Pre-Entry Essential Digital Skills: Digital Skills for LDD students only

Are you new to computers and the Internet? Do you need to increase your confidence with digital skills? This course will ensure you have a solid foundation in using computers and being online. You will learn the essential features of creating, saving, storing different types of files and documents, including photos and letters in Word. Based over 8 weeks this friendly course will give students the opportunity to access the Internet and use ‘Learn My Way’ which is a user-friendly platform to sign-up for email, Internet Safety and many more topics. Students will then use Word, Publisher and PowerPoint to create presentations, cards, posters and collages of work that reflect their own personal interests.

The tutor will support you in the following:-

• using a mouse and getting started on a computer

• exploring the internet

• sending and replying to emails

• typing simple documents and word processing

• adding pictures and clip art to documents

Assessment takes place in many ways using a variety of methods including, presenting the skills you develop in small groups and sharing your own views about your skills and knowledge one to one with your teacher. There are no exam-based assessments of learning, but you will have to complete set tasks to show that you are acquiring the skills we would want you to.