BIM 110: Microsoft Office Essentials

Credits 3 Lab Hours 66

This course is an introduction to Microsoft Office Suite. This class teaches to and requires the most current version of Microsoft Office for Windows. This course is not intended for Business Information Management majors. Credit cannot be earned in both BIM 110 and BIM 108.

Quarters Offered
Fall,
Winter,
Spring,
Summer
Course Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to demonstrate the following knowledge or skills:

  1. Demonstrate the ability to save, retrieve, move, and delete files using the MS Windows file management system
  2. Use MS Word for business activities
  3. Use MS Excel to solve business problems
  4. Use MS Access to manage business records
  5. Use MS PowerPoint to create business presentations
  6. Integrate data within the MS Office Suite Applications (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint)
Course Content Outline
  1. Module 1: Windows, Office, and Word
    1. File Management
    2. General Office Features & Overview
    3. Creating and Formatting Word Documents
  2. Module 2: Excel and Access
    1. Creating and Formatting Excel Spreadsheets
    2. Creating and Formatting Access Database Objects
  3. Module 3: PowerPoint and Integration
    1. Creating and formatting presentations
    2. Integrating the MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint)
Department Guidelines

PO5        Students will develop proficient Microsoft Office techniques by creating professional business documents while meeting an 85% competency level

The syllabus must contain evaluation/grading guidelines, class environment/expectations/rules, course learning outcomes, and a disability services statement. A schedule must be provided to students that contains content covered (text chapters, topics, etc.), tentative test dates (to include final date/time). If an LMS or similar site is used for the course, it must be created following the Quality Matters (QM) principals outlined in the QM workbook questions. These documents should be reviewed with the BIM instructor at least two weeks prior to class start.