Skills assessment .
Please complete the survey below by selecting one of the choices for each group of questions.
Indicate your best estimate of your skill or knowledge level:
unable - you cannot do it
familiar - you can do it with minor help
fluent - you can do it without any help
master - you can explain other people how to do it
General computer skills
unable
familiar
fluent
master
Understand the basic function of computer hardware components, such as central processing unit, monitor, keyboard, printer, and disk
Find and launch specific software programs and navigate beetween programs
Create, copy, move, rename, and delete folders
Use the find command to find files on my computer
Open a file from a floppy disk or a local or network hard drive; save a file to a floppy disk or to a specific location on a local or network hard drive
Create and maintain backups
Format/initialize a disk
Solve common printing problems, like jammed paper
Word-processor and spreadsheet skills
unable
familiar
fluent
master
Create and save a new word-processing/spreadsheet document
Open, view, and print a word-processing/spreadsheet document
Change font style and size,justify text and change line spacing in a document
Use advanced features of a word processor (tables, headers and footers, macros, table of contents, columns, etc.)
Cut, copy, and paste text both within an application and between multiple open applications
Use the "Formula Bar" to perform arithmetic calculations in spreadsheet
Use the built-in "Function" capability in spreadsheet
Create a graph from spreadsheet data
Print a document using additional settings (print specific pages, multiple copies, use collate, change properties)
Print a document using advanced settings (change printer/page properties)
Internet amd e-mail skills
unable
familiar
fluent
master
Go to a specific site on the World Wide Web given a URL
use a web browser to browse a web site (follow links, use a browser's functional buttons, such as Back, Forward, Reload/Refresh, Home, etc.)
Create and use bookmarks/favorites
Use an Internet search engine (Google, MSN, Yahoo) to find specific information
Create a Web page
Read, compose and send electronic messages
Manage your e-mail by copying, saving, replying, forwarding and deleting messages
Use e-mail attachments (send, receive, print and save attachments)
Manage names and groups in an address book
Do you have a computer at home?
Yes
No
Do you have Internet access at home?
Yes
No
What type of Internet access do you have at home?
Cable
DSL
Satellite
Via a mobile phone company
Dial-up
Don't know
Not applicable
