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Four Components to Certification Success

Welcome to a comprehensive guide by Associate Professor Mary Jo Slater on acing certification exams. Featuring four key components: Open Entry/Open Exit, Textbooks/SAM Software, Funding, and Certiprep Software, this guide provides insights on flexible learning environments, individualized coursework, and the importance of collaborative resources. Discover how to navigate the learning process, access reference materials, and excel in your exams with expert guidance. Get ready to boost your certification success with this invaluable resource.

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Four Components to Certification Success

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  1. Four Components to Certification Success

  2. Welcome Mary Jo Slater Associate Professor, Office Technology Community College of Beaver County Monaca, PA

  3. CCBC Office Technology • Going Green

  4. Four Components • Open Entry/Open Exit • Textbooks/SAM Software • Funding • Certiprep Software

  5. Open Entry/Open ExitLearning Environment • Flexible, individualized attendance • Credit earning coursework without a traditional setting • Self-paced courses • Complete objectives in lab or at home • Seek instruction with lecture, video, textbook or tutor

  6. Open Entry/Open Exit (cont) • Day – Evening – Online options with seamless instructor interaction • Students should attend the scheduled lecture time • Learning Environment – office setting • Collaboration • Reference Materials • Instructors – Live and Online Help

  7. Objectives • Assignments • Exams • Non-Attendance

  8. Timeframe • Fall, Spring, Summer semesters – 15 weeks • Students may register three weeks into the semester • Students may meet objectives early

  9. Textbooks • -Illustrated Complete – Microsoft 2007 • Certification objectives • Bundle – Office 2007, SAM, USB drive • www.course.com

  10. SAM • SAM Assessment • Demonstrate computer knowledge – hands on • http://sam2007.course.com/

  11. Blackboard • Blackboard – Learning Management • Collaboration • Assignment link • Resource Center • http://blackboard.ccbc.edu/

  12. SmartTech • SmartTech • SmartBoard – Sympodium • Lectures recorded • Sync classroom management software • http://smarttech.com/

  13. Microsoft Ultimate Steal • Microsoft Office 2007 • Students purchase for $59.95 • Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, One Note, Groove, Publisher, InfoPath, Accounting Express

  14. Perkins Act • Federal funds to provide vocational-technical educational programs • http://www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE/CTE/perkins.html

  15. Certiprep • Practice Test - experience (including time limitations and interface) certification exam technology to assess initial skills and preparedness • Learning Mode - feedback and step-by-step instruction for each question • Network license • Students may purchase per exam $34

  16. Certification – Final Exam • Word Course • Students schedule exam • 80% certification success • College is a Microsoft Testing Center

  17. Questions and Answers • Thank you Mary Jo Slater Associate Professor, Office Technology maryjo.slater@ccbc.edu 724-775-8561 ext 414

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