Mar 29, 2024  
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Course/Program Inventory

CIS 1060 - Desktop Publishing



Clock Hours: 70

Delivery Mode
on-ground

Course Description:
This course is an introduction to desktop and web-based publishing using current software.  Students will learn how to create and enhance paper and web based publications such as brochures, fliers, newsletters, advertisements, catalogs, booklets, and more.  Among many topics, you will learn how to prepare form letters for publications; create labels for mailings and work with a variety of clip art and photographs.  Learning the elements of layout and design of a publication is essential for success.

Student Learning Outcomes:
  1. Create and save a publication.
  2. Change publication properties.
  3. Print created publications.
  4. Run the designer checker.
  5. Insert, resize, and crop clipart and graphic images.
  6. Align, group, rotate, and layer images and clip art.
  7. Edit graphics.
  8. Use layout and ruler guides.
  9. Use auto formats and wizards if available.
  10. Create and save a template.
  11. Add tables, bullets and numbers, sidebars, and pull quotes.
  12. Modify and apply a style.
  13. Work with multiple pages.
  14. Work with background and foreground.
  15. Create headers and footers and page numbering.
  16. Enter, edit, and format text in a frame.
  17. Work with frames including text overflows, continued on/from notices, wrapping around frame, and rotating frame.
  18. Work with scanned images.
  19. Merge publications and data.
  20. Create a webpage using desktop publishing software.
  21. Work with HTML code.
  22. Linking and embedding objects.
  23. Use the design checker.
  24. Set security levels.
  25. Creating business information sets.