Building Maintenance
Customer Service
Child Care
Health Care
Office Skills & Technology
Security Guard
Intro to Office Technology
Office Skills Program
Health Care Worker Program
Home Care Aide

Developmental Skills Series
High School Proficiency
College Remedial
Foundations of College Mathematics

Life Skills
You Can Make it Happen
Working with People, Math and Reading

Basic Assessment Mathematics
Basic Assessment Reading
CNA Test Prep
Security Guard Assessment Test


 
 

 

 

Occupational Skills Course

 

OFFICE SKILLS

The Office Skills Program is designed to provide the basic skills instruction required for an entry-level position as an office worker. Learners will move at their own pace, while developing key competencies. The materials have been developed specifically for the adult or young learner who will see direct applications for the instruction in a real world-working environment.

The curriculum is divided into seven chapters that thoroughly cover an office worker’s skills from filing procedures to information systems to record duplication. Given a series of practice and scored questions, the learner will identify the definitions of all key terms and practice common tasks required for office workers. 

CHAPTER 1 - Filing Procedures

Lesson 1 - Manual Filing Materials
Lesson 2 - Indexing Personal Names 1
Lesson 3 - Indexing Personal Names 2
Lesson 4 - Surnames with Prefixes
Lesson 5 - Compound Personal Names
Lesson 6 - Filing Names and Addresses
Lesson 7 - Personal Names with Suffixes
Lesson 8 - Business Names
Lesson 9 - Firms with Personal Names
Lesson 10 - Complex Business Names
Lesson 11 - Abbreviations in Firm Names
Lesson 12 - Single Letters in Firm Names
Lesson 13 - Numbers in Firm Names
Lesson 14 - Filing Government Names
Lesson 15 - Cross Referencing
Lesson 16 - Numeric Filing
Lesson 17 - Card Files
Lesson 18 - General Alphabetic Files
Lesson 19 - Numeric Subject Files
Lesson 20 - Terminal Digit Filing
Lesson 21 - Numeric Coding
Lesson 22 - Micrographics
Lesson 23 - Geographic Filing
Lesson 24 - Subject Filing
Lesson 25 - Chronological Filing

CHAPTER 2 - Telephone Communications

Lesson 1 - Telephone Communication
Lesson 2 - Responding to Incoming Telephone Calls
Lesson 3 - Banking Terms
Lesson 4 - Telephone Protocol 1
Lesson 5 - Telephone Protocol 2
Lesson 6 - Screening Calls
Lesson 7 - Telephone Messages
Lesson 8 - Banking Procedures
Lesson 9 - Outgoing Telephone Calls
Lesson 10 - Personal Telephone Directory
Lesson 11 - Long-Distance Telephone Calls
Lesson 12 - Operator-Assisted Calls
Lesson 13 - International Calls
Lesson 14 - Rate Periods and Time Zones
Lesson 15 - Special Telephone Equipment and Services
Lesson 16 - Answering Systems

CHAPTER 3 - Information Systems

Lesson 1 - Information Systems
Lesson 2 - Information Processing Cycle
Lesson 3 - Computers in Information Systems
Lesson 4 - Mainframes and Minicomputers
Lesson 5 - Microcomputers
Lesson 6 - Other Computers
Lesson 7 - The Keyboard
Lesson 8 - Other Input Devices
Lesson 9 - Specialized Input Devices
Lesson 10 - Medical Data Entry Exercise
Lesson 11 - Basic Computer Systems
Lesson 12 - Computer Memory
Lesson 13 - Output Devices
Lesson 14 - Secondary Storage

CHAPTER 4 - Computer Software

Lesson 1 - Computer Software
Lesson 2 - Operating Systems
Lesson 3 - Application Software
Lesson 4 - Word Processing Software
Lesson 5 - Database Software
Lesson 6 - Spreadsheet Software
Lesson 7 - Graphics Software
Lesson 8 - Communications Software
Lesson 9 - Data Entry Exercise
Lesson 10 - Utility Software
Lesson 11 - Specialized Software
Lesson 12 - Other Software
Lesson 13 - Disk Management

CHAPTER 5 - Information Transfer

Lesson 1 - Proofreading Names
Lesson 2 - Proofreading Numbers
Lesson 3 - Manual Data Entry (Names)
Lesson 4 - Manual Data Entry (Numbers)
Lesson 5 - Manual Data Entry (Addresses)
Lesson 6 - Retrieving Information
Lesson 7 - Insurance Terms
Lesson 8 - Insurance Coverage
Lesson 9 - Form Recognition
Lesson 10 - Insurance Records Data Entry

CHAPTER 6 - Mail Procedures

Lesson 1 - Domestic Mail Classifications
Lesson 2 - 2nd, 3rd, & 4th-Class Mail
Lesson 3 - Special Mail Services
Lesson 4 - Certified Mail
Lesson 5 - Express Mail
Lesson 6 - Special Delivery and Handling
Lesson 7 - Interoffice Memos
Lesson 8 - Preparation of Outgoing Mail
Lesson 9 - Addressing Envelopes
Lesson 10 - Preparing Letters for Mailing
Lesson 11 - Postage Meters

CHAPTER 7 - Record Duplication

Lesson 1 - Record Duplication
Lesson 2 - Reprographic Equipment
Lesson 3 - Photocopiers
Lesson 4 - Photocopier Terms
Lesson 5 - Reproduction Quality and Completeness
Lesson 6 - Correcting Faults