Fundamentals of Excel, Formulas, and Functions

• Understand the Integration and Utility of Microsoft 365 and Excel 365: Learn how Excel 365 integrates with the broader suite of Microsoft 365 applications, emphasizing cloud-based collaboration and real-time data analysis.
• Master the Basics of Microsoft Excel: Gain foundational knowledge in Excel operations, including data entry, formula application, and basic spreadsheet navigation and management.
• Apply Custom Formats and Layouts: Able to customize Excel sheets using styles, templates, views, and outlines to enhance readability and presentation of data.
• Utilize Conditional Formatting for Data Analysis: Learn to apply conditional formatting to highlight or distinguish data based on specific criteria, aiding in more effective data analysis and decision-making.
• Effectively Manage and Share Excel Workbooks: Manage workbooks efficiently and share them securely within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, leveraging Excel’s exclusive features for collaboration.

• Demonstrate the ability to use Excel 365 as part of the Microsoft 365 suite to collaborate on projects, access documents from anywhere, and utilize cloud-based features for enhanced productivity.
• Navigate and Utilize Excel Effectively: Exhibit proficiency in navigating the Excel user interface, performing basic operations, and applying formulas and functions for data manipulation.
• Customize Excel Spreadsheets: Apply custom formats, styles, and layouts to Excel documents, making data more accessible and presentations more professional.
• Analyse Data with Conditional Formatting: Use conditional formatting to automatically highlight important data points, trends, or outliers, facilitating quicker analysis and insights.
• Collaborate and Manage Workbooks: Manage Excel workbooks effectively, including sharing and securing data within the Microsoft 365 environment, and leverage Excel’s unique features to enhance collaboration and data analysis.

The academic approach of the course focuses on ‘work-centric’ education. With this hands-on approach, derive knowledge from and while working to make it more wholesome, delightful and useful. The ultimate objective is to empower learners to also engage in socially useful and productive work. It aims at bringing learners closer to their rewarding careers as well as to the development of the community.

• Step 1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!