Class Text:

Primary Reference:

Office 2013 In Depth, Joe Habraken. Que, 2013.

I plan to present material on how to use the various applications this class covers. This book, which is a reference book only, will provide further information relating to these presentations. It will explore topics covered in this class in greater detail, as well as provide a resource for topics not presented. It is my hope that this book will serve as a resource as long as you continue to use Microsoft Office 2013 products.

The book's web pages do not seem to contain much information, but you can access them at quepublishing.com/register if you wish.

Primary Practice:

Lynda.com

Lynda.com provides video tutorials which walk through exercises related to topics covered in class. These exercises from the Linda.com courses will be used as part of your grade calculation.

An overview (or advertisement) of Lynda.com is available here and there is a free Course on how to use Lynda.com. You may wish to investigate these for more information concerning this product.

Lynda.com access will be for sale in the bookstore at a reduced price between September 1 and 6. This will provide access for the semester to the five courses we will be using for this class. The price, which is yet to be determined, will be significantly less than the full access price to Lynda.com.

If you wish, you may purchase a full Lynda.com account for a monthly fee (approximately $37 per month). This will give you access to all courses offered by Lynda.com. This is NOT required for this class.

In either case, access to Lynda.com IS required.

Other Items

  1. You will possibly need some form of removable media. We will discuss this in class next week.
  2. You will probably want some form of headphones.