Computer Skills Self-Assessment

The following self-assessment of your computer skills will help you guage your ability to be successful in an online course. Check the box that describes your skill level. After completion of this assessment, print this page and use it as a guide to improve skills in which you are not proficient.

Proficient:	To mark yourself as proficient in a skill, you must know and be able to do the following:
	verbally define the term mentioned perform the skill show and tell someone else how to perform the skill

NOTICE: If you are NOT PROFICIENT with any of these terms or skills, you should expect extreme challenges using the technology required in an online course.  Your instructor and the Distance Education Office should not be expected to define, teach or help you with any of these skills.  It is therefore STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that you become proficient with each of these skills, BEFORE the first day of class.

Basics

Install and uninstall software

Copy a file from your hard drive to a flash drive

Find, copy, move, rename, and delete files

Save files to a diskette or flash drive

(ZIP) Compress files/folders and decompress files

Log in to the myCourses system using a username and password

Word Processing

Create and save documents in a specific format/type such as HTML, text, Word

Cut, copy, and paste text

Change paragraph formatting, indentation, and alignment

Change margins and tabs

Create a bulleted and numbered list

Insert a header and footer into a document

Presentation

Create, copy, move, and delete slides

Define a layout for the slide

Create a color scheme

Add text to a slide

Insert objects into a slide

Save the presentation as a web page or zipped folder

Internet | E-mail Client

Create a new message

Attach files to a message

Send a message to multiple addresses simultaneously

Reply to and forward messages

Save messages into folders

Web Browser Client

Open a web address

Use a search engine

Use bookmarks by adding and editing

Copy information from a web page and paste it into another application

Download software

Communications

Understand proper online etiquette while chatting (Netiquette Quiz)

Participate in online discussions and forums

Web Development

Create a three-page web site

Create navigation links between pages of the three-page web site

Create a web page using an HTML editor

Create table for web page layout

Edit HTML object properties

Use bookmarks and hyperlinks within a web page

Insert objects (e.g. Pictures, audio files, video files, etc.) into a web page

Publish web pages to a web server

NOTICE: If you are NOT PROFICIENT with any of these terms or skills, you should expect extreme challenges using the technology required in an online course.  Your instructor and the Distance Education Office should not be expected to define, teach or help you with any of these skills.  It is therefore STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that you become proficient with each of these skills, BEFORE the first day of class.

Go back to the SFA Online.

OIT would like to thank the School of Library Science at the University of North Texas for the use of their computer skills self-assessment materials.