Please Read Carefully:
This course is being offered using Blackboard Vista as the Learning Management System. If you have never used Blackboard vista before, please visit the orientation site.  http://www.ccconline.org/support/vista

You will access your CCA Blackboard Vista course at http://online.ccaurora.edu

Note:  You will not be able to access your course until the start date, June 2^nd.

New this semester: A support desk is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to assist you with setting up your computer and solving problems. http://www.ccaurora.edu/students/helpdesk/

Complete PC Spreadsheet (MS Excel 2003)

CIS 155-176 (Online)

3 Credit Hours

(June 2 to August 10, 2008)

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course covers the complete array of spreadsheets user skills.  Topics include help feature, adding and deleting rows and columns, copy/paste commands, borders, shading and other formats, spreadsheet design, formatting, formulas, functions, charts, databases, macros, and statistical and what-if analysis, spreadsheet linking with other documents, reports and introduction to Visual Basic using Excel 2003.

 

This course is designed to require students to spend a minimum of 2 hours per week in the lab working on class assignments, projects, and gaining hands on practice.  Credit is awarded based upon completion of projects and the mastery of course-specific software.

COURSE WEBSITE:

http://online.ccaurora.edu

INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION:

Name

George Lesko

Phone

303-340-7221

E-mail

Email is self-contained within Blackboard Vista.  In an emergency use george.lesko@ccaurora.edu

Fax

Mailbox Location

L903-RM 116

Other

REQUIRED COMPUTER SKILLS:

·        Send/receive mail

·        Download files to your computer and then open them

·        Basic word processing skills 

·        Experience with the Blackboard Vista tool or having read the orientation guide at http://www.ccconline.org/support/vista

REQUIRED TEXT BOOK(S):

New Perspectives, Microsoft Office Excel, 2003 Second Edition Comprehensive, by June Jamrich Parsons, Dan Oja, Roy Ageloff, and Patrick Carey, 2004, Course Technology,
ISBN 0-619-26815

REQUIRED MATERIALS:

Three to Four 3 ½ high density diskettes, or a Flash Drive to back-up your work

REQUIRED HARDWARE/ SOFTWARE:

·        Supported Web-browser

·        Supported version of Java

·        To confirm your software is supported, run the Browser Check at http://online.ccaurora.edu

HOW TO GET STARTED:

During the first week of class please complete the following:
Review the course contents and become comfortable using/navigating around in Vista.

Read and respond to the initial email and discussion messages you will see in our Vista Course.

ORIENTATION SESSION/FIRST MEETING:

None … this is an online course.

OTHER INFORMATION:

Following is a brief description of the course web site home page:

Left Side of the home page:

Course Tools

Course content:  If you click the two down arrows you will see the content of the items on the center of the home page.

Announcements:  Announcements from your instructor.

Assessments:  Links to quizzes and exams.

Assignments:  Links to course assignments.

Calendar:  Your monthly calendar with hyperlinks to various items such as assignments, due dates, quizzes, exams, etc.

Discussions:  Required (graded) interactive discussions among students and the Instructor-like  (chat rooms)

Learning Modules:  Another way to organize the course.  It can be thought of as a Table of Contents for the overall course and it can include some of the same links as Assessments, Assignments, discussions, Calendar, etc.

Mail:  All email for this course.  This email is internal to this course and does not or will not accept or receive email from external email sources such as your personal email.

My Tools

My grades:  Shows your current grades and instructor comments.

My Progress:  This is NOT a grade sheet or your academic progress.  This page displays your viewing statistics for example how many times you visited the class Web Site.

Notes:  You can use this tool to write your own class notes and to save and print them.  Think of this like a class note book.