Course Syllabus
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Instructor: Sarah Whylly
Email: swhylly@santarosa.edu or Canvas Inbox
Phone: 707.307.3034 (text only unless scheduled)
Office Hours: Online via Google Hangouts, Canvas Inbox, Skype, and/or BigBlueButton (in Canvas @ Collaborations) Mondays from 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Email Response Time: I respond to Canvas Inbox email within 48 hours. If you are messaging me in another fashion, outside of the Canvas Inbox system then there can be a delay of up a week in response time depending upon the mode used to contact me.
A Note About Hoot.Me: Hoot.Me is crowd-sourced help for getting questions answered in this course. Your instructor checks the message board about 2x per week. This is meant to be a place where your fellow students can help to answer your questions and are encouraged to do so. This is NOT a place to ask questions regarding your grade, about extensions for assignments, or other time-sensitive or personal questions. It is a way for you to help each other but everything you type on Hoot.Me is visible to all other students at all times.
*This document may subject to change with notice.
Description:
This course emphasizes the creation of slide presentations by adding visual elements, applying textual formatting, and working with graphics and slide customization.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 100 or ESL 100
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
COURSE CONTENT
Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to:
- Compose a PowerPoint presentation with textual information and visual elements.
- Manipulate existing PowerPoint presentations using editing tools.
- Create an effective presentation based upon industry standards.
Objectives:
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Create a presentation.
- Add textual information.
- Add visual elements.
- Modify and format slides and presentations.
- Add graphic elements.
Topics and Scope
Overview of a PowerPoint presentation
- Opening an existing presentation
- Editing a presentation
- Viewing a slide show in different view modes
- Adding speaker notes, headers, and footers
- Previewing, printing slides, notes pages, and handouts
Creating and modifying a presentation
- Text for a presentation in various layouts
- Editing text and fonts
- Using cut, copy, and paste
- Design themes
- Slide backgrounds
Formatting a presentation
- Character spacing and line spacing
- Find and replace
- Graphic objects
- Bullets and numbers
- Slide master elements
Enhancing a presentation with graphic elements
- Clip Art
- Shapes and lines
- Adding text to shapes
- WordArt
- SmartArt graphics
Assignments will include:
- Reading of approximately 20 pages per week in textbook (Please note that this online version of the course is 8 weeks and readings are increased based upon the compressed nature of the course.)
- Completion of exercises and drills
- Weekly quizzes
- Completion of unit projects
Late Work Policy
I do not accept late work in this course. The course is very short (8 weeks) and students must be prepared to stay on task and work each week on the material in preparation for submitting it. Since the due dates are known ahead of time, students can submit any time ahead of the deadline and should not wait until the last minute to complete and submit work. It is the job of the student to check and verify dates and times that work is due; just like at a real job, these due dates/times might vary and students should plan ahead for that. This class endeavors to help students be prepared for managing expectations for multiple due dates as they would experience in a professional capacity. I may, at the end of each course, and at my discretion, offer the entire class opportunities to make up missed work but this will not be introduced until the final week of the course and it is at the discretion of the instructor whether or not to offer that opportunity.
Textbooks and Learning Materials
I have a policy that all materials for my courses that are required must be affordable. With that in mind, here is what you will need for the course:
Scribd.com (Links to an external site.) membership: This site is an online library that allows me to make collections of readings and books for our class. This is the link to our class bookshelf (Links to an external site.). The textbook, "Step by Step", can be accessed here and is required for the course. If you wish to purchase a hard copy of the book, please click here (Links to an external site.) but you do not need a physical copy; I strongly urge you to consider the ecopy at Scribd.com since the subscription cost is $8.99 per month.
Copy of Office 2016 (Links to an external site.) or a subscription to Office 365 (Links to an external site.). You may read about the differences between these here but you will need either 2013 or 2016/365. It is preferred that you have 2016/365 as that is what I will be teaching in the course. You can purchase these products very inexpensively here (Links to an external site.). You will notice that some of the options include monthly subscriptions for 365 that are as low as $6.99 per month. Don't forget: You need an Internet Connection to Use Office 365 as it is cloud-based! Make sure you when you check out that you have indicated that you are a student and given the college's name to get an additional 10% off your purchase.
GCF LearnFree Tutorials and Guides: These are free and can be accessed here through the GCF LearnFree website (Links to an external site.). I will often link guides and tutorials through the modules to specific units and sections I want you to work through.
Sum total minimum: $47.94
You can get away with only spending the above amount if you choose the cheapest options for the course. Plan according to your own budget and learning needs.
Assignments and Evaluative Exercises:
This course will follow a gamified structure based on the successful completion of the activities within a role-playing game. The expectation is that all students will participate in the role-playing game and act within assignments and course interactions as their character. Students will be able to earn additional points for successfully completing activities as their character.
Weekly Discussion Boards: 20 pts. – These are part attendance/participation tracking and part interactive applied skills exercises. You will be asked to consider a question or multiple questions and apply what you know of the subject matter thus far to answer. You will also be expected to respond to your peers.
160 pts. possible
Weekly Skills Assignments: 35-100 pts. each – These assignments will offer you the opportunity to demonstrate what you are learning through a guided project which will require you to make use of the material from the reading and from additional lesson material each week.
280-800 pts. possible
Quizzes: 25-50 pts. – These quizzes will occur every other week and will contain a mix of questions from the lesson content and reading material and demonstrated application of skills.
200-400 pts. possible
Unit Projects: 100-150 pts. – These will be given on 3 separate occasions during the course and will consist of an extended project similar to the weekly skills assessment assignments. Students will be expected to demonstrate a mastery of skill sets drawn from various chapters and lessons.
300-450 pts. possible
Students with Disabilities:
Students with disabilities needing academic accommodations should register with and provide documentation to the Student Disability Resources Department (SDRD). Please bring verification to class from the SDRD indicating your need and approval for academic accommodations. This should be done within the first week of class.
Please speak with me if you have any questions.
You can visit the Santa Rosa Disabilities Resources Department at the following link:
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