Course: Creation and Design of Formal Documents

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Course title Creation and Design of Formal Documents
Course code USII/FTDO
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory, Compulsory-optional, Optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Brunclík Tomáš, Ing. Ph.D.
  • Jonášová Hana, Ing. Ph.D.
  • Šanda Martin, Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
MS Word as a text processing tool: basic typographic rules; styles, headings, indexes and lists, inserting objects; working with revisions; design and creation of templates and forms; mail merge.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Methods of individual activities, Laboratory work
  • Preparation for a credit (assessment) - 10 hours per semester
  • Contact teaching - 39 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 56 hours per semester
  • Team project - 30 hours per semester
  • Data/material collection - 15 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to familiarize students with tools that enable document processing and information presentation.
A student who has successfully completed the course can: apply basic typographic rules when formatting professional documents; create and formally format professional texts using styles, headings, indexes, and automated functions; insert and correctly format tables, images, and other objects within a text; work with revisions and comments in collaborative document editing; design and use templates, forms, and mail merge; critically evaluate the formal quality of professional texts. A student who has successfully completed the course can: follow typographic rules when creating documents; format a document in accordance with typographic conventions and identify potential deficiencies; create documents that use styles and templates; generate tables of contents and lists within documents; insert tables and illustrations into documents and edit them according to requirements; design the layout and structure of a document based on given rules. The student who has successfully completed the course is able to: communicating clearly and persuasively to both experts and non-experts information about the nature of professional problems and their own opinions on possible solutions; clearly summarizing the views of other team members and implementing them in the solution of a given problem.
Prerequisites
Basic skills in PC, MS Excel and MS Word utilization. Principle of work in this product menu, configuration and help.

Assessment methods and criteria
Written examination, Home assignment evaluation, Systematic monitoring

Course credit is awarded on the basis of completing the assigned tasks and meeting the point requirements in all required tests.
Recommended literature
  • Klatovský, K. Word 2021/365 nejen pro školy. 2023. ISBN 978-80-7402-450-4.
  • ZAHRADNÍČEK, T. Microsoft Word ovládněte jednou provždy. 2025.


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