Course Information

OAT151Access

Course Dates and Length / This is a 16-week course (Session I) that begins Monday, January 12
Course Delivery / This is an Online Course. You will arrange your own weekly hours to complete course requirements. You can work on your own computer or in an Open Campus Lab equipped with the appropriate software. Plan approximately 6 hours each week to complete your course work: however, you may need more or less time each week. Communicate with your instructor and submit assignments by the required due dates. No excuse is acceptable for late work. Assignments completed after the due date, will earn a zero.
Course Instructor / See Instructor Information menu item in BlackBoard
Required Course Materials
E-Follett (DTCC Bookstore) search information is at the bottom of this file
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Student Access Code: Pearson MyITLab for Office 2013: Exploring Series

ISBN: 9780133775075

This code will provide access to the following:

Exploring Microsoft Access 2013 Comprehensive: eText

Exploring Microsoft Access 2013 Comprehensive: Print Upgrade (Optional print version textbook, the cost via Pearson is $30)

eText for iPad—Apple/MAC users. This does not mean you can complete the entire course on your MAC. Access 2013 does NOT run on a MAC.

Your Student Access Code is good for one year. Therefore, you would be able to take additional OAT (Office Administration) courses—if taken within the year. The following courses will use the same code: OAT152--Excel; OAT151--Access and OAT159—PowerPoint.

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT OBTAINING YOUR MATERIALS: IF YOU OBTAIN COURSE MATERIALS FROM A SOURCE OTHER THAN WHAT IS SHOWN IN THIS DOCUMENT, WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ASSIST YOU IF THE MATERIALS ARE NOT APPROPRIATE FOR THE COURSE. Courses in technology-related fields commonly require access codes for technology-based learning and assessment systems such as MyITLab. ISBNs for textbooks about and that include technology are regularly updated for relevance by the book publisher; ISBNs you find at non-instructor approved sources may not be the ISBN required by your instructor. Thus, we can only guarantee that new materials obtained according to the information in this document—and obtained just prior to the beginning of the term—will work for the course.
Course Software Information

/ You will use three different software programs in this course:
  1. MyITLab Pearson learning and assessment system. It is where all of your course material is located.
  2. Microsoft Access 2013 for PCs (this does not run on a MAC).Microsoft Office 365 is now available for free. A link is located at MyDTCC, College Resources, Educational Discounts. Click here for further information.
  3. BlackBoard

What You Will Learn in This Course / You will learn to create business databases and to use the features of Microsoft Access 2013.
Why You Should Take This Course / Microsoft Access is used throughout the world as the standard business database program.

E-Follett (DTCC Bookstore) search information is below:

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