USING SOFTWARE TO PROCESS WORDS, PUBLICATIONS, GRAPHICS, COMMUNICATION AND DATA ANALYSES CHAPTER 5

ADMINISTRATIVE SOFTWARE Assists an educator in accomplishing the administrative, professional, and management tasks associated with the profession. assists educators in preparing memos, letters, reports, and budgets Assists educators in tracking student information, computing grades. And preparing lesson plans. Helps educators create student activity sheets, transparencies, grade report, and parent letters E.g Microsoft Office 2016

ACADEMIC SOFTWARE Assists both educators and learners in the teaching and learning process Authoring systems Hypermedia authoring systems Web authoring systems Multimedia authoring systems Desktop publishing Graphics software Paint programs Draw programs Imaging software Reference software Tutorial software Drill & practice software Educational games Simulation Web https://www.slideshare.net/andy85730/academic-software-236347

Evaluating and using productivity software Word Processors Document preparation and editing Insertion and deletion of text Text selection and enhancement Word wrap and formatting Spelling and grammar tools Copy, cut , paste, drag, and undo Desktop Publishing WYSIGWYG Displays Graphics and Clip Art Tables and Columns Autoformats Word Art Archiving and Printing Ready-Made Word Processing Tools Templates Macro Wizard

Evaluating and using productivity software continued… Electronic spreadsheets Spreadsheet organization Formulas and functions What-If analysis Charts and graphs Templates and macros E.g. Excel 2016 Database management software Database organization Sorting Querying Reports E.g Microsoft Access 2013 Presentation software Multimedia elements Wizards and templates Resource libraries Hyperlinks Animation Printing Display options