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Essential Computer Skills for Students: Email and Internet Basics

This course aims to equip students with fundamental computer skills essential for academic success. You will learn to manage your student email, including reading messages, creating folders, sending replies, and attaching files. Additionally, the course covers basic computer operations such as startup, shutdown, and file management, as well as navigating web browsers and understanding URLs. By the end of this course, you will be proficient in using essential software tools and effectively navigating the internet for educational purposes.

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Essential Computer Skills for Students: Email and Internet Basics

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  1. FCCS 1100 Instructor :Susan Kapitza Email: skapitza@highlands.edu Website: http://www.highlands.edu/site/faculty-susan-kapitza

  2. Basic Student Email at GHC • Login • Read an email • Create a folder ( FCCS 1100) • Send a message to mailtest account • Delete a message • Move a message

  3. Basic Email continued • Reply to an email • Send an attachment • Inbox • Sent ( do not delete any of these) • Trash

  4. Computer Basics • Startup / Shutdown / Reboot • Login / Logout • Directory structure • Create folders in Z drive • Move to Z drive folder • Start / End a program • CLT_ ALT_ DELETE ( task manager) • Search for a program

  5. File Extentions • .txt a text document • .doc a word document created with an older version of word • .docx a word document created with word 7 or newer • .htm an html document • Hypertext markup language • .pptx a power point document

  6. Control panel • Add remove hardware • Add remove software • Printer and Faxes • Display setting ( right click on desktop) • Internet options • Systems

  7. Internet Basics • URL (Uniform Resource Locator) • http ://www.highlands.edu • http (HyperText Transfer Protocol) • ftp, telnet • :// ( required punctuations) • www (World Wide Web) • .highlands (domain name) • .edu ( Type of organization) • .com, .gov, .net

  8. Web Browsers • First Browser (X Windows only) • ViolaWWW (hyperlinks) • December 1990 • Tim Berners-Lee • First Graphical Web Browser • Mosaic • January 23, 1993 • Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina • Netscape, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Crome

  9. Navigation on the web • Type the URL (if you know it) • Bookmarks • Links • Tool bars • Forward and Backward • Tabs • Search Engines • Google • Yahoo • Bing

  10. Assignment Your assignments are on the website. http://www.highlands.edu/site/faculty-susan-kapitza Save the Homework to your Z drive or Jump drive in the following format FirstnameLastnameHW #, complete and Email it to me skapitza@highlands.edu In the subject of the email put you class time Example: MW 8am • It will be due your next class

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