Introduction to Data Management and Typing
Track Back Office
Duration 30 hours
Skill Level Foundation
Language English

About this Course

Learn basic data management concepts and develop typing accuracy and speed. Ideal for beginners aiming to build foundational digital skills.
Learning Mode: Learn at ALC or at Home

Detailed Course Curriculum

Hands-on module breakdown aligned with MKCL production standards and industry requirements.

  • Basics of Computer Typing
  • Basics of Data Entry and various formats
  • Different Avenues of Computer Typing & Data Entry
  • Career opportunities in the world of Data Entry
  • Let’s Type Something
  • Please type displayed paragraph
  • Few Questions related to typing
  • Why Learn Typing?
  • What is Keyboarding?
  • Need for Typing
  • Typewriters To Computers
  • Types of keyboards
  • Ergonomic Keyboards
  • PDA Keyboards
  • Keyboard Layout
  • QWERTY Keyboard
  • Data Entry
  • What is Touch Typing?
  • What is Muscle Memory?
  • Names of Fingers
  • Finger Placements
  • Practice Makes Perfect
  • Minimise Hand Movements
  • How to Measure Progress?
  • Correct Posture
  • The Space Bar
  • The Enter Key
  • Learning the G and H Keys
  • Learning the Apostrophe Key
  • Using Keys
  • Learning the E and I Keys
  • Learning the W and O Keys
  • Learning the Q and Y Keys
  • Learning the P and T Keys
  • Using Keys
  • Learning the C and Comma Keys
  • Learning the X and Period Keys
  • Learning the Z and Slash Keys
  • Learning the B and N Keys
  • Learning the Tab Key
  • Using Keys
  • Typing Tips
  • Typing Tips
  • Using Number Keys – 1 to 5
  • Using Number Keys – 6 to 9 and zero
  • Learning the Square Brackets and Back Slash Keys
  • Typing Tips
  • Learning the Minus, Equals and Grave Accent Keys
  • Touch Typing on the Number Pad
  • Num Pad Home Row Positions
  • Index Finger Keys
  • Typing Tips
  • Middle Finger Keys
  • Ring Finger Keys
  • Little Finger Keys
  • Google Docs
  • Adobe PageMaker
  • CorelDRAW
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Open Office Calc
  • Open Office Writer
  • Undoing and Redoing
  • Editing Modes
  • Need for Data Conversion
  • Skills Required for Data Entry
  • Types of Data Entry Jobs
  • Data Entry Jobs in Industrial Sector
  • Data Entry Jobs in Medical Sector
  • Related Jobs
  • Types of Data
  • Data Validation
  • Data Categories
  • Data Correctness
  • Compiling Data
  • Data Entry Tools
  • Scanning
  • OCR
  • Data Conversion for the Web
  • Other Conversions
  • Data Entry Pay Scales
  • Factors affecting Pay Scale
  • Legal Documents
  • Other Documents
  • Medical Transcription
  • Stamp Papers
  • Bank Documents
  • KYC Details
  • Loan Applications
  • Form Entries
  • Publications
  • Types of Typists
  • Google Docs - Voice Typing
Eligibility Criteria
• Basic knowledge of computers and keen desire to build skills in this field.
• Open to students, job seekers, and working professionals.
Official Certification
• Official MKCL KLiC Certificate upon successful completion of the course and evaluations.
Work-Centric Learning Approach
• Step 1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!

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