Graduate Boot Camp Course Syllabus  

Evening MBA, IMBA, MIB, Jamaica, Bolivia, ADBA

If you would like to contact me - Gerard Klonarides gk@fiu. edu 

And my website is at http://w3.fiu.edu/gk

 

 

 

 

 

 Thursday August 11, 2005 11:19:36 AM -0400

 

 

           Good Morning IMBA, Good Evening MBA class,

This is what you have to do:

  1. Log in

  2. Complete EXCEL exercises 1-20  (Link will be restored during first day of class)

  3. Save your work as you go along on your laptop or on your PC

  4. If you save on the C drive of the computer in the lab - it will only remain there for this day - it is deleted nightly

  5. If you wish to save for longer - either email it to yourself or save it on your laptop or the CBA U, W or V drive - ask me about it.

  6. Email the exercises as you go along to (one by one , or 5 at a time) gk@fiu.edu

  7. If you finish all 20 today - you are dismissed for the rest of the classes

  8. If you have questions or are finding difficulty - we will resume tomorrow and go through each question one by one

  9. For the eve MBA - Tuesday is beginner's level, Wednesday is intermediate level, and Thursday is advanced.

  10. For the IMBA - beginner's, intermediate and advanced will be concentrated into the two days (11th and 12th Aug) we have together.

  11. Good luck

Prof

     

 

    

  1. Laptop and PC maintenance   

  2. Security for laptops, workstations and networks

  3. Excel IFundamentals     

  4. Excel IIIntermediate            

  5. Excel IIIAdvanced       

  6. Excel IV - Final Touches         

  7. PowerPoint – Fundamentals     

  8. PowerPoint – Intermediate

  9. PowerPoint – Advanced

  10. MS Visio GANTT charts and PERT/CPM

 

 

Excel Level I Fundamentals 

1.        Open new worksheet

2.        Enter data and calculate Totals by using formula manually, the fx function  

3.        Calculate average, min, max, and count  manually

4.        Calculate sum using sigma function 

5.        Copy and paste formulas to a second worksheet

6.        Use $ in calculations 

7.        Save worksheet

8.        Open new sheets

9.        Rename sheets

10.     Insert a worksheet

11.     Change place of a worksheet

12.     Delete row, and column

13.     Insert row and column

14.     Select all, copy, create new sheet.

15.     Column widths, row heights

16.     Borders, patterns, centering, adjust left and right

17.     Color fonts, high lights, change font size 

18.     Format rows and columns for currency, for text and for decimal places

19.     Increase and decrease decimal places

20.     Select adjacent columns.

21.     Exercise 01 

22.     Printing - preview

23.     Print setup, landscape or portrait, gridlines, 

24.     Custom header and footer, 

25.     Inserting time and date, Insert name 

 

Laptop Maintenance and security Level I 

1.        System tools

2.        Scandisk

3.        Disk cleanup

4.        Disk defragmenter

5.        Maintenance wizard

6.        Control panel - mouse

7.        Time and date change

8.        What happens to email if date and time is wrong

 

Excel Level II Intermediate  

1.        Review

2.        Insert a hyperlink and test hyperlink; www and email

3.        Undo button 

4.        Exercise 02 Calculate car loan using PMT manually and function box

5.        Insert comment command, 

6.        Print the cell formulas

7.        Calculate % margin, markup, functions - including totals, mins, max, count, averages

8.        Freeze panes, format columns, 

9.        Sort

10.     Go to top, go to bottom, select all, 

11.     Increase and decrease decimal places, 

12.     Sort, sorting from bottom right to top left

13.     Use of auto filter, one column, multiple columns, 

14.     Printing; print preview, insert page number, page of page numbers, insert name of file, insert sheet number, margins 

15.     Insert comment , permanent or hide

16.     Show all comments

17.     Review sum, count, average, min, max and PMT

18.     New; Log and log10

19.     Power of x

20.     Square root

21.     Sum of squares

22.     Sum of products

 

PowerPoint Level I

1.        Open new Power Point presentation

2.        Select auto layout Title slide

3.        Change size of fonts

4.        Save presentation

5.        Open same presentation

6.        Change background color and preview

7.        Insert new slide in same presentation

8.        Save again

9.        Change text box color

10.     Change font color

11.     Apply color scheme

12.     Spell check

13.     Save and Print

 

            Laptop Maintenance and security Level II

1. Security - Anti-virus Norton - McAfee - AVG ( www.grisoft.com ) and TrendMicro ( http://www.trendmicro.com) and firewalls (ZoneAlarm www.zonealarm.com )  

2. Encryption, ( www.pgp.com ) digital ids, digital signatures, ( www.Thawte.com )  and digital certificates (www.verisign.com )

 

 

Excel Level III Advanced

1.        Review

2.        Variance

3.        Matrix command

4.        Standard deviation

5.        Sum row and column

PowerPoint Level II

1.        Review

2.        Apply design template

3.        Normal view outline view, slide view, slide show view

4.        Choose any of 24 layouts

5.        Add clip art

6.        Add photos

7.        Add sound

8.        Add movie

9.        Choose slide color scheme

10.     Choose from 22 presentation designs

11.     Introduce and choose from 18 entry animations

12.     Introduce sound and choose from 16 sounds

13.     Change order and timing

14.     Introduce text, all at once, letter by letter and word by word

15.     Preview

16.     Rehearse timing

17.     Slide show

18.     Import file

19.     Import word document

20.     Import spreadsheet

21.     Import database

22.     Use of ruler

23.     Use of guides

24.     Save and print

 

 

Excel Level IV Advanced

 

1.        Graphs

2.        Charts

3.        Histogram

4.        Series 1 and series 2 in same graph

5.        Pivoting

6.        Cross tabulate

7.   3 dimensional workbook

 

PowerPoint Level III

1.        Questions

2.        Produce small 30 second slide show

 

Visio Level  I

1.       GANTT charts for Project Management

2.       PERT/CPM charts for Operations Management/Systems Analysis and Design

 

 

..................Thank you for attending and GOOD LUCK..........................

 

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