IT for Beginners

This one day course is designed to give a gentle introduction to IT. It is aimed at people who have to use a PC for the first time, or who are not confident with using their PC, or anyone who needs to know the fundamentals of working with a PC.

The course is run as a private tailored day, therefore the course content can be designed specifically around an individual's specific skills and requirements.

Course Goals:

This course will be tailored and can include any elements of the topics below.

Topics:

Working in a Windows environment

• Understanding Windows

• Minimising, restoring and maximising

• Opening programs

• Working with the desktop

• Understanding the Start menu

• Finding things easily

• Pinning items for shortcuts

• Understanding the task-bar

• Shutting down and restarting a PC

• Troubleshooting

Filing

• Saving

• Save Vs Save as...

• Understanding where things are stored

• CDs, DVDs, Pen drives, USBs

• Explaining hard drives

• Making sense of networks

• Creating folders

• Moving, copying, deleting files / folders

• Searching for files

• Tips and tricks for user friendly file management

• File sizes explained

• Terminology explained

Understanding copy and paste

• Understanding the clipboard

• Copying to and from packages

• Shortcuts

• Quick keys

• Paste options

• Paste special

Simple Word Processing with Microsoft Word

• Creating a document

• Saving and opening

• Typing a simple letter

• Spell check

• Very basic formatting

Simple spreadsheets with Microsoft Excel

• What is a spreadsheet

• Saving and opening

• Creating basic lists

• Adding a column of numbers

• Tips and tricks

• Basic formatting

• Troubleshooting

Websites

• Very user friendly explanation of how the Internet works

• What is a website

• Explaining browsers

• Searching using Google

• Favorites and history

• Browsing a web-page

• Filling in forms

• Security and data privacy

• Online shopping

• Hints, tips and tricks

Email

• Web mail Vs PC mail

• Using Microsoft Outlook

• Sending, receiving, forwarding emails

• Searching for emails

• Sorting and filing emails

• Attaching files

• Deleted items

• Sizes and restrictions

• Using hotmail, gmail, or any other webmail

• Security

• Hints, tips and tricks