Course code

IFI6001.DT

old course code

IFI6001

Course title in Estonian

Arvuti töövahendina

Course title in English

Effective Computer Usage

ECTS credits

5.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

A purpose of this subject is to provide the students with advanced knowledge and competence for more successful activity in contemporary environment, that is significantly based on computer technologies. To contribute to the formation of skills for working with typical office software, various Internet services, and social software.

Brief description of the course

Working in a Windows environment. File system and operations. Working in a network environment. Word processing, methods of creating documents. Support of printing. Importing the objects to the text: pictures, logos, tables, charts, mathematical formulae. Inserting of table of contents and page numbers. Headers and footers. Calculations in tables. Basics of formulae. Creating of databases, their sorting and reports. Charts. Graphic presentations. Creating of the slides, adding of visual effects. Working with Internet. Searching. File transportation. Browsing of e-mail. User’s safety. Cloud computing.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- is able to design (borders, headers / footers, text styles, table of contents, references, tables, lists) large documents using appropriate options of word processing software;
- can use a spreadsheet program to design and create tables, that includes formulas with simple functions, create data tables and process data, visualize data through charts;
- is able to create presentations, following the recommended procedures and using the software options;
- is able to use in groupwork modern social software applications;
- is able to digitally sign documents and to open them.

Teacher

õp Inga Petuhhov

The course is a prerequisite

Study programmes containing that course

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