Yesterday I did the last of my advanced ECDL courses - presentations.  It was painfully easy except for some poor wording on a couple of exam questions, and a stupid requirement where the BCS make you have 2 master slides (title and standard) when one would do just fine ( Read more... )

Databases today.  Definitely the most tricky yet - although I was also starting from a base of almost no previous knowledge.  I certainly would have struggled if we'd taken the exam in the morning, but three practice papers later, I was well prepared.  There's one question that I might have got partly wrong, but I'm pretty sure that I got ( Read more... )

I took the spreadsheets exam for the Advanced ECDL today.  It's significantly more challenging than the word-processing one, probably because spreadsheets are generally more complex beasts.  While it didn't cover everything that can be done with Excel, it certainly has the most useful functions and tools, including tables, PivotTables, database and ( Read more... )

I did the standard ECDL sometime last year.  I'm sure I blogged about it, but I can't for the life of me find any reference in my archives ( Read more... )