While this sounds really lame, it seems to go over a lot more than your average "secretary-style" Excel spreadsheets. Here is the course description: Students create and manipulate spreadsheets with MS Excel to solve business applications. It is expected that students have a familiarity with spreadsheet software, as the course quickly progresses to advanced features, including data validation, linked workbooks, pivot tables, lookup functions, solver, and scenario manager. By the end of the semester, students will have the prerequisite skills to take applicable certification testing. We'll see how this goes.
This is also my first online class and my first 7-week condensed course. So far, it seems fine. All communication is through Blackboard and it seems my years of hanging out on message boards having useless discussion may actually come in handy now!
Just like in the HTML class, in this book each chapter has a little quiz (same publisher). I am trying to answer all the questions, since the quizzes come straight from those questions. Here are the different Q&As:
