Lesson 1 What is Keyboarding?

KEYBOARDING
Is the ability to enter text by using the correct
fingers without looking at the keys.
Lesson 2
IMPORTANCE OF KEYBOARDING AS AN
ENTRY LEVEL TO PRACTICAL WORK
Workplace Uses of computers in various fields

• for most jobs, keyboarding is a good Medical Field

skill to have jobs that use computers • Homes
often require keyboarding as an
important skill. If you are able to type • Entertainment
quick, tasks and jobs that require typing • Government
documents or assignments can be
completed faster. Typing fast also • Business
saves a lot of time.
• Industry
Business Studies
• Education
• Keyboarding is an invaluable skill • Students
among those in the workforce, as it used
to type business correspondences, e- • IT people
mails, and memos, track expenses, and
• Job seekers
create websites.
• Banking Sector
• Mass Communication
• Change of life
• Keyboarding skills are very important in
that they can impact a person’s ability to • Marketing
communicate with others in the future,
Lesson 4
both social and professional realms.
Capabilities of computer
School
• 1. It is self directing
• Keyboarding at school: while tablets
• 2. Ability to store and retrieve
have become important tools in
information
education today, typing on the computer
is still a crucial skill for students to learn. • 3. Ability to perform mathematical
operations
• LESSON 3
IMPORTANCE & USES OF • 4. Ability to perform logic operation
COMPUTER IN DIFFERENT AREAS
Limitation of using a computer
• 1. Depend on users input
• 2. Computer have no imagination
• 3. Cannot detect error in logic
• 4. Only expert user can work on it
 • 5. Cannot take its own decisions various on-screen elements. A standard mouse
these days will usually come with at least 3
buttons (left, center, right) and a scroll wheel.
HANDLING COMPUTER PART
mouse
• 1. Install antivirus software
• computer
• 2. Perform regular software updates
mouse is an input
• 3. Run computer maintenance device that is
used with a
• 4. Backup files computer. Moving
• 5. Keep your keyboard crumb free mouse along a flat
surface can move
the cursor to
different items on
the screen. Items
can be moved or
selected by
pressing the
mouse buttons (clicking)
•
Different
mouse movement
1. CPU – Primary Component of a computer
that processes instructions. It runs the • Point and
Operating System and applications, constantly click – are the
receiving input from the user or active software actions of a
programs. It processes the data and produces computer user
output, which may stored by an application or moving a pointer to
displayed on the screen. a certain location on
a screen (pointing)
and then pressing a
2. Monitor is where the text, images, and button on a mouse,
videos are being displayed. Some of the usually the left
monitors might even have built-in speakers, button(click) or other pointing device.
much like televisions.
• Single click – it is the act of pressing a
3. Keyboard mouse button once, without moving the
The devices that you use to provide mouse. Single clicking is usually a
data and instructions to the computer. what primary action of the mouse.
you enter data, type words, numbers, and
• Double click – it is the most commonly
symbols with. The most common global layout
used with a computer mouse when the
being the QWERT keyboard, but there are
pointer is placed over an icon or object
others such as the QWERTZ and AZERTY
and the button is quickly pressed twice.
keyboard.
• Drag and drop- is a pointing device
4. Mouse a pointing device that you use to
gesture in which the user selects a
move a cursor around the screen, with the
virtual object by grabbing it and
mouse buttons being used to interact with
 dragging it to a different location or onto Module 4
another virtual object.

Module 3
Notepad is a generic text editor included
with all versions of Microsoft Windows that
allows you to create, open, and read plaintext Parts of the Keyboard
files. If the file contains special formatting or is
not a plaintext file, it cannot be read in The QWERTY keyboard, or Universal
Microsoft Notepad. The image is a small Keyboard is named for the first six letters on
example of what the Microsoft Notepad may the second row. It is the standard keyboard
look like while running. format for most computers.

Word pad is a word processor, meant 1. character keys are the standard keys that
for formatting and printing document like were found on a typewriter--mostly numbers
Microsoft word and letters.

Word pad is a word processor, A lowercase letter is typed when one of the
meant for formatting and printing document like letter keys is pressed. The lower number or
Microsoft word symbol on the key is typed when a number or
symbol key is pressed.
2. The Space Bar inserts a space. It is used to
separate words.
3. Shift key -A capital letter is typed when you
hold down the Shift key and press a letter key.
The top symbol is typed when you hold down
the Shift key and press a number or symbol
14. End - moves the flashing cursor to the end
key.
of the current line.
4. Caps Lock key is used to type in ALL
CAPITALS.
15. Insert - an editing key used to switch
between two text-entering
Notice the Caps Lock light on the keyboard. It modes, Insert and Overstrike.
indicates that Caps Lock mode is on or off.
16. The numeric keypad makes it easy to type
5. Backspace key is an editing key. It numbers quickly and with only one hand.
erases the character to the LEFT of the
cursor, one at a time. Note the arrow on
the key. The NumLock key activates the
numbers. When NumLock is off (look at the "1"
6. Enter key - enters information or moves
light), the keys perform the functions on the
the cursor to the next line. Notice that there
lower half of the keys.
are two Enter keys on a standard keyboard.
17. Function keys provide special functions
Older keyboards sometimes label it
depending on the program in use.
the Return key.
7. Tab key moves the flashing cursor to the
next tab stop. F1 - almost always displays Help.
F5 - in web browsers, F5 will refresh, or
reload, the web page.
8. Navigation keys help you move the flashing
cursor. F6 - in web browsers, will move the cursor to
the address bar.
9. arrow keys move the flashing cursor in the
direction of the arrow. Text is not erased or F7 - starts spell checker.
changed when you use the arrow keys.
18. Modifiers key:
Ctrl - the Control key performs a function when
10. Delete key is an editing key. It erases the pressed in combination with another key.
character to the RIGHT of the cursor, one at a
time. Ctrl + P - Print

11. Page Up - moves the flashing cursor UP Ctrl + Z - Undo

one page length. Can also be used to scroll in more examples
web browsers.

Alt - the Alt key performs a function when

12. Page Down - moves the flashing cursor pressed in combination with another key.
DOWN one page length. Can also be used to
scroll in web browsers. Ctrl + Alt + Delete - used when logging on to
a network, also brings up the Task Manager
Alt + F4 - to close a program
13. Home - moves the flashing cursor to the
beginning of the current line. Alt + Tab - to switch between open windows.
Windows key - brings up the Start menu when
pressed alone. Can also be used in
combination with other keys for a variety of
shortcuts.
Windows key + D - shows the desktop,
restores hidden programs when pressed again.
Windows key + Down Arrow - restores the
window size, or minimizes the window size.
Windows key + Up Arrow - maximizes the
window size

19. Print Screen - copies an image of the

screen to the clip board. The image can then
be pasted into a document.

SysRq, Scroll Lock, Pause/Break - antiquated

keys that are no longer used.
20. Escape key cancels the current command.

Sometimes it is a shortcut to answer No, Quit,

Cancel, Exit or Abort.