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IT153 Spreadsheet Applications sample papers, unit by unit

Reviewed by Chester Goodwin, MBA Spreadsheet Applications Purdue University Global Free custom samples in 24–48h

IT153 lives inside Excel for a full 10-week term, and every unit assignment is a workbook. Our samples pair working files with formula-by-formula documentation, and your first custom sample, built to your rubric, is free in 24-48 hours.

How this shelf works

Send the exact assignment or rubric from your classroom and a custom sample written to it lands in 24 to 48 hours, the first one free. IT153 is Purdue Global’s Spreadsheet Applications course. It centers on building Excel workbooks that calculate, chart, and summarize data through live formulas, graded as working files unit after unit. Searches like "IT 153 unit 4 assignment example", "IT153 sample paper", and "IT153 unit samples" land on this page.

What IT153 is really about

Spreadsheet Applications is a single-tool course with unusual depth: ten units, one application, steadily rising difficulty. Purdue Global sections typically walk from cell basics and formatting into functions, logical tests, lookups, charts, and data tools like sorting, filtering, and pivot-style summaries, with a discussion board thread and a seminar option running beside the workbook assignments. The grading logic is mechanical in the best and worst sense. A rubric line names a capability, the grader opens your file and tests it, and the points either exist or they do not. There is no partial credit for a paragraph describing what the formula was supposed to do, which makes this course honest, unforgiving, and very learnable with the right examples.

Our IT153 samples are built for the moment a formula refuses to work and the assignment is due tonight. Each one is a completed workbook accompanied by a written walkthrough: what every function does, why absolute references appear where they do, how a lookup was pointed at its table, what the chart is actually reading. The written layer is the product, because copying a file teaches nothing while reading a construction log teaches the tool. Send us the assignment instructions and rubric from your section and we build the sample to them, first one free, delivered in 24-48 hours. Then you construct your own workbook against your own data and keep the reasoning.

What IT153’s assessments ask for

A typical IT153 unit hands you a scenario, a data set, and a list of required behaviors. Early assignments usually ask for clean structure: labeled ranges, number formats, simple arithmetic that updates when inputs change. The term then typically escalates through SUM, AVERAGE, and COUNT families into IF logic, VLOOKUP or its modern relatives, and text and date functions, with charts expected to present the results honestly. Later units in many sections bring multi-sheet workbooks, sorting and filtering, conditional formatting, and a summary or dashboard-style assignment that pulls the term together. Discussion boards ask you to explain a technique or a business use, seminars reflect on the week's skills, and each rubric ties points to specific working features.

Where students lose points in IT153

The grade killer in IT153 is the hardcoded workbook. Under deadline pressure a student calculates something on a phone, types the result into the cell, and moves on; the sheet displays perfect numbers and contains no spreadsheet at all. Graders test files by changing an input or clicking the formula bar, and a typed constant fails both tests instantly, taking every dependent rubric line with it. Close cousins do similar damage: relative references copied where absolute ones belonged, so the second row of results is garbage; lookups aimed at half a table; charts built from pasted values that no longer match the data. One structural mistake early in a workbook cascades, which is why our samples document reference logic first.

IT153 grading scale at Purdue Global: how the work is graded, from Purdue Assignments
How Purdue Global grades IT153, visualized by Purdue Assignments.

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Unit 1

IT153 Unit 1 first workbook example

Sections typically open with workbook anatomy: cells, ranges, formatting, and a first simple calculation. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Unit 2

IT153 Unit 2 core formulas exercise example

Core formulas usually arrive here, with SUM and AVERAGE doing the early lifting. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Unit 3

IT153 Unit 3 cell reference exercise example

Relative versus absolute references often becomes the make-or-break skill around this unit. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Unit 4

IT153 Unit 4 logical functions exercise example

Logical functions typically appear next, IF tests deciding what a cell should say. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Unit 5

IT153 Unit 5 lookup function exercise example

Many sections place lookups mid-term, pointing VLOOKUP at tables and testing patience. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Unit 6

IT153 Unit 6 chart building exercise example

Charts often take over here, graded on reading the right ranges honestly. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Unit 7

IT153 Unit 7 data filtering exercise example

Sorting, filtering, and conditional formatting commonly turn raw data into something readable. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Unit 8

IT153 Unit 8 multi-sheet workbook example

Multi-sheet workbooks tend to appear late, formulas reaching across tabs. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Unit 9

IT153 Unit 9 summary table exercise example

A seminar reflection and summary-table work often share this stretch of the term. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Unit 10

IT153 Unit 10 capstone workbook example

The closing unit typically asks for a capstone workbook demonstrating the term's full toolkit. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Using a IT153 sample the right way

Treat the sample workbook as a glass-box model. Start by breaking it: change the inputs and watch which cells update, because that shows you the dependency chain your own file needs. Read the written walkthrough beside each formula until you can predict what a reference will do before you click it. Then rebuild the logic in a fresh workbook with your section's data set, using the sample only to check your structure when results diverge. What you submit must be your own construction from your own instructions, and by then the sample has done its job: you know why every cell calculates.

How these samples are written

The discipline behind every paper here: the rubric is the outline, each row gets its section, seminar-option write-ups follow their expected shape, and the format layer ships exact. Send your unit's instructions with a request and the sample matches them, revisions included.

IT153 questions, answered

Why did my last spreadsheet lose points when all the numbers were correct?

Almost certainly because the numbers were typed rather than calculated. IT153 rubrics grade the machinery: live formulas, correct references, charts reading real ranges. A grader who changes an input and sees nothing update marks the capability absent, correct display or not. Our samples exist to model that machinery, with the reasoning behind every function written out so you can rebuild it under your own data.

Do your IT153 samples use my section's data set or a generic one?

If you send your assignment instructions and rubric, the sample is built to them, including the scenario and requirements your section uses. The first custom sample is free and typically arrives within 24-48 hours. A generic workbook helps less than people expect, because reference structure depends on how a specific data set is shaped, and that is where most points are won.

Is using a sample workbook academically safe?

Used correctly, yes: it is a worked example, the same thing a tutor would build in front of you. You study the construction, then produce your own workbook from your own section's data and instructions. Submitting our file as yours is the line you do not cross, and it would fail anyway, since sections differ in data sets, naming, and required features.