Course Code
TMX 2012
Course Title
Power Tools for Knowledge Workers
Type of Course
Generic
Prerequisite
TMX0011 End-User Computing
Instructor
Devadason Robert Peter
Course Aim
This course is specially designed to expose you to the use of IT tools in the work place. After this course, you will be able to interact with general IT tools in the market and be benefit from its usage in daily life & workplace.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, you should be capable of :
 | Exploring and making use of IT |
| Using software packages to improve personal productivity |
Course Synopsis
The course will discuss the importance of IT tools and why
Knowledge Workers are important in information age. We will cover
interesting topics like Internetworking, Intranet, multimedia, image
processing and personal information management in this course. Other
important issues like ethic, network security and computer virus will also
be covered in this course. During this course you will develop skills and
understanding about the importance of technology, how to be knowledgeable
workers and use tools the right way. We also hope to expose you to some
technical, theory and practices knowledge in the computing environment so
that you will appreciate them and be ready to become knowledgeable workers
later. Thus, this course is intended to prepare you to move into the real
world work force.
| Test 1 : 30% |
| Test 2 : 30% |
| Quiz : 5% |
| Tutorial : 10% |
| Project : 25% |
