Training
Computer Skills Checklist
File Maintenance
- Open files
- Save as a new file name & know where the file is saved
- Delete files & rename files
- Copy or move files to a new location, including to and from a floppy disk
- Use Find, including advanced options like key word and location searches, to search for a document
- Save as a new file format, and know when and why to use this feature
- Understand the implications of file extensions. (Windows uses file extensions to establish a relationship between documents and applications. When using a file open function, there is often a default extension assumed. Can you conduct a search on all files and do you understand the application implications of using different file extensions?)
Directory Maintenance
- Use directory structures to organize documents for efficient retrieval
- Create, rename, and delete directories and subdirectories
Working with external Disks
- Format a Floppy or USB drive
- Copy files to an external disk
- Burn a CD-ROM to archive your files
Manage Desktop
- Manage open windows
- Minimize or maximize a window
- Tile or resize a window
- Understand the concept of active and inactive windows
- Access a specific application when several are open
Word Processing
- Page formatting (margins, tabs, indents, bullets, paragraph alignment, paper size and type)
- Text formatting (font type, size, bold, underline, etc.)
- Use of tool bars, spell checking, print preview, search and replace
- Negotiating multiple open word processing documents
- Setting up preferences and options, such as automatic backup, preferred directories, etc
Copy & Paste
- Cut, Copy, and Paste text and graphics from one document to another
Importing Text Files
- Know how to import text files with .txt, .lis, or .csv extensions into spreadsheets, database, or word processing documents
- Understand the implication of delimited files where fields are separated by commas or other place holders; examples of such files include the student class lists provided by computing services.
Printing
- Set your default printer
- Select a printer
- Cancel or suspend a print job
Help
- Use a built-in help system to answer basic "how to" questions
- When available, use Wizards or Coaches to ask questions or handle initial document formatting
- Compose and address messages
- Add, open, and save attachments
- Print messages and attachments
- Manage folders
- Create personal address lists for Email
- Send Internet mail
- Archive mail not accessed frequently
- Change preferences and/or setup, including directory preferences and cleanup options
- Manage your junk mail
- Manage your spam quarantine
Basic Network Skills
- Figure out where various drive letters are pointed
- Know how to browse for things you can't immediately find (different than the find functions described under File Maintenance)
Basic Housekeeping Skills
- Figure out how much space a file and/or directory takes up
- Determine how much free space is available on a hard drive; know what to do if your hard drive is too full
- Defragment your disk
- Check for viruses/spyware
- Zip/unzip files
Internet
- Browse the Web, starting with the SOU Home Page
- View events on the SOU Campus Calendar
Safe Computing
- Identify scams on the web or in your e-mail
- Avoid websites that will plant spyware
