Student Technical Skill Requirements

The following computer skills are needed prior to taking any of the courses listed in the ODU Online Catalog of Courses. Students are responsible for assessing their own skill levels. If you do not possess these skills, check into the computer literacy courses offered at your local community college. Your instructor will not be teaching these skills as part of the course.

Basic Skills

• Locate a file on hard drive, diskette, and/or server
• Save a file to a specific drive and folder
• Change drives
• Connect to an ISP
• Navigate between two or more applications without closing and re-opening (multitasking)

Email Skills

• Use an internet address
• Enter a message subject
• Reply to a message
• Send a message
• Open a message
• Forward a message
• Create a folder
• Save a message into a specific folder
• Delete a file
• Add a name to the address book
• Retrieve a name from the address book
• Paste text from a word processor
• Send an attachment
• Open and/or save an attachment

Web Browser Skills

• Go to a specific URL
• Print a page
• Follow a hypertext link
• Conduct a basic search using a search engine
• Re-trace a hypertext path

Word Processor Skills

• Open a new file
• Open an existing file
• Save a file
• Rename a file (Save As)
• Cut text
• Paste text
• Format text
• Change line spacing
• Print a document