Business ICT Skills (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Schedule

Course Wk 1: Introduction to course contents, tasks and assessment. Go through of Haaga-Helia’s ICT and learning environments (HH-network, Office 365 incl. OneDrive & SharePoint), and their various offerings to support efficient learning.
Course Wk 2: PowerPoint and ingredients for a successful presentation.
Course Wk 3: Microsoft Word exercises with the Finnish Document Standard.
Course Wk 4: Structured, multi-section documents in Word. Co-authoring.
Course Wk 5: Review of Powerpoint, Word, and learning assignments.
Course Wk 6: Business processes and business process flowchart creation with Visio
Course Wk 7: Review of examination 1 (Powerpoint and Word). Exercises with OneDrive sharing.
Course Wk 8: Examination 1 review. Spreadsheet computing basics with Excel.
NO CLASS
Course Wk 9: Spreadsheet computing: Excel and functions. Visually pleasant spreadsheets.
Course Wk 10: Excel functions continued. Sums and subtotals.
Course Wk 11: Recap of functions. Importing and exporting data. Finding knowledge from data.
Course Wk 12: Charts and pivot tables.
Course Wk 13: Data analysis and making sense from data.
Course Wk 14: Examination 2 (Excel and Visio).
Course Wk 15: Effective teamwork and practices for working together. Exam 2 review.

Implementation methods, demonstration and Work&Study

Contact and distant sessions or educationalisation.

If you have acquired the required competence in previous work tasks, recreational activities or on another course, you can show the competence with a demonstration and progress faster through your studies. More information and instructions for RPL are available at MyNet.

Materials

All learning materials are provided in course's Moodle learning environment.

Teaching methods and instruction

Contact sessions with assignments.The sessions can be arranged on the campus and online.

Working life connections

Knowledge and skills of included solutions and software applied are essential for contemporary business professionals.

Exam dates and re-exam possibilities

Two examinations: course week 6 (Powerpoint, Word) and course week 15 (Visio, Excel).

Internationality

Assignments and exercises will make use of international examples and elements.

Completion alternatives

None.

Learning assignments

Compulsory learning assignments (5 pcs) are weighted at 20 % of student's final course grade. Detailed instructions and timetable for successful completion are provided in Moodle at the section “Compulsory Assignments”.
1.2: PowerPoint presentation. Graded with 0-5 scale
3.3: Word business document. Graded with 0-5 scale.
5.2 Excel basics with a chart. Graded with 0-5 scale.
6.3: Excel advanced functions and formulas. Graded with 0-5 scale.
9.4 Data analysis. Graded with 0-5 scale.

Assessment methods

The final course grade will be calculated with the following weight in assessment categories:
Examination 1: 40 %
Examination 2: 40 %
Learning assignments: 20 %