Basic Keyboarding

Course code VOVI 0730

Credit 0.0

Length 96.0 hours

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This course teaches beginning level keyboarding to blind and vision-impaired students on computers with adaptive speech and/or magnification software. Students will use specially adapted software to learn to touch type.

Prerequisites

Course type

This is a standalone course that can be taken individually without enrolling in a VCC program.
International students: Contact [email protected] to confirm whether this course is available to international students.

  • Introduction to correct posture and finger positioning
  • Arrow keys
  • Home row, enter key and space-bar
  • Escape and Tab keys
  • Introduction of other alphabetic keys and punctuation
  • Introduction of numbers
  • Other computer keys such as backspace, insert, delete, and function keys
  • Shifted numbers and other shifted keys
  • Numeric keypad
  • Sentence practice
  • Paragraph practice
  • Timed touch typing practice

For more information about adult programs for visually impaired learners, please call 604.871.7338 or visit the Broadway campus during regular business hours to speak with the services coordinator for students with disabilities.

Course schedules

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Contact us

If you have any questions, please email at [email protected].

† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.

Indigenous Territory Acknowledgment

VCC is located on the traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples who have been stewards of these lands since time immemorial.