This course teaches beginning level keyboarding to blind and vision-impaired students on computers with adaptive speech and/or magnification software. Students will use specially adapted software to learn to touch type.
Prerequisites
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What you will learn
- Introduction to correct posture and finger positioning
- Arrow keys
- Home row, enter key and space-bar
- Escape and Tab keys
- Introduction of other alphabetic keys and punctuation
- Introduction of numbers
- Other computer keys such as backspace, insert, delete, and function keys
- Shifted numbers and other shifted keys
- Numeric keypad
- Sentence practice
- Paragraph practice
- Timed touch typing practice
How to register
Please contact the School of Instructor Education at 604.871.7488 or 604.871.7499 or by email at advising@vcc.ca to apply.
For more information, please see the PIDP Program Content Guide.
Course schedules
Select your program to see the available course schedules.
Contact us
If you have any question, please email at advising@vcc.ca.
† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.