NAME OF MODULE COMPUTER APPLICATION 1

MODULE CODE DHIM112

ACADEMIC STAFF
RATIONALE To provide students with proficiency level of computer application tools for business
environments
SEMESTER & YEAR Year 1 / Semester 1
STUDENT LEARNING Face to Face Self-Directed Learning & Research
TIME (SLT) Lecture Tutorial Practical Independent Research & Peer
learning Learning

28 28 40 24
TOTAL SLT 56 64
CREDIT VALUE 3.00 Credit Hours (3 credits * 40 notional hours = 120 hours of total student learning time)
NOTATIONAL HRS 120 Hours/Semester
PREREQUISITE None
OBJECTIVES The objective of this module is to:
 Understand the concepts and the operating systems and its interfaces
 Appreciate the role of IT as problem-solving tool.
 Understand the usage of business productivity software for business application
 Be able to use the common word processing packages, electronic sheet and the
use of presentation tools
LEARNING OUTCOMES Upon successful completion of this subject, students are able to:
Knowledge
 Understand the basic concepts and usage of Operating systems
 Understand basic functions of Disk Operating System & Command prompts
 Appreciate Graphical User Interface
 Understand the usage of business productivity software for business application
Practical Skills
 Able to customize computer desktop
 Able to use basic Disk Operating Commands
 Use productivity software to handle business related documents
Social Skills and responsibility
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Ethics, professionalism and humanities
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Communication , leadership and team skills
 Able to use communication and presentation tools to present ideas and concepts
Scientific methods, critical thinking and problem solving skills
 Able to use spreadsheet analysis for simple business calculation and data
analysis.
 Able to do simple problem solving
Lifelong learning and information management
 Able to self-learn current and future technology and its trends.
 Able to perform basic data manipulation for business decisions
Entrepreneurship and managerial skills
 Able perform business analysis with data provided.
 Enable to make simple decision making based on the data analysis.

TRANSFERABLE SKILLS Students will be familiar with fundamentals of business operating tools such as basic
operating system and user interfaces, word processing, spreadsheet application presentation
tools. This knowledge and skills can be applied to other subjects’ matters while doing
assignment and presentation.

TEACHING-LEARNING Teaching-Learning Methods

STRATEGY The primary teaching and learning methods include lectures and lab sessions to ensure the
theoretical and practical objectives of the syllabus are obtained. The lab work will
concentrate on applying the student-centered learning techniques.

Assessment Strategy.
The main assessment is the practical and final examination which is given to assess the
proficiency level of computer application and the familiarity with the office applications such
as word processing tools, spreadsheet tools and presentation tools.

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ASSESSMENT METHODS Coursework 30%
& TYPES Practical Assignment 30%
Final Examination 40%
JUMLAH 100%

MAPPING MODULE TO Refer to Appendix 1

PROGRAM AIMS
MAPPING MODULE TO The mapping of this module learning outcomes to the program learning outcome is shown in
PROGRAM LEARNING the table below :-
OUTCOMES / Knowledge
/ Practical skills
Social skills and responsibilities
Ethics, professionalism and humanities
/ Communication, leadership and team skills
/ Scientific methods, critical thinking and problem solving skills
/ Lifelong learning and information management
/ Entrepreneurship and managerial skills
MODE OF DELIVERY Lecture and Lab Session
Lecture, Tutorial,
Workshop, Seminar, etc
SYNOPSIS The students learns to create, format and proof read document files. Label creation, tables,
borders and features like Mail merge are discussed. Data types, formats, functions, formulas,
macros, printing and concepts like linking worksheets are discussed. The student learns to
create presentation slides. The student learns to simple graphic to enhance handout and
brochures

CONTENT OUTLINE OF THE MODULE AND THE STUDENT LEARNING TIME PER TOPIC
Face to Face Self-
CONTENT OUTLINE Directed
LECTURE TUTORIA PRACTICAL Learning &
L Research

Introduction to Operating System and Windows Environment

 The Windows User Interface 4 4 13
 Exploring & Organizing Files and Folders
 Naming, Duplicating, Moving, Deleting Files and Folders
 Creating Shortcuts
 Windows Accessories
DOS Fundamentals
 Introduction To Ms DOS as an applications 6 6 13
 Command Prompt
 Disk Organization
 DOS Commands
 File Commands of DOS
 Wildcards ? and * commands
Word Processing Tools
 Document Window 6 6 13
 Manipulating Document
 Viewing and Formatting Documents
 Proofreading and Printing Documents
 Mail merge, Labels and envelopes
 Working with tables and borders

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Spreadsheet Tools
 Navigating Worksheets 6 6 13
 Entering data and formatting cells
 Inserting and Deleting rows and columns
 Finding and Replacing data
 Formatting worksheets
 Using Formulas and Functions
 Using macros
 Printing, Linking and Embedding data
 Working with data queries / Filtering data
 Sorting data
 Working with graphs
Presentation Graphics Tools
 Power point presentation screen 6 6 12
 Creating New presentation
 Entering and Editing data
 Enhancing a presentations
 Inserting objects in presentation
 Working with Objects
 Formatting Animations and Sounds into a Presentation
 Printing the Presentation
 Running a Slide Show On-Screen
TOTAL CONTACT HOURS 28 28 64
MAIN REFERENCES  Discovering Computers and Microsoft® Office 2010: A Fundamental Combined
BOOKS Approach. ISBN: 0-538-47393-2
 Computers (international Edition) by Larry Long & Nancy Long - Prentice Hall (7th
Edition). ISBN: 0-13-083190-5
ADDITIONAL  Performing with Computer Applications: Personal Information Manager, Word
REFERENCE BOOKS Processing, Desktop Publishing, Spreadsheets, Databases, Presentations,
Internet, and Web Design. By Iris Blanc.
 Performing with Microsoft Office 2007: Introductory by Iris Blanc and Cathy Vento
Discovering Computers, Introductory: Your Interactive Guide to the Digital World
ISBN: 1-111-53048-3
OTHER ADDITIONAL Related Magazines, Internet Sites, Newspapers, Video, Movie, CD-Rom, Other Related web-
INFORMATION sites