BCS - International Certification of Digital Literacy

Overview

This accelerated BCS: International Certification of Digital Literacy course, builds on a learner's basic knowledge and experience to improve their understanding of computer applications including improving productivity using IT, word processing, spreadsheets and presentation software.

In just 5 days, you’ll learn to work with presentations and save them in different file formats, locally or in the cloud. . You’ll also learn how to:

• Use available help resources to enhance productivity.
• Understand different presentation views and when to use them, choose different built-in slide layouts, designs and themes.
• Enter, edit and format text and tables in presentations.
• Recognise good practise in applying unique titles to slides and creating consistent slide content by using the master slide.
• Choose, create and format charts to communicate information meaningfully.
• Insert, edit and align pictures and drawn objects.
• Apply animation and transition effects to presentations, and check and correct presentation content before printing and presenting.
• Work with spreadsheets and save them in different file formats, locally or in the cloud.
• Use available help resources, shortcuts and the go to tool to enhance productivity.
• Enter data into cells and use good practice in creating lists.
• Select, sort and copy, move and delete data.
• Edit rows and columns in a worksheet.
• Copy, move, delete and appropriately rename worksheets.
• Create mathematical and logical formulas using standard spreadsheet functions.
• Use good practice in formula creation and recognize error values in formulas.
• Format numbers and text content in a spreadsheet and use available autoformat/table styles.
• Choose suitable charts and create and format charts to communicate information meaningfully.
• Adjust spreadsheet page settings and check and correct spreadsheet content before printing.
• Work with documents and save them in different file formats, locally or in the cloud.
• Use available help resources, shortcuts and the go to tool to enhance productivity.
• Create and edit word processing documents that will be ready to share and distribute.
• Apply different formats and styles to enhance documents and recognise good practice in choosing the appropriate formatting options.
• Insert tables, pictures and drawn objects into documents.
• Prepare documents for mail merge operations.
• Adjust document page settings and check and correct spelling before printing

At the end of this course, you’ll sit the BCS exam, and achieve your International Certification of Digital Literacy certification.

Through Firebrand’s Lecture | Lab | Review methodology, you’ll get certified at twice the speed of the traditional training and get access to courseware, learn from certified instructors, and train in a distraction-free environment.

Audience

This course is ideal for:

• This qualification is for competent IT users who wish to develop their skills and knowledge to a more advanced level

Four reasons why you should sit your course with Firebrand Training

1. You'll be trained and certified faster. Learn more on this 5-day accelerated course. You'll get at least 12 hours a day of quality learning time in a distraction-free environment
2. Your course is all-inclusive. One simple price covers all course materials, exams, accommodation and meals – so you can focus on learning
3. Pass first time or train again for free. Your expert instructor will deliver our unique accelerated learning methods, allowing you to learn faster and be in the best possible position to pass first time. In the unlikely event that you don't, it's covered by your Certification Guarantee
4. Study with an award-winning training provider. We've won the Learning and Performance Institute's "Training Company of the Year" three times. Firebrand is your fastest way to learn, with 134561 students saving more than one million hours since 2001