Digital Literacy for the Modern Workplace

Course Syllabus

Course Description

This course builds confidence with the technology today's employers expect. You will move from computer basics to email, word processing, spreadsheets, cloud documents, online job applications, internet safety, and video meetings. No experience is needed. Many students are returning after years away from technology, and the course is designed for exactly that.

Faith Integration

Technology is a tool, and like any tool it can build up or tear down. In this course we practice using digital spaces with integrity: telling the truth online, guarding our hearts and minds, protecting others' privacy, and using our skills to serve our families and employers well.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

1. Operate a computer or tablet with confidence: turn on, log in, use a mouse, keyboard, or touchscreen, and open and close programs.
2. Create, name, save, find, and organize files and folders.
3. Set up and use a professional email account to send, reply to, and attach files to messages.
4. Create and format a basic document such as a letter or résumé in a word processor.
5. Enter data and simple formulas in a spreadsheet, and share a document in the cloud.
6. Search for jobs online and complete an online job application accurately.
7. Protect yourself online with strong passwords and by recognizing scams and phishing.
8. Join and take part in a video meeting professionally, and assemble a simple digital career toolkit.

Course Materials

• This student workbook
• Access to a computer, laptop, or facility tablet during class (paper practice sheets are provided when devices are unavailable)
• A folder for handouts and printed work
• Pen or pencil

Weekly Schedule

How You Will Be Graded

To pass this course: earn 70% or higher overall and attend at least 80% of sessions.

Classroom Covenant

• We begin and end each session in prayer. Participation in prayer is always welcome, never required.
• What is shared in class stays in class. We protect one another's stories.
• We speak with respect, listen without interrupting, and disagree with grace.
• We come prepared, do our own work, and ask for help when we need it.
• We follow all facility rules. Safety and security come first.
• We believe the best about one another and about what God can do.

Support & Accommodations

If reading, writing, vision, hearing, or any other need makes a part of this course harder, tell your instructor privately. Materials can be read aloud, enlarged, or completed orally. Missed sessions can be made up using the module pages. If you are transferred or released, your completed work stays on record and you can finish online.

Welcome

This companion walks beside you through BTO 101. Each week has a short reading that goes a little deeper than your workbook, followed by five devotions for the days between class sessions. At the back you will find a Quick Guide to keep after release. Read at your own pace. Write in the margins. Bring your questions to class.

How to Use This Companion

• Read the weekly reading after each class session. It takes about 10 minutes.
• Reflect on the questions. These are for you; you do not have to turn them in.
• Meet with God through the five daily devotions between sessions.
• Keep the Quick Guide at the end to carry home after release.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.— Psalm 119:105 (KJV)