1.

Document Related - Word Processing, Presentations, spread

sheet

Creating, editing and printing text documents; common formatting operations; typefaces; spell &
grammar check; tables; graphics;tracking changes- versioning and collaboration; text editing in
Malayalam; Formatting for Readability; Formatting Reports and Books; Structure of various formal
documents Official/Business Correspondence- Business letters, Memos
Progress report, Minutes of meeting, Event reporting

Creating and editing Presentations; tables, graphs and animation effects for presentations;
presentation backgrounds and master pages; Good presentation practices; Dos and Donts

Creating and editing spreadsheets; entering formulae; formatting for printing; spreadsheet functions;
cell & table formatting; creating graphs and charts; using spreadsheet for holding structured data;
sorting; Data collection, cleaning and representing on spradsheet; analysing data and creating
knowledge; Communicating with Graph and Charts

Image manipulation.

Document Formats and inter operability

2.Internet Related
Connecting to the Internet; Web browsers; General and specialized search engines; using email;
email etiquette; instant messaging, chat, social networking, micro blogging and blogging; utilities
such as railway ticket booking, online bill-payment; job portals;

3. Malayalam Computing
Enabling Malayalam in various OS; Different Malayalam input systems (Translitteration/Inscript);
Plugins and support websites; Unicode and non Unicode websites and related issues

4. Hardware
basic troubleshooting, OS/software installation, configuration, CD burning, backup, network
storage, compression & recovery methods. UPS, printers, networking & wireless hardware; DVDs
& USB drives; basic/SOHO network configuration;

5. Devices - interoperability
Mobile phones, pads, tablets and other Internet devices; Additional features and facilities: GPS,
GPRS, accelerometer etc; popular apps; picture and video capture and uploading online; video
blogging; bluetooth,

6.Legal - Security Requirements

Cyber laws in India; malware, viruses, worms, phishing; spam; Internet fraud, hoaxes and crime;
privacy, anonymity and identity; security policy; best practices; e-payment
methods