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Basic Computer Training – Filling Forms and Logging In

August 5, 2011 by steve

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…]

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Basic Computer Training – Document Creation in Wordpad

June 14, 2011 by steve

Basic computer training

Everyone who switches on a computer, will, at some point, want to create documents and our free basic computer training for beginners and seniors shows how to get started. The online tutorial shows how to find WordPad, a word processing software, in your computer. The computer training then explains about font icons, shows how to change font style and size as well as text colour, before showing how to print and save the document. The tutorial is suitable for any beginner or senior and continues through element 4 for those looking to qualify in The European Computer Driving License (ECDL).

Being able to create documents is an important part of developing computer skills and this learning online tutorial is designed to get beginners started. More computer lessons in Microsoft Office Word, a more advanced software are available elsewhere on our website. [Read more…]

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Basic computer training – Your desktop and icons

June 1, 2011 by steve

Basic computer skills

To continue our basic computer training course for seniors, beginners and novices, we move on to a tutorial explaining the layout of your computer desktop and an introduction to desktop icons. The lesson is suitable for anyone learning online worldwide and for those looking to qualify in The European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) this lesson will cover Equal Skills, desktop, elements 2.1 and 2.2.

The lesson demonstrates a conventional computer desktop and lists the three main areas, icons, gadgets and taskbar. The computer lesson then goes on to explain about desktop shortcuts and how they are identified fundamental for improving your computer skills.

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Basic Computer Training Understanding Your Cursor

April 25, 2011 by steve

Basic Computer Training

Continuing our basic computer courses for seniors, beginners and computer novices, we have a lesson about understanding your cursor. Your cursor behaves differently as it interacts with webpages and software, it is therefore important to understand what your cursor is telling you so that you can follow hyperlinks and type text where you need to. This basic computer training lesson will help you to identify the different appearances of the mouse or cursor.

The lesson is suitable for anyone learning online worldwide and covers elements 1.7 and 1.8 of the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) qualification in EqualSkills, Computer Basics.

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

February 7, 2011 by steve

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

January 15, 2011 by steve

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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