Know Your Computer Checklist

  1. Identify elements of the desktop and describe properties
  2. Identify the operating system version
  3. Identify the amount of RAM available
  4. Identify/access local hard drive, DVD or CD-ROM drives, and network drives
  5. Identify the amount of space available on any storage device
  6. Start computer and peripheral devices
  7. Restart computer (warm boot) and force quit an application
  8. Select a network printer
  9. Use controls (clock; desktop; monitor, sound and mouse settings)
  10. Find a file on local drives
  11. Make alias or shortcut of an existing file and move to desktop
  12. Get information or determine properties of a file
  13. Create, name and move a new folder
  14. Log on to a network and protection software, if present
  15. Move, copy, rename and delete a file or a folder
  16. Open, close, move, minimize, maximize and resize windows; use scrollbars
  17. Manipulate window views (by icon, list and other attributes)
  18. Identify filename extensions for WP, SS, DB, Web and other documents
  19. Use special menus (Taskbar, Start)
  20. Quit out of applications, logout and shutdown correctly

Online Surveys and Quizzes

Easy Test Maker – is a free online test generator to help you create your tests. With Easy Test Maker you can create multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false questions all on the same test. You can also insert instructions and divide your test into multiple sections.

http://www.easytestmaker.com

Zoomerang Surveys – this is the free version. You can have up to 30 questions per survey using multiple pages. You can create survey questions and answers in almost any language. Reporting on a maximum of 100 responses per survey and the survey data is only stored for ten days after your survey is posted. There is limited analysis capability.

http://www.zoomerang.com

DiscoverySchool.com – this quiz center is the most flexible and comprehensive quiz-making application on the Web and it’s free. All you have to do is join My discovery and set up a Custom Classroom.

http://school.discovery.com/quizcenter/quizcenter.html

Hot Potatoes – this site includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web.

http://hotpot.uvic.ca

Quizlab.com – 30 day free trial

http://www.quizlab.com

Free On-Line Surveys – with this account you can try out most of the features for 10 days (max 50 respondents per survey)

https//free-online-surveys.co.uk/welcome.asp

Quia.com – quizzes, surveys, create activities – 30 day free trial

http://www.quia.com

4 Teachers – Checklists, RubiStar Quiz maker, RubiStar Rubric maker and other items. http://www.4teachers.org

Survey Monkey – Intelligent survey software for serious primates of all species.  SurveyMonkey has a single purpose: to enable anyone to create professional online surveys quickly and easily.

http://www.surveymonky.com

This collection of survey resources and comments is from City University’s Masters in Teaching Program