Course Title: Design and develop complex text documents
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2009
Course Code: COSC5945C
Course Title: Design and develop complex text documents
School: 650T TAFE Business
Campus: City Campus
Program: C4223 - Certificate IV in Business Administration
Course Contact : Sylvia Baroutis
Course Contact Phone: +61 03 9925 5469
Course Contact Email:sylvia.baroutis@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Nominal Hours: 100
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
None
Course Description
This course covers the skills and knowledge required to design and develop business documents using complex technical features of word processing software.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
BSBITU401A Design and develop complex text documents |
Element: |
Prepare to produce word processed documents |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Use safe work practices to ensure ergonomic, work organisation, energy and resource conservation requirements are addressed |
Element: |
Add complex tables and other data |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 Insert a standard table into document, changing cells to meet information requirements |
Element: |
Design complex documents |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Design document structure and layout to suit purpose, audience and information requirements of the task |
Element: |
Produce documents |
Performance Criteria: |
4.1 Use complex operations in the development of documents, to achieve required results |
Learning Outcomes
Details of Learning Activities
Learning activities will include class-based exercises, demonstration and observation in order to develop competency, including the underpinning skills and knowledge required for this competency. The Virtual Enterprise will provide practical experience opportunities to complete the assessment.
Teaching Schedule
Weekly schedule | ||
Week 1 |
Course Guide Assessments Examples of good and bad document design |
Learning Hub
Text Individual research |
Week 2 | Office Procedures (Pages i-xxxiii) | Text |
Week 3 |
Class 1 & 2 Topics: Section 1 - Fonts and effects, graphics, linked text boxes, newspaper columns and automatics hyphenation |
Text |
Week 4 |
Class 1 & 2 Topics: Section 2 - Bullets and numbering, macros, tables and mathematical functions |
Text |
Week 5 |
Class 1 & 2 Topics: Section 3 - File management, fields, hyperlinks, linking and embedding, mail merge and advanced options |
Text |
Week 6 |
Class 1 & 2 Topics: Section 3 - continued |
Text |
Week 7 |
Class 1 & 2 Topics: Section 4 - Templatesm styles, headers and footers, sections and forms |
Text |
Week 8 |
Class 1 & 2 Topics: Section 5 - Tables of Contents, indexes, outlines, master document and tracking changes |
Text |
Mid Semester Break | ||
Week 9 |
Underpinning Skills - Practice Exericses Typing Master / Teacher Handouts |
Text |
Week 10 |
Class 1 & 2 Topics: Design and develop complex document exercises for producing Marketing Portolfio for Organise Business Travel |
Text |
Week 11 | In-class assessment / teacher handouts |
Underpinning Skills (20%) |
Week 12 | Assessment to take place during Class 1 |
End of Semester Test (50%) Open Book
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Week 13 | ||
Week 14 | ||
Week 15 | ||
Week 16 | Virtual Enterprise Assessment Due (30%) |
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Week 17 & 18 | Feedback & Review / Special Consideration | |
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
Design & develop complex text documents – for Word 2003 BSBITU401A By Cheryl Price & Julia Wix, Software Publications, 2009 Edition. |
1-74123-860-9 |
References
Other Resources
Overview of Assessment
Students must demonstrate an understanding of all elements of a particular unit of competency to be deemed competent. Students are advised that they will be asked to personally demonstrate their assessment work to their teacher to ensure that the relevant competency standards are being met.
Assessment methods have been designed to measure achievements of each competency. Assessments will incorporate a variety of methods: direct questioning combined with review of documents with complex design, demonstration of techniques, oral or written questioning to assess knowledge of word processing software functions.
In addition to the assessments, formative feedback is provided to the students throughout the duration of the course.
Assessment Tasks
Underpinning skills - Due Week 12 (20%)
Demonstration of keyboarding speed and accuracy demonstrated in class under supervised conditions, students will refer to the Marking Guide available on the Learning Hub for this course.
End of Semester Test - Due Week 12 During Class 1 (50%)
Students will complete this test in class under supervised conditions. The test will comprise of both theory and practical aspects. The theory aspects of the test will be ’closed book’. The practical components of the test will be ’open book’.
Virtual Enterprise Assessment - Due Week 16 or earlier by negotiation (30%)
You will buy and sell goods and services for Reflective Records Virtual Enterprise. You will make a minimum of six transactions for both selling and purchasing and document the trading cycle to its completion. Refer to the marking criteria guide for this assessment located at the Learning Hub for this course.
Assessment Matrix
Element | Underpinning Skills (20%) | End of Semester Test (50%) | VE Assessment (30%) |
Prepare to produce word processed documents | YES |
YES | YES |
Design complex documents | YES | YES | YES |
Add complex tables and other data | YES | YES | YES |
Produce documents | YES | YES | YES |
Other Information
Grading
A pass in an assessment piece will result in a grade for the student. Where a pass is achieved competency for that assessment is given. Where a pass is not achieved in any assessment piece a NYC (Not Yet Competent) grade will be given. Competency MUST be achieved for each element of competency within a competency standard for a pass grade (or higher grade) to be given. Where competency for all elements of competency is not achieved, an overall NN grade will result.
Submission of written work/assessment
All written work or assessments must be lodged by the due date in the format specified for the particular assessment task on the individual marking guidelines. Written assessments must have a footer containing: student name, student number, course code, title of the assessment and the teacher’s name.
All work should be stapled and plastic pockets or plastic binders should not be used.
Attach a signed Assignment Cover Sheet to each submission of written work or assessment. All parts of the Assignment Cover Sheet must be clearly filled out. The Cover Sheets are available near the lifts on Level 13.
Employability Skills
This course/competency includes the employability skills listed below which are assessable under the Business Services Training Package.
In order to be able to effectively demonstrate the required employability skills during the course, students should participate and aim to attend punctually. Students are required to contribute to 80% plus of the required classes. Please note that employability skills are assessed across the entire program.
Employability skills are a core component of the competency and if a student is unable to effectively demonstrate these skills within the competency, a mark of NYC (Not Yet Competent) will be given for the course.
Employability skills identified for this course are:
Planning and organising
Self-management
Learning
Technology
From July 2008 students issued with Training Package qualifications have been informed by their Registered Training Organisation that Employability Skills Summaries for Training Package qualifications can be downloaded from http://employabilityskills.training.com.au . Registered Training Organisations are required to add the mandatory sentence providing the URL for the Employability Skills Summaries to Training Package to qualification testamurs from 1 January 2009. The Australian Qualification Framework Implementation Handbook has been amended to show this requirement.
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