Windows and File Management 

ICDL Module 2 
Using Windows

Quizzes! Check your knowledge! Tutorial: Lessons online!
Quizzes: 
test your knowledge! 
Lessons:
learn online!
Reference:
find out what computer terms mean
Links: 
Other sites 

Quizzes

  1. Chaminade Module 2

  2. Montana U Module 2 (Click for answers)

  3. Computer Bob Module 2 (Click for answers)

  4. Coease Module 2

  5. Enda Tuomey's Quia Quiz for Modules 1 and 2

  6. Jegsworks quiz for Windows 98

  7. Jegsworks quiz for File Management 

Tutorials: Online Lessons

Introduction to Windows

  1. Jegsworks tutorial for Windows 98

  2. Jegswork tutorial for File Management

  3. Windows 98 tutorial: Not many pictures, but very clear. Worth reading. From BayconGroup.com

 

Reference

  • Coming soon.

 

Links to Other Resources

Coming:  links to more Module 2 information online.

 

Practice!

  1. What is the difference between files and folders?
  2. How do you create a folder in the Windows Explorer?
  3. How do you copy files between folders?
  4. What is a shortcut and how do you create one?
  5. How do you find a lost file or folder?
  6. How do you format a floppy disk?
  7. How do you to change the mouse properties.
  8. How do you change the desktop display, including the background, screen saver, and color schemes?
  9. What is the Taskbar and what does it do?
  10. How do you access the Tools menu in a window without using the mouse?
  11. List the keyboard shortcuts for the following: Help, Copy, Cut, Paste
  12. What is the Recycle Bin?
  13. How do you change the Date/Time?

 

Module 2: 
What you Need to Know

Module 2 Using the Computer and Managing Files 

  • Start, shut down, restart the computer.
  • View Computer’s Basic System Information- Operating System, CPU Type, RAM Etc
  • View the Computer’s Desktop Configuration: Date & Time, Volume, Background, Screen Settings, Screen Saver
  • Format a Diskette
  • Use Help 
  • Move Desktop Icons. 
  • Create a shortcut 
  • Recognize the Different Parts of a Desktop Window
  • Understand How to Re-size and Scale, Close a Desktop Window
  • Parts of a window
  • Moving windows, making windows active, moving between windows
  • Files and Folders, viewing files, attributes
  • Types of files
  • Copying, pasting moving, deleting, renaming  files
  • Selecting files together/apart
  • Searching for files
  • Using Wordpad
  • Save to the Desktop/ save to a floppy /save to a folder
  • Printing, changing printers

 

Downloads

Module 2 (right-click and select (Save Target as...)

Answers to Quizzes