Year 7, Introduction to Computing, Key Skills Workbook

Name:_______________________________________________Class:_________Confidence Levels 1=low, 5=highTest scores and targets

Skill

Start of term

Middle

End

Test name

Score

What do I need to do next?

Logging on and changing passwords

Using the Keyboard (including Enter, Tab, Shift, CTRL, Win keys)

Using the Mouse (left-click, right-click, scrolling, drag and drop)

Creating folders and making a folder structure

Opening applications like Chrome and Word from the desktop

Using the Start Menu and Searching for an application

Working with windows: switch, move, resize, maximise and minimize

Saving your work properly, moving files between folders

Logging on to Office.com and sending an email

Opening a browser, using tabs, searching and using web addresses

Total (/50)

1. Mouse, Taskbar, Start Menu, Creating Folders, Saving Files

1. Sign in without using the mouse! Remember, experts just use the keyboard to sign in.

I used these keys instead of the mouse: ______ and _______.

2. Now use the Mouse to explore the Start Menu. Click Start (the Window icon) and look at the applications. Edge and Chrome are browsers, while Word is an app for editing documents.

3. Click Start and just begin typing to search for an application. Try to start Word. Once in Word, try writing this sentence using the Shift key for capital letters.

“The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog”

What is special about this sentence? How fast can you type it?

I started Word by doing this: ________________

________________

This sentence is special because it contains …

________________

________________

________________

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4. Let’s create our Folders. Click on (Start)  and then the Documents icon.  This brings up the File Explorer.

Your files are in OneDrive.  

5. Click OneDrive then Home and New Folder. Call it “Year 7”.

You can also press Windows-E on the keyboard for File Explorer

6. Double-click the Year 7 folder to go into it. Make a new folder inside it called “Computing”. Your folders should look like this

I have made two folders called:

_________ and______________

7. Use the taskbar at the bottom to switch between applications. Click on any of the icons to switch to that application.

Try it now and switch to Word. Then switch back to Chrome.

Hint: You can also use Alt-Tab to switch apps.

I switched to Word by … __________

_______________

_______________

8. You will save your document in Word using a new keyboard shortcut. Find the “Ctrl” (control) key. It’s here

Now press Ctrl-S by holding down Ctrl and pressing S. This quickly saves your document.

Save it in your OneDrive, under Year 7 / Computing.

We use CTRL-S to save a document because it’s quicker than ___________

_______________

_______________

9. Left-click, double-click and right-click do different things.

· Left-click (usually just called click) opens or selects something. We used it before to switch to Word on the taskbar.

· Double-click launches an app from the desktop.

· Right-click usually opens a little menu of tasks. This is called the right-click menu or context menu. Try it now, right-click on any word in Word and choose “Synonyms”. What does this do?

· Click-and-Drag means holding the mouse button down while you move the mouse. We can drag files this way. Try dragging a file from Computing to Year 7 and back.

What do we do to launch an app?

______________

Right-click and then Synonyms in Word does this: _______________

_______________

We can move files by ____________

_______________

10. We can Maximize, Minimize and Resize any window. Try them all now.

· Maximize means make it fill the screen.

· Minimize means make it shrink down to the taskbar.

· Close means close the app. Be careful, you might lose your work, always save it first!

Which button makes the app fill the screen?

______________

What colour is the button that closes the app? ______

11. The school computers are on Windows 10. This is called the operating system, it’s what makes the computer work, and allows us to talk to it. Most desktop and laptop computers use Windows 10. Other operating systems (OSs) are below, do you know where you might find them? Match the OS to the type of computer with an arrow.

Windows 10

Desktop or Laptop

iOS

Samsung or Huawei Phone

MacOS

iPad or iPhone

Android

Kindle Fire

FireOS

Macbook

The Operating system lets you log on, save files and run apps

12. In Chrome or Edge go to this website: bit.ly/gcfwin10a and find this image. Click the red crosses to find out what each component is and fill in the boxes below.

Quiz - Mouse, Taskbar, Start Menu, Creating Folders, Saving Files

1. “Click” is short for which mouse operation?

a. Left-Click __

b. Right-Click__

c. Double-Click__

d. Shift-Click__

6. Right-click opens which menu?

a. Snack menu

b. Compact menu

c. Context menu

d. Close menu

8. How do we sign out?

a. Start > person icon > Sign Out

b. Press the power button

c. Right-click the desktop

d. Start > Documents

2. Where do you find Start, Search, currently open apps and the date and time?

a. Recycle Bin

b. Taskbar

c. Toolbar

d. Title Bar

7. Which of these are operating systems?

a. Samsung, Apple and Huawei

b. Word, Excel and Photoshop

c. Windows, iOS and Android

d. Hard Drive, CD and DVD

9. What must we do before signing out?

a. Save all our work

b. Power off

c. Tidy up

d. Planner out

3. Where do we save our files?

a. OneDrive

b. This PC

c. TwoDrive

d. Recycle Bin

Extension: Explain here how you sign in without the mouse, open Word and type a sentence containing capital letters, save it in the right place, then log off.

4. Circle the button that makes the window fill the screen:

By Mr A Harrison @mraharrisoncs 2020, CC BY-SA 2.0

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