Course Outlines
INTERNET TERMINOLOGY
- World Wide Web (www) vs. the internet
- Web address or URL (uniform resource locator)
- Hyperlink
- ISP (internet service provider)
- Web sites and URLs
- What is a web browser?
- What is a search engine?
- Really simple syndication (RSS) feeds
- Podcasts
BASIC BROWSING TECHNIQUES
- Opening the Microsoft Internet Explorer
- The Microsoft Internet Explorer icons
- What is a web site home page?
- Setting a home (i.e. opening) page
- Displaying a specific web page
- Forcing a web page to display within a new window
- Forcing a web page to display within a new tab
- Switching between tabs
- Closing a tab
- Stopping a page downloading (once it has started downloading)
- What is web page refreshing?
- Refreshing a page download
- Displaying help information
NAVIGATING THROUGH WEB PAGES
- Navigating through web sites
- Going directly to a web page
- Using the back and forward button
- Visiting the home page
SEARCHING THE WEB
- Using keywords and phrases
- Don’t use a single search word
- Searching using specific words
- Searching using an exact phrase
- Advanced google searching
- Searching by excluding a word(s)
- Searching by date
- Searching by file format
- Online encyclopaedias
- Online dictionaries
FAVOURITES
- What is a favourite (bookmark)?
- Adding a web page to your favourites list.
- Adding a web site to the favourites bar
- Opening a favourite
- Deleting a favourite
- Creating a new folder within your favourites list
- Renaming a favourite
- Deleting a favourite
FEEDS
- What are feeds?
- Subscribing to a feed
- Viewing subscribed feeds
- Un-subscribing from feeds
SAVING FILES
- Copying an image from a web page to a document
- Saving a picture within a web page to your hard disk
- Copying a web address to a document
- Downloading files from a web page to a document
PRINTING ISSUES
- Previewing a web page before printing
- Setting up your page
- Changing your web page margins
- Printing a web page
- Printing selected text on a web page
SECURITY & PRIVACY ISSUES
- Internet security & password logons
- Risks associated with online activity
- Viruses
- Virus checkers
- Malware, Spyware, Worms & Trojans
- Spam
- Scareware
- Firewall
- Pop-up blocking
- What is website caching?
- Emptying the cache
- Cookies
- Information bar
- ‘Smartscreen filter’ protection
- Protected sites
- Digital certificates
- Encryption
- Secure web sites and https