Uganda Senior Six (S6) Subsidiary ICT
This information is based on the Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) Subsidiary ICT syllabus. While not specifically Computer Studies, it offers a comprehensive overview of ICT topics relevant to S6 students.
Term III
Topic 8: Internet and World Wide Web (2)
- Duration: 12 Periods
- Learning Outcome: Students will be able to send and receive messages, identify genuine e-commerce sites, use chat rooms, and transfer files.
- Internet Services: Understanding e-commerce activities (banking, advertising, marketing, buying, and selling) and internet communication services (email, mailing lists, instant messaging, chat rooms, VoIP, newsgroups, and message boards).
- File Transfer Protocol: Explaining and using file transfer protocol. Demonstrating responsible internet usage (netiquette).
Topic 9: Electronic Spreadsheets II
- Duration: 12 Periods
- Learning Outcome: Students will be able to format worksheets, create charts, and prepare outputs.
- Formatting: Changing font attributes, text wrapping, merging cells, and adding border effects.
- Charts: Creating different chart types, resizing, deleting, adding titles, legends, backgrounds, and segment labels. Editing chart elements (colors, etc.).
- Worksheet Setup: Adjusting margins, page orientation, paper size, headers, footers, page numbering, date, and time.
- Printing: Previewing and printing worksheets, selecting print ranges.
Topic 10: Electronic Presentations
- Duration: 30 Periods
- Learning Outcome: Students will be able to create, manipulate, and deliver presentations.
- Introduction: Defining presentations, describing their functions and application areas, and identifying features of the presentation software interface.
- Working with Presentations: Opening and closing the program, creating presentations from templates, saving presentations, using different views (normal, slide sorter), adding slide titles and text, changing layouts, backgrounds, copying and moving slides, deleting slides, inserting footers, using the slide master, and setting automatic slide numbering and dates.
- Charts: Inputting data to create charts, importing data and charts from other applications, creating and modifying organization charts.
- Graphical Objects: Identifying, inserting, selecting, copying, moving, modifying (rotating, flipping, aligning), and grouping graphical objects. Adding drawn objects (lines, arrows, shapes, text boxes), formatting them (colors, line styles, shadows), and layering them.
- Preparing Presentation Output: Adding and removing transition and animation effects, adding presenter notes, selecting output formats (overhead, handout, on-screen show), hiding and showing slides, and spell-checking.
- Checking and Delivering Presentations: Changing slide setup and orientation, changing paper size, printing presentations (slides, handouts, notes pages, outlines), starting and navigating slideshows.
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