Course Title: Use laboratory application software
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2011
Course Code: COSC6005C
Course Title: Use laboratory application software
School: 155T Vocational Health and Sciences
Campus: City Campus
Program: C5282 - Diploma of Laboratory Technology (Biotechnology)
Course Contact: Amberlee Mitton
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 8053
Course Contact Email: amber.mitton@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Namrita Kaul
51.04.01
Ph. 99254309
namrita.kaul@rmit.edu.au
Nominal Hours: 60
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
There are no pre-requisites or co-requisites for this course
Course Description
This unit of competency covers the ability to use and apply computer application software in the laboratory, field and production plants for analysis and reporting.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
MSL924002A Use laboratory application software |
Element: |
1. Access application software |
Performance Criteria: |
• Identify software required for the task |
Element: |
2. Use software for specified purposes |
Performance Criteria: |
• Input a range of scientific data into a computing system |
Element: |
3. Produce reports of retrieved data and/or processed data |
Performance Criteria: |
• Analyse data using features of the software package |
Element: |
4. Perform simple record housekeeping |
Performance Criteria: |
• Maintain backup of worked data |
Learning Outcomes
Details of Learning Activities
• Lectures
• In class worksheet exercises
• On line learning activities
• Individual and Group presentations by the students to be held during the lectures to enhance the learning of the subject material
Teaching Schedule
wk. no. | wk. starts on | Topic |
1 | 7/2 | Induction Session. Computer terminology, getting started with MS Word, creating and saving a document. Disk and file management |
2 | 14/2 | Editing and formatting documents, Email a document that details your background knowledge of computers, Printing Manuals |
3 | 21/2 | Borders, tables and graphics, Advanced formatting |
4 | 28/2 | Creating official documents, Professional memos, faxes etc |
5 | 7/3 | Using Mail Merge in Word |
6 | 14/3 | Continue from last week, Using mail merge, Create brochures/catalogues |
7 | 21/3 | Using Power Point to create presentations, Using Internet and PowerPoint for education and research |
8 | 28/3 | Continue with previous weeks work, group presentation |
9 | 4/4 | Mid Sem Exams |
10 | 11/4 | Create documents by integrating power point, word and internet |
11 | 18/4 | Relevant health, safety and environment requirements |
12 | 25/4 | Easter Break |
13 | 2/5 | Group Activity |
14 | 9/5 | Activities based on using computers in a laboratory |
15 | 16/5 | Understanding MS Excel, Entering data in a spreadsheet |
16 | 23/5 | Formatting and enhancing a spreadsheet |
17 | 30/5 | Catch up class |
18 | 6/6 | Sem 1 Exams |
13/6 | Additional assessment | |
20/6 - 8/7 | Student Vacation | |
11/7 | Entering formulas in a spreadsheet, Using formulas to perform calculations | |
18/7 | Working with spreadsheets, Working with graphs | |
25/7 | Working with graphs, enhancing graphs | |
1/8 | Integrating word and excel | |
8/8 | Applications of excel and graphs in a laboratory | |
15/8 | Integrate Word, Excel and PowerPoint | |
22/8 | Group Activity | |
29/8 | Mid Sem Exams | |
5/9 | Database and its elements, Types of database models | |
12/9 | Open an existing database and Create a new database | |
19/9 | Student Vacation | |
26/9 | Applying different elements of a database(Form, report, query) | |
3/10 | Understanding and applying query | |
10/10 | Understanding and creating reports and forms | |
17/10 | Activities based on creating and understanding the database | |
24/10 | Using database in a laboratory, Linking Packages | |
31/10 | End of Module Exam |
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
No prescribed text |
References
Other Resources
Overview of Assessment
Assessments for this course typically consist of:
• Class activities
• Assignments
• Presentations
• Exams
Assessment Tasks
Task 1 - Create & enhacnce a word document (5%)
Task 2 - Use mail merge (10%)
Task 3 - power point presentation (5%) group activity
Task 4 - Use formulae in Excel spread sheet (10%)
Task 5 - create graphs in Excel (10%)
Task 6 - Creating database & using its elements (10%)
Task 7 - Linking packages (20%)
Task 8 - End of module exam (30%)
Assessment Matrix
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