Essential Computer Skills for Online Students
Students who participate in an online course need to have some familiarity and comfort with using a computer. Tutorials for how to perform some of the basic tasks needed for an online class are listed below:
Operating Your Computer
- Turning on your computer
- Identifying the make and model of your computer
- Identifying the operating system and version number
- Restarting your computer if it becomes locked up
Using the Internet
- Connecting to the Internet using a modem
- Opening a Web page
- Moving forward and back within a Web page
- Following a link from one Web page to another
- Creating a bookmark or saving a favorite web page
- Saving a Web site locator (URL)
- Using a search engine to locate information on the Internet
- Accessing Library electronic resources at Clackamas Community College
Using Email
- Using email to open and read messages
- Using email to create and send messages
- Attaching files to an email message
- Using email to attach and send a web-page
- Sending the same email message to more than one person at a time
- Forwarding email to others
- Adding an email address to an address book
Understanding the Windows Environment
- Understanding the terms icon, menu, window, click, double-click, select, drab, button
- Using the mouse to select and deselect text
- Using the right mouse button to select tasks: copy, paste, review properties
- Using the mouse to open and close a program by clicking on an icon
- Using the "Start" button to execute programs
- Choosing a command from the menu
- Moving, resizing or closing windows
- Knowing the difference between "close" and "exit"
- Using the scroll bars
- Switching between open windows
- Switching between open applications
- Opening files
- Saving files
- Deleting files
- Creating folders
- Moving files and folders with Windows Explorer
- Downloading files and software
- Installing software
Working with a Word Processor
- Opening a word processing file
- Creating a word processing file and editing a file
- Highlighting, cutting, copying, pasting, and resizing windows
- Saving a word processing file
- Printing a word processing file
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