COURSE - DESKTOP PUBLISHING

							RATIONALE

During the past 10 years, government with the assistant of donor agencies have contributed the school system in promoting Information and Communication Technology (ICT). As these centres are utilized during school hours, a majority of them remain idle after school hours, as well as on weekends. The sustainability of computer centres is vital in ensuring the continuous provision of education on ICT to the school sector. Therefore, it is mandatory that sufficient funds are available to ensure the maintenance and upgrading of ICT resources in these centres. Funds can be raised by utilizing these centres to conduct ICT related courses, after school hours and during weekends. The Ministry of Education and National Institute of Education have therefore, decided to introduce some industry-oriented ICT courses to the Srilankan community. These ICT courses have been developed with the objective of providing the necessary competencies in ICT to meet the challenges of vocational level requirements in industry. The curriculum comes with centre-based assessment criteria to enable course managers/providers to assess participants on a standard platform. The fees structure and course fees will be decided by the management committee of the School/Zonal ICT centre according to the circulars issued by the Secretary, Ministry of Education. In addition to the achievement of sustainability of computer centres, the introduction of these industry-oriented ICT courses is an attempt to extend the productivity of ICT resources in centres to cater to the vocational educational needs of the community, especially in the neighbourhood of computer centres. The main objective of this course is to create a competent workforce in Desktop Publishing environment. The duration of this course is 40 hours.

Department of Information Technology National Institute of Education Maharagama

Information and Communication Technology Unit Ministry of Education

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Competency, Competency level, Subject contents and Duration: Competency 1: Explores Desktop Publishing (DTP) software Level to be achieved Subject content required for level 1.1 Investigates the Introduction to Desktop Publishing desktop • Objectives of DTP publishing • DTP software – Adobe PageMaker, process Microsoft Publisher, Corel Ventura, Adobe Illustrator 1.2 Explores the work area of DTP software • • • • • • Open screen. Menu hierarchy Tool Bars, tool boxes, palettes Text and graphics environment Moving between pages , adding and deleting pages Zoom control

Duration(Hrs.)

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Competency 2:Uses basics of DTP 2.1 Constructs a basic • Basic steps in constructing a publication publication • Create, open, save & print • Templates • Page setup • Master page • Measurement system & margin setup • Layout design • Numbering & rearranging pages • Headers & footers • Print Publication 2.2 Uses word processing & text formatting functions to create a standard publication. • • • • • • • • • • • Creating text objects Page generation. Text manipulation: Copy, Move, Paste, Resize, Text attributes, Alignment Spell check Columns Setting indents & tabs Tracking & kerning Hyphenation & justification Word, character & line spacing Paragraph, Alignment and control Leading

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• Table set up • Cells, rows & columns • Formatting text in tables. • Importing & Exporting tables Competency 3: Constructs professional documents 3.1 Manages lengthy • Planning a long document documents in • Assembling publication into a book publishing • Numbering pages in a multiplepublication document • Indexing a publication • Topic Levels • Table of contents. 2.3 Uses tables in publications 3.2 Uses graphics to enhance publication 3.3 Uses the printing techniques efficiently • • • • • • • • Insert graphics Placing and linking objects Managing linked text & graphics Printer selection Printing techniques Mirror image Printing on tracing paper/ transparencies Colour separation

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Quality Inputs: Required: Hardware • P III or higher capacity computers • 128 MB memory or higher • 40 GB hard disk or higher • 32 MB VGA (XVGA) • High resolution monitor • Printers (Laser quality) • Scanner • Removable Disks o Floppy o Flash o CD Software: • Adobe PageMaker • Adobe Photoshop • Adobe Illustrator • MS Publisher • Different fonts o Sinhala o Tamil o English • Scanning software

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Assessment Criteria: As this course is highly practical oriented, a two fold assessment procedure is recommended as follows: • • Continuous assessment during the course Final assessment at the end of course

It is also recommended that each participant has to be assessed individually.
Continuous Assessment:

The number of continuous assessments for this course is three. Assessment points can be identified according to the competencies/competency levels given for this course. Suggested assessment points for this course are as follows: • • • Assess the ability of understanding the uses of different DTP software Assess the ability of creating a master page with DTP features Ability to construct a publication using the basic DTP features

A weightage may be given to the assessment points by considering their importance. However, it should be noted that the percentage of total marks given to the continuous assessment is 60.
Final Assessment:

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Assess the ability of constructing a professional document as per user requirement

Moreover, it is important that assessment tools that are relevant to the assessment points have to be prepared in advance. Participants are free to repeat the continuous assessments until they reach the satisfactory level of competency. Final assessment carries 40% marks and can be performed once only.

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Certification: The level of competency of this course is checked at two levels. To confirm the required level a participant must obtain more than 80% marks of the overall assessment. Marks obtained in the range 61-80 are identified as "Near Competency" level and marks below 60 is considered as the level of "No competency". Following table indicates the marks to be obtained to achieve the competency
Total Marks (%) Level of Competency

00-60 61-80 81-100

No competency Near competency Competency

A certificate for this course will be issued by the ICT centre concerned to a participant who obtains the level of "Competency" (i.e. above 81%). This certificate has to be signed by the Zonal Director of Education of the ICT centre concerned, the principal of the School/Zonal ICT centre and the teacher in charge of same ICT centre. A specimen certificate is attached in the appendix.

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Industry Oriented ICT courses: Certificate in Desktop Publishing

Govt. logo

This document certifies that

Sunimal Perera
has achieved the following competencies relevant to the

Certificate in Desktop Publishing Course
Specific to √ Ability to understand the uses of different Desktop Publishing software √ Ability to create a master page with Desktop Publishing features √ Ability to construct a publication using the basic Desktop Publishing features √ Ability to construct a professional document as per user requirement

A.B.C.Perera Principal President's College Maharagama

Saliya Bandara Zonal Director of Education Sri Jayawardenapura

Cyril Fonseka Teacher-in-charge ICT Education Centre President's College Maharagama

12 April 2006

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Resource Team for Industry Oriented ICT courses: Certificate in Desktop Publishing

Guidance: NIE Co-ordination:

Mr. W. Dharmadasa, Additional Secretary (Edu. Dev.), Ministry of Education Dr. (Mrs.) I.L. Ginige, Assistant. Director General, Faculty of Science & Technology,

Mr. H. Jayasinghe. Director, Dept. of IT, National Institute of Education Mr. Piyadasa Marambage, Actg. Director of Education, ICT Unit, Ministry of Education Mr. S.N. Maduwage, Chief Project Officer, Dept. of IT, NIE Mr. D.K. Withanage, Head of Dept. of IT, University of Moratuwa Mr. M.G.R. Kumarasiri, Curriculum & Business Dev. Manager, Distance Learning Mr. S.N. Maduwage, Chief Project Officer, Dept. of IT, NIE Mr. K.G.S.K. Perera, Project Officer, Dept. of IT, NIE Ms. A.M. Kanthi, Project Officer, Dept. of IT, NIE Mr. N. Nobel Ravi, Zonal ICTC Manager, Gamini MMV, NuwaraEliya

Direction: Academic & Curriculum Dev. Centre Consultancy:

Compiling:

Mr .W.AM.S. Wijesekara, Zonal ICTC Manager, Hali-Ela MMV, Hali-Ela Mr .W.A. Chandra Kumara, Instructor, Zonal ICTC, Anura MMV, Yakkala Ms. L.P. Champa, Instructor, Zonal ICTC, Sri Wijerama V., Nugegoda Mr. H.P.U.S.I.K. Perera, Instructor, Zonal ICTC, Haguranketha MMV, Hanguranketha Mr. K.B.K. Wijerathna, Instructor, Zonal ICTC, Veyangoda MMV, Veyangoda Mr. U.W.A. Jayantha, IT Instructor, Prov. IT Center, Unawatuna, Galle Mr. C.S. Senadeera, Zonal ICTC Manager, Debarawewa MMV, Debarawewa Mr. D.S.B. Ramanayaka, IT Instructor, Provincial Education Office, Wariyapola
Typesetting: Ms. N.M. Muthumala Ms. U.N. Ganegoda Ms. S.K.U.D. Samaraweera

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