QUIZ

To benefit from this course you need some basic skills. The following questions will help you to decide whether you have them

Word processor skills
You will need to use a word processor, ideally MS Word, to prepare documents for your tutor to mark.

• create a document and save it?
• produce documents which are split into paragraphs?
• make sections of text bold and/or italic?
• cut some text from a document and place it elsewhere in the document?

If the answer to all these questions is yes, you have the necessary word processing skills.

Browser skills
You will be making heavy use of a browser to visit websites.

Can you

• open a website given its address e.g. http://www.open.ac.uk ?
• use underlined links e.g. http://www.open.ac.uk to move from one website to another?
• move from your current website to one that you have previously visited?
  Installing and downloading software

Occasionally we will ask you to install some software, for example Block 2 requires the use of a Netscape browser.

Can you

• install commercial software from a CD-ROM onto your computer?
• downloaded a file using a browser?

If you know how to do six or more of the above tasks and feel you can master the others, you are well equipped to study the course.

To test your knowledge, please try our Diagnostic Quiz.