Course Goals:
To develop personal and vocational keyboarding skills
To touch-type (no looking at fingers) with a minimum of 25 net words per minute
To acquire appropriate behaviour for an office environment
Course Outline
Keyboarding technique
The keyboard (alphabetic keys, figures, symbols)
Speed and accuracy
Application (formatting, page setup, personal/business correspondence, multi-page reports)
Proofreading
Evaluation
Grades will be based on the following:
Work Habits (technique, warm ups, drills) - 15%
Timings - 40%
Production (assignments) - 45%
** A Student who cannot touch-type an average of 25 words per minute (WPM) or more on a five minute test will NOT pass, regardless of the percentage achieved in the course. 25 WPM is the mandatory minimum.