ITAdmin/Introduction to Computer Desktop and Software Services

Teaching Objective
To orient all course participants at the same level and to encourage them to be familiar with a modern graphical computer interface, including the function, definition, and keyboard (or mouse if there is none for the keyboard) access shortcuts associated with several key terms (listed below): Desktop, icons, program, "Start button", alternate menu, "Double-click", "(Mouse) Click", "Drag" (Topic One), and console. Introduction will be made to several of the following generic types of programs: a text editor, an Internet browser, an e-mail client, a word-processor, and maybe more (Topic Two)).

Learning Objective 1:
Content

Resources Computer, Classroom, and course materials

Assignment Quizzes about key terms

Evaluation Grading of quizzes on key terms

Feedback Form-based, specific to year of the course

Extended Learning Books that introduce Windows OS and the Linux console

Learning Objective 2:
Content

Resources Computer, Classroom, and course materials

Assignment Quizzes about software (how to generate certain files or do tasks)

Evaluation Grading of each task

Feedback Form-based, specific to year of the course

Extended Learning References to specific relevant software documentation from the original authour(s) or books about the software introduced here