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IT Training - Intermediate

New CLAIT: This course is for intermediate level learners

This course is a level 1 course.

The course aims to:

  • Help students develop ICT skills in File Management, Document Production, e-Image Creation and Database.

This leads to OCR 's Level I Certificate for IT users (New CLAIT).

By the end of the course students will be able to:

1. Use Windows XP and Microsoft Word to:

  • Gain access to data using a login and password
  • Create, open, save and print documents
  • Create, name, rename, delete, move and copy files and folders
  • Enter and amend text (move, delete, replace) as specified
  • Set page orientation, margins, and text alignment
  • Insert tables and apply borders
  • Insert headers/footers and include automatic fields
  • Use bullets/numbering, indents and word count
  • Set font type and size and emphasise text
  • Set line spacing and paragraph breaks as specified
  • Gain OCR 's File Management and e-Document Production module of New CLAIT 2006

2. Use Microsoft Publisher and Adobe Photoshop to:

  • Create a new piece of artwork of a specified size
  • Draw a variety of shapes including rectangles, squares, circles, ovals and triangles
  • Set and change the fill colour of a variety of shapes
  • Copy, move and resize graphics and pictures
  • Import pictures and manipulate them with respect to size, position, orientation and cropping
  • Use text boxes to insert text into artwork, including text rotation and amendment.
  • Use Adobe Photoshop to change photograph resolution and add text
  • Gain OCR 's e-Image Creation module of New CLAIT 2006

3. Use Microsoft Access to:

  • Access an existing database table
  • Uddate and amend existing records
  • Add records
  • Use find and replace to amend text
  • Delete records
  • Print in different page orientation
  • Create simple queries
  • Use autoreport format to create tabular and columnar reports
  • Use report wizard to create reports

IT Training Contacts

George Llewellyn
Email george.llewellyn@cityandhackneymind.org.uk

Rob Russell
Email Robbier45@lycos.co.uk
Phone 020 8525 2303

 


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