VOVI 0730: Basic Keyboarding
Effective date
April 2016
Department
Visually Impaired
Description
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.
Year of study
Below Grade 10 Equivalency
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Use adaptive speech and/or screen magnification software, correct posture, and finger position to touch type.
- Use the correct keystrokes on a qwerty keyboard to reproduce one page of text with 5 errors or less.
- Touch type at 20 words per minute with two errors or less.
- Identify and correctly use all keys on the qwerty keyboard.
Prior Learning Assessment & Recognition (PLAR)
None
Hours
Practicum, Self-Paced, Individual Learning: 96
Total Hours: 96
Instructional Strategies
Self-paced, individualized instruction.
Grading System
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Evaluation Plan
Type
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Percentage
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Assessment activity
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Quizzes/Tests
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25
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Assignments
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25
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Midterm Exam
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25
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Final Exam
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25
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Course topics
- 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
Notes:
- Course contents and descriptions, offerings and schedules are subject to change without notice.
- Students are required to follow all College policies including ones that govern their educational experience at VCC. Policies are available on the VCC website at:
https://www.vcc.ca/about/governance--policies/policies/.
- To find out if there are existing transfer agreements for this course, visit the BC Transfer Guide at https://www.bctransferguide.ca.