IT User Skills - Level 2 Award

This course will improve your employment prospects by giving you additional IT skills, encompassing intermediate use of Microsoft Office (including word processing, spreadsheets and presentations) and how to improve your productivity through IT use.

Topics covered can include:

• Word processing software (Microsoft Word)
  Create documents
  Manipulate and format text
  Insert and manipulate images within a document
  Import objects and graphics
  Use mail merge tools
  Create, manipulate and format tables
  Preview and print documents
• Spreadsheet software (Microsoft Excel)
  Understand the basic concepts of spreadsheets
  Create a spreadsheet
  Insert and format data
  Create, format and adjust charts
  Create formulae and functions and copy them to other cells
  Apply settings for printing
• Presentation software (Microsoft PowerPoint)
  Create, format, modify and prepare presentations using different slide layouts
  Duplicate and move text, images, charts
  Create and modify organisational charts
  Apply slide transitions and animation effects
  Apply slide designs using presets and templates
  Apply various print options
• Improving productivity using IT
  Plan, evaluate and improve procedures involving the use of IT tools and systems in order to improve the productivity and efficiency of work activities

You do not need to have any previous qualifications.

All applicants must have an initial assessment and interview to confirm that the course is suitable for them.

The course includes ongoing assessment and may include a final portfolio or exam.

Adults

Entry Level, Level 1, Level 2
If you will be aged 19 or older on 31 August in the year you begin your course, and have been resident in the UK/EU/EEA for the past 3 years, your course may be free, depending on your circumstances. Some courses will have other costs associated, such as for materials and trips. Many of our students are eligible for financial support when studying at college – please click here for more information.

The course gives you the chance to develop useful, transferable IT skills to help you progress to further learning, or employment.