IT Syllabus Class 9 CBSE 2024-25: Updated Curriculum

Part 

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 

05

1

Total 

50

10

Part B

Subject Specific Skills 

Theory 

Practical 

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

05

Total

15

Grand Total

200

100

Unit 1: 

Communication Skills

Session 1: Introduction to Communication

Session 2: Verbal Communication 

Session 3: Non-Verbal Communication

Session 4: Writing Skills: Parts of Speech

Session 5: Writing Skills: Sentences

Session 6: Pronunciation Basics

Session 7: Greetings and Introduction

Session 8: Talking about Self

Session 9: Asking Questions I

Session 10: Asking Questions II

Unit 2: 

Self-Management Skills

Session 1: Introduction to Self-management

Session 2: Strength and Weakness Analysis

Session 3: Self-confidence

Session 4: Positive Thinking

Session 5: Personal Hygiene

Session 6: Grooming

Unit 3: 

Information and Communication Technology Skills

Session 1: Introduction to ICT

Session 2: ICT Tools: Smartphones and Tablets — I

Session 3: ICT Tools: Smartphones and Tablets — II

Session 4: Parts of Computer and Peripherals 

Session 5: Basic Computer Operations 

Session 6: Performing Basic File Operations

Session 7: Communication and Networking — Basics of Internet

Session 8: Communication and Networking — Internet Browsing

Session 9: Communication and Networking — Introduction to e-mail 

Session 10: Communication and Networking — Creating an Email Account

Session 11: Communication and Networking — Writing an email

Session 12: Communication and Networking — Receiving and Replying to emails

Unit 4:

Entrepreneurship Skills

Session 1: What is Entrepreneurship?

Session 2: Role of Entrepreneurship 

Session 3: Qualities of a Successful Entrepreneur 

Session 4: Distinguishing Characteristics of Entrepreneurship and Wage Employment

Session 5: Types of Business Activities

Session 6: Product, Service, and Hybrid Businesses 

Session 7: Entrepreneurship Development Process 

Unit 5

Green Skills

Session 1: Society and Environment

Session 2: Conserving Natural Resources

Session 3: Sustainable Development and Green Economy

Unit

Name

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 

Learning Outcomes

Theory

Practical

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

Learning Outcomes  

Theory

Practical

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 to type 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 rows of keyboards, 

• Practice various mouse operations. 

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 the typing tutor,

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

• Practice working in lesson editor, 

• Calculate the typing speed 

• Practice improving typing 

• Using typing tutor software. 

Learning Outcomes  

Theory

Practical

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 the parts of the main window.

• Change document views. 

• Start a new document. 

• Open an existing document. 

• Save a document.

• Close a document.

Apply Editing features

• Text editing – Undo and Redo, 

• Moving and copying text, 

• Copy and Paste, 

• Selecting text, 

• Selection criteria,

• 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. 

• Editing of text in a document

• Demonstrate to use of undo and redo options, 

• Use the keyboard and mouse options to select, cut, copy, paste, and move text. 

• Demonstrate to selection of nonconsecutive text items, vertical blocks 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 the Spelling and grammar options of the document.

• Demonstrate to use of Synonyms and Thesaurus. 

Apply formatting features

• Page style dialogue 

• 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 breaks, Creating header/footer and page numbers, 

• Defining borders and backgrounds, Inserting images shapes, and special characters in a document, Dividing pages into columns, and 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 numbers or bullets to the list of items 

• Demonstrate assigning colour, border and background to paragraph

• Demonstrate the page formatting – set up a basic page layout using styles, 

• Insert page break, Create header/footer and page numbers

• Define borders and backgrounds 

• Insert images, shapes, and special characters in a document 

• Divide the page into columns, 

• Format the shape or image. 

Create and work with tables 

• Creating a table in Word Processor

• Inserting rows and columns 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 columns in a table, 

• Split and merge tables, 

• Delete a table, 

• Copy or move from one location to another location of the document. 

Use Print Options 

• Printing options in Word Processor.

• Print preview,

• Controlling printing,

• Printing all pages, single and multiple pages. 

• Demonstrate how to print the document, select pages in the document 

• Print the document with various options, 

• Preview pages before printing. 

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 the main document, 

• Edit individual documents, 

• Print the merged letter, 

• Save the merged letter. 

Learning Outcomes  

Theory

Practical

Create a Spreadsheet 

• Introduction to the 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, and cell address, 

• Define the range of the cell, 

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

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, and numeric data in a cell, 

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

• Demonstrate how to enter a 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. 

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 dialogue boxes to format values, 

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

• Demonstrate 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 alignment of cell data range, 

• Demonstrate to create 

• number series using a fill handle, 

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

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 of Absolute referencing in the spreadsheet.

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. 

Learning Outcomes  

Theory

Practical

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. 

Create a presentation 

• Introduction to presentation software,

• Opening a presentation software 

• Parts of the presentation window, 

• Closing a presentation 

• Creating a presentation using the 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 the presentation

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 the slide, 

• 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. 

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 

Create and use tables 

• Inserting tables in 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, or table, 

• Adjust column width and row height, 

• Assign table borders and background.

Insert and format the image in the 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 images in the presentation,

• Demonstrate to move, resize and rotate images, 

• Apply formatting options of the Image toolbar, 

• Drawing lines, and shapes using graphic objects, Demonstrate to group and ungroup objects.

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.