Level 1 Essential Digital Skills DSKAUIC2103 Juliet Bellagambi
Weekly outline
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Essential Digital Skills Qualification
What is the purpose of this qualification?
The qualifications have the following purposes:
- To enable learners to develop the digital skills they need for life, work, or further study as set out in the National standards for essential digital skills.
- To provide reliable evidence of learners’ attainment in relation to the National standards for essential digital skills.
The 5 skills areas are:
- Using devices and handling information (includes how to store information)
- Creating and editing
- Communicating online (such as via Social Media)
- Transacting (buying) online activities
- Being responsible, safe and legal online
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AP BKSB mapping document that details the skills assessed in each of the five assessments at Entry 3 and Level 1. This includes the most relevant BKSB materials to help support your learning.
*Please refer to the Level 1 mapping guide for this course*
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Welcome to ESDQ Autumn course and thank you all for completing your initial Diagnostic assessments and enrolment.
Your main learning platform and resource is BKSBlive, however this moodle course has been set up as your virtual classroom to support your extended learning within ACL and to share other non BKSB resources you may find helpful.
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Please complete the ILP within the first week of the start of your course. The Individual Learning Plan will give you the opportunity to keep track of your learning and help set your individual goals and objectives.
The ILP is a useful tool for tracking your progress throughout the course and for evaluating the goal you set at the start of the course. Please keep your ILP up to date as it will help you and your tutor to keep on track so your needs can me met.
*Press preview quiz now to begin completing your ILP*
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Learn My Way is a website of free online courses, built by Good Things Foundation to help people develop their digital skills.
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A computer keyboard is a typewriter-style device which uses an arrangement of buttons or keys to act as mechanical levers or electronic switches. Keyboard keys (buttons) typically have a set of characters engraved or printed on them, and each press of a key typically corresponds to a single written symbol.
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The Internet is a vast network that connects computers all over the world. Through the Internet, people can share information and communicate from anywhere with an Internet connection.
Online communication refers to the ways in which individuals as well as computers can communicate with each other over a computer network, such as the Internet. These ways include:
- chat rooms
- filling out online forms
- forums
- instant messaging (IM)
- posting comments on websites, such as blogs
- social networking sites
- VoIP
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An online form, also known as a web form or an HTML form, is an interactive web page that allows for user input. The data received through the form is then automatically sent to a server for processing. In collecting data and obtaining the contact information of users, online forms help capture leads.
Have a go at completing the following forms:
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Being safe and responsible online or digitally means having the online social skills to take part in online community life in an ethical and respectful way.
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Online transaction is a payment method in which the transfer of fund or money happens online over electronic fund transfer. Online transaction process (OLTP) is secure and password protected. Three steps involved in the online transaction are Registration, Placing an order, and, Payment.
You will be able to:
• interact with online transactional services (online shopping, finance, utilities, government services, media, etc)
• upload and download documents
• manage online account settings and preferences.
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Debit cards are used to pay for goods in shops and to withdraw money at cash machines. ... A credit card, such as Barclaycard, isn't linked to your current account and is a credit facility that enables you to buy things immediately, up to a pre-arranged limit, and pay for them at a later date.
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Go to one of the following online banking websites and explore how to set up, log in and manage online banking.
DO NOT CREATE A NEW ACCOUNT.
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Open, read and save information from/to a file using appropriate naming conventions; work with files and folders to store, organise and retrieve information using local and remote storage.
Know what is meant by hardware, software, operating systems and applications; locate and install an application; apply system settings, including those for accessibility:
- Know main features and uses of devices.
- Know the role of operating systems and applications.
- Know that programs and data require storage, and that different devices have different storage capacities.
- Know how to find and install an application.
- Know how to select and adjust system settings.
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A computer is a machine that accepts data as input, processes that data using programs, and outputs the processed data as information. Many computers can store and retrieve information using hard drives. Computers can be connected together to form networks, allowing connected computers to communicate with each other.
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The word "app" is an abbreviation for "application." It's a piece of software which comes pre-installed on your device or it's software that you install yourself. Apps typically run locally on your device, but can also run through a web browser.
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Some examples include versions of Microsoft Windows (like Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP), Apple's macOS (formerly OS X), Chrome OS, BlackBerry Tablet OS, and flavours of Linux, an open-source operating system.
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A subfolder is a folder stored inside another folder. Subfolders help you organize your files more completely. Each subfolder should be used to store files related to each other. For example, you might have one folder for files related to a job search.
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