Business 225           MICROCOMPUTER APPLICATION SOFTWARE

PROFESSOR WILLIAM BARTH        OFFICE T307 

Phone: 315-255-1792 ext. 2315     

web page: wbarth.pageout.net/  or    www.cayuga-cc.edu/people/web_pages/barth     

e-mail: barth@cayuga-cc.edu 

 

What’s Going On the week of  Dec. 15

classes end Friday, Dec. 11

Final Exam Week (no classes) week of Dec. 14

Tues, Dec. 15

8 am to 10 am

Access Test

Room M-329

Wed., Dec. 16

6 pm

Access Test

Room M-329

 

 

 

tutoring information

 

 check your grades

 lab assignments

 

test information

 get a FREE test version of Microsoft Office good for 60 days

 

information on the MOS (Microsoft Office Specialist) Certification exam

 

sample PowerPoint web page

Microsoft free Excel Tutorials

Microsoft free Access tutorials

student data files

 

Bus 225 – Fall 2009 – Barth – Wed. evening 6 pm to 10 pm

Tues/Thurs 8:30 am - 10:20 am

         TENTATIVE WEEKLY SCHEDULE - SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Week of

Topics

Aug. 31

Introduction to the course, Microcomputer hardware ch 4

Sept. 7

Windows ch 1, Windows Explorer, Office 2007, start word processing

Sept. 14

Word processing (chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8)

Sept. 21

Word processing, TEST #1 – windows labs due

Sept. 28

Word processing, PowerPoint(chapters 15 and 16),

Oct. 5

lab

Oct. 12

Spreadsheets, 

TEST #2  – Word and Power Point labs due

Oct. 19

spreadsheets (chapters 9, 10, and 11)

Oct. 26

lab

Nov. 2

Spreadsheets/database

Nov. 9

database             

TEST #3,spreadsheet labs due

Nov. 16

database (chapters 12, 13, 14)

Nov. 23

Thanksgiving break starts at noon on Wed.,

NO WEDNESDAY EVENING CLASS

Nov. 30

Database/ lab

Dec. 7

lab     

Dec. 14

Test #4  access labs due

 

 

 

The software used in this course will be: 

                        Microsoft Excel 2007             Microsoft Word 2007

                        Microsoft Access 2007           Microsoft Windows Explorer

                        Microsoft PowerPoint 2007               

 

Prerequisites - none (typing ability helps)

 

Required materials

·    Go Series    Microsoft Office 2007 Introductory, first edition     from Pearson Prentice Hall,. ISBN: 9780131679993      

                                    Shelley Gaskin, Robert L. Ferrett, Eastern Michigan University , Alicia Vargas, Pasadena City College , Suzanne Marks, Bellevue Community College  

·           Suggested: a USB flash drive (recommended – lexar, Sandisk, PNY, SONY)

 

Class Policies

Students entering class more than ten minutes late for a day class or twenty minutes late for a night class will be considered absent for the class

Any student who does not correctly complete all the labs will receive an INC grade only if their test average is C or better.

Students who exceed the maximum number of allowed absences will be withdrawn. One class meeting per week allowed 3 absences, two class meetings per week allowed 6 absences, three classes per week allowed 9 absences

There are no excused absences in the college attendance policy.

Students entering class late must see the Instructor after class to remove the absence from the Instructor's records or the absence will remain on the records

Student's ARE NOT to leave the class early unless they are sick

Students who play computer games or surf the web during lectures in the computer lab, act disrespectful to the teacher or act disrespectful to other students will be withdrawn from the course.

no extra credit work or retests will be allowed.