This course equips students with the knowledge, skills, and study strategies needed to support effective learning and a positive educational experience. It explores learning theories and their application to individual study methods, helping students develop approaches that are both effective and efficient. Key topics include study habits, note-taking, goal setting, values, time management, task prioritization, and stress management through learner-centered activities. The course also introduces fundamental concepts of Artificial Intelligence (AI), including its applications, limitations, and ethical, social, and moral implications. In addition, students will start a series of financial training modules to develop financial literacy skills related to budgeting, saving, credit, and debt and gain practical money management skills to effectively manage their financial well-being.

This course explores information management using Microsoft Outlook 365. It will present the Microsoft Outlook application interface, tools and features. You will learn about the fundamentals of an e-mail application, scheduling and calendars, contact lists, creating forwarding and managing messages. This course relies heavily on hands-on practical activities that allow you to learn the concepts by practicing them on a regular basis.

This course introduces word processing using Microsoft 365: Word 2021 through a hands-on, skills-based approach with simulations, training, and assessments. Students begin with an overview of Microsoft 365, including common Office features and file management fundamentals. The course focuses on core Word skills, including document formatting, organization, and editing using ribbon tools. It then progresses to advanced features such as tables, lists, objects, templates, footnotes, endnotes, and mail merge. Students also learn collaboration features, including track changes, sharing, reviewing, and using OneDrive for document collaboration.
Additional focus is placed on using AI-assisted tools to support document creation, improve writing quality, automate formatting tasks, and enhance productivity through intelligent suggestions and content generation.
 

This course introduces spreadsheets using Microsoft 365: Excel 2021 through a hands-on, skills-based approach incorporating simulations, training, and assessments. Students begin with an overview of spreadsheets and key Excel features and functions. They develop skills in entering, formatting, and managing data, and in using formulas and functions to organize and manipulate information.The course then advances to quantitative analysis using logical, lookup, mathematical, and financial functions. Students learn to visualize data by creating a variety of charts based on spreadsheet data. They also develop skills in managing large datasets using tables and structured data tools. Additional emphasis is placed on using AI-assisted tools to generate complex formulas, troubleshoot spreadsheet logic errors, and extract insights from large datasets, enhancing efficiency and supporting data-driven decision-making in professional contexts.

This course introduces the students to relational databases with Microsoft Access. The course starts with an overview of Microsoft Access and databases in general. Students will learn the fundamental features of relational database and how databases are used to store related information and query the information. After learning how to create and modify a database and work with records, students will learn to sort data and filter to a database. Students will then explore the different ways to query a database and extract the information based on different criteria. Subsequent to working with multi-table databases, students will then learn to work with different types of functions to manipulate data, forms to input data into a database and reports to display data.

This course introduces the students to presentation development and design with Microsoft PowerPoint 2016. Relying very heavily on a hands-on practical training approach, students learn by doing through skills based simulations, training and assessments. The course starts with an overview of Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 where you will learn about the common views, features, tools and the environment of PowerPoint. The course then focuses on the core processes of development and design of robust PowerPoint presentations and enhancing the presentations with the rich media tools offered by PowerPoint. Students will learn to use the PowerPoint templates, outlines and themes to design the presentation and then populate the slides with the various content items such as images, shapes, WordArt, SmartArt transitions and other enhancements.