Computer Education Course Descriptions
**There is a requirement of at least a 512 MB flash drive when you sign up for a computer class. The same flash drive can be used for all computer classes**
Auto Desk Inventor
Learn Inventor 9 commands, options and techniques to create 3-D mechanical models of real world products. Create rendered 3-D parts and assemblies to general 2-D dimensional orthographic or isometric drawings. Textbook required.
Computer Keyboarding
This course is designed to improve your computer skills by becoming proficient and accurate on the keyboard. Correct finger positions and ways to increase speed and accuracy will be covered. This is an excellent course to take either before or while taking PC Basics/Windows XP. Textbook may be required.
PC BASICS/Windows
Prerequisite: Computer Keyboarding.
This course is the prerequisite to all microcomputer courses. Learn to become familiar with computer terminology, major hardware components, the software selection process, and buying a computer. Also, learn the basic and intermediate concepts of Windows. Practice using the desktop features such as My Computer, Recycling Bin, Start Menu, and Taskbar. Learn how to copy, move, delete, and rename files and folders with My Computer and Windows Explorer. Data diskette is provided. Textbook required.
MS Word
Prerequisites: Computer Keyboarding and Windows
This course focuses on the beginning and intermediate functions of MS Word. Topics include creating, editing, and printing documents, navigating a document, selecting text, changing document margins, and formatting paragraphs using indents and tabs. Also, students will learn how to utilize mail merge, create charts, create table of contents and many more functions. Textbook required.
MS EXCEL
Prerequisites: Computer Keyboarding and Windows
This course introduces students to beginning and intermediate functions needed to produce workbooks using text, values, and formulas. This program will allow you to create, develop, and edit electronic spreadsheets; to graph spreadsheet data; and to perform database operations with spreadsheet entries. Textbook required.
MS Access
Prerequisites: Computer Keyboarding and Windows
This course orientates students to beginning and intermediate functions. Learn how to create an object oriented database and use query by example to obtain rapid data sorts and reporting. Form wizards, table wizards, and report wizards help get you up to speed quickly by creating formatted and customized forms, tables, and reports. Textbook required.
MS PowerPoint
Prerequisites: Computer Keyboarding and Windows
This course will provide students with instruction on using PowerPoint to create dazzling slide presentations integrating multimedia slides, charts, outlines, graphs, clip art, hypertext links, and special effects. Textbook required.
MS Publisher
Learn how Microsoft's comprehensive, yet easy-to-use, desktop publishing package can help you create and publish a wide variety of stunning documents. This hands on, project oriented course will give you valuable experience in designing, developing, and publishing newsletters, Web sites, and brochures. Textbook required.
Basic Internet
By learning to surf the net, you can get worldwide information in a matter of seconds. Students will learn basic internet terminology, search techniques, and email. Textbook may be required.
AutoCad
This course provides an introduction to computer aided drafting. Emphasis is placed on setup, creating and modifying geometry, storing and retrieving predefined shapes, placing, rotating, and scaling objects, adding text and dimensions, using layers, coordinate systems, and plot/print to scale. Textbook required.
Quickbooks Pro - Computerized Accounting
Prerequisites: PC Basics/Windows XP, general accounting background
This Quickbooks Pro course is great for small business owners and individuals who desire to perform their own bookkeeping. Quickbooks Pro speeds you through invoicing, bill paying, and inventory. It also allows individuals to automatically create financial statements such as cash flow reports, income statements, and balance sheets based on previously inputted information. Textbook required.
Quick Books Point of Sale
Keep track of your inventory and customer information while you ring up sales and make it easier to focus on the products and service that will keep your customers coming back.
Web Page Development
This comprehensive course will provide students with the necessary skills to construct and upload fully functional web pages that advertise, sell, inform and entertain millions of users on the World Wide Web. Learn how to incorporate graphics, text hyperlinks, and use basic HTML and Java scripting for developing a web page.
DreamWeaver CS
Designed for hobbyist and web developers, this course introduces students to the DreamWeaver CS program and to web site development. Students will learn how to develop and publish a website. They will also learn how to layout a page with tables and with layers; how to add and manage links and how to add and map images in navigation bars. Lastly, students will learn how add Flash objects and create animated media; how to create forms and how to use Cascading Stylesheets to format and quickly reformat hundreds of pages in one fell swoop.
Intro to PhotoShop CS
Designed for hobbyist, graphic designers, and photographers alike, this course introduces students to the PhotoShop CS program and to image editing techniques. Lessons are instructor–led with each lesson concentrating upon a specific project designed to teach students how to do such things as fix underexposed and overexposed pictures, fix damaged pictures, adjust colors in images, combine disparate images into one image composite and much more. Students will walk away with a solid understanding of the PhotoShop program fundamentals and an ability to freely composite any image they can imagine. Visit the course website at http://byronsbyte.com/ced/photoshop/ to preview course modules. Course pre–requisites include a solid knowledge of the Windows or MAC operating system.
Intermediate PhotoShop CS
Designed for hobbyist, graphic designers, and photographers alike, this course takes students to the next skill level in the PhotoShop CS, photo–editing program. Lessons are instructor–led with each lesson concentrating upon a specific project. Concentration is upon Channels, Curves, Vector Paths, print and web color management and much more. Learn how to composite web and print images professionally. Visit the course website at http://byronsbyte.com/ced/photoshop2/ to preview course modules. Course pre–requisites include completion of the Introduction to PhotoShop course or the equivalent of one year’s working experience with this program. Students must be comfortable with working with PhotoShop Selection Tools, the Layers Palette, and Layer Masks. Pre–requisites also include a solid knowledge of the Windows or MAC operating systems.
Office Job Skills
This course is geared toward students seeking employment and/or who wish to upgrade their entry level job skills. Start at the very beginning. Learn what you need to know about computers, from turning it on and using the mouse to using the most current versions of business programs like Microsoft Windows, Word, Excel and Power Point . Acquire those skills vital to passing employment agency tests and landing a job. Gain a competitive edge with tips and tricks that will make any employer eager to hire you. Land that promotion by upgrading your skills from entry level to intermediate skills
WEB BASED/ONLINE COURSES
Learn at your own pace by taking a web based/online computer course. Online courses start on the second Wednesday of every month. Once registered, students have 24/7 access to their course from any location that has Internet access. Typically, students have six weeks to complete their online courses. Extensions can be granted upon an instructor's approval. Visit us online at www.ed2go.com/delmar to view course times, dates, descriptions, syllabi, and course instructor biographies.
Registration instructions are as follows:
- Register and pay your tuition at Del Mar College's Center for Economic Development either in person, by phone, or by fax.
- Internet access, email, and the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator Web browser are required to take an online course.
- Determine what type of online course you are taking:
In order to complete your registration (if you have not already done so), you will need to go into your class through the classroom link and create a user name and password. Using your web browser, go to www.ed2go.com/delmar and click on the word "courses". Find the title of your course by either typing the title into the search box, or by clicking on the links available and finding it by subject. Once you have clicked on your class, look for an "Enroll Now" button. Click on this. On the next page it should have "Sign Up For A Course" across the top and a timeline with a number 1 showing. Select the date you would like to start and click continue. If you have already created an account for on line classes, enter your e-mail address and your password at this point. If you have not previously created an account, click on "click here" beside "Don't Have an Account?" Then follow the instructions on that page. Click "Continue" and this will take you to another page to enter some additional information. Once you have completed this page, click "update". You should now be on step 3. Click on "Already Paid". This will take you to step 4. After you print the page for your records, click where the instructions tell you to for completion of your orientation. Then you may go back into the classroom and access your lessons, providing the class has already started.
If you have any questions regarding your registration or problems signing on to your class, please call us at 361-698-1328.
- Students have three weeks from the end of class to complete the final exam. Students successfully completing their class will be issued a certificate of proficiency via PC download.
- Important contact information sites concerning your online courses:
The Web site to access your Orientation and online classroom is as follows: www.ed2go.com/delmar. At this site you may access the Help link to obtain answers to any questions or problems with your online course.
Please check Web site for advanced courses in each area or for other courses of interest besides examples listed. Most classes are $99.
- The Internet (Intro, Search Engines, eBay)
- Web Page Design (Creating Web Pages, Designing Websites)
- Web Graphics and Multimedia (Creating Graphics, Fireworks MX, Flash MX)
- Web Programming (Java Programming)
- Basic Computer Literacy (Keyboarding, Windows, Skills for the Workplace)
- Computer Applications (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point)
- Desktop Publishing & Imaging (Photoshop, Printshop, MS Publisher)
- Computer Troubleshooting & Networking (PC Troubleshooting, Networking)
- Computer Programming & Database Management (SQL, Oracle, Visual Basic)
- Certification Prep (A+, Network+, MCSE Prep)
- Digital Photography & Digital Video
- Writing Courses (Magazine Writing, Getting Published)
- Grant Writing & Nonprofit Management
- Business Administration & Management
- Business Planning & Entrepreneurial Courses
- Sales & Marketing (Effective Selling, Business Marketing)
- Accounting (Fundamentals, QuickBooks)
- Test Prep
- Personal & Career Development
- Personal Finance & Wealth Building
- Family & Personal Enrichment
- Child Care & Parenting
- Courses for Teaching Professionals
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