Word Processing for Beginners – Listowel
This evening course helps you build your confidence and learn important word processing skills using Microsoft word. If you are a beginner or want to improve your skills this course is for you.
Minor Award
Course Overview
If you are a beginner or want to improve your skills this course is for you.
This course is classroom based.
This course will run for one night a week (Thursday, 6.30pm – 9.30pm) from January 9th to February 27th, 2025. The course will then move to two nights a week (Tuesday and Thursday, 6.30pm – 9.30pm) from the 3rd of March and finishing on the 10th of April 2025
Please note: All Learners must have competent written and spoken English (CEFR B1 or Higher).
What will I be studying?
Objectives of the Programme Module
- To explain and describe the primary functions involved in creating a Word processing document.
- To enable the learner to create documents in a word processing application, save the document, close, retrieve, make changes and save again.
- To describe the process involved in creating and naming files and saving these files to specified locations on your computer.
- To enable the learner to retrieve a document, revise text without retyping the entire document, move, copy delete, enhance and add to sections - ranging from words and sentences to paragraphs and pages, while displayed.
- To facilitate the learner to demonstrate skills in both character and paragraph forming.
- To facilitate the learner in the creating and inserting of objects such as tables.
- To facilitate the learner to work with images, reposition, resize and format the image.
- To facilitate the learner to use a range of editing tools before printing, use Spell & Grammar check, thesaurus, proof reading etc.
- To facilitate the learner to produce and print a range of documents, including letters, memos, tables and forms, to a mail-able or publishable standard, to change default printer, use different paper sizes, change orientation and adjust the margins settings on the document.
- To assist the learner to develop the language, literacy and numeracy skills related to Word processing through the medium of the module themes and content.
- To enable the learner to take responsibility for his/her own learning.
What is the Certification?
QQI Level 4 Minor Award Certificate in Word Processing (4N1123)
What are the fees?
Fees apply to all part-time programmes.
A fee waiver is in place for applicants in receipt of a qualifying social welfare payment. You can check your fee waiver eligibility with Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP), INTREO or your Local Employment Service (LES) office.
Learners in employment may also be granted a fee waiver under the Skills to Advance Initiative. For more details on this please contact Claire at [email protected]
Interested?
Contact our Kerry College Admissions Offices – Tralee on 066 714 9696, Killarney on 064 662 2593 or [email protected]
Part-time Courses - FAQs
FET is short for Further Education & Training. Kerry College is an integrated college of FET. This means we do both progression-focused further education programmes and a range of employment-focused skills training programmes.
We enroll twice each year - January and September.
Part-time programmes run on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings, Friday afternoons, Saturday mornings, and increasingly online.
This depends on the course you choose.
Some courses have long waiting lists, others - not so much. Places are filled on a first-come, first-served basis so the best advice we can offer is to apply in plenty of time.
We enroll over 1000 applicants to our part-time courses each year - so it's always busy.
As places are offered based on the date of application, our team could be working their way down through the list.
That said, always check.
You can call Mary on our Part-time courses team at 066-7149696.
Although all of our part-time courses are fee-paying, we do have a DEASP Fee Waiver in place for those in receipt of a qualifying social welfare payment.
This is subject to a waiting list and demand for course places.
Most part-time courses run at Kerry College are Minor awards.
A Minor award is commonly referred to as a module - but also as a component certificate or a certificate of unit credit.
These single 'modules' may be completed and certificated individually. All minor awards are linked to a major award that allows learners to collect and build their minor awards and work towards gaining a major award.
Applications for all part-time programmes should be made online - via the Kerry College website or www.fetchcourses.ie
FETCH COURSES is the national application system for all FET course applications.
All new applicants must set up a free account on www.fetchcourses.ie. You must use this to apply for all further education and training progarmmes anywhere in Ireland.
For existing Fetch Courses account holders, login and apply as before.
You can reset your password using your email or mobile phone. When you do, make sure you keep it for future reference.
Bear in mind, FETCH uses your PPS number to identify you - so although you might be able to set up a second account - it won't work properly.
If you're still stuck, contact our Admissions team on 066-714 96 96
No, aside from the DEASP Fee Waiver, all part-time courses are fee-paying.