School of Business and Economics

Course Title: Computer Application

Course Code: IS-125
Resource Person:
Department: Information System

SBE Vision
SBE envisions its success in the sustainable contribution that it will make to the industry, academia and
research in public and private sector. SBE will lead by providing professionally competent and ethically
conscious human resources engaged in the global and local context to foster socio-economic growth and
sustainability for the society.SBE envisages having facultywith high research potential and a deep desire for
cutting edge research including collaboration with national and international partners.

SBE Mission
Being a research-oriented and student-centric business school, we emphasize research publications in impact
journals as well as state-of -the-art learning methodologies.  We will prepare our students to become the future
ethical business leaders and the guiding post for the society, while equipping them with the knowledge and
skills required by world-class professionals.  We will be the leading choice for organizations seeking highly
talented human resource. SBE will foster internationalization with key stakeholders and actively work to
exchange best practices with business schools across Pakistan through collaborations, workshops, conferences
and other means.

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Program Objectives

Computer Applications in Business is a comprehensive course in business office practices with emphasis on
industry standard computer operation and applications.  The course is designed for adult learners and uses
computer based instruction with individualized or cooperative work/study groups.

Course Objectives

IdentifyComputer Application Usage in business, MS Office 2013/2016, types of computers, how they
process information and how individual computers interact with other computing systems and devices


Identify the function of computer hardware components

Identify the factors that go into an individual or organizational decision on how to purchase computer
equipment
 Identify how to maintain computer equipment and solve common problems relating to computer hardware
Computer Software:
 Identify how software and hardware work together to perform computing tasks and how software is
developed and upgraded
 Identify different types of software, general concepts relating to software categories, and the tasks to
which each type of software is most suited or not suited
 Identify fundamental concepts relating to database applications
 Using an Operating System:
 Identify what an operating system is and how it works, and solve common problems related to operating
systems
 Manipulate and control the Windows desktop, files and disks
 Identify how to change system settings, install and remove software

Learning Objectives:
Course Learning Objectives Link with Program Learning
Sr#
Objectives
1. Student must feel comfortable
with the basic terminologies of
computer and computer related
Know about the basics of computer’s hardware, products and understand the
1. software and basic operations. basics of computer hardware
such as CPU, RAM, harddisk,
etc. They will also able to
understand the basic working of
above mentioned devices.

2. Students are expected to work

within MS Windows
Learn the basics of operating system to perform environment without facing
2.
daily routines tasks with computer. problems. They must know how
to manage files and folders in a
proper manner.

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 3. Students must be able to
create/edit business documents
applying various format options
Learn diferent techniques to format business to make them more professional
documents such as letter, memo, business report, and presentable. They must be
3. etc. in a professional way
able to use of various
professional techniques such as
mail merge, document
comparision, document tracking,
etc

4. Students will be able to perform

Use of various functionalities of basic spreadsheet simple and complex business
includeing setup and analyze itemized list of calculations on the spreadsheet
numbers such as the various types of budgets or and also able to use various
financial statements.
format options and presentation
4. Perform and manipulate the calculations to achieve options such as numerical
meaningful information numerical as well as presentation or graphical
graphical format, able to perform what-if analysis if presentation. They will also be
needed.
able to perform complex
business calucation by applying
various analysis techniques.

5. Students will be able to create a

basic presentation by using
Develop an effective and professional presentation various objects such as text,
by learning different techniques of formatting and image, chart, movie, sound, etc
5. animation.
with various designing
techniques and animations to
make it more attractive and
professional.

Able to perform to transfer data from one

application to other to develop an integrated
application by using various contents available in 6. Students will be able to use
different applications or files. various techniques to use all of
Merge data in single file from various files or merge MS Office application at the
6.
the contents from database to document or mail same time to have an integrate set
content. of document by merging the files,
import/export of data, etc.

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Learning Outcomes
 After successful completion of the Course Work, Students have the skills to:
 Work effectively with a range of current, standard, Office Productivity software applications.
 Evaluate, select and use office productivity software appropriate to a given situation.
 Apply basic adult learning and assessment principles in the design, development, and presentation of
material produced by office productivity applications.
 Demonstrate employability skills and a commitment to professionalism.
 Operate a variety of advanced spreadsheet, operating system and word processing functions.
 Solve a range of problems using office productivity applications, and adapt quickly to new software
releases.
 Maintain quality assurance through critically evaluating procedures and results .
Teaching Methodology (List methodologies used –example are given below)
Interactive Classes:
 Use media to increase student engagement and improve learning outcomes.
 Try adding metaphors to help students remember details.
 Give students a real-world context with extra projects to reinforce skills.
 Provide practical practice within your lessons. Making it relatable will do wonders.
 Avoid these common computer applications class misconceptions
 Find ways to include differentiated lesson plans in computer Application classes

Case based teaching:

Class Participation

Positive, healthy and constructive class participation will be monitored for each class. Particular
emphasis will be given to participation during the presentation sessions. The manner in which the
question is asked or answered will also be noted. Your behaviour, as business executives in the class
will contribute to the class participation marks.

Word of advice

Assignments/ projects are very demanding and time consuming. Since you might be exposed to the
real corporate environment, the ensuing reality checks could be demoralizing and frustrating. So you
must learn to handle the intra group conflicts and any clash of interests.Unless you start working on
the assignments/ projects right away from the very first day you are likely to miss the dead lines.

Participant Responsibilities:

Student should be responsible enough to practice whatever they have learnt during class sessions. They
should also implement it to other subjects as well. They are expected to come prepared in the class.

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Class activities:

Presentations

After careful analysis, resource person will constitute the groups to achieve balanced heterogeneity
among groups, for group assignments/projects and will have the final decision in this regard. Every
member of the group is expected to be able to handle all aspects of the assignments. Groups are not
allowed to choose presenters for various parts of the presentations; instead resource person will
nominate them. Individuals will be judged for their understanding of the topic through question
handling. Q/A section of the presentations will way heavily for grading of assignments/ projects.

TeamDiscussions:

During class, each student will work in a team on discussion questions.  Teams will be assigned questions,
allowed ten minutes for Internet research, and permitted five minutes to present their results.  Points are
earned by active participation with your team.

Applied Projects:

This is a project-based course. Regular attendance is the best predictor of success.  Students work on projects
with detailed instructions, teacher demonstrations and video tutorials. Students can come in during Tutorial to
make up missed work.

Experiential Learning

STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO READ AND UNDERSTAND ALL ITEMS OUTLINED IN

THE PARTICIPANT HANDBOOK
Class Policy:-

 Be On Time
You need to be at class at the assigned time. After 10 minutes past the assigned time, you will be
marked absent.

 Mobile Policy
TURN OFF YOUR MOBILE PHONE!It is unprofessional to be texting or otherwise.

 Email Policy
READ YOUR EMAILS! You are responsible if you miss a deadline because you did not read your email.
Participants should regularly check their university emails accounts regularly and respond accordingly.

 Class Attendance Policy

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 A minimum of 80% attendance is required for a participant to be eligible to sit in the final examination.
Being sick and going to weddingsare absences and will not be counted as present. You have the
opportunity to use 6 absences out of 30 classes. Participants with less than 80% of attendance in a
course will be given grade ‘F’ (Fail) and will not be allowed to take end term exams. International
students who will be leaving for visa during semester should not use any days off except for visa trip.
Otherwise they could reach short attendance.

 Withdraw Policy

Students may withdraw from a course till the end of the 12th week of the semester. Consequently,
grade W will be awarded to the student which shall have no impact on the calculation of the GPA of the
student.A Student withdrawing after the 12th week shall be automatically awarded “F” grade which
shall count in the GPA.

 Moodle
UMT –LMS (Moodle) is an Open Source Course Management System (CMS), also known as a learning
Management System (LMS). Participants should regularly visit the course website on MOODLE Course
Management system, and fully benefit from its capabilities. If you are facing any problem using moodle,
visit http://oit.umt.edu.pk/moodle. For further query send your queries to moodle@umt.edu.pk

 Harassment Policy
Sexual or any other harassment is prohibited and is constituted as punishable offence. Sexual or any
other harassment of any participant will not be tolerated. All actions categorized as sexual or any other
harassment when done physically or verbally would also be considered as sexual harassment when
done using electronic media such as computers, mobiles, internet, emails etc.

 Use of Unfair Means/Honesty Policy

Any participant found using unfair means or assisting another participant during a class test/quiz,
assignments or examination would be liable to disciplinary action.

 Plagiarism Policy

All students are required to attach a “Turn tin” report on every assignment, big or small. Any student
who attempts to bypass “Turn tin” will receive “F” grade which will count towards the CGPA. The
participants submit the plagiarism report to the resource person with every assignment, report,
project, thesis etc. If student attempts to cheat “Turn tin”, he/she will receive a second “F” that will
count towards the CGPA. There are special rules on plagiarism for final reports etc. all outlined in your
handbook.

 Communication of Results

The results of quizzes, midterms and assignments are communicated to the participants during the
semester and answer books are returned to them. It is the responsibility of the course instructor to
keep the participants informed about his/her progress during the semester. The course instructor will
inform a participant at least one week before the final examination related to his or her performance in
the course.

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 Course Outline
Course code: IS-125 Course title: Computer Application

Program
Computer Application In Business

Credit Hours
3 Credit Hours

Duration
One Semester

Prerequisites (If any) This course has no hurdle requirements but to ensure students success,
will need to have familiarity with either the Office 2007 or Office 2010 suite
of products, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Resource Person Ammber Nosheen

Name and Email ammber.nosheen@umt.edu.pk

Counseling Timing Monday: 11:00 – 1:00

Tuesday : 11:00 – 1:00
(Room# ) Thursday: 11:00 – 1:00
Friday: 11:00 – 1:00

Office Contact: +42-11-300-200

Contact no. Office extension 3338
Personal Contact#: +92-340-4727840

Web Links:- www.linkedin.com/in/ammbergillani

(Face book, Linked www.facebook.com/AmmberGillani
In, Google Groups,

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Other platforms)

Chairman/Director Programme signature………………………………….Date……………………..

Dean’s signature…………………………… ………………….Date………………………………………….

Grade Evaluation Criteria

Following is the criteria for the distribution of marks to evaluate final grade in a
semester.

Marks Evaluation Marks in percentage

Mid-Term (Written/Practical) 20%

Final exam (Written) 35%

Class Participation 10%

Case Study 0%

Project & Presentation 15%

Quizzes 10%

Assignments 10%

Total 100%

Recommended Text Books:

1. Microsoft Office Professional 2013 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))By Beth Melton, Mark Dodge,
Echo Swinford, Andrew Couch., 2013
2. Discovering Computers Complete: Your Interactive Guide to the Digitl World, 2014 Edition by Shelly
Cashman, Misty E. Vermaat.

3. 3Office 2013 All-In-One for Dummies by Peter Weverka published by Wiley 2013.

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Reference Books:
https://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780735699236/samplepages/
9780735699236.pdf
http://lms.umt.edu.pk/pluginfile.php/166626/mod_resource/content/1/MS
%20Excel%20Step%20By%20Step.pdf
http://lms.umt.edu.pk/pluginfile.php/171151/mod_resource/content/1/MS
%20Excel%20Step%20By%20Step.pdf

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Topics to be
Deadlines
covered in the Learning Objective Teaching Assessment
No Expected Outcomes from Students and
course of this topic Method Criteria
Homework
Talk about the basic concepts of
Computer
Computer Basics computer such as hardware and Assign. /
Basics such as
such as hardware, their types, software and their Quiz /
1 Presentation / White Board hardware,
software, its types, understaned its different Surprise
software, its
working, etc types of workings, usage of Questions
working, etc
computer in society, etc.

Documents in
MS Word,
Documents in MS
Document
Word, Document
Types, Create
Types, Create
Make them familiar with various Single Page
Single Page Assign. /
types of documents created by Document,
Document, Using White Board/ Practical Quiz /
2 using MS Word, learn the procedure Using Mail
Mail Merge, Assignment Surprise
to send single letter to multiple Merge, Create
Create Contact Questions.
receipients. Contact List,
List, Using
Using
Paragraph setting,
Paragraph
Page Margin
setting, Page
Margin

3 Multi-page Understanding various types of White Board/ Practical Assign. / Multi-page

documents, multi-page documents, Books, Assignment Quiz / documents,
understanding to Articles, Assignments, etc. Learn in Surprise understandin
apply heading detail any one of the above Questions g to apply
levels, Table of document. heading
Content, Insert levels, Table
Picture, Tables, of Content,
etc. Creating Insert Picture,
Talbe of Tables, etc.
Figures/Tables, Creating
Header & Footer, Talbe of
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 Figures/Table
s, Header &
Cover Page, Page
Footer, Cover
Numbering
Page, Page
Numbering

Use of Outline
View,
Use of Outline Applying
View, Applying Heading
Heading Levels Understanding the more depth of Levels
beyond Three, the content using in various multi- beyond
Quiz/
4 Format page documents, Use of formatting Practical demo of entire exercise Three,
Assignment
Document, Font, options to make a professional Format
Color, Size, List, document. Document,
Bullets, etc, Page Font, Color,
Break Size, List,
Bullets, etc,
Page Break

Use of column
Use of column in in creating
Assigning
creating Magazine,
Mid Term
Magazine, Column Column
Learn to create more demanding Project
Break, Section Break, Section
5 stylish documents such as Practical Assignment covering MS
Break, Page Size, Break, Page
magazine, newspapers, etc Word and
Use Text Box and Size, Use Text
MS
WordArt for Box and
PowerPoint
Highlights WordArt for
Highlights

6 Creating How to create a basic presentation? Practical demo of entire exercise Class Creating
Presentation in Participation Presentation
MS PowerPoint, How to change slide design and in MS
Use of objects, object formatting. Inserting PowerPoint,
such as Image, graphics in a presentation.How to Use of objects,
Table, apply special effects i.e. animations, such as
Screenshots, transitions etc.? How to apply Image, Table,
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 Screenshots,
SmartArt, etc.
SmartArt, etc.
Slide
Slide Transition,
automatic timings on a slide? Transition,
Object Animation
Object
in slide.
Animation in
slide.

Mid Term
Mid Term Project
7 Mid Term Project Project
Presentation
Presentation

Basic
Concepts of
Basic Concepts of
MS Excel,
MS Excel, Rows This session gives an idea to
Rows and
and Columns, students that how to use MS Excel. Assign. /
Columns,
handling How the working environment of Quiz /
8 Practical demo of entire exercise handling
workbooks, MS Excel is different from MS Word. Surprise
workbooks,
Formating Cell, What is concept of Rows and Questions
Formating
Cell Addressing, Columns in MS Excel?
Cell, Cell
Cell Naming
Addressing,
Cell Naming

9 Basic How to perform basic calculations Practical demo of entire exercise Assign. / Basic
computation in in MS Excel, How to use logical Quiz / computation
MS Excel, Use of functions to create a well structured Surprise in MS Excel,
Built-in Functions document in MS Excel such as Questions Use of Built-in
such as SUM, Student Result Card, Gazette, etc. Functions
Count, MIN, MAX, such as SUM,
Average. Count, MIN,
MAX,
Use of IF function, Average.
understanding the
logical expression Use of IF
and operators, function,
understandin
g the logical

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 expression
and
Conditonal operators,
formating
Conditonal
formating

Fetch data
from a
Fetch data from a dataset by
dataset by using using
VLookUp VLookUp
function, Data function, Data
Assign. /
Sorting, How to use more advance MS Excel Sorting,
Quiz /
10 Understanding function in developing professional Practical demo of entire exercise Understandin
Surprise
the Financial business documents. g the
Questions
functions such as Financial
PMT, CUMIPMT, functions
CUMPRINC, NPER, such as PMT,
etc CUMIPMT,
CUMPRINC,
NPER, etc

11 Use of Grouping Learn to apply MS Excel concepts in Practical Assignment Use of

and Subtotal, developing a complex dataset with Grouping and
Subtotal function, multi-diemensional data analysis Subtotal,
Conditoinal Subtotal
functions CountIF, function,
SumIF, etc. Conditoinal
functions
Learn to use Date CountIF,
Time functions SumIF, etc.
such as Date, Day,
Month, Year, etc Learn to use
Date Time
functions
such as Date,
Day, Month,

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 Year, etc

Chart, Chart
Types, PIE
Chart, Chart
Chart, Line
Types, PIE Chart,
Chart, Bar
Line Chart, Bar How to convert numerical data into Chart, Chart
Chart, Chart graphical representation using
Quiz/ Settings,
Settings, Chart various charts such as Pie, Line or Practical demo of entire exercise
12 Assignment Chart
Parameters, Bar. Multi-dimensional data Parameters,
Modify data range analysis Modify data
Pivot Table, Pivot range
Chart
Pivot Table,
Pivot Chart

What-If
What-If Analysis, Analysis,
Scenario Manager, Learn the most advance concept in Scenario
Goal Seek finding the hidden trend in data by Final Project Manager, Goal
using What-If Analysis, How to Practical demo of entire exercise Assignment Seek
13 Integration of MS
Excel with MS integrate MS Excel spreadsheet MS Excel Integration of
Word, Paste withing MS Word document. MS Excel with
Special MS Word,
Paste Special

14 Macros in MS Applying programming concept in Practical demo of entire exercise Macros in MS

Office, MS Office to automate the MS Office Office,
Understanding application tasks. Understandin
and creating g and creating
Macros, Use of Macros, Use
Macros in MS of Macros in
Word, Use of MS Word, Use
Macros in MS of Macros in
Excel, MS Excel,
Introduction to Introduction
VBA, Editing to VBA,

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 Macro in VBA Editing Macro
Editor in VBA Editor

Final Project Final Project

15 Final Project Project Presentation
Presentations Presentations

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