DIGITAL FLUENCY SYLLABUS NEP - KSWU(IInd SEM UG DEGREE)

 

NEP DIGITAL FLUENCY SYLLABUS 

UNIT I - Fundamentals of computer and Operating System:

Fundamentals of computer: An Overview of Computer, Functional Components

of a computer (Working of each unit), Evolution and Generations of Computers,

Classification of Computers, Applications of Computers.

Operating System: Operating Systems, types of operating systems, major

functions of the operating systems, types of user interface, examples of operating

systems: MS-DOS, Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Solaris, Android.

UNIT II - Office Automation Tools, ICT and Security Aspects:

Office automation tools and ICT: word processor, power point, and spread sheet,

creating an email-ID, e-mail reading, saving, printing, forwarding and deleting the

mails, checking the mails, viewing and running file attachments, addressing with

cc and bcc, Google forms, working with Google Meet and Zoom Meet.

Introduction to e-learning platforms such as Swayam and MOOC.

Security Aspects: Threats and Prevention, Malware - virus, Worms, Ransomware,

Trojan, Spyware, adware, key loggers, Modes of Malware distribution, Antivirus,

HTTP vs HTTPS, Firewall, Cookies, Hackers and Crackers.

UNIT III - E-Commence, E- payment methods and Societal impacts:

E-Commence: Basic Web Commerce Concept, The E-Commerce Environment,

Electro Marketplace Technologies, B2B, B2C and C2C.

E- payment methods: Cash Payment System, Credit Payment System, Types of

Electronic Payment Systems: Credit Card • Debit Card • Smart Card • E-Money •

Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT).

Societal impacts: Digital Foot prints, Digital Society and Netizen, Data

Protection, E-waste, Impact on Health.

➢ Laboratory Activities:

• Identifying the configuration and version of a computer system (PC),

laptop, and a mobile phone.

• Create an email-ID and sending and editing with mail merge.

• Creating a Google form and send it to Ten users.

• Scheduling a virtual meet and invite peoples to join the Google meet and

Zoom Meet.

• Record the virtual Meet, chatting and sharing the documents or

presentation on virtual meet.

• Creating a hotspot from a mobile phone, and allowing others to use the

hotspot.

• Sign in and create account e-learning platforms such as Swayam and

MOOC.

• Creating a one-minute video of your choice in your native tongue, and

upload the video to YouTube.

• Creating and composing word document, creating tables, creating charts

etc.

• Preparing power point slides using transition and animations.

• Simple computation using spread sheet.

• Creating an account in the railway reservation website, IRCTC, and finding

trains from Vijayapura to Bangalore.

• Creating an account in Redbus.in and book bus tickets online.

• Demo of online order placing for book using online e-payment methods.

Note: Faculty of Computer Science shall teach the Digital Fluency paper

Text Books:

1. Fundamentals of computers - V. Rajaraman - Prentice- Hall of India.

2. Computer Fundamentals - P. K. Sinha Publisher: BPB Publications.

Reference Links:

• Operating Systems:

https://ftms.edu.my/v2/wpcontent/uploads/2019/02/csca0101_ch06.pdf

• Gmail Creating links:

https://clubrunner.blob.core.windows.net/00000000961/en-ca/files/homepage/how-to-

create-a-gmail-account/HowtoCreateaGmailAccount.pdf

• Google Forms: https://pdst.ie/sites/default/files/Google%20Drive_1.pdf

• Google Meet: https://edvance.hawaii.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/Google-Meet-

Tutorial-Getting-Started-and-Recording-a-Lecture.pdf

• Zoom Meet: https://assets.zoom.us/docs/user-guides/zoom-rooms-full-user-guide.pdf

• Swayam: https://www.aicte-india.org/bureaus/swayam

• Security Aspects - https://ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/lecs112.pdf

• E-Commence: http://www.aagasc.edu.in/cs/msccs/ECommerce%20Unit%201.pdf

• E- payment methods:

http://www.dspmuranchi.ac.in/pdf/Blog/e%20business%20UnitIII,%20%202020.pdf

• Societal impacts: https://ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/leip106.pdf