Purdue University Calumet
School of Nursing
Nursing Distance Education Orientation

Pre-Assessment
Survey of Computer and World Wide Web Navigation Skills

Instructions:  We are interested in knowing your computer and Internet skills at the beginning of the orientation.  Please respond to each item in the area below by clicking in each box and either typing in the requested information or clicking on the appropriate choice.  Thank you.

1.  Full Name?

    

2.  Age?

    

3.  Gender?

    

4.  Class Rank?

    

5.  Are you taking a distance education class via the Web for the first time this Spring 2002 semester?

    

6.  How would you rate your typing skills?

    

7.  Approximately how many years have you used a desktop or laptop computer?

    

8.  Please rate your degree of competence in the following computer skills.  

8a

 Use the mouse?
8b Start-up, reboot, and shut down a computer?
8c Start up a program stored on the hard drive or floppy disk?
8d Open, close, minimize menus and windows?
8e Create folders?
8f Create a word processing document?
8g Save a document on a hard drive or floppy diskette?
8h Retrieve a document from a hard drive or floppy diskette?
8i Copy/cut text from one source and paste it into another?
8j Print a document?
8k Close a document?
8l Reopen a document?
8m Use grammar and a spell checker to revise your document?
8n Create presentations using presentation management software like PowerPoint?
8o Import graphics or pictures?
8p Load software into your computer?

9.  Please rate your degree of competence in the following World Wide Web skills.

9a

 Log onto the Internet?
9b Log into e-mail?
9c Retrieve, read and delete e-mail messages?
9d Reply and send e-mail messages
9e Save e-mail messages
9f Send an attachment with your e-mail message
9g Post messages to discussion groups?
9h Locate and access information using a web search engine?
9i Access different URL's (web pages)?
9j Follow a link or a series of links through the web?
9k Navigate through the web with Back, Home, Forward, Reload buttons?
9l Download files from the web?
9m Access databases from the Purdue University Calumet library and other websites?
9n Use Boolean (and/or) terms to narrow the scope of your search?

10.  Please rate your degree of knowledge in the following areas:

10a

 Standard etiquette while using e-mail?
10b Evaluation of the credibility of information found on the web?
10c Experience with a virtual classroom management system like Web Course In A Box, WebCT or Blackboard?
10d Basic Internet copyright guidelines?
10e Purdue University Calumet academic integrity guidelines?