Getting Started with the Internet Survey
The following skills survey is designed to help you evaluate your skills using the Internet. 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 306
4) Where the form says, Test No., please write Getting Started with the Internet
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 a Web browser.
2. Identify and use the menu selections on a Web browser.
3. Locate an address on the Internet.
4. Locate an Internet Service Provider (ISP).
5. Describe the differences between .com, .org, .gov Internet domain names.
6. Find a specified Internet site.
7. Create an e-mail account.
8. Access the World Wide Web.
9. Identify the difference between personal and public Web pages.
10. Name different Internet Protocols.
11. Unzip files downloaded from the Internet.
12. Identify a Host name and a Domain name.
13. Use the Internet Explorer Icon to log on to the Internet.
14. Copy a picture from the Internet.
15. Save a file from the Internet into a specific subdirectory.
16. Use the Refresh Button.
17. Locate and use the History Button.
18. Identify a Home Page.
19. Write an e-mail message
20. Locate several Web search engines.
21. Identify a Bookmark.
22. Define and use FTP file services.
23. Create simple search queries.
24. Clear the temporary Web pages stored on a local hard drive.
25. Define and join a listserv.