Advanced Secretarial and Computer

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

Our Advanced Secretarial and Computer Course will train you to an advanced level in both secretarial and computer skills and is available to learn through our distance learning scheme and is tutor led.

This course is suitable for those who wish to gain the key qualifications to an advanced level and study a shorter course than our PA courses. 

You need to study between 5-10 hours per week on average and based upon this study time the course will take approximately 6 months to complete.

You have an overall time limit of 9 months within which to complete the course.

Included in the course is our unique Career and Job support service - which includes helping to design a professional CV, developing your interview techniques, looking at your options based on where you live and the types of businesses you would like to work in, supporting you as you apply for jobs and go for interview.

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COURSE PROSPECTUS 

The course is broken down into 2 main sections – Secretarial and Computer/IT.

The Secretarial section covers all the key secretarial skills you will need to work as more experienced Secretary. You will learn how to produce professional business documents from drafts and audio dictation using digital software, edit multi page documents, use mail merge facilities, and desk top publishing features to enable you to produce complex documents.

The Computer/IT section will enable you to use all the key Office applications to a professional standard.

Word (word processing), Excel (spreadsheets and charts), Access (databases (including relational databases), PowerPoint (slide presentations) and Outlook (email and personal information management) are covered to the Advanced level.

You will learn how to create Word documents integrating information from other programs within it, file management in Windows Explorer, how to create professional slide presentations using PowerPoint for meetings, talks and exhibitions using special effects, audio and graphics.

In Excel you will be learning how to create functions/formulae to provide complex calculations and present reports for business meetings, clients etc and pivot tables.

You will also learn how to create databases, how to create queries and produce professional reports using a range of calculations and relational databases.

Finally you will also learn how to use Outlook which will help you organise yourself and your boss’ daily routine, set up appointments and meetings and use email and its range of facilities.

You will also demonstrate your knowledge of IT by producing a documented project to show the design of a computerised system to be used within an office environment. This will involve you creating a solution to given task and presenting it within a thesis style document providing evidence and reasoning as to its suitability. 

You can gain 4 Diplomas on this course with the OCR (Oxford, Cambridge and Royal Society of Arts) Examining Board.

One of the Level 2 Diplomas is optional as you will be gaining a higher Diploma at Level 3 in the same subject area. This helps to complete the course more quickly as well as reduce the cost of exam fees.

It is recommended that students gain both the Level 2 and Level 3 CLAIT Diplomas as each Level covers different programs/computer skills.

Diploma in Text Processing Level 2 (optional)

• Text Production
• Word Processing
• Audio Transcription
• Mail Merge 

Diploma in Text Processing Level 3 

• Text Production
• Word Processing
• Audio Transcription
• Document Presentation 

Diploma for IT Users (CLAIT Plus)

• Word and File Management
• Excel – spreadsheets and graphs
• Access – databases
• Outlook – email and personal information management
• PowerPoint – slide presentations 

Diploma for IT Users (CLAIT Advanced)

• Creating IT Solutions
• Advanced Word
• Advanced Access
• Advanced Excel
• Advanced PowerPoint 
  

You will need Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook and PowerPoint) to complete this course.

You will also need a computer with a printer and headphones (for the audio module) and Internet connection.

How does distance learning work?  Read our How We Teach page to find out more.

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