CBSE Class 9 Information Technology Syllabus 2024-25: Download The PDF For Free!

CBSE Class 9 Information Technology Syllabus 2024-25: The modern-day world is driven by technology and software. One can find the application of software almost everywhere. To better understand the basic concepts of Information Technology, CBSE has designed the class 9 Information Technology syllabus.

Jan 2, 2025, 11:27 IST
CBSE Class 9 Information Technology Latest Syllabus 2024-25
CBSE Class 9 Information Technology Latest Syllabus 2024-25

CBSE Class 9 Information Technology 2024-25 Free PDF Download: The Central Board Of Secondary Education has made available the revised syllabus for Class 9 Information Technology for the academic year 2024-25 that students can download easily. This subject can help scholars to shape their future in IT careers. Keep reading the article to know more. 

OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE

In this course, the students will be introduced to the fundamental concepts of digital documentation, digital spreadsheet, digital presentation, database management and internet security.

The following are the main objectives of this course:

  1. To familiarise the students with the world of IT and IT-enabled services.
  2. To provide in-depth training in the use of data entry, internet and Internet tools.
  3. To develop practical knowledge of digital documentation, spreadsheets and presentations.
  4. To enable the students to understand database management systems and have updated knowledge about digital record keeping.
  5. To make the students capable of getting employment in the Private Sector, Public Sector, Ministries, Courts, House of Parliament and State Legislative Assemblies.
  6. To develop the following skills:
  • Data Entry and Keyboarding skills
  • The concept of Digital Documentation
  • The concept of Digital Presentation
  • The concept of the Electronic Spreadsheet
  • The concept of databases 
  • Internet technologies

CBSE Class 9 Information Technology Syllabus 2024-25 Course Structure

 

UNITS

NO. OF HOURS

for Theory and Practical

MAX. MARKS

for Theory and Practical

Part A

Employability Skills

   
 

Unit 1: Communication Skills-I

10

2

 

Unit 2: Self-Management Skills-I

10

3

 

Unit 3: ICT Skills-I

10

1

 

Unit 4: Entrepreneurial Skills-I

15

3

 

Unit 5: Green Skills-I

5

1

 

Total

50

10

Part B

Subject Specific Skills

Theory

Practical

Marks

 

Unit 1: Introduction to IT- ITeS

industry

2

4

4

 

Unit 2: Data Entry & Keyboarding

Skills

4

10

6

 

Unit 3: Digital Documentation

10

26

10

 

Unit 4:Electronic Spreadsheet

18

35

10

 

Unit 5: Digital Presentation

10

31

10

 

Total

44

106

40

Part C

Practical Work

 

Practical Examination

 

15

 

Written Test

 

10

 

Viva Voce

 

10

 

Total

 

35

Part D

Project Work/ Field Visit

   
 

Practical File/ Student Portfolio

 

10

 

Viva Voce

 

5

 

Total

 

15

 

GRAND TOTAL

200

100

DETAILED CURRICULUM/TOPICS

Part-A: EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS

S. No.

Units

Duration in Hours

1

Unit 1: Communication Skills-I

10

2

Unit 2: Self-Management Skills-I

10

3

Unit 3: Basic Information and Communication Technology Skills-I

10

4

Unit 4: Entrepreneurial Skills-I

15

5

Unit 5: Green Skills-I

5

 

TOTAL

50

NOTE: Detailed Curriculum/ Topics to be covered under Part A: Employability Skills can be downloaded from the CBSE website.

Part-B – SUBJECT SPECIFIC SKILLS

Unit 1: Introduction to IT- ITeS industry

Unit 2: Data Entry & Keyboarding Skills

Unit 3: Digital Documentation

Unit 4: Electronic Spreadsheet

Unit 5: Digital Presentation

UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION TO IT–ITeS INDUSTRY

S.

No.

LEARNING

OUTCOMES

THEORY

PRACTICAL

1

Appreciate the applications of IT

• Introduction to IT and ITeS, BPO services,

• BPM industry in India,

• Structure of the IT-BPM industry,

• Applications of IT in home computing, everyday life, library, workplace, education, entertainment, communication, business, science and engineering, banking, insurance, marketing, health care, IT in the government and public service

- Identify and list the various IT-enabled services, Observe the application of IT in various areas.

UNIT 2: DATA ENTRY AND KEYBOARDING SKILLS

S.

No.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

THEORY

PRACTICAL

        1

Use keyboard and mouse for data entry

• Keyboarding Skills,

• Types of keys on the keyboard, Numeric keypad,

• Home keys, Guide keys,

• Typing and deleting text,

• Typing ergonomics,

• Positioning of fingers on the keyboard, Allocation of keys to fingers on four different rows,

• Pointing device – Mouse, Mouse operations.

• Identify the keys and their use on the keyboard,

• Demonstrate to use of various keys on the keyboard,

• Demonstrate typing the text, numbers, and special characters using appropriate keys on the keyboard,

• Practice the correct typing ergonomics,

• Practice placing fingers on the correct key in four different row

of keyboard,

• Practice various mouse operations.

2

Use typing software

• Introduction to Rapid Typing Tutor,

• Touch typing technique,

• User interface of Typing Tutor,

• Typing text and interpreting results,

• Working with the lesson editor,

• Calculating typing speed,

• Typing rhythm.

• Identify the user interface of

• typing tutor,

• Practice typing text in typing tutor software and interpreting the results,

• Practice to work in lesson editor,

• Calculate the typing speed

• Practice to improve typing

• Using typing tutor software.

UNIT 3: DIGITAL DOCUMENTATION

S.
No.
LEARNING
OUTCOMES
THEORY PRACTICAL
1 Create a document using a word processor • Introduction to word processing,
• Word processing applications,
• Introduction to Word Processing tool
• Creating a document, Parts of a Word Processor Window,

• List the available word processing applications.
• Introduce with the parts of the main window.
• Change document views.
• Start a new document.
• Open an existing document.
• Save a document.
• Close a document.

2 Apply Editing features • Text editing – Undo and Redo,
• Moving and copying text,
• Copy and Paste,
• Selecting text,
• Selection criteria,

• Editing of text in a document
• Demonstrate to use undo and redo option,
• Use the keyboard and mouse options to select, cut, copy, paste, and move text.

S.
No.
LEARNING
OUTCOMES
THEORY PRACTICAL
    • Selecting non-consecutive text items,
• Selecting a vertical block of
• text,
• Find and replace option,
• Jumping to the page number,
• Non-printing characters,
• Checking spelling and grammar,
• Using Synonyms and Thesaurus.

• Demonstrate to select of nonconsecutive text items, vertical block of text,
• Search and replace text in a document.
• Jump to the given page number in a document,
• Insert non-printing characters in a document,
• Apply Spelling and grammar option of document.
• Demonstrate to use Synonyms and Thesaurus.

3 Apply formatting features • Page style dialog
• Formatting text – Removing manual formatting, Common text formatting, Changing text case, Superscript and Subscript
• Formatting paragraph – Indenting paragraphs, Aligning paragraphs, Font colour, highlighting, and background colour, Using bullets and numbering, Assigning colour, border and background to paragraph.
• Page formatting – setting up basic page layout using styles, Inserting page break, Creating header/footer and page numbers,
• Defining borders and backgrounds, Inserting images shapes, special characters in a document, Dividing page into columns, Formatting the shape or image.

• Apply various text formatting options for the text,
• Demonstrate to format paragraphs – indent/align paragraphs, assign font colour, highlighting, and background colour,
• Assign number or bullets to the lists items
• Demonstrate to assign colour, border and background to paragraph
• Demonstrate the page formatting – set up basic page layout using styles,
• Insert page break, Create header/footer and page numbers
• Define borders and backgrounds
• Insert images, shapes, special characters in a document
• Divide page into columns,
• Format the shape or image.

4 Create and work with tables • Creating table in Word Processor
• Inserting row and column in a table
• Deleting rows and columns
• Splitting and merging tables
• Deleting a table
• Copying a table
• Moving a table.

• Demonstrate and do the following in Word Processor:
• Create table,
• Insert and delete rows and column in a table,
• Split and merge tables,
• Delete a table,
• Copy or move from one location to another location of document.

S.
No.
LEARNING
OUTCOMES
THEORY PRACTICAL
5 Use Print Options • Printing options in Word Processor.
• Print preview,
• Controlling printing,
• Printing all pages, single and multiple pages.

• Demonstrate to print the document, selected pages in the document
• Print the document with various options,
• Preview pages before printing.

6 Understand and apply mail merge • Introduction to mail merge
• Concept of data source for mail merge.

• Demonstrate to print the letters using mail merge,
• Do the following to achieve
• Create a main document,
• Create the data source,
• Enter data in the fields,
• Merge the data source with main document,
• Edit individual document,
• Print the merged letter,
• Save the merged letter.

UNIT 4: ELECTRONIC SPREADSHEET

S. No.

LEARNING

OUTCOMES

THEORY

PRACTICAL

1

Create a Spreadsheet

• Introduction to spreadsheet application

• Starting a spreadsheet

• Parts of a spreadsheet

• Worksheet – Rows and Columns, Cell and Cell Address,

• Range of cells – column range, row range, row and column

range.

• Start the spreadsheet,

• Identify the parts of Calc,

• Identify the row number, column number, cell address,

• Define the range of cells,

• Identify row range, column range, row & column range

2

Apply formula and functions in the spreadsheet

• Different types of data,

• Entering data – Label, Values, Formula

• Formula, how to enter a formula,

• Mathematical operators used in formulae,

• Simple calculations using values and operators,

• Formulae with cell addresses and operators,

• Commonly used basic functions in a spreadsheet – SUM, AVERAGE, MAX, MIN, Count

• Use of functions to do calculations.

• Demonstrate to enter the text, numeric data in a cell,

• Identify the label, values and formula in the cell,

• Demonstrate to enter formula in a cell,

• Construct the formula using mathematical operators,

• Identify formulae with cell addresses and operators,

• Identify the correct syntax of the formula,

• Use the basic functions to perform calculations on data.

3

Format data in the spreadsheet

• Formatting tool,

• Use of dialogue boxes to format values,

• Formatting a range of cells with decimal places,

• Formatting a range of cells to be seen as labels,

• Formatting of a cell range as scientific,

• Formatting a range of cells to display times,

• Formatting alignment of a cell range,

• Speeding up data entry using the fill handle,

• Uses of fill handle to copy formulae.

• Identify the formatting tool,

• Demonstrate to use of dialog boxes to format values,

• Demonstrate how to format a range of cells with decimal places,

• Demonstrate to format a range of cells to labels,

• Demonstrate to format of a cell range as scientific,

• Demonstrate to format of a range of cells to display time,

• Demonstrate to align cell data range,

• Demonstrate to create

• number series using fill handle,

• Copy the formula by dragging the formula using the fill handle.

4

Understand and apply Referencing

· Concept of referencing,

· Relative referencing,

· Mixed referencing,

· Absolute referencing.

• Demonstrate to use of Relative referencing in spreadsheets,

• Demonstrate to use of Mixed referencing in spreadsheets,

• Demonstrate to use Absolute

referencing in a spreadsheet.

5

Create and insert different types of charts in a

spreadsheet

• Importance of chart in a spreadsheet

• Types of chart

• Create different types of charts supported by a spreadsheet,

• Illustrate the example of a chart in a spreadsheet.

UNIT 5: DIGITAL PRESENTATION

S.

No.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

THEORY

PRACTICAL

1

Understand the features of an effective presentation

• Concept of presentation,

• Elements of presentation,

• Characteristics of an effective presentation

• Identify and list the elements of the presentation,

• List the characteristics of an effective presentation.

2

Create a presentation

• Introduction to presentation software,

• Opening a presentation software

• Parts of the presentation window,

• Closing a presentation

• Creating a presentation using a template,

• Selecting slide layout,

• Saving a presentation,

• Running a slide show,

• Save a presentation in PDF,

• Closing a presentation,

• Using Help.

• Start the presentation application

• various components of the main Impress window

• Observe the different workspace views.

• Create a new presentation using Wizard.

• Run the presentation,

• Save the presentation,

• Close the presentation,

• Demonstrate to use of Help in presentation.

3

Work with slides

• Inserting a duplicate slide,

• Inserting new slides,

• Slide layout,

• Copying and moving slides,

• Deleting and renaming slides

• Copying, moving and deleting contents of slides,

• View a presentation,

• Controlling the size of the view,

• Workspace views – Normal, Outline, Notes, Slide sorter

view.

• Demonstrate to insert a new slide and duplicate slide in a presentation,

• Change the slide layout,

• Demonstrate to copy and move slides in the presentation,

• Demonstrate to copy, move and delete contents of the slide,

• Demonstrate to view a presentation in different views.

4

Format text and apply animations

• Formatting toolbar,

• Various formatting features,

• Text alignment,

• Bullets and numbering.

• Custom Animation

• Identify and list the various options in the formatting toolbar,

• Apply the appropriate formatting option

• Align the text in the presentation,

• Apply bullets and numbering to the list of items in the presentation. Apply Animation

5

Create and use tables

• Inserting tables in the presentation,

• Entering and editing data in a table,

• Selecting a cell, row, column, table,

• Adjusting column width and row height,

• Table borders and background

Demonstrate the following:

• Insert table in presentation,

• Enter and edit data in a table,

• Select a cell, row, column, table,

• Adjust column width and row height,

• Assign table borders and background.

6

Insert and format images in a presentation

• Inserting an image from a file,

• Inserting an image from the gallery,

• Formatting images,

• Moving images,

• Resizing images,

• Rotating images,

• Formatting using the Image toolbar,

• Drawing graphic objects – lines, shapes,

• Grouping and un-grouping objects

• Demonstrate to insert an image from a file, or gallery in the presentation,

• Apply formatting options to image in the presentation,

• Demonstrate to move, resize and rotate images,

• Apply formatting options of Image toolbar,

• Drawing lines, and shapes using graphic objects,

Demonstrate to group and ungroup objects.

7

Work with slide master

• Slide masters,

• Creating the slide masters,

• Applying the slide masters to all slides,

• Adding transitions.

• Create the slide masters,

• Apply the slide masters to the

• presentation,

• Add transitions to the presentation.

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