Skills challenge 1 - multiple books

The following post relates to these books:

- Design and Produce Text Documents
- Design and Develop Complex Text Documents
- Design and Use Complex Spreadsheets

By the end of Skills challenge 1, you students should be aware of the styles and procedures required for the following Skills challenges and Assessment tasks.

The Styles and Procedure Guides outline the standards required for the organisation used in these tasks, for example (Complex text), file naming, envelop size, letter/memo/fax/report layouts etc.

The Complex Styles and Procedures Guide is used to simulate a workplace. It makes reference to the intranet, which many business use to keep their standard files and employees to save their files. As we don't have the ability to save to an intranet while using the textbook, students are encouraged to save the files in the correct files in the student download files. If there is a reference in the Styles and Procedures Guide to a 'page' then this is a folder/file in the student downloads.

Please encourage your students to spend some time reading and familiarising themselves with this document because it will save them time when they need to find a style/procedure through the rest of the Skills challenges and Assessment tasks.

Instructor and Student Notes for Challenges and Assessment tasks

Recently Tilde skills introduced Challenges and Assessment tasks into some of our new editions:

- Design and Produce Test Documents
- Design and Develop Complex Text Documents (Plus Manage Business Doc Des Dev)
- Develop and Use Complex Spreadsheets
- Design Databases

To assist teachers and students with these new Challenges and Assessment tasks, I will be uploading posts on our blog outlining, what is expected by the end of the exercise, hints and tips for the tasks, any additional information etc.

Please let others at your campus know about these posts and they can subscribe to the blog to also receive these posts by email.

Customising the Ribbon - appendix from Complex Desktop Published Documents

Customising the Ribbon
(Appendix taken from Tilde skills Produce Complex Desktop Published Documents. Although these instructions are for Publisher, they are common in the other Office programs).

How to...customise the ribbon

1. Open Publisher.
2. Click on the Options button.
   The Publisher Options dialogue box is presented.
3. Click on Customize Ribbon.
4. Click on the New Tab button.
5. Click on 'New Tab (Custom)' in the Tabs list then click on the Rename button.
6. Give your new ribbon a meaningful name.
7. If you want to group your commands (buttons) then click on  New Group in the Tabs list then click on the Rename button. If you are grouping your commands then you will need to add New Groups and Rename them.
8. Click on the first group (if you did not custom name your group then it will be called ‘New Group (Custom)’.
9. From the Commands list, click on the commands (or buttons) you wish to include. Once finished, click on the OK button. Notice your new ribbon has been included. 

 How to...remove a customised ribbon

1. Open Publisher.
2. Click on the Options button.
   The Publisher Options dialogue box is presented.
3. Click on Customize Ribbon.
4. Right-click on the Customised ribbon.
5. Select Remove.

The above has been taken from the new Tilde skills Produce Complex Desktop Published Documents. ISBN: 978-0-7346-0799-7.

Review copies will be available in the next 2 weeks. If you wish them to be sent to your home address, please let Felicity know.

Sustainability at Work

We are quite excited to receive this morning the 4th book (Sustainability at Work) in our new imprint

In print we now have:

Planning and Building a Small Business
Running and Growing a Small Business
Diversity at Work: Working With and Managing Diversity
Sustainability at Work: Readings, Cases and Policy
 

Table of contents

Part A: Readings

Chapter 1: Current research in sustainability

Chapter 2: HRM for sustainability: Creating a new paradigm

Chapter 3: Eco careers

Chapter 4: Setting people up for success: Sustainable performance management

Chapter 5: Sustainability in strategic human resource management

Part B: Cases

Chapter 6: Fuji Xerox Australia Eco Manufacturing Centre

Chapter 7: Hewlett Packard's supply chain

Chapter 8: IKEA

Chapter 9: Leighton Contractors

Chapter 10: Yarra Valley Water

Part C: Writing Policy

Chapter 11: Policy needs identification

Chapter 12: Policy development

Chapter 13: Policy implementation

Chapter 14: Policy review

Chapter 15: Managing policy issues

Sustainability at Work: Readings, Cases and Policy contributes to achieving the following units:

BSBSUS201A: Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices

BSBSUS301A: Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices

BSB501A - Develop workplace policy and procedures for sustainability

Design and Develop Complex Text Documents PLUS more

The team at Tilde are so excited to have copies of our new:

Tilde skill Design and Develop Complex Text Documents
PLUS Challenges and Assessment Tasks
PLUS Challenges and Assessments in Manage Business Document Design and Development.

The new book is fully indexed and is an amazing 244 pages long.

Inside you will find:
- 53 Hands-on exercises
- 15 Consolidation tasks
- 12 Workplace scenarios
- 24 Skills challenges
- 12 Assessment tasks.

Table of Contents
Topic 1 - Document layout review
Topic 2 - Working with tables
Topic 3 - Creating templates and designing forms
Topic 4 - Inserting shapes and WordArt
Topic 5 - Complex mail merge
Topic 6 - Working with long documents
Topic 7 - Expanding and enhancing documents
Topic 8 - Inserting charts and SmartArt
Topic 9 - Adding comments, tracking changes and comparing content
Topic 10 - Calculations in Word
Topic 11 - Customising and automating tasks
Topic 12 - Creating a master document
Workplace scenarios
Skills Challenges and Assessment Tasks - Complex Text
Skills Challenges and Assessment Tasks - MBDDD

This book is designed for classroom use or 'at home learning'. In the classroom it can be used for both teacher led and student self-paced learning.

For more information, contact Felicity.