CURRICULUM OF DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER FUNDAMENTAL & OFFICE AUTOMATION Before Revision

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1 CURRICULUM OF DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER FUNDAMENTAL & OFFICE AUTOMATION Before Revision

2 Bharathidasan University Khajamalai Campus Tiruchirappalli Tamilnadu DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER FUNDAMENTAL & OFFICE AUTOMATION Regulations and Syllabi for the DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER FUNDAMENTAL & OFFICE AUTOMATION For the candidates admitted from the academic year onwards

3 CENTRE FOR DIFFERENTLY ABLED PERSONS BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY TIRUCHIRAPPALLI AIM: DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER FUNDAMENTAL & OFFICE AUTOMATION To train & educate intellectually challenged children to gain provided skills & knowledge to operate computers independently. OBJECTIVES: To make them understand the principles of software and hardware operations To train and educate the mechanical part of computers ( electrical & electronic operations) To educate MS-office system, internet operations, online, offline working areas To train them to work on the comment based activities in MS-office system To make the participants to understand various services based on online and offline surfaces EXPECTED OUTCOME: On completion of the course, the trainees are expected to: exhibit improved understanding of computer operations abilities to operate ms-office operations gain skills & knowledge to browse and get updated worldwide information have learning skills & knowledge to work on simple projects laid on text and numerical data REGULATIONS TITLE OF THE COURSE: DURATION: Diploma in Computer Fundamental and Office Automation The duration of the course will be Two Years. MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION The medium of instruction will be Bilingual (Tamil & English) NUMBER OF INTAKE The maximum number of student s enrolment for the course will be 10. ELIGIBILITY Children with Mental Retardation of age 14 and above (Chronological age) are eligible for admission in the course. ATTENDANCE Every student should put in at least 75% attendance in each course. No candidate who has put in attendance for less than 75% of the working days in a semester will be permitted to take the ESE unless he/she gets condonation certificate. A candidate who has put in less than 65% attendance in a course, he/she has to either repeat the course or take an equivalent course.

4 EXAMINATION Examination will be conducted at the end of each academic year. Comprehensive continuous assessment will be done at regular intervals. SUBJECT OF STUDY AND SCHEME OF EXAMINATION MARKS Paper code Title of the paper CIA ESE Total Credits First year DCFOA O1 Fundamentals of computers -theory DCFOA02 Basics of MS office Second year DCFOA03 Practical -1 Word Processing DCFOA04 DCFOA05 Practical II Spread Sheet Practical III PowerPoint Presentation TOTAL Minimum Passing: 40% aggregate in CIA and ESE Letter Grade and Grade Points of the Courses and Final Result Grade points and Letter grade are assigned as per the following table: Marks Grade Points Letter Grade 96 and above 10 S S D D D A A A B C Below 50 0 F Absent 0 AAA

5 GPA alone is given GPA and CGPA are calculated by the following formula: i C i GP i j S j GPA j GPA j = and CGPA = < j n i C i j S j Where C i is the credit assigned to the i th subject; GP i is the grade points earned in the i th subject; S j is the sum of the credits assigned to each courses of the j th semester; GPA j is the grade point average earned in the j th semester. n Total number of semesters Final Result CGPA is 9.01 and above (with pass in all I Class with Exemplary subjects in first attempt) CGPA is 7.51 and above but less than 9.01 CGPA is 6.01 and above but less than 7.51 CGPA is 5.00 and above but less than 6.01 Passing Minimum I Class with Distinction I Class II Class A candidate shall be declared to have passed in each paper if he/she secures not less than 40 marks in the University Examination. He/She shall be declared to have passed the whole examination & qualified for the degree if he/she passes in all the five papers Classification of Successful Candidates Those who secure 60% or above the maximum marks shall be declared to have passed in first class. Those who secure 50% or above but below 60% shall be declared to have passed in second class. All others who secure 40% or above but less than 50% of marks shall be declared to have passed the examination in third class. Award of degree A candidate shall be eligible for the award of the degree for the said course if the student has passed all the examinations prescribed thereof. Revision of Regulations and Curriculum The University may from time to time revise, amend and change the regulations and curriculum if found necessary.

6 Bharathidasan University PAPER I FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS Course Code: DCFOA O1 Credits: 4 UNIT: I Computer machine - Machine: Examples of machine-uses of machines Computer as a machine. Computer: What is Computer uses of computer-parts of a computer Types of Computers. Steps in operating a computer. Lab manners UNIT: II Components of Computer System- Central Processing Unit- Input devices -Keyboard, mouse, scanner. Key Board-types and uses-alphabet keys, Number keys, Arrow keys, function keys, special keys. Using the Mouse -Click, Secondary Click, Double Click. Output devicesspeaker, printer, monitor UNIT III Windows Operating System: Introduction- Basics of Operating System - Using Menus and Toolbars- Working with the Desktop-Arranging Icons-Wallpaper and Background-Setting and Changing Screensaver, Creating, Moving, Copying and Deleting Folders on the Desktop, Recycle Bin UNIT IV Working with Windows Accessories-Creating and Saving Files in Notepad and WordPad. Working with Paint - Drawing - colouring. UNIT V Computers Application: home, school, workplace, and community. Maintaining the Computer- Caring for the Computer - Basics Troubleshooting-Viruses and Virus Protection Software Reference Books: 1.Computer Today- S. Basndara 2.Computer Fundamentals- P. K. Sinha 3.Operating System Godbole 4.Computer Fundamentals- V. Rajaraman

7 Bharathidasan University PAPER- 2 BASICS OF MS OFFICE Course Code: DCFOA O2 Credits: 6 UNIT I MS-WORD :Word Processing: Typing, Editing, Proofing & Reviewing, Formatting Text & Paragraphs, Automatic Formatting and Styles, Working with Tables, Graphics and Frames, printing Documents UNIT II MS EXCEL:Excel Spreadsheet: Working & Editing In Workbooks, Creating Formats & Links, Formatting a Worksheet & creating graphic objects, Creating Charts (Graphs), formatting and analyzing data, Organizing Data in a List (Data Management), Sharing & Importing Data, Printing. UNIT III MS-Power Point: PowerPoint Presentations:Getting started in PowerPoint, Creating a presentation, Creating & editing slides, Previewing a slide show, Adding picture & graph, Adding sound & video, Adding auto shape, Animating objects. UNIT IV INTERNET: Possibilities of the internet history of the internet-application of the internetwww-connecting to the internet browsing the web-viewing a web page some IE Tool bar Buttons. UNIT V IT APPLICATIONS :Computer at air, rail ticketing, DTP, Education Libraries. Maintaining the Computer - References: 1. MS Office in a Nutshell - Publisher: Vikas Publishing House 2. Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office XP in 24 Hours By Greg Perry Publisher: Sams Publishing BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI WORD PROCESSING - PRACTICAL I Course Code : DCFOA03 Max. Marks :100 Credits : 6 Internal Marks : 40 External Marks : 60 Objectives: To give hands on training to the students to get acquainted in working with Ms- Word To give hands on training to the students to create and format documents using MS- Word

8 Exercise: Open MS Word, Create, Edit, Save Sample Documents like Letter to Centre for Differently Abled, Simple Reports with Paragraphs, Headings and Subheading applying Formatting concepts, Invitation Mailers, Protect Documents, Spell Check, Review and Print (with Paper Layout options, Pages to Print) BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI SPREAD SHEET - PRACTICAL II Course Code : DCFOA04 Max. Marks :100 Credits : 6 Internal Marks : 40 External Marks : 60 Objectives: To give hands on training to the students to get acquainted in working with MS- Excel To give hands on training to the students to analyze data using MS-Excel To give hands on training to the students to create charts using MS-Excel Exercises: Open MS Excel, Create Sample Spreadsheets like Student Mark sheet, Salary Slip with formatting, Event Schedule with Dates and Time formatting, Staff Attendance Register with sorting and filtering, Sales Report with formula implemented, Spell Check, Review and Print (with Paper Layout options, Pages to Print)

9 BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI POWERPOINT PRESENTATION - PRACTICAL III Course Code : DCFOA05 Max. Marks :100 Credits : 6 Internal Marks : 40 External Marks : 60 Objectives: To give hands on training to the students to get acquainted in working with MS- Powerpoint To give hands on training to the students to create presentations To give hands on training to the students to add animations and create slideshows Exercises: Open MS Power Point, Create Sample Presentations like Centre for Differently Abled Intro and Activities, Sample Product Marketing, Sales Analysis of a region, Knowledge Sharing presentation on opportunities for Differently Abled in Government, Present all of them as Slideshows, Package them, Print Slides (with Layout Options, Pages to Print)