Computer Applications

Subject Code - 165

CLASS IX (2025-26)
Learning Outcomes
After the completion of the course, the student will be able to:
1. Familiarise themselves with the fundamental components and functions of
computer systems, memory, storage devices, and I/O devices.
2. Develop an understanding of various types of software, computer networks,
and multimedia.
3. Understand the importance of Safe Internet Practices
4. Create and edit documents, spread sheets, and presentations.
5. Perform basic data manipulation using spread sheets.
6. Animate text and pictures using presentation tool
Distribution of Marks and Periods

Unit Periods
No. Unit Name Marks
Theory Practical
1. Basics of Information 20 20 10
Technology
2. Cyber safety 15 10 05

3. Office Tools 15 20 55

4. Lab Exercises 50 - -

Total 100 50 70

Unit 1: Basics of Information Technology

• Computer Systems: characteristics of a computer, components of a
computer system – CPU, memory, storage devices and I/O devices
• Memory: primary (RAM and ROM) and secondary memory
• Storage devices: hard disk, CD ROM, DVD, pen/flash drive, memory stick
• I/O devices: keyboard, mouse, monitor, printer, scanner, web camera
• Types of software: system software (operating system, device drivers),
application software including mobile applications
• Computer networking: Type of networks: PAN, LAN, MAN, WAN,
wired/wireless communication, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, cloud computers
(Private/public)
• Multimedia: images, audio, video, animation
 Unit 2 : Cyber-safety
Safely browsing the web and using social networks: identity protection, proper
usage of passwords, privacy, confidentiality of information, cyber stalking,
reporting cybercrimes
• Malware: Viruses, adware

Unit 3: Office tools

• Introduction to a word processor: create and save a document.
• Edit and format text: text style (B, I, U), font type, font size, text colour,
alignment of text. Format paragraphs with line and/or paragraph spacing.
Add headers and footers, numbering pages, grammar and spell check
utilities, subscript and superscript, insert symbols, use print preview, and
print a document.
• Insert pictures, change the page setting, add bullets and numbering,
borders and shading, and insert tables – insert/delete rows and columns,
merge and split cells.
• Use auto-format, track changes, review comments, use of drawing tools,
shapes and mathematical symbols.
• Presentation tool: understand the concept of slide shows, basic elements
of a slide, different types of slide layouts, create and save a presentation,
and learn about the different views of a slide set – normal view, slide sorter
view and handouts.
• Edit and format a slide: add titles, subtitles, text, background, and
watermark, headers and footers, and slide numbers.
• Insert pictures from files, create animations, add sound effects, and
rehearse timings.
• Spreadsheets: concept of a worksheet and a workbook, create and save a
worksheet.
• Working with a spreadsheet: enter numbers, text, date/time, series using
auto fill; edit and format a worksheet including changing the colour, size,
font, alignment of text; insert and delete cells, rows and columns. Enter a
formula using the operators (+,-,*, /), refer to cells, and print a worksheet.
• Use simple statistical functions: SUM (), AVERAGE (), MAX (), MIN (), IF ()
(without compound statements); embed charts of various types: line, pie,
scatter, bar and area in a worksheet.
 4. Lab Exercises
• Browser settings for a secure connection
• Working with the operating system: Navigation of the file system using a
mouse and keyboard.
• Word processing: create a text document; create a letter, report, and
greeting card.
• Create a text document with figures in it. It should describe a concept
taught in another course.
• Discuss the following in a text document about the basic organisation of a
computer: CPU, memory, input/output devices, hard disk.
• Create a text document in an Indian language other than English.
• Create a presentation.
• Create a presentation with animation.
• Include existing images/ pictures in a presentation.
• Animate pictures and text with sound effects in a presentation
• Create a simple spreadsheet and perform the following operations: min,
max, sum, and average.
• Create different types of charts using a spreadsheet: line, bar, area and
pie.
Breakup of marks for the Practicals:

S.No. Unit Name Marks

1. Lab Test (30 marks)

Word processing 10
Handling spreadsheets 10
Creating presentations 10
2. Report File + viva (10 marks)

Report file:-- 4 documents each with a word

processor, spreadsheet, and presentation tool 8

Viva voce (based on the report file) 2

3. Project (that uses most of the concepts that have been learnt) (10 marks)
Total Marks 50
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 Computer Applications
Subject Code - 165
CLASS X (2025-26)

Learning Outcomes
After the completion of the course, like student will be able to:
1. Understand the components of Computer Networking including web servers
and network protocols.
2. Explore the functionality and applications of the services available on the
Internet.
3. Create simple web pages using various HTML elements
4. Implement links and forms to create user-friendly web pages that facilitate
navigation and data collection.
5. Apply basic styling techniques using CSS to improve the visual appearance
and layout of web content.
6. Understand the importance of netiquettes, intellectual property rights, and
responsible online behaviour

Distribution of Marks and Periods

Periods
Unit
Unit Name Marks
No. Theory Practical

1. Networking 15 17 05

2. HTML 25 30 50

3. Cyber ethics 10 08 10

4. Practicals 50 - -

Total 100 55 65

Unit 1: Networking
• Internet: World Wide Web, web servers, web clients, web sites, web pages,
web browsers, blogs, news groups, HTML, web address, e-mail address,
downloading and uploading files from a remote site.
• Internet protocols: TCP/IP, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, HTTPS. Remote login and
file transfer protocols: SSH, SFTP, FTP, SCP, TELNET, SMTP, TCP/IP.
 • Services available on the internet: information retrieval, locating sites using
search engines and finding people on the net;
• Web services: chat, email, video conferencing, e-Learning, e-Banking,
eShopping, e-Reservation, e-Governance, e-Groups, social networking.
• Mobile technologies: SMS, MMS, 3G, 4G, 5G

Unit 2: HTML
• Introduction to web page designing using HTML: create and save an HTML
document, access a web page using a web browser.
• HTML tags: html, head, title, body, (attributes: text, background, bgcolor,
link, vlink, alink), br (break), hr(horizontal rule), inserting comments, h1..h6
(heading),

p (paragraph), b (bold), i (italics), u (underline), ul (unordered list), ol

(ordered list), and li (list item). Description lists: dl, dt and dd. Attributes of
ol (start, type), ul (type).
• Font tags (attributes: face, size, color).
• Insert images: img (attributes: src, width, height, alt), sup (super script),
sub (subscript).
• HTML Forms: Textbox, radio buttons, checkbox, password, list, combobox.
• Embed audio and video in a HTML page.
• Create a table using the tags: table, tr, th, td, rowspan, colspan
• Links: significance of linking, anchor element (attributes: href, mailto),
targets.
• Cascading style sheets: colour, background-colour, border-style, margin,
height, width, outline, font (family, style, size), align, float.

Unit 3: Cyber ethics

• Netiquettes.
• Software licenses and the open source software movement.
• Intellectual property rights, plagiarism and digital property rights.
• Freedom of information and the digital divide.
• E-commerce: Privacy, fraud, secure data transmission.

4. Lab Exercises
• Create static web pages.
 • Use style sheets to enforce a format in an HTML page (CSS).
• Embed pictures, audio and videos in an HTML page.
• Add tables and frames in an HTML page.
• Decorate web pages using graphical elements.
• Create a website using several web pages. Students may use any open
source or proprietary tool.
• Work with HTML forms: text box, radio buttons, checkbox, password, list,
combo box.
• Write a blog using HTML pages discussing viruses, malware, spam and
antiviruses
• Create a web page discussing plagiarism. List some reported cases of
plagiarism and the consequent punishment meted out. Explain the nature
of the punishment in different countries as per their IP laws.

Breakup of marks for the practicals:

S. No. Unit Name Marks

1. Lab Test
(20 marks)
HTML (design one web page based on a diagram) 20

2. Report File + viva

(20 marks)
Report file: At least 10 HTML pages 15
Viva voce (based on the report file) 5
3. Project (that uses most of the concepts that have been learnt)
(10 marks)
Total (50 marks)
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