Keyboarding Classes

OFT 100 Personal Keyboarding
This course is designed for the non-Office Technology major. Starting this fall, OFT 100 will have more emphasis on personal and academic work:

• Keyboard letter keys, figure keys, and most commonly used symbol keys by touch using correct posture and efficient stroking. 
• Keyboard e-mail communications. 
• Keyboard personal business correspondence. 
• Keyboard simple tables. 
• Keyboard academic reports. 

This is an excellent class to add to a student's schedule to enable him/her to meet credit requirements for part-time or full-time status.

OFT 110 Keyboarding I
This course is designed for Office Technology (Basic Secretarial Skills, Executive/Legal/Medical Secretary as well as Medical Transcriptionist) majors. It is very important that OFT majors take this course the first fall semester they are at RACC. If they do not take this course in the fall, they will be adding on an additional year to their program due to sequencing of all other OFT courses. This course includes:

• Demonstrate the ability to keyboard letter keys, figure keys, and most commonly used symbol keys by touch using correct posture and efficient stroking. 
• Demonstrate the ability to horizontally and vertically center material. 
• Demonstrate the ability to apply keyboarding skill to business correspondence. 
• Demonstrate the ability to keyboard simple tables. 
• Demonstrate the ability to apply keyboarding skill to academic and business reports. 
• Demonstrate a theoretical knowledge of keyboarding and the production of various documents. 
• Demonstrate the ability to keyboard memorandums. 

There is a Credit by Examination available to test out of this course; please refer interested students to Cathy Faller -- cfaller@racc.edu

Other Important Points

• Students who have had OFT 100 may take OFT 110. Students may not take both courses in the same semester. 
• There are similarities to OFT 100 and OFT 110; however, we will be using different textbooks with different assignments and different emphasis (personal/academic vs. business).