Keyboarding Essentials

Prepare yourself for the computerized workplace. This course is intended for students who need to learn or improve their keyboarding technique and skills. Students will master touch keyboarding and improve their proofreading, editing and writing skills while formatting letters, reports, tables and other documents.

Master the skill you can’t do without in today’s world where the keyboard is the primary means of communication and technology input. This course is recommended for Computer Applications I.

Learning Targets

1. Target 1 (T1): Students will demonstrate the touch typing technique using proper keyboarding position to key with directed reaches from home row to increase speed and to protect injuries from wrists, neck, and back.
2. Target 2 (T2): Students will demonstrate touch keyboarding skills at acceptable speed and accuracy levels through timings.
3. Target 3 (T3): Students will create documents that make a professional impression through proper content, formatting, spelling and grammar.