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Skills Assessment
What technical skills do I need to be successful with online courses?
- You must be familiar with the basic operation of your computer and your computer's operating system (i.e., Microsoft Windows, Mac OS). The fundamental skills you need include use of the mouse, copy and pasting, printing, and toggling from one window to another.
- You should have some experience and familiarity with navigating and using the Internet as an information and communication resource. Knowing how to download files, attach document files to e-mail, use word-processing software are necessary skills to achieving academic success in an online course environment.
- You should have a good working knowledge in the use of email such as opening attachments you receive in your messages, printing messages, sending replies to your messages, forwarding messages to others, originating new messages, adding attachments to messages and deleting messages.
You may want to take a quick online assessment of your technical knowledge of using a computer and the Internet. This takes about five minutes and your results are confidential.
