Google Docs/ Microsoft Word I

Keyboarding applications are a must have in this fast-paced digital world that we live in. In this course, learn the basics of using both Microsoft Office Suite & Google Drive, while improving your keyboarding and word processing skills. This course will also introduce the student to the basics of Google Drive striving for a paperless environment. Google Apps are fast becoming the world’s most popular online tools. This course allows for an opportunity to learn some valuable new skills in one of these applications - Google Docs. This hands-on class will give you a technology background to better prepare you for college or a job or even challenges that you may face in a virtual classroom.

Students will:

● Learn to key and format documents such as letters, resumes, memos, data tables, bulleted and numbered lists, and reports.

● Learn how to activate a Google account and set up for instant access to your documents.

● Learn how to use Google Docs to improve productivity.

● Be able to edit a document that someone else has produced in real time.

● Be able to share a document in order to collaborate on a task.

● Learn to upload and use the documents they already created in Microsoft Office into a Google format.

● Understand how to send and retrieve documents online.

● Learn to master both Microsoft Words & Google Docs’s easy, powerful document-editing and formatting tools.

● Learn to collect and share documents securely online with fellow classmates & teachers.

● Learn how to access Google Docs from a computer or mobile device.

● Use communication skills and learn how they are incorporated in the 21^st century.

● Increase keyboarding speed & accuracy by taking online timed typing assessments