This document provides information about an IT skills course aimed at boosting confidence in office skills like word processing, emailing, and file management. The course will provide tasks to complete based on routine office activities. Students can find the tasks online and get help from topic-specific guides, online resources, or by emailing the tutor. Workshops will also be provided to meet the tutor and other students. Skills learned will include Word formatting, templates, styles, email lists, and collaboration techniques to use in administrative, accounting, or health service roles.

1. Improve your IT Office Skills

2. What is the aim of
the course?
The aim of this course is to boost your confidence in using IT in the office.
Increased confidence will boost your employability options.
This part of the course is based mostly on word processing, emailing and file
management.

3. How will this be achieved?
 By helping you work through a number of IT Tasks
 These tasks are based on routine office activities, such
as:
 Editing existing files
 Sending files to one or more colleagues, by email
 Finding information for your manager, and presenting it
to him/her in a professional manner

4. Where will I find these tasks?
 The tasks are on the moodle
 There are 6 sections, with one or
more task per section
 The task instructions are clearly
identified – and you have the
option to download a pdf version

5. Where do I find help?
 Topic specific Help files (pdfs) can be downloaded
from the moodle.
 Links to further online resources are provided.
 You can email the tutor directly.
 ccurtis@cvcweb.net
 You can also use the moodle forums to:
 Contact the tutor or
 Talk to other learners.

6. Is there anything else?
 We will be providing a number of workshops.
These workshops are for you to come and meet your
tutor and fellow learners.
If you have specific questions, please feel free to ask
them here. The tutor may use your question to
demonstrate possible solutions to the class.
You can bring your own computer to work on, or
you can use the college’s equipment

7. What IT skills will I learn?
 Basic formatting and editing in MS Word
2007/2010
 Creating and using Templates
 Creating and using Styles
 Document layout – including Tables, Headers &
Footers and Graphics
 Protecting documents from accidental editing
 Creating and using email distribution lists
 Techniques for collaborative working

8. Where can I use these IT skills?
 Administrative / clerical / secretarial / PA roles
 Wordprocessing, internet, email, spreadsheets, presenta
tions
 Accountancy / Bookkeeping / Finance roles
 Accountancy packages and spreadsheets
 Health service – clinicians and administrators
 Bespoke database systems plus
wordprocessing, email, spreadsheets and presentations

9. Any questions?
 If you have any questions regarding this course, please
don’t hesitate to contact us:
 The Centre Manager is Janet Drinkwater
 jdrinkwater@cvcweb.net
 The Tutor is Celine Curtis
 ccurtis@cvcweb.net
 If you want to talk to someone, please call Community
Education at Cottenham: 01954 288751 (Option 2)