Computer Skills Checklist

The following check list is designed to gauge your basic level of computer skills to best determine what classes  or training sessions would be most helpful.    This will also allow the library to assess potential programs, classes, and resources helpful to its customers. Please check all skills that you have already mastered.

FILE MAINTENANCE

□    Open files

□    Save files

□    Locate files

□    Rename files

□    Delete files

□    Use find

□    Save as a new format, and knowing when and how to use it

□    Understand the implications of the file extensions and associations

□    Use directory structures to organize documents

MANAGE A DESKTOP

□    Manage open windows

□    Minimize or maximize, tile, or resize window

□    Understand concept of active and inactive windows

□    Access a specific application when several are open

WORD PROCESSING

□    Page formatting

□    Text formatting (font size, type, bold, italic, etc.)

□    Pagination, headers, columns, and other features

□    Use of tool bars, spell checking, print preview, search and replace

□    Negotiating multiple open word-processing documents

□    Naming and Saving a document

□    Opening a document

□    Cut, copy, and paste text or graphics from one document to another

□    Importing text files

□    Understand the use and meaning of file extensions (.doc, .txt, etc.)

□    Create a professional appearing product

PRINTING

□    Print preview

□    Cancel or suspend a print job

□    Print only specific pages

EMAIL

□    Compose and address messages

□    Add, open, and save attachments

□    Print messages and attachments

□    Manage folders

□    Create personal address lists

□    Send internet e-mails

□    Change preferences and/or set up

□    Use correct Netiquette procedures

□    Create and send professional grade correspondence

BASIC HOUSEKEEPING SKILLS

□    Figure out how much space a file or directory takes up

□    Determine available free space on a drive: know what to do if a hard drive is full

□    De-fragment you computer

□    Check for viruses

□    Zip/Unzip file

INTERNET/INTRANET

□    Browse the web, starting with SCU homepage

□    Read campus news groups (once established)

□    Understand the difference between an Internet and an Intranet

□    Apply standard evaluation criteria to web sites and their information

□    Understand and use Boolean search strategies

□    Can control pages printed from a web site

□    Apply standard citation methods for information found on a website

□    Understand the difference between a “web site”, a “database” and an “online database”.

POWERPOINT

□    Open and create a simple slide

□    Apply themed background or color to all slides

□    Add text and graphic

□    Manipulate text or graphic with animation

□    Add dimensional aspects

□    Add video clips

□    Create professional appearing product

EXCEL

□    Open and create a simple spreadsheet

□    Add boxes, clip art, titles, word art

□    Create simple invoices and forms

□    Do simple summation of column figures

□    Format columns for changing data (i.e., dates)

□    Create a simple chart or graph

□    Insert a chart into another document (Word or Powerpoint)

□    Create professional appearing product

PUBLISHER

□    Open and create a simple document

□    Add graphics, change fonts, format, color

□    Insert new elements (columns, graphics, etc.)