See also: Beginners Course Training Notes. Beginners Course Exercises
BASIC 1 (Mouse, Scroll Bars, Keyboard, Intro to Desktop screen, Open and use simple programs (Common Tools : cut, copy, paste, move, navigate around text file, create file)
DESIGNED FOR : For those with little or no experience with computers. No minimum criteria.
OUTCOMES : It is intended that at the end of the course participants will : Be able to use a mouse and computer keyboard and to navigate around a desk top screen Understand the simple cycle of using a computer : i.e. opening a program, inputting data, saving as a data file to filing system and going back and opening a saved file. Identify and simply utilise the various elements of a desktop screen Know the location of all programs on their computer, how to find their way to those programs and how to open a program Use the common tools which are used across all Windows programs Save a file to their filing system (Windows Explorer) (If time) Understand the concept of Windows Explorer