Kathy Howell
227 Peavy Hall
541-737-2673
Office Hours: MWF 10:00am - 10:50am;
Other times available by appointment
Homework Help Session: Thursday, 2:00-3:00pm (lecture attendance expected)
This course combines approximately 30 hours of instruction for the term and 2-4 hours per week spent on outside assignments for 3 credits.
Essential Word formatting skills (margins, direct text formatting,
styles, indent, tabs, breaks, find/replace)
Digital images and audio (basic audio and image capture and edit)
Intermediate Word formatting skills (headers/footers, page numbers,
sections, lists, handling images, charts and tables, collaborative edits)
Essential Excel skills (navigation, simple calculations, text and
numeric formatting)
Intermediate Excel skills (sorting, filtering, subtotals, print
options, charts)
PowerPoint skills (essential skills and design best practices,
integrating multimedia content - audio, video, images, charts)
Advanced Excel skills (data import, pivot tables, conditional
functions and formulas, date functions, lookup functions, drop down
lists, macro concepts)
No
text book! Lecture notes for each day are available by clicking on the
"Calendar" link to the left and then clicking on the appropriate
lecture day. These class notes can be used on any quiz or test.
You must use your ONID account. It's how you log in to the computers
and it provides you access to e-mail. CoF professors expect that they
will be able to use e-mail as one way to reach you. The University
provides you with an ONID student account. ONID stands for OSU Network
ID and includes 2 GB of disk space for data, and an e-mail account
@onid.orst.edu with 500 MB of space. An ONID account is required for
access to the OSU_Secure wireless network, Blackboard, and numerous
campus computing labs. You can activate your ONID account and get other
ONID related information at: http://onid.oregonstate.edu.
If you attend the lectures but are having trouble with any of the topics, then you're welcome to one-on-one assistance. I'm guaranteed to be around during my office hours listed above, but if that time doesn't work for you then contact me and we'll work out a day and time.
the exceptional day. Call the instructor phone number if e-mail
is not available to you.
==> You MUST contact the instructor by 4:00pm on the exceptional day if
you want to arrange for special assistance at another time.
>>> Expect that the instructor will need to follow-up with
you.
Indicate how you can be reached to work out the details.
If a University delay/closure forces a missed class session, you can
expect that a required make-up lecture will be scheduled. Likely
times
-- MWF (11:00 or 12:00), TTh (9:00 or 2:00) At the usual class
time, you'll check your e-mail for these details or call the instructor
(leaving information about how you can be reached) if e-mail is
unavailable to you.
Accommodations are collaborative efforts between students, faculty
and Disability Access Services (DAS). Students with accommodations
approved through DAS are responsible for contacting the faculty member
in charge of the course prior to or during the first week of the term to
discuss accommodations. Students who believe they are eligible for
accommodations but who have not yet obtained approval through DAS should
contact DAS immediately at 737-4098.
