CIT 105 Online: Introduction to Computers (3 Credits)

Spring 2017 Syllabus, Page 1

CIT 105 Online: Introduction to Computers (3 credits)

Spring 2017 (Term 4166) (January 9th –May 7th, 2017)

CourseSection: 10Z2-PeopleSoft#:82413 -WWW

Course Pre-requisite: RDG 20 or Consent of instructor.

Course Description:

Provides an introduction to the computer and the convergence of technology as used in today’s global environment. Introduces topics including computer hardware and software, file management, the Internet, e-mail, the social web, green computing, security and computer ethics. Presents basic use of application, programming, systems, and utility software. Basic keyboarding skills are strongly recommended.

Instructor’s Name and Contact Information:

Loucas Papalouca, Associate Professor

Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College

SKYCTC – KATI Campus

1127 Morgantown Road, Room 219

Bowling Green, KY

Office phone: (270) 901-1165

Home phone: (270) 883-5511

Email: Please email the instructor from Blackboard Course Shell Please only use the KCTCS Email below, if the instructor did not reply within 24 hours.

-Please allow the instructor at least 24 hours to respond back to your email, so please don’t wait the last minute to ask a question.

KCTCSEmail:

Instructor’s Office Hours:

Office Hours/Lab
Time / M / T / W / R / F
7:00 - 9:00 / Office - Kati Room 219 / Office - Kati Room 219
9:30 - 10:30 / Office - Kati Room 219 / Office - Kati Room 219
2:00-4:00 / Office - Kati Room 219

Students can reach me any day from 8:00am-8:00pm CST through e-mail or telephone. I’m available for a face-to-face conversation in my office

College Contact:

Lisa Hunt, Division Dean

1127 Morgantown Road

Bowling Green, KY 42101

Phone: 270-901-1010or 270-901-1132

Course Competencies/Student Outcomes:

Upon completion of this course the student can:

Describe basic computer functions and use correct computer terminology.
Use a course management system.
Utilize computer technology as a tool to access, manage, prepare, and present information.
Identify trends in information processing and new emerging technologies.
Explain the impact of computers upon society including effects of social technologies, green computing, dangers of excessive use, and disposal of obsolete equipment.
Identify and analyze ethical issues such as copyright, privacy, and security as related to computing.
Explain the difference between application, programming, system, and utility software.
Use a graphical user interface-based operating system to manage files, folders and disks.
Use application software packages to prepare basic documents, spreadsheets, databases, and presentations.
Describe and explain basic data communications and network technologies and functions.
Identify and use basic E-mail and Internet functions and understand their capabilities.
Describe globalization and challenges including technological barriers, electronic payments, and varying cultures.
Describe cloud computing and its impact on business and personal systems[LP1].

Course Outline:

Looking at Computers
Identify what a computer does
Provide a brief history of the computer
Explain the different types of personal and multiuser computers
Identify other computer devices such as handheld, mobile, and video game systems
Identify proper ergonomics to improve comfort and safety of the end user
Hardware
Identify the CPU, the parts of a system unit, and motherboard
Briefly describe binary code
Identify different storage devices
Highlight different input and output devices and their uses
Explain the different types of printers
Describe communication devices and their purpose
File Management
Create folders to organize files
Explain file extensions and file properties
Review the importance of backing up files and how to do it within the operating system
Demonstrate how to compress files
Use search possibilities to locate files
Re-associate files to a different program
Application and System Software
Identify different types of business and personal software
Explain system requirements for installing and using software
Explain licensing, freeware, shareware, open source, and retail software
Explain the difference between application and system software
Review a course management system
Review different types of system software
Manipulate text and format a document using word processing software
Create worksheets, use basic formulas, and create graphs using spreadsheet software
Identify the importance of databases in our society and demonstrate the basic use of database software
Create a simple presentation using presentation software
Discuss ethical issues such as copyright, privacy, and security as related to computing
Networking
Review the history of the Internet
Explain how networks work and connecting to them
Compare different web browsers
Identify different ways to navigate and search the web
Review social networking and its impact on today’s society
Demonstrate how to use e-mail effectively
Review forums, discussion boards, blogs, podcasts, etc.
Review e-commerce and social media marketing
Identify cloud computing

Changes in these guidelines and plans will be announced as appropriate in class.

THIS COURSE SCHEDULE IS TENTATIVE AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE.

Week / Objectives / Content and
Activities / Challenge
Activity / Points
Week 1 / -Read the getting started page
-Read the Syllabus
-Note: Students must complete the Syllabus Quiz by 7:00 p.m. (CST), Thursday, January 12th, 2017 to stay enrolled in the course. Once the Syllabus Quiz is complete, the student will have access to all course materials including textbook, Exams. And Hands On Assignments. A student that does not complete the Syllabus Quiz by 7:00 p.m., Thursday, January 12th, 2017, will be reported as a No Show. No Show students are dropped! I will not allow No Show students back into the course. / For more information Click on the Getting Started and Syllabus Pages in Blackboard / Syllabus Quiz
For more information Click on Class Work in Blackboard and then click on this week’s Link then click on the Syllabus Quiz
Due anytime, until
1/12/17 / 10
Week 2
Book:
TEXTBOOK:O’LearyComputer Essentials 2017
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Chapter 1:Information Technology, The Internet, and you.
Chapter 5: The System Unit
Chapter 7: Secondary Storage / -Explain the parts of an information system: people, procedures, software, hardware, data, and the Internet.
-Distinguish between system software and application software.
-Differentiate between the three kinds of system software programs.
-Define and compare general-purpose, specialized, and mobile applications.
-Identify the four types of computers and the five types of personal computers.
-Describe the different types of computer hardware, including the system unit, input, output, storage, and communication devices.
-Define data and describe document, worksheet, database, and presentation files.
-Explain computer connectivity, the wireless revolution, the Internet, cloud computing, and lot
-Differentiate between the five basic types of system units.
-Describe system boards, including sockets, slots, and bus lines.
-Recognize different microprocessors, including microprocessor chips and specialty processors.
-Compare different types of computer memory, including RAM, ROM, and flash memory.
-Explain expansion slots and cards.
-Describe bus lines, bus widths, and expansion buses.
-Describe ports, including standard and specialized ports.
-Identify power supplies for desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile devices.
-Explain how a computer can represent numbers and encode characters electronically
-Distinguish between primary and secondary storage.
-Identify the important characteristics of secondary storage including media, capacity, storage devices, and access speed.
-Describe hard-disk platters, tracks, sectors, cylinders, and head crashes.
-Compare internal and external hard drives.
-Compare performance enhancements including disk caching, RAID, file compression, and file decompression.
-Define optical storage including compact discs, digital versatile discs, and Blu-ray discs.
-Define solid-state storage including solid-state drives, flash memory cards, and USB drives.
-Define cloud storage and cloud storage services.
-Describe mass storage, mass storage devices, enterprise storage systems, and storage area networks / For more information, click on Class Work in Blackboard and then click on this week’s Link / For more information,click on Class Work in Blackboard and then click on this week’s Link. Read the chapters and Do the Let Me Try Tasks within the chapters, also do
The Computer Concepts Assignment -ADue anytime until 1/23/17 / 10
Week 3
Chapter 4: System Software
Windows 10: An overview
Book: Author - Manning, Microsoft Office A Skills Approach 2016
File Management Basics
Book: Author - Manning, Microsoft Office A Skills Approach 2016 / -Describe the differences between system software and application software.
-Identify the four types of system software programs.
-Explain the basic functions, features, and categories of operating systems.
-Compare mobile operating systems, including iOS, Android, and Windows Phone.
-Compare desktop operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS, UNIX, Linux, and virtualization.
-Explain the purpose of utilities and utility suites.
-Identify the four most essential utilities.
-Describe Windows utility programs
-Log in to Windows 10
-Understand the Windows 10 user interface
-Launch apps from and pin apps to the Start menu
-Work with the taskbar
-Search for items using Cortana
-Work with Windows
-Connect to a network
-Use the Action Center
-Understanding the Settings window
-Sign out and shut down the computer
-Navigate the File Explorer window
-Create new folders
-Select multiple files
-Manage files and folders including opening, moving, deleting, and renaming
-Use the Quick access list
-Create a zip file
-Locate and open downloaded files / For more information, click on Class Work in Blackboard and then click on this week’s Link / For more information, click on Class Work in Blackboard and then click on this week’s Link. Read the chapters and Do the Let Me Try Tasks within the chapters, also do
The Computer Concepts Assignment -BDue anytime until 1/30/17 / 30
Week 4
Chapter 6: Input and Output
Chapter 8: Communications and Networks
Chapter 9: Privacy, Security and Ethics / -Define input.
-Describe keyboard entry including types and features of keyboards.
-Identify different pointing devices including game controllers and styluses.
-Describe scanning devices including optical scanners, RFID readers, and recognition devices.
-Recognize image capturing and audio-input devices.
-Define output.
-Identify different monitor features and types including flat panels and e-books.
-Define printing features and types including inkjet and cloud printers.
-Recognize different audio and video devices including portable media devices.
-Define combination input and output devices including multifunctional devices, telephones, drones, robots, and VR headgear and gloves.
-Explain ergonomics and ways to minimize physical damage
-Explain connectivity, the wireless revolution, and communication systems.
-Describe physical and wireless communication channels.
-Differentiate between connection devices and services including dial-up, DSL, cable, satellite, and cellular.
-Describe data transmission factors, including bandwidth and protocols.
-Define networks and key network terminology including network interface cards and network operating systems.
-Describe different types of networks, including local, home, wireless, personal, metropolitan, and wide area networks.
-Describe network architectures, including topologies and strategies.
-Explain the organization issues related to Internet technologies and network security
-Identify the most significant concerns for effective implementation of computer technology.
-Discuss the primary privacy issues of accuracy, property, and access.
-Describe the impact of large databases, private networks, the Internet, and the web on privacy.
-Discuss online identity and the major laws on privacy.
-Discuss cybercrimes including creation of malicious programs such as viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and zombies as well as denial of service attacks, Internet scams, identity theft, cyberbullying, rogue Wi-Fi hotspots, and data manipulation.
-Detail ways to protect computer security including restricting access, encrypting data, anticipating disasters, and preventing data loss.
-Discuss computer ethics including copyright law, software piracy, digital rights management, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, as well as plagiarism and ways to identify plagiarism / Note: For more information, click on Class Work in Blackboard and then click on this week’s Link / For more information, click on Class Work in Blackboard and then click on this week’s Link. Read the chapters and Do the Let Me Try Tasks within the chapters, also do
The Computer Concepts Assignment -CDue anytime until 2/6/17 / 10
Week 5/
The Website Evaluation
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Chapter Two: The Internet, the Web, and Electronic Commerce
Using OneDrive.
Book: Author - Manning, Microsoft Office A Skills Approach 2016 /
The Website Evaluation is required as part of the Computer Literacy. Depending on your score, you can earn more points, if you don't do this Assignment, you will lose several class points
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There is no place where evaluation is more relevant than in examining information found on the Web. This is because anyone can create a web site. Most web pages do not undergo any sort of editorial review process, as do books and periodical articles. Therefore, critical thinking skills and an active, questioning mind are needed to evaluate any information found on the Internet
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-Explain the origins of the Internet and the web.
-Explain how to access the web using providers and browsers.
-Compare different web utilities, including plug-ins, filters, file transfer utilities, and Internet security suites.
-Compare different Internet communications, including e-mail, text messaging, instant messaging, social networking, blogs, microblogs, webcasts, podcasts, and wikis.
-Describe search tools, including search engines and specialized search engines.
-Evaluate the accuracy of information presented on the web.
-Identify electronic commerce, including B2C, C2C, B2B, and security issues.
-Describe cloud computing, including the three-way interaction of clients, Internet, and service providers.
-Discuss the Internet of Things (IoT) and the continuing development of the Internet to allow everyday objects to send and receive data
-Understand cloud storage and OneDrive
-Create folders and manage files using OneDrive
-Upload files to and download files from OneDrive
-Share files with others through OneDrive / For more information,click on Class Work in Blackboard and then click on this week’s Link
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Note: For more information, click on Class Work in Blackboard and then click on this week’s Link / For more information,click on Class Work in Blackboard and then click on this week’s Link
Due anytime until
2/8/2017
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For more information, click on Class Work in Blackboard and then click on this week’s Link. Read the chapters and Do the Let Me Try Tasks within the chapters, also do
The Computer Concepts Assignment -DDue anytime until 2/13/17 / 20
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20
Week 6/
Section Exam 1
Computer Concepts Exam -B
/ Material included in the Exam: Book - Author: O’Leary, Computer Essentials 2017 Chapters 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9, and Book - Author: Manning, Microsoft Office A Skills Approach 2016 chapters Win 10, file management and using OneDrive
Please do not take the Section Exam 1 unless you have submitted all the required assignments for all the chapters included in the Exam. Please read the chapters and all the other resources provided for you before you take this Section Exam! This Exam has Multiple Choiceand true and false questions.
Note: The Exam is only allowed to be taken once. So please do the following:
1. Make sure you have 90minutes of continues time to take the Exam. Do not exit the Exam prematurelyafter you have started it!
2. Reboot your computer before going into the Exam.
3. Make sure you have a goodand stable connection to the Internet.
4. Use the Google Chrome Browser or Firefox and enable Po-ups
5. Be Patient moving from one question to the next! / Click on Section Exam 1 In Blackboard. and then click on Concepts Exam -B
Turn Chapter 2Assignments before this Exam / For more information, click on Class Work in Blackboard and then look at week 6
Due anytime until: 2/20/2017 / 50
Week 7
Book:
TEXTBOOK: Author - Manning, Microsoft Office A Skills Approach 2016
Word - Chapter 1 - Getting Started with Word 2016
Word - Chapter 2 - Formatting Text and Paragraphs / Word Chapter 1 and 2
-Enter, select, and delete text
-Use the spelling and grammar features
-Use Undo and Redo
-Find and replace text in a document
-Cut, copy, and paste text
-Apply different paste options
-Use the Clipboard
-View document statistics
-Change how the document displays in the window
-Print documents
-Apply fonts and style text
-Copy and paste formatting using
the Format Painter
-Use bulleted and numbered list to