Key words
Database management, P 175 Informatics
Objectives
- This course aims at making students familiar with databases. Students have to know the most important possibilities of database programs and should be able to expand their knowledge through program documentation. Students must be able to carry out assignments independently and efficiently, within a given time. Students must be able to work accurately.
This course is used as a link to the office-packages Word and Excel.
- Introduction to a management package for insurance brokers.
Topics
Database program:- Basic terminology
- Making up tables
- Entering data, links to Word and Excel
- Designing queries : selection queries (including parameter queries and join-queries) and action queries
- handling forms and reports
Exercises
Management package for insurance brokers :
Demonstration of a management package for insurance brokers
Prerequisites
Being able to make an efficient use of the possibilities of the operating system most in demand and having basic keyboard skills.
Final Objectives
Knowledge:
Job-related (general)- Database management
- Data processing and adjusting data
Skills:
General:- Thinking and reasoning power
- Working on one's own
Job-related (general)- Handling data
- Operating the PC efficiently
- Having an understanding of job-related software packages
- Thinking analytically and with a view to solving problems
- Thinking logically
- Having insight in complex situations
- Being creative
- Being able to handle software packages (the most recent ones)
Job-related (specific)- Applying the right IT-solutions for prospecting and management of customer data
- Processing, storing and using relevant information
- Being able to work up professional and corporate computer software
- Retrieving data via queries
- Entering data by means of forms
- Reporting
- Thinking logically
- Having insight in complex situations
- Being able to make up a database
Attitudes
General:- Being precise and accurate
Job-related (general)
Materials used
Syllabus
Exercises on the network; electronic teaching environment; disk; CD-RW
PC with Office software; students may operate computers after the lessons
Study costs
Syllabus : unit price determined under Hogeschool rules (around 250 pages).
Study guidance
Monitoring and coaching students during guided self-study.
Lecturers are available for questions through their email address.
Teaching Methods
Question-and-answer method, guided and individual exercises with the computer.
The lecturer will coach you during guided self-study.
Assessment
- First exam session : exam with practical application on the computer.
- Second exam session : exam with practical application on the computer.
- Examination Board Flemish Community: first and second exam session: exam with practical application on the computer
Lecturer(s)
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