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Auburn School District
Computer Skill Checklist

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This form developed by Auburn Riverside High School staff.

Skills expected to be acquired by the end of first year in building:

E-mail:
  • Change password
  • Forward mail
  • Add additional e-mail addresses
  • Make a distribution list
  • Use a distribution list
  • Attach files
  • Open attached files
  • Delete messages in in-box, out-box, and sent-box
  • Create alternate directories for mail storage
  • Change preferences
  • Save mail for future reference
File Management Issues
Using Windows Explorer:
  • Open Explorer and find
    proper directory
  • Create and navigate directories
    and subdirectories
  • Delete files
  • Move files from one directory to
    another on a single drive
  • Move files from one drive to another
  • Copy files from one directory to
    another on a single drive
  • Copy files from one drive to another
  • Rename files
  • View file types
  • View file sizes
  • Convert and save files between program versions and varied hardware types
Grade Machine:
  • Import classes
  • Export classes
  • Add and delete students
  • Create grading scales
  • Seating charts
  • Create reports
  • Attendance
  • Customize reports
  • Grade weighting
  • Compare class roster/section
    with Web Wise version
  • Create and use passwords
Internet Use:
  • Locate and use major search engines
  • Understand basic search commands (&/or/not+; wildcard (*); phrase searching ("")
  • Use subscription databases
  • Add, delete, and organize bookmarks with Personal Toolbar
  • Use Print Preview command to determine length of document
  • Save documents as *.html or *.txt file
  • Copy and paste text into a
    document or file
  • Copy and insert images into a
    document or file
  • Evaluate Web site authenticity, bias, accuracy, currency, authority, etc.
  • Understand copyright/fair use issues
  • Understand Internet use agreement and enforcement standards
Microsoft Word:
  • Save files
  • Open files
  • Change font size, style, and color
  • Bold, italicize, and underline
  • Change/set margins
  • Spellcheck
  • Thesaurus
  • Add/delete bullets and numbers
  • Cut/paste
  • Undo/redo
  • Print
  • Change layouts
  • Alignments (center, right, left, justified)
  • Saving and naming files (t:/peckelman/business/skills.doc)
Web Wise:
  • Attendance
  • Grades and comments
  • Student records
  • Attendance records
  • Process of checking class lists

Skills considered to be helpful and desired for staff:

Access:
  • Uses
  • Creating databases
  • Creating fields
  • Adding information, deleting, editing
  • Arranging information
  • "Sorting" information
  • Printing selected records
  • "Filtering"
  • Creating a "report"
  • "Inserting" in Microsoft Word
  • "Merging" in Microsoft Word
  • "Publishing" with Microsoft Word
Excel:
  • Open files
  • Sort
  • Set margins/printing
  • Format data (text, date, time, currency,
    border, font, alignment, numbers)
  • Creating/editing charts
  • Renaming sheets
  • Borders/shading
  • Identify labels/values
  • Saving and naming files (t:/peckelman/business/skills.xls)
  • Save files
  • Change font
  • Cut/paste
  • Create/edit formulas
Hyperstudio:
  • Edit tools
  • Paint tools
  • Linking stacks and cards through buttons
  • Creating buttons
  • Adding actions to buttons
  • Button features
  • Adding sound
Microsoft Word:
  • Create tables/edit
  • Create columns/edit
  • Set/delete tabs
  • Multi-task (operate more than
    one program at a time)
  • Add toolbars
  • Add ruler
  • Insert pictures
  • WordArt
  • AutoCorrect
  • Borders
  • Charts
  • Format painter
  • Envelopes
  • Header/footer (page numbering)
PowerPoint:
  • Creating, opening, and saving
    presentations
  • Working with slides
  • Working with the text
  • Drawing and working with objects
  • Working with tables, charts, imported graphics
  • Printing
  • Working with presentations
  • Making note pages and handouts
  • Changing the appearance of presentations

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