Target audience: grades 8-12, adults

Price and Duration:

• $549 per student
• This course is a semester long (15 weeks); typically 1d per week, 75min.

Description:
This course is an introduction to the SoftMaker Office productivity suite (MS Office-compatible). Students will learn several of the SoftMaker Office applications through a project-based approach. The student is a member of the sales & marketing team at a fictitious wholesale business. Each week, the overbearing boss (your instructor!) will drop sales data that the student "employee" will need to incorporate into running sales report (spreadsheet app). Each student will be responsible for a product or product line and will need to develop a marketing brochure for that product (word processor app) and present the brochure (presentation app) to the sales & marketing team. The student will interact with the company Contacts database to generate form letter mailer (word processor). Intermittently during the semester and at the end of the semester, the student "employee" will brief the sales report (spreadsheet, presentation) to the team. The student will also maintain communications with the sales & marketing team through the semester (project management app). Finally, the student will develop a résumé (word processor) to sell themselves to the job market.

Prerequisites/Co-requisites:

• None.

Objectives:
The objective of this course is to introduce the student to the SoftMaker Office productivity suite. At the completion of the course, the student will possess the knowledge and skill to work with spreadsheets, word processing, presentations apps and other tools in a real-world environment. Required Texts and Resources:
Student must have an Internet-connected computer with an HTML-5 compliant web browser (MacOS, Windows, ChromeOS, Linux). A subscription to SoftMaker Office NX or 2024