{"id":1676,"date":"2017-07-18T18:18:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T18:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-compapp\/chapter\/pacing\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T17:37:00","slug":"pacing","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/chapter\/pacing\/","title":{"raw":"Pacing","rendered":"Pacing"},"content":{"raw":"<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-260\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2025\/2017\/07\/10205220\/stopwatch.png\" alt=\"decorative image\" width=\"200\" height=\"212\" \/>\r\n\r\nComputer Applications for Managers contains 15 modules and a final capstone assignment. The modules are grouped in order from most basic skills to more advanced skills; later modules will assume students have already covered previous modules. The capstone assignment is meant to take 1\u20132 weeks of a 16-week course. If you need to modify the pace and cover the material more quickly, the following modules work well together:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Module 1: Intro to Computers<\/strong> and <strong>Module 2: Internet Research<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Module 3: Microsoft Word Basic Skills<\/strong> and <strong>Module 4: Microsoft Word Intermediate Skills<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Module 6: Microsoft Excel Basic Skills<\/strong> and <strong>Module 7: Microsoft Excel Intermediate Skills<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Module 9: Microsoft PowerPoint Basic Skills<\/strong> and <strong>Module 10: Microsoft PowerPoint Intermediate Skills<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Module 12: Microsoft Access Basic Skills<\/strong> and <strong>Module 13: Microsoft Access Intermediate Skills<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nWe recommend NOT doubling up any of the Advanced Skills modules, because they are long and especially challenging. Students will need more time for mastery and completion of assignments.\r\n\r\nAdditionally, the course can be scaled to your students' knowledge: if your students have already mastered basic skills, the basic modules can be omitted. If your students aren't ready for advanced skills, the advanced modules can be omitted.\r\n","rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-260\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2025\/2017\/07\/10205220\/stopwatch.png\" alt=\"decorative image\" width=\"200\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Computer Applications for Managers contains 15 modules and a final capstone assignment. The modules are grouped in order from most basic skills to more advanced skills; later modules will assume students have already covered previous modules. The capstone assignment is meant to take 1\u20132 weeks of a 16-week course. If you need to modify the pace and cover the material more quickly, the following modules work well together:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Module 1: Intro to Computers<\/strong> and <strong>Module 2: Internet Research<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Module 3: Microsoft Word Basic Skills<\/strong> and <strong>Module 4: Microsoft Word Intermediate Skills<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Module 6: Microsoft Excel Basic Skills<\/strong> and <strong>Module 7: Microsoft Excel Intermediate Skills<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Module 9: Microsoft PowerPoint Basic Skills<\/strong> and <strong>Module 10: Microsoft PowerPoint Intermediate Skills<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Module 12: Microsoft Access Basic Skills<\/strong> and <strong>Module 13: Microsoft Access Intermediate Skills<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We recommend NOT doubling up any of the Advanced Skills modules, because they are long and especially challenging. Students will need more time for mastery and completion of assignments.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the course can be scaled to your students&#8217; knowledge: if your students have already mastered basic skills, the basic modules can be omitted. If your students aren&#8217;t ready for advanced skills, the advanced modules can be omitted.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-1676\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Pacing. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Stopwatch. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Adrien Coquet, FR. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Noun Project. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thenounproject.com\/term\/stopwatch\/1094680\/\">https:\/\/thenounproject.com\/term\/stopwatch\/1094680\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":20,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Stopwatch\",\"author\":\"Adrien Coquet, FR\",\"organization\":\"Noun Project\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thenounproject.com\/term\/stopwatch\/1094680\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Pacing\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1676","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":1670,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5347,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1676\/revisions\/5347"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/1670"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1676\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-computerapplicationsmgrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}