Informatics Skills A

Indicative content

Indicative content:
• Introduction to the subject Information Skills A. Course organization and assessment conditions, requirements for the course Information Skills A. Development and characteristics of information and communication technologies (ICT), transformation of society into the information society, the need for computer literacy, characteristics of computer literacy. Characteristics of the software package for MS OFFICE office work. Introduction to working with the text editor MS Word. Basic terms used in working in a given application program product.
• MS Word text editor - characteristics and description of the application, elements of the application window, application control, document creation, document editing, selection of tools for effective work with documents and modification of their overall appearance. Creating a new document, text file and saving it, various formats for saving text files. Writing text, text alignment, working with paragraphs, tabs, inserting special characters, symbols, moving text, copying and deleting text, text formatting, type, typeface and font size, text color, moving around the document. Formatting with styles. Saving and opening files.
• Basic requirements of the document. Page numbering, hard page break (page break), document header and footer editing, different types of bullets, line spacing. Use of graphic files, various file formats, raster and vector graphics, search, creation and formatting of images. Insert image, clip art, shapes.
• Insert SmartArt charts and images into a document. Use of WortArt. Working with a table in a document, creating a table, resizing a table, formatting a table.
• Basic options for document printing, page margins, page orientation, document printing. Using a paragraph style. Find and replace text.
• Creation of more extensive documents such as students' final theses in accordance with the internal directive for final theses valid for EU students in Bratislava. Working with the References card. Document content generation, document content update, footnotes, descriptions of figures and tables, lists.
• Create a PDF document. Teamwork in MS Word. Tracking changes. Accept and reject changes. Document security. Solution of a complex example for working with the text editor MS Word.
• Mail merge - enter and insert fields, merge fields, address block, greeting block, etc. Envelopes and labels. Languages, spelling, automatic corrections. Basics of computer typography.
• Basic skills in working with the presentation software product MS PowerPoint 2019. Program launch, program control, program environment description, window description, image display modes. Basics of creating a presentation, purpose planning, presentation method, form and content based on the definition of purpose and audience, selection of a suitable format and template for the presentation. Presentation creation, background and layout of slides, slide master, text insertion and formatting, color, size, alignment, etc.
• Figures, diagrams, graphs, tables and drawing objects in the presentation, pasting, copying, moving and deleting, rotating and flipping drawn objects. Object animations, predefined animation options, setting your own animations, selecting from effects and determining time, automatic projection, timing in automatic projection.
• Interactive presentation, action buttons and hyperlinks. Processing audio in a slide show, embedding audio from a file, recording your own audio comments, assigning audio to a slide transition or animation effect.
• Video as a component of a multimedia presentation, searching for digital video files, inserting a video clip, and setting it to play. Preparation of documents, notes, printing of presentations and preparation for the presentation on the road, preparation of technical equipment for the presentation.
• Continuous assessment of students' work during the semester on the active form of teaching. Presentation of the final project.