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The document provides information about quizzes, workbooks, and Excel versions for an online course on Excel. It discusses how quizzes are scored, downloading workbooks, differences between Excel versions and operating systems, and how regional settings may impact the quizzes. Tips are provided for navigating videos and quizzes using keyboard shortcuts.

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Excel Lesson 1

The document provides information about quizzes, workbooks, and Excel versions for an online course on Excel. It discusses how quizzes are scored, downloading workbooks, differences between Excel versions and operating systems, and how regional settings may impact the quizzes. Tips are provided for navigating videos and quizzes using keyboard shortcuts.

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Quizzes and Navigation

Each Practice Video comes with an Excel workbook that you should download before you
watch the practice videos. This allows you to practice Excel as you discover new features
and techniques. You can download each worksheet as you go or download all the
workbooks at the beginning of each week.

While you are watching the videos, ideally, you have two windows open at the same time.
The video on one side and Excel on the other half of your screen. You can swap between
the two (to do this, use the really handy keyboard shortcut Alt+Tab for PC or CMD+Tab if
you are on a Mac). To stop and restart the video you can use the Spacebar. The left and
right arrows are useful keys to move slightly back and forth in the videos to re-watch parts
you need to see again for example.

To help you find your way through the course, we recommend making use of the Toggle
Lesson View button. This enables you to move between the Practice Video and the
accompanying Practice Quizzes as well as other parts of the course

A word on quizzes and Excel versions:


This course is taken by a hugely diverse range of learners with different backgrounds,
different versions of Excel and different regional settings - on MACs and on PCs. As a result,
you may find that quiz questions don't always give you the answers you expect. This course
is teaching Excel 2016 (Office 365) on a PC and while we have made every effort to
minimise using exclusive features of this version in this context, some quizzes will be asking
for features that are different in other versions or on a MAC.

Quiz calculations
On the Coursera platform, the quiz calculation for questions with multiple possible answers
works as follows: You get marks for both choosing the correct answer(s) and not choosing
the incorrect answer(s)

Example: A question with four answers (three correct, one incorrect).

Each option has a value of 1/4 of a point. If you tick the three correct options and leave the
incorrect answer unticked, you receive 1 point: 1/4 of a point for each of the correct answers
you ticked and 1/4 of a point for not ticking the incorrect answer.
If you ticked one correct answer and one incorrect answer, you receive only 1/4 of a point:
1/4 for the correct option, 0 for not ticking the other correct options and 0 for ticking the
incorrect option. In this example, the system would award you with 0.25 points.

If you ticked, one correct answer and left the other three unticked, you will receive 1/2 of a
point: 1/4 for the correct option, 1/4 for not ticking the incorrect option and 0 for not ticking
the other two correct options. In this example, the system will award you with 0.5 points.

Attempting a quiz multiple times


All of the quizzes allow you to attempt them multiple times, however, some have a limit on
the number of times you can retake them within a time period. When you take a quiz a
second time you might notice that some of the questions are different or the answers for a
question might be presented in a different order. This is to be expected. You should read the
questions and check your answers carefully before submitting the quiz.

workbooks
For your convenience, we have zipped up each week's workbook files. Download the
compressed file to your computer and then extract the files so you can access the
workbooks. Alternatively, you can download each workbook when you access the Practice
Videos. Please note that depending on the topic and requirements, some workbooks have
an accompanying solution file while others don't.

Important information about versions


and regions
There are a number of different spreadsheet programs around. Microsoft Excel leads the
market by far. MS Excel has been around for many years, and a new version gets released
about every 3 years. With each new release, new features get added, and the user interface
will get changed. Some of these changes are small, while others can be quite significant.

In this course, we are using Microsoft Excel 2016 (Office 365) on a Windows PC with all
options set to default. The Office 365 version of Excel is the latest version at the time of
writing and developing this course. If you have a different version of Excel or you are using a
Mac, some tools and buttons will look different, they may be located in a different spot, or
some might be missing altogether. If there are any major differences, we usually point them
out during the practice videos. If you cannot find a tool that we talk about, you can always
ask in the forums or search the Internet. Most of the functionality that we demonstrate is also
available in other spreadsheet programs, although the interface will look different. Most other
spreadsheet software can import and export files in the Microsoft Excel format. If you are not
sure which version of Excel you are using, check theMicrosoft support pages for help.

Although it can be frustrating if not daunting, overcoming these differences is an important


skill set to develop. Over the course of your working life, you will use many different pieces of
software and different versions of them. With a bit of patience, trial and error, searching the
Internet and asking colleagues, you will learn to familiarise yourself with something new.
Rather than relying on learning a particular version of a software inside and out, focus on
developing strategies to deal with the differences. Once you understand the underlying
concepts, terminologies and techniques of Excel, you will learn to apply these in different
versions and operating environments.

If you cannot use Excel 2016 on a PC, you will be able to follow along with the videos,
however, please note that some of the assessment tasks will require Excel. Where possible,
we have designed assessment tasks so that users of older versions of Excel (such as 2013)
can still solve them.

Regions
The regional and language settings on your computers will also have an effect on the look
and behavior of Excel. There are so many variables that, unfortunately, it is impossible to
anticipate how they affect each individual's experience. This will have an impact on quizzes.

Regional settings can change the appearance of numbers and dates:

Or can change the appearance of the Excel interface itself:


The videos and screenshots were recorded using the English version of Excel, with mainly
Australian regional settings. Dates are generally in the Australian format (d/m/y) or
International (y-m-d). Where possible, quiz questions will accept date answers in many
regional formats, but the International format is preferred.

What this means for you and your


learning experience
If you currently do not have access to Excel 2016 (Office 365), you will need to have at least
version 2007 in order to open and work with the workbooks we provide throughout the
course. There are tools available on the Internet to convert *.xlsx filetypes back to *.xls, but
we highly recommend that you use at least Excel 2007 as this is when Microsoft introduced
the Ribbon and other significant changes.

The quizzes are written for Excel 2016. We have tried to find a good balance between
assessing your skills and understanding of this latest version with the fact that not everyone
will have access to 2016. Please keep this in mind when you attempt both the formative and
the final assessments in the course

Multiple Worksheets
TOTAL POINTS 5
1.
Question1
Which of the following options allow us to move a worksheet in a workbook?

(One or more answers are possible - partial credit will be awarded)

1 point

Left-click to drag and drop the worksheet tab to the desired position

Right-click the worksheet tab and select Move or Copy

While pressing Ctrl, left-click to drag the worksheet tab to the desired position.
In the Home tab, select Format > Move or Copy Sheet...

2.
Question2
If you delete a sheet by mistake, you can click Undo or press Ctrl+Z to undo the operation.

1 point

True

False

3.
Question3
When you click on the + button, what will happen next?

1 point

A new worksheet will be added to the right of Sheet1.

A new worksheet will be added to the right of Sheet2.

A new worksheet will be added to the right of Sheet3.

4.
Question4
How do you make a copy of an existing worksheet?

1 point

Left-click, drag and release.

Press Ctrl (Alt on Mac), left-click, drag and release.


Press Shift, left-click, drag and release.

5.
Question5
Which of the following is true of the scenario shown below:

1 point

Sheet1, Sheet3 and Sheet5 have been grouped using the Shift key.

If I change something on Sheet2, the same change will be applied to Sheet4.

If I change something on Sheet1, the same change will be applied to Sheet3 and Sheet5.

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