Course Information

You may want to reference module titles, topic areas, or specific learning outcomes in your syllabus.

• Topic List for Computer Applications for Managers
• Computer Applications for Managers: Detailed Learning Outcomes

Sample Syllabus

This visual syllabus is designed to help you convey openness and connection from the start of class. It includes sample language to describe Lumen One.

• Download a Sample Visual Syllabus – for digital use
• Download a Sample Visual Syllabus – for print

Pacing Recommendations

Computer Applications for Managers contains 16 modules—roughly one module per week for a sixteen-week semester—and a final capstone assignment. The modules are grouped in order from most basic skills to more advanced skills; later modules will assume students have already covered previous modules. If you need to modify the pace and cover the material more quickly, the following modules work well together:

• Module 1: Intro to Computers, Module 2: Internet Research, and Module 3: Cloud Computing
• Module 4: Microsoft Word Basic Skills and Module 5: Microsoft Word Intermediate Skills
• Module 7: Microsoft Excel Basic Skills and Module 8: Microsoft Excel Intermediate Skills
• Module 10: Microsoft PowerPoint Basic Skills and Module 11: Microsoft PowerPoint Intermediate Skills
• Module 13: Microsoft Access Basic Skills and Module 14: Microsoft Access Intermediate Skills

We recommend NOT doubling up any of the Advanced Skills modules or the Integration module, because they are long and especially challenging. Students will need more time for mastery and completion of assignments.

Additionally, the course can be scaled to your students’ knowledge: if your students have already mastered basic skills, the basic modules can be omitted. If your students aren’t ready for advanced skills, the advanced modules can be omitted.

This course is aimed at beginning to intermediate computer users. It teaches a range of computer skills from the basics of using Windows, to basic internet literacy, to creating projects using Microsoft Office. Assignments show step-by-step visuals to help students complete projects, and include integration across Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access.

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Instructor Guides

Instructor Guides are provided for each module to support active learning, conceptual investigation, and collaboration. Each guide includes an overview of the module content, a summary of what students encounter in key sections, and a list of learning outcomes. You’ll also find engaging classroom activities with accompanying materials such as handouts and worksheets. Activities come with a suggested instructional plan, alignment to evidence-based teaching practices, discussion prompts, and an online variation that can be integrated into your LMS for hybrid or asynchronous classes.

Module 1: Computer Basics
Module 2: Internet Research
Module 3: Cloud Computing
Module 4: Microsoft Word Basic Skills
Module 5: Microsoft Word Intermediate Skills
Module 6: Microsoft Word Advanced Skills
Module 7: Microsoft Excel Basic Skills
Module 8: Microsoft Excel Intermediate Skills
Module 9: Microsoft Excel Advanced Skills
Module 10: Microsoft PowerPoint Basic Skills
Module 11: Microsoft PowerPoint Intermediate Skills
Module 12: Microsoft PowerPoint Advanced Skills
Module 13: Microsoft Access Basic Skills
Module 14: Microsoft Access Intermediate Skills
Module 15: Microsoft Access Advanced Skills
Module 16: Integration of Microsoft Office Products

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Presentation Slide Decks

Google Slides are available for each module to help you introduce and reinforce key concepts in class. Each deck of slides aligns with learning outcomes, providing concise explanations, visuals, video, and opportunities for active engagement. They’re designed to complement the Instructor Guides, offering a flexible framework you can adapt for lectures, discussions, or group activities.

Some slides contain notes or links to our Instructor Guides. If you share slide decks with your students but wish to leave out the notes or links, downloading a PDF version will result in a file that contains all the slides without the speaker notes.

Module 1 Slides: Computer Basics
Module 2 Slides: Internet Research
Module 3 Slides: Cloud Computing
Module 4 Slides: Microsoft Word Basic Skills
Module 5 Slides: Microsoft Word Intermediate Skills
Module 6 Slides: Microsoft Word Advanced Skills
Module 7 Slides: Microsoft Excel Basic Skills
Module 8 Slides: Microsoft Excel Intermediate Skills
Module 9 Slides: Microsoft Excel Advanced Skills
Module 10 Slides: Microsoft PowerPoint Basic Skills
Module 11 Slides: Microsoft PowerPoint Intermediate Skills
Module 12 Slides: Microsoft PowerPoint Advanced Skills
Module 13 Slides: Microsoft Access Basic Skills
Module 14 Slides: Microsoft Access Intermediate Skills
Module 15 Slides: Microsoft Access Advanced Skills
Module 16 Slides: Integration of Microsoft Office Products

Question Banks for Midterms and Finals

Lumen One provides access to outcome-aligned question banks that you can use to build your own exams. We provide these banks as QTI files, a standard format that allows you to import questions, build, and customize quizzes in most learning management systems. These files cannot be opened outside of an LMS. 

IMPORTANT NOTE: It is your responsibility to handle question banks and answer keys securely and appropriately to prevent them from being widely available.

How to Import

You must download the question bank specific to your LMS, open the file on your computer, and follow LMS-specific instructions for importing each module.

Please use the import instructions in our Lumen One knowledge-base for Blackboard, Brightspace, Canvas, and Moodle.

Available Question Banks

The question banks include at least 4 questions for every learning outcome throughout the entire course.

• Canvas
• Blackboard
• Brightspace D2L

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Assignments and Discussions

The assignments for Computer Apps for Managers build on one another and culminate in the submission of a finished project.

You can view them below or throughout the course on the Apply It pages.

Assignment Rubric

Most assignments have individual rubrics, but below is a suggested generalized rubric for grading assignments.

Discussions

The following discussion assignments are also available to add to your LMS. They can be used as is, modified, or removed. You can view them below or within each instructor guide.