What’s Hot in Microsoft® Office 2010

SAM 2010

Microsoft has improved upon the success of its flagship Microsoft Office Suite with the release of Microsoft® Office 2010. The focus of Microsoft® Office 2010 centers around improving one’s productivity and efficiency, not only by providing new and improved features, but also by updating the user interface to access these features more easily. New and improved features in Microsoft® Office 2010 include:

SAM (Skills Assessment Manager) 2010 is an educational system that helps measure student ability to use Microsoft® Office 2010, and improve Office skills using high-powered simulations and live in-the-application case projects. Students can work at their own pace, or within a schedule set by instructors. With SAM 2010, students are on their way to achieving their highest level of proficiency with Microsoft® Office 2010!

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What’s Hot in Office 2010!

SAM 2010

Instructor CourseMap: Microsoft® Office 2010

ISBN: 978-1-111-52807-2

Common Elements

File management tasks •now are available in the Backstage view, accessible using the File tab on the Ribbon

Ability to customize the Ribbon by adding new tabs and •custom groups

Protected mode safeguards your computer by initially •disabling editing features in documents originating from the Internet

Screenshot command allows you to capture screens and •insert them directly into your Office file

New and improved SmartArt templates•

Background removal tool enables you to remove the •background from inserted images

Word

Improved collaboration features •allow multiple people to author a file simultaneously

The Navigation pane makes it easier •to move to different locations within a document and search for items within a document

Restrict editing feature can restrict •the types of changes that users can make to a protected document

PowerPoint

New and improved PowerPoint •themes, animations, and transitions

Broadcast a PowerPoint slide •show to individuals in remote loca-tions

Create a video of a slide show that •can be played back in Windows Media Player

Easily reduce the size of media files in your PowerPoint •presentation to minimize the size of the slide show

TrainingSAM offers three training methods for maximum retention. Encourage your students to take advantage of all three methods! They can be repeated as many times as necessary, until students feel comfortable with a particular skill. Training helps students get proficient in their skills and to check their level of understanding before taking a quiz or test.

Observe — Students learn how to perform tasks by watching and listening to brief instructional videos.

Practice — Students learn tasks by performing them with the help of guided audio and on-screen instructions.

The Observe and Practice modes have controls that allow students to pause, rewind, and replay the instructions as often as they would like.

Apply — Students learn in a hands-on, do-it-yourself environ-ment. For a Training task to be considered complete, students must click Task Complete after completing the Apply method correctly.

AssessmentSAM Assessment (you may prefer to call them exams, tests or quizzes) give students the chance to prove their new-found skills and also see which topics they may need to study more for better results on future exams. Exams may cover computer concepts and/or one or more of the Microsoft® Office 2010 applications. Questions can be objective-based (multiple choice, true/false, etc.), or task-based (students perform a task, such as bolding text, in a simulated Microsoft® Office 2010 environment).

ProjectsWith SAM Projects, students work directly within the Microsoft® Office 2010 applications, following directions to complete a real-world business case project. Projects typically come from one end-of-chapter project as well as a second

project covering similar skills in a different assignment. Capstone projects for each application assess student understanding of each application, using skills taught in Microsoft® Office 2010 textbooks. They are typically assigned after completing several chapters to ensure there is cumulative knowledge of an application. Using SAM Projects to assess students not only gives them a real-world problem to solve, but also provides instant grading and immediate, detailed feedback.

Students are required to download a start file and an instruction file. Once they are finished working on their assignment, students upload the completed file back to SAM and it is graded in moments.

ReportingSAM’s powerful reporting features provide you with instant information regarding student performance. A variety of reports are available, ranging from one that shows how each student in the class performed on a particular exam, to a frequency analysis report showing the number of students completing a task correctly or incorrectly. These reports then can be used to modify your lesson plans so that you can spend more time teaching concepts students have difficulty learning.

Tips for Student SuccessUse SAM Assessment to determine what students already •know before beginning a lesson.

Assign SAM Training before an exam, giving students an •opportunity to learn and practice all skills on which they will be tested.

Scheduling practice SAM Assessments or Projects gives •students an opportunity to learn the SAM interface and testing procedures before it is time to test.

Require students to follow up with SAM Training for tasks •they answer incorrectly on a SAM Assessment or SAM Project.

Excel

Enhanced conditional formatting in Excel makes •spreadsheet data even more visual

Improved performance and accuracy for •many statistical, financial, and math func-tions

New Sparklines provide an additional way •to represent data in Excel

Access

Easier to design reports in Access •using conditional formatting

New and improved templates •available in Access

Access databases can obtain Web content•

Outlook

Outlook can organize e-mail messages by conversation•

Manage conversations by grouping them, ignoring them, •or sending them to the Trash

Quick Steps allow you to perform •common tasks in Outlook by click-ing one button

Visit the Course Technology Microsoft® Office 2010 Community site to learn more about the new Office software release and the products that can help you teach it at www.cengage.com/ct/office2010

To learn more about SAM, visit SAM Central www.cengage.com/samcentral. If you have a SAM user profile, go to www.cengage.com/sam2010 to create and schedule assignments for students.

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Tips on teaching with the Pasewark texts•

Guide to all the supplemental materials to help you teach•

Updates on new products that benefit you and your students•

Learn what’s hot in Microsoft• ® Office 2010

How to integrate SAM 2010 into your curriculum•

Welcome, and thank you for trusting the Pasewark texts to help you teach your course! This CourseMap has been carefully designed with input from instructors who have achieved great success teaching their courses using Pasewark textbooks, Instructor Resources, and Online Companions.

This CourseMap contains tools and information to help you achieve the same success, while providing an engaging learning environment for your students. This guide also contains helpful teaching suggestions that address many of the challenges instructors face in today’s learning environment.

“My favorite part of SAM is the fact that students get instant feedback when they do a test or an assignment because they instantly know what they did wrong; and they can correct their mistakes if they need to and further learn before moving on to the next application.”

Steven Freund – University of Central Florida

Pasewark Texts

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Before the semester begins, use the • Sample Syllabus included on the Instructor Resources CD to help you design your course from beginning to end.

Additional Appendices• that expand upon important topics can be found on the Instructor Resources CD including: Keyboarding Touch System Improvement, Models for Formatting Documents, E-mail Writing Guides, and Letter Writing Guides.

Course Design

Solution:CourseNotes are six-panel reference cards that reinforce the most important and widely used features of a software application or technology topic in a visual and user-friendly format. (www.cengage.com/ct/coursenotes)

Microsoft® Office 2010 CourseNotes ISBN: 978-0-538-74424-9

Microsoft® Office Word 2010 CourseNotes ISBN: 978-0-538-74425-6 Microsoft® Office Excel 2010 CourseNotes ISBN: 978-0-538-74426-3

Microsoft® Office PowerPoint 2010 CourseNotes ISBN: 978-0-538-74422-5 Microsoft® Office Access 2010 CourseNotes ISBN: 978-0-538-74427-0 Microsoft® Office Outlook 2010 CourseNotes ISBN: 978-0-538-74423-2 Windows® 7 CourseNotes ISBN: 978-0-538-74491-1

Hot Topics in Technology CourseNotes ISBN: 978-0-538-74430-0 Best Practices in Social Networking CourseNotes ISBN: 978-0-538-74428-7 Google™ Apps CourseNotes ISBN: 978-0-538-74429-4 Web 2.0 CourseNotes ISBN: 978-0-538-74490-4 Internet Safety CourseNotes ISBN: 978-0-324-78858-7 Windows® Internet Explorer 8 CourseNotes ISBN: 978-0-538-74432-4 Introduction to Personal Computers CourseNotes ISBN: 978-1-4239-1191-3

Teaching Challenge: Getting students familiar with the basics quickly in order to cover more challenging topics.

Present the features of Microsoft Office from beginning to end •using Pasewark’s hallmark step-by-step approach in every lesson. Present the activities on-screen as students follow you step-by-step. If students get lost or wish to continue working from home, they can easily follow the detailed steps in the textbook.

Incorporate • Q&As into your lecture to bring relevance and context to the tasks in each step-by-step activity. Suggested Discussion Questions are included in the Instructor’s Manual for each lesson.

Encourage students to enrich their •learning with additional information and guidance with the Learning Boxes throughout the lesson. Learning Boxes include: Internet, Tip, Warning, and Extra for Experts.

Use • PowerPoint Presentations included on the Instructor Resources CD to discuss new tasks and vocabulary terms covered in each lesson.

Presentation

Help students gain confidence in the material learned with • End-of-Lesson Vocabulary/Review Questions (true/false, multiple-choice, and short answer questions).

Require students to apply the techniques learned in the lesson with real-world problems they might encounter • personally, academically, or professionally using End-of-Lesson Projects and Critical Thinking Activities.

Assign • End-of-Unit Reviews with hands-on projects and realistic business simulations before moving on to a new application to assess student knowledge of each application as a whole.

Direct students to the • Online Companion, where they can access key terms and definitions for each lesson, student data files to complete text projects and activities, PowerPoint presentations for each lesson, and additional Internet boxes with links to important Web sites.

Use the • Solution Files, Answer Keys, Annotated Solution Files, and Grading Rubrics included on the Instructor Resources CD to grade assignments from the textbook quickly. Grading Rubrics help to ensure consistent grading for all students in your course.

Assess student understanding with • ExamView test bank questions, which can be presented in printed or online form, in true/false, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and short answer question types.

Assign the • Capstone Simulation; a comprehensive business case at the end of the text, to provide students the opportunity to apply the skills they have learned in each Office 2010 program through an integrated approach.

Assessment

More information on all of the Instructor Resources and other supplements is available in the Preface of your Pasewark Microsoft® Office 2010 text. Download the Instructor Resources at www.cengage.com/login.

Read the accompanying • Instructor’s Manuals for each lesson, included on the Instructor Resources CD, to gain insight on how to fully engage students and effectively teach the material.

Add lesson • Figure Files, included on the Instructor Resourc-es CD, to customize handouts, presentations, and activities.

Make sure students have access to any necessary files to •complete assigned activities.

Lecture Preparation

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Solution:A Guided Tour products engage students by showing them new technologies or software applications on their schedule, wherever they’d like to learn. These short video clips provide them with what they need to know in under an hour. (www.cengage.com/ct/guidedtours)

A Guided Tour of Microsoft® Office 2010 ISBN: 978-0-538-75046-2

A Guided Tour of Hot Technologies 2010 ISBN: 978-0-538-75287-9 A Guided Tour of Microsoft® Windows® 7 ISBN: 978-0-538-75040-0

Teaching Challenge: Increasing student engagement with new software and technologies.

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Learn about today’s hottest technologies with these video tutorials!With author Corinne Hoisington as your guide, you’ll learn about some of the newest Web technologies available today.

• Get an inside look at 30 new technologies and learn how they can help you solve problems, get information quickly, or communicate in new ways.

• Learn how to boost your productivity using the latest Web 2.0 technologies, including cloud computing, new Web plug ins, and other cutting edge technologies.

• Complete activities that put the tools to use.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS16x CD-ROM drive or faster, 1024 x 768 display, 512 MB RAM minimum, and 1,000s of colors. Intel Pentium III 700 MHz or faster (PC), G4 PPC 700MHz or faster (Mac); Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7 (PC), System OSX 10.2 or higher (Mac), and 16-bit sound card.

Also available on www.cengagebrain.com Instant access code: 0-8400-4694-4 Printed access code: 0-8400-4695-2

Corinne Hoisington is a professor at Central Virginia Community College in Lynchburg, Virginia, with over 20 years of teaching experience. Professor Hoisington is the 2004 recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in Computer Programming award. A dynamic speaker, she regularly presents on new technology and education trends to instructors across the United States.

V I D E O T U T O R I A L S C Dc o r i n n e h o i s i n g t o n

a guided tour ofHot Technologies 2010

GETTING STARTED

1 Close any open programs.

2 Insert the CD into your CD-ROM drive.

3 If you have the Autorun feature turned off, double-click the Guided Tour icon on the CD-ROM to launch the program.

4 Click I Accept to accept the License Agreement.

5 When the Video Menu opens, click Welcome.

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course|notes™ quick reference guide

Solution:Help your students become more successful in the classroom and in the workplace with a reader-friendly pedagogy providing short, focused lessons on the soft skills your students need to succeed. (www.cengage.com/ct/softskills) Illustrated Course Guides: Professionalism – Soft Skills for a Digital Workplace ISBN: 978-0-538-46978-4 Illustrated Course Guides: Teamwork & Team Building – Soft Skills for a Digital Workplace ISBN: 978-0-538-46976-0 Illustrated Course Guides: Problem-Solving & Decision Making – Soft Skills for a Digital Workplace ISBN: 978-1-4390-4114-7 Illustrated Course Guides: Verbal Communication – Soft Skills for a Digital Workplace ISBN: 978-1-4390-4113-0 Illustrated Course Guides: Written Communication – Soft Skills for a Digital Workplace ISBN: 978-1-4390-4112-3

Teaching Challenge: Integrating needed professional skills into the Office course.