Southern New Hampshire University
IT 100 Final Project Guidelines and Rubric
Overview
The final project for this course is the creation of a polished business presentation consisting of a formatted and revised business letter, a dynamic spreadsheet, and a formatted and revised slide presentation.
In the professional environments of today, one of the most important and frequently used tools for communicating information is an office productivity suite such as Microsoft Office. Office productivity suites consist of bundled applications designed to help users create various deliverables such as word-processing documents, spreadsheets, and slide presentations. Your ability to select an appropriate application based on key specifications and to use various tools and functions within the application to create polished professional deliverables will be critical for successful communication and collaboration with clients and stakeholders in any field you pursue.
In this project, you will take the role of a business analyst and apply essential skills and techniques within office productivity applications to prepare three related professional deliverables: a business letter, a spreadsheet, and a slide presentation. Review the Final Project Scenario document to learn more about the simulated business case.
The project is divided into two milestones, which will be submitted at different points throughout the course to scaffold learning and ensure a quality final submission. These milestones will be submitted in Modules Two and Four. The final submission is due in Module Seven.
In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:
Apply appropriate tools within office productivity applications for supporting the creation of professional-quality documents, spreadsheets, and presentations Integrate key business specifications into a variety of office productivity suite applications for ensuring effective deliverables
Apply fundamental best practices for revision within office productivity applications for the finalization of a professional-quality document and presentation
Southern New Hampshire University
Prompt
As you prepare to communicate the next steps in the consulting partnership between your organization, Business Consultants, and your client, New Hampshire Business Products (NHBP), you will prepare three deliverables using office productivity applications: a business letter to stakeholders at NHBP to share your findings and request a follow-up meeting, a spreadsheet that will allow you to organize and manipulate the given sales data with basic calculation functions, and a slide presentation that will help you communicate your findings to your team at Business Consultants.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:
I.
Business Letter: Apply audience-appropriate formatting and style conventions to a follow-up business letter for New Hampshire Business Products.
A. Incorporate the business letter content into a business letter template. B. Apply formatting conventions appropriate for the intended audience. 1. Select a standard and consistent font and font size. 2. Format the document with standard and consistent line spacing, margins, and indentation. 3. Configure the data provided into a table C. Apply revisions to the provided draft to produce a document that is clear of typographical and formatting errors.
U.
A. For current sales, display sales by category and total. B. For projected sales, display