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About the Courseware
The Marquee Series prepares students to work with Microsoft applications for business or personal use. Incorporating an accelerated, step-by-step, project-based approach, this courseware helps students build competency in effectively using the Excel application.
Copyright: 2023
Authors: Nita Rutkosky; Audrey Roggenkamp, Pierce College Puyallup; and Ian Rutkosky, Pierce College Puyallup
- Analyzing Data Using Excel
- Editing and Formatting Worksheets
- Using Functions, Setting Print Options, and Adding Visual Elements
- Working with Multiple Worksheets, Tables, and Other File Formats
Drive Student Success with Cirrus™ 2.0
The Marquee Series, powered by Paradigm’s Cirrus platform, integrates seamlessly with Blackboard, Canvas, D2L, and Moodle. Students and educators can access all course material anytime, anywhere through a live internet connection. Cirrus delivers students the same learning experience whether they are using a PC, Mac, or Chromebook.
Course content is digitally delivered in a series of scheduled assignments that report to a grade book, thus tracking student progress and achievement through Cirrus’s complete solution.
Dynamic Training, Practice, and Assessment
Cirrus course content for the Marque Series includes interactive assignments to guide student learning and engaging practice and assessment activities to reinforce and assess application skills.
- Watch and Learn Lessons explain how to perform the section activities, including short demonstration videos for students to view and content for them to read. Each lesson is supported with a skills list to track performance outcomes and a Features Summary.
- Check Your Understanding Quizzes allow students to check their understanding of the section concepts.
- Guide and Practice Tutorials provide skill-specific, interactive, guided training and measured practice.
- Hands On Activities provide students the opportunity to practice their skills by completing section activities on the virtual desktop. Portfolio activities are included as separate assignments. Students upload their answers through Cirrus for instructor evaluation.
- Exercises and Projects provide opportunities for students to further develop and demonstrate section skills. Exercises and Projects are completed live in the Microsoft 365 application and are automatically scored by Cirrus. Detailed feedback and how-to videos help students evaluate and improve their performance.
- Skills Exams evaluate student ability to complete specific tasks. Skills Exams are completed live in the Microsoft 365 application and are automatically scored.
- Multiple-choice Concept Exams assess student understanding of the section content.
Instructor Resources for the Marquee Series
Cirrus tracks students’ step-by-step interactions, giving instructors visibility into students’ progress and missteps. Instructor resources include:
- Planning resources, such as syllabus suggestions, course performance objectives, skills lists, and student completion time estimates
- Delivery resources, such as teaching tips, suggestions for using Cirrus demonstration elements in the classroom, and discussion questions
- Assessment resources, including live and annotated PDF model answers for section work and review and assessment activities, rubrics for evaluating student work, Knowledge Check completion exercises, section-based concept exam item banks, and new Capstone Projects that allow students to demonstrate their creativity and skills mastery
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See What Educators Are Saying
"I am particularly impressed with the Marquee Series offered by Paradigm. This series effectively prepares students to work with Microsoft Office Suite applications for both business and personal use. The accelerated, step-by-step, project-based approach of the Marquee Series helps students build the necessary competencies to use these applications efficiently."
Jane Jones, Dean of Business & Information Technology Division
Mountain Empire Community College
"The Marquee and Benchmark Series offers a comprehensive suite of applications that cater to a wide range of computer skills. Students gain proficiency in essential areas like database management, word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation software. The software's intuitive interface makes it easy for students to grasp complex concepts quickly, allowing them to focus on mastering the material rather than struggling with cumbersome software. We value the content, the service we’re provided by our account representatives, and technical support being there to support our students when required."
Dennis Sigur, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Dillard University