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Computer courses for beginners – Email file attachments

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Computer courses for beginners and seniors

Meganga’s free computer courses for beginners and seniors continues with a computer lesson taking a look at email file attachments, an essential part of basic computer training.

The online tutorial starts by attaching a file to an email using the Gmail account it then shows an email that has been received with files attached, the free computer lesson checks through the email before opening it and explaining about file size restrictions when sending or receiving emails and points out the difference in file sizes for  photographs and documents.

The computer lesson aimed as part of our free computer courses for beginners and seniors explains about the dangers from opening email file attachments that are from unknown senders or suspicious, the lesson goes on to explain about computer viruses with the help of the Microsoft Safety and Security Centre and gives advice and computer training for beginners and seniors about guarding against security threats to computers. [Read more…]

Basic Computer Training – Using My Email Part 2

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Basic computer training

This basic computer training tutorial continues on from our lesson called using my email. The computer lesson for seniors and beginners demonstrates the reply to email, forward emails and print email commands frequently used when using webmail and an email client.

The tutorial is one of our basic computer lessons and shows, using a Gmail account and Hotmail account, how to use firstly, the reply to e-mail command followed by how to forward emails and finally points out the print icon for printing emails, the beginners lesson also demonstrates the seperate menus where all three basic computer commands can be found.

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Basic Computer Training – Using My Email

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Basic computer training for seniors and beginners

Our basic computer training for beginners and seniors continues with an online computer tutorial, using my email. The tutorial takes a look at a basic Gmail account and talks through the email folders including my email inbox, sent mail and how to organise your email received mail.

The beginners computer training then shows how to compose email or create e-mail showing where to add email recipients and those mail recipients intended for information. The seniors online tutorial talks about adding file attachments to your emails and the limitations to consider.

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Basic Computer Training – What is e-mail

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Basic computer training

What is e-mail? We continue our basic computer training course for seniors and beginners with an online tutorial answering the question, what is e-mail? The short computer lesson starts by explaining about email before going on to show how an email address is obtained using an internet service provider and a webmail provider. The tutorial is an easy to follow computer lesson for seniors or beginners and is the first of our basic email lessons.

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Basic Computer Training – Filling Forms and Logging In

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We move on in our basic computer training for seniors and beginners with an online learning tutorial about filling forms and logging in to websites. As you move on and gain more confidence and better computer skills you will want to register on websites, whether for social networking, reading media or shopping, whatever the reason at some point you will need to fill out an online form. This computer lesson for beginners takes a look at two well known websites and just runs through the information you need to provide, in order to log in, along with talking about providing computer passwords.

The lesson is suitable for any beginners or seniors learning online and for those looking to qualify in the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL), this lesson covers elements 7.7 and 7.10. [Read more…]

Basic Computer Training – Web Browsers the Basics

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Online computer lesson

Following on in our basic computer training for seniors and beginners we have an online computer lesson pointing out the basic elements of web browsers, using the most common browsers, internet explorer and mozilla firefox. The lesson explains the what the home page is, what is meant by the term URL and goes on to explain about browsing history, bookmarking and favourites. Important for anyone learning new computer skills.

The computer tutorial is suitable for any beginner and those beginners looking to qualify in the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) the lesson covers elements 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 and 7.5 of the computer basics course.

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World Wide Web – Global Google – Courses for Seniors

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Online computer course for seniors and beginners

In earlier tutorials we have talked about using the biggest search engine, so using Google, in this online learning tutorial, the next in our courses for seniors we demonstrate what a true phenomenon global Google has become. We demonstrate that Google has sites catering for populations all over the world and show you just how sophisticated using Google has become. We appologise but because of the speed that Google improves and evolves this video tutorial may well look out of date by the time you get to watch it!

Level: Beginner/Intermediate

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World Wide Web – What is a Search Engine – Using Google to Search the Web

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Seniors & Beginners Computer Lesson – What is a Search Engine?

In this seniors computer lesson we ask what is a search engine? For the answer we take a look at the search engine Google, currently the most popular search engine and we see how we can use Google to search the web. We use the UK Google site in this online tutorial however Google does have many regional sites around the world as explained in a later online tutorial for beginners. If you click on the “About Google” link on any Google search page you can find out lots more information about Google.

This tutorial is of use to anyone learning online worldwide and for those looking to gain computer skills and qualify in The European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) this lesson covers elements 7.11 and 7.12.

Level: Beginner

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World Wide Web – Saving Favourites in Internet Explorer – Meganga First Click Courses

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Online Computer Courses for Seniors and Beginners – Saving Favourites In Internet Explorer

To complement our basic computer training course we have added a tutorial about saving favourites, in this the next of our online computer courses for seniors and beginners we demonstrate how you can save your favourite websites to your browser. In this tutorial for beginners we use Internet Explorer, the most poular browser. Saving favourites enables you to find your favourite websites quickly and easily. As with all our computer lessons for seniors the step by step guide will show you how to personalise your Internet Explorer browser and forms part of the Meganga first click courses. Once you have viewed the tutorial why not save www.meganga.com to you favourites to enjoy more of our online computer courses for seniors and beginners.

Level: Beginner/Intermediate

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Internet – World Wide Web – What Are Hyperlinks Lesson

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Basic Computer Training – What Are Hyperlinks Lesson

Continuing our basic computer training for beginners and seniors we have a short online lesson explaining what are hyperlinks and how to recognise a link or hyperlink. The world wide web is navigated by clicking on hyperlinks to take the user from webpage to webpage. The seniors and beginners computer lesson goes on to cover how webpages can be opened in a new window, so as not to leave the webpage being viewed.

This online tutorial demonstrates how the world wide web is navigated which is essential for beginners starting out on the internet and by understanding how hyperlinks or links work anyone can understand how the world wide web is bound together. [Read more…]

Internet – World Wide Web – Using The Browser Address Bar Computer Lesson

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Online Computer Lessons for Beginners – Using The Browser Address Bar Computer Lesson

The next of our online computer lessons for seniors shows you how to get the most from your browser address bar. The address bar can be found toward the top of the browser and it can be used for searching or going directly to a website. This sneiors and beginners computer lesson follows on from our basic computer training tutorial about web browser basics as the lesson explains what a Uniform Resource Locator or URL is and how to navigate to your chosen websites using the address bar.

This computer lesson is ideal for the complete beginner who is new to using the Internet and the WWW (World Wide Web) and helps to get beginners using different parts of the web browser.

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Internet – World Wide Web – What Is a Web Browser Lesson

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Online computer lesson

For those following our basic computer training course for seniors and beginners this next learning online computer lesson takes a look at the world wide web and asks what is a web browser?

The computer lesson for seniors and beginners will explain what a browser is and what web browsers are used for. It goes on to cover some of the different browsers available to you, including: Internet Explorer, FireFox, Google Chrome, Safari and others.

Anyone looking to qualify in the European Computer Driving License (ECDL), this lesson will cover element 7.1 in the course.

Level: Beginner [Read more…]

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