ECDL/ICDL: Information and Communication
Eligible
La Trobe staff, postgraduate & undergraduate students.
Description
This course is one of seven Essential Core Computing Skills that will get you started in using a computer.
The ability to access information and communicate through electronic mail have become essential skills in the modern world. In this course, you will familiarize yourself with the basics of the internet, bookmark web pages, search the internet, and save a web page and web page content to a local drive. You will also familiarize yourself with the basics of electronic mail. You will check, send and forward mail and also manage mail.
Although this training has been approved by the ICDL Foundation (www.icdl.com.au), these excercises are not ICDL certification tests.
When you have successfully completed all seven Essential Core Computing Skills (identified by the course code ICDL), you may apply to Training @ La Trobe for a Certificate which will list all seven courses.
Objectives
In this course, you will examine the basic terms and security considerations associated with the internet, create and organise bookmarks to web pages, search the web and save a web page and components of a web page to your computer and preview and print a web page. You will examine the basic terms and security considerations associated with electronic mail, read and reply to mail messages, attach files to electronic mails, manage mail message text and adjust the settings of an electronic mail software application. You will also change the message status, use address books and organise and print mail messages.
Topics
- Course introduction
- Exploring the internet - A global information repository
- Bookmarking web pages
- Searching the web and saving web page content
- Using electronic mail
- Messaging
- Course follow up
Duration
Estimated time of completion is 3 hours & 16 minutes.
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Office Productivity - Computer Basics.
Costs
Staff - Free
Postgraduates - Free
Undergraduates - Free