Association House Technology Center

MS Excel & Google Drive Training Course

Syllabus, April 2014

Course Description

This course is designed to develop technology skills to prepare the student to succeed in a field

working with office technology. The curriculum focuses on three areas of office technology– word

possessing, spreadsheets and presentation programs and applications. Students will learn both

Microsoft Office suite programs (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and the Google Drive applications of

Document, Spreadsheet & Presentation. In addition, students will learn how to navigate the Google

Drive interface, upload and download documents to and from the Drive and share documents using

Google Drive. The course will also cover professional formatting of documents including emails,

resumes and reference sheets.

Goals

By the end of the course students should be able to do the following:

Create, edit and save a document, spreadsheet or presentation

Differentiate between a Google and MS Office document, workbook or presentation

Navigate the Google Drive interface

- Upload an item to the Drive

- Download an item from the Drive to MS Office

- Collaborate and share items in Google Drive

Format a resume, cover letter, reference sheet or other document using word processing

Use a spreadsheet to organize data, create and modify formulas and present data visually

Use a presentation program to deliver a professional slideshow presentation

Attendance Policy

Be on time! If you are running late, sick, or have an unexpected conflict please call or email Steve!

Examples of an excused absence: illness, job interview, childcare issues

If you arrive late do not interrupt class or ask the instructor to catch you up during class.

Respect your fellow students’ class experience

Consistent tardiness or more than two unexcused absences will result in dismissal from the

course

Instructor’s Expectations

Maintain a professional demeanor and attitude at all times

Follow the Attendance Policy

Study the material on your own time

Come to class prepared (pen, paper, etc)

Complete the final project presentation for the last day of class

Class materials will be emailed to students every day – Check your email and download the

documents at the beginning of each class period

Instructor’s Contact Information

Stephen Pigozzi

Technology Center Career Path Facilitator

Phone: 773-772-7170 Ext# 3104

spigozzi@associationhouse.org

Online Resources

Google - Apps Admin, Gmail, Drive, http://edutraining.googleapps.com/

Microsoft Programs - GCF Lean Free, http://www.gcflearnfree.org/office - Office.com, http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/

Youtube - Search what you want to learn via YouTube to watch a video, www.youtube.com

Course Schedule

This course runs every Monday for 6 weeks Monday, February, 17th – Monday, March 24th

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Week 1

Introduction to Google Drive

- Cloud computing

- Accessing the Drive

Fundamentals of Spreadsheets

- Terminology

- Introduction to functions

o Creating, lookup and cell references

- Introduction to formatting

- Resizing, inserting & deleting cells, rows and columns

Week 2

Creating and saving items in MS Office & Google Drive

Uploading items from MS Office to the Drive

Downloading items from the Drive to MS Office

Fundamentals of presentation programs

- Adding slides

- Adding bullet points, pictures and links

- Themes, transitions and animations

- Slide show view options

Inserting charts in a spreadsheet/review of functions – Google quarterly earnings report

Week 3

Fundamentals of word processing (WP) – edit a resume and a cover letter - Creating and deleting text - Creating paragraphs - Formatting text - Aligning text - Line and paragraph spacing - Adjusting margins - Breaks

- Columns

- Spell check and review

Sharing docs in Google Drive

Spreadsheet review – Apple quarterly earnings report

Week 4

Spreadsheets: Logical functions – IF, sumif, sumifs, AND, OR

Spreadsheets: Lookup functions

Spreadsheets: Excel Data tab. Text to columns, removing duplicates, data validation

Charts review – US Census data

WP review – edit a reference page in MS Word and Save it to the Drive

Week 5

WP: inserting tables, pictures and other objects

WP: creating forms using the developer tab

Create a program registration form activity

Spreadsheet concepts review – lookup data in the IL School Lunch Statistics. Remove

duplicates

Spreadsheet concepts review – family budget activity

Week 6

Final assessment – group final Spreadsheet & WP quiz

Go over correct answers

Student presentations

Conferring of Certificates of Completion