A+
Computer Hardware & Software Essentials
(220-1101 & 220 1102)
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We designed this A+ course with two primary goals: to help your students excel in their future careers and to make it easier for you as an instructor to achieve this goal. Our courses integrate seamlessly with your current Learning Management System and are easily personalized to match your teaching style. We provide quizzes, assessments, and a practice exam that are automatically graded so you can put your primary focus where it should be: on teaching.
Virtual labs
Hands-On Experience
Unlike other A+ courses on the market, our course provides your students with hands-on experience that simulates a real work environment. Our advanced labs can be solved in a variety of ways, allowing students to expand their knowledge even further and better prepare them for their 1001 and 1002 exams, as well as the workforce.
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Ascend Education’s Computer Hardware & Software Essentials course is expertly designed to prepare students for certification exams, including the CompTIA A+ 1101 and 1102, as well as Ascend’s own Hardware & Software Essentials exam. This course offers a deep dive into foundational IT concepts, equipping students with the knowledge and skills needed to excel in both their exams and future careers. With course access, students will have comprehensive textbook-quality content, visual aids, and hands-on video demonstrations that bring complex concepts to life.
This detailed approach not only enhances student understanding but also builds confidence in tackling real-world IT challenges. By immersing students in practical applications and thorough exam preparation, the course has contributed to high pass rates on both the A+ and Ascend exams, giving students a competitive edge as they begin their careers in tech.
Course Summary
Our A+ course helps prepare students to take the CompTIA A+ 1001 and 1002 certification exams, and the Ascend Education Computer Hardware & Software Essentials Exam. Through cutting edge instructional design, the Ascend A+ course helps instructors prepare their students for a career in IT. For those pursuing certification, this course will prepare you to pass the A+ exam with a high degree of confidence on the first try. A+ is the entry level IT certification industry-standard, with more than 1 million certification tests administered. One of the fundamental DoD certifications, A+ is taught at thousands of colleges and Universities across the country and throughout the world. Students who want an A+ certification are required to pass two exams: Core 1 (1001) and Core 2 (1002). An A+ certification proves base-line competence as an IT professional. Those with this certification can qualify for several different jobs including, technical support specialist, field service technician, associate network engineer, data support technician, desktop support administrator, and many more.
Video Lessons
Virtual Labs
Text Lessons
Assessments
Quizzes
Practice Exam
Instructor Tools
Slides
Gradebook
Student Progress Tracking
LMS Deep Link Integration
Video Lessons
Virtual Labs
Text Lessons
Assessments
Quizzes
Practice Exam
Instructor Tools
Slides
Gradebook
Student Progress Tracking
LMS Deep Link Integration
Course Features
Virtual Labs
Virtual labs give students experience practicing and implementing the skills they will learn about in this A+ course. These labs run on real hardware that enable students to develop the hands-on hardware and operating system skills required to jump into the IT industry. Within the sandbox environment, students can make mistakes and see how their actions affect a real system. This is different from a simulated lab where students are led through a simulated environment that has only one solution and a single path to accomplish a given task. A student’s access to a complete software and hardware resource helps them fully engage in discovery, solution finding, and problem solving. They will be able to earn their A+ certification or final grade with a truly hands-on approach that prepares them for the workforce.
State-of-the-art videos
Ascend Education’s videos are engaging and present the most current content available in computer hardware and operating systems training. The format of our videos was designed by expert instructional designers in order to increase learning absorption; studies have shown that instructional videos that are less than 6 minutes in length result in improved learning.
The video content for this course includes definitions, examples, comparisons, an overview of difficult topics found in the text and thorough demonstrations of what is covered in the material. This format enhances a student’s learning experience and retention, preparing them for their A+ certification exams and getting them job ready.
Textbook Quality Written Content
Written by leading industry experts, our online A+ text material is designed to replace your textbook. The easy-to-follow structure of the text makes the life of the instructor and student easier. The detailed text lessons cover all the crucial topics necessary for students to pass their A+ certification exams and gain the computer hardware and operating systems knowledge they need in order to advance in their education and career. The written content (along with all other course material) is delivered on a professionally designed LMS that automatically tracks their progress as they complete a given section.
Assessments
This A+ course includes practice quizzes and a final exam prepared by industry experts. Practice quiz questions are found in each section of the course and will help students know which areas they are understanding well, and which areas they may need to work on before taking their final exam.
The comprehensive final exam was created to help teachers assess a student’s understanding of the material from the first module to the last. Each quiz and final exam is linked to the instructor gradebook, so a teacher can track each student’s progress and have automatic grading. Instructors can also set the number of tries for each quiz to give students a chance to go back and review material if necessary. These assessments save instructors countless hours of having to prepare and grade quizzes and exams by themselves.
Easy-to-use LMS
Each course is built on our professionally designed Learning Management System (LMS). Ascend Education’s courses can fully integrate with popular LMS’s including Canvas, Blackboard, D2L and others, making it easy to track progress and manage the learning success of a given student or class. All course materials are integrated using deep linking integration. In this way, it never appears to the student that they have left the “home” environment of their own LMS. In instances where a given school does not have an LMS or allows integration, Ascend is only too happy to host the course inside our own Learning Management System, including delivering all the instructor tools and helpers described here.
Instructor Slides
Instructor slides provide structure for lectures. This A+ course has a downloadable slide deck that coordinates with instructional material in the course. Teachers can use the slides as they are or make any desired adjustments necessary to fit their planned lecture.
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Course Curriculum
What’s covered in the A+ 1001 & 1002 course curriculum:
- Module 1: Hardware
- Module 2: Networking
- Module 3: Virtualization and Mobile Devices
- Module 4: Operating Systems
- Module 5: Security
- Module 6: Operational Procedures
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