pages to a web server

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