Getting Started with Windows Survey
The following skills survey is designed to help you evaluate your skills using a computer. Complete the skills assessments before you begin this training module and after you have completed the module. Take a few minutes to answer the following questions and leave the form with the lab assistant or your instructor. Your instructor or lab assistant will provide a scan-tron form for you to use to answer the questions.
Directions:
On your scan-tron form, please write the following information:
1) Your Last Name, First Name
2) Today’s date
3) Where the form says Subject, please write the name and number of the course in which you are enrolled, for example CA 302
4) Where the form says, Test No., please write Getting Started with Windows.
5) Where the form says, Hour, please write “1” if you have not completed the training workbook for this course, or “2” if you have completed the training workbook for this course.
On this form, mark the letters A through E.
§ A means “I have never done this before."
§ B means, " I did this task once or twice before."
§ C means, " I have done this task several times before."
§ D means, "I have done this task many times and feel very comfortable doing this task."
§ E means “I am very experienced with this task."
Your answers should reflect how well you feel you could complete the specified tasks. There are no right or wrong answers.
1. Identify the controls on the Windows desktop.
2. Point and click the mouse.
3. Identify and use the controls in a window.
4. Switch between programs using the taskbar.
5. Use Windows controls such as menus, tabs, scroll bars and toolbars.
6. Use Windows controls such as list boxes, radio buttons, and check boxes.
7. Use the Windows Menu button to run software programs.
8. Open and close a window.
9. Use the mouse to move a window to a new position on the screen.
10. Drag an object to a new location on the desktop.
11. Use the Maximize button to enlarge a window so that it fills the entire screen.
12. Use the sizing handle to change the size of the current window.
13. Use toolbar buttons to gain quick access to program commands.
14. Identify menu options that lead to submenus.
15. Identify the visual clues that indicate a menu option is not available.
16. Identify the purpose of the three dots that follow a menu option.
17. Use Help to obtain information about a program.
18. Use the Find tab in Windows Help to find a Help topic.
19. Describe the significance of the check mark that appears next to a menu option.
20. Use list box controls to view all possible entries in a list box.
21. Use the right mouse button to display context-sensitive menus.
22. Copy a file using the copy option on the right mouse button menu.
23. Run multiple programs at the same time.
24. Expand the directory listing by double-clicking the mouse.
25. Shut down Windows.