IT Skills Survey Results

Table of Contents

Demographics
1. Do you expect students to use information technology?
2. Word processing
3. Interpreting an existing spreadsheet
4. Designing and implementing an existing spreadsheet
5. Using an existing database
6. Designing and implementing a database
7. Communicating electronically

- Email
- Listserv
- Newsgroups
- Web-based Communication (e.g. Townhall)
- Groupware

8. Managing files or data

- File transfer protocol (FTP)
- File conversion
- File compression/decompression
- Generating charts and reports
- Creating templates and macros

9. Using the World Wide Web

- Accessing instructor or course Web site
- Using WWW search engines for basic information retrieval
- Using advanced functions of WWW search engines
- Designing a Website - basic (e.g. HTML)
- Designing a Website - advanced (e.g. Applets)

10. (Other) research skills

- Using online GMU library catalog (Polaris)
- Conducting searches using non-Web-based electronic databases

11. Other types of software

- Graphics packages
- Statistical packages
- Mathematical packages

12. Programming
13. Presentation

- Desktop publishing
- Electronic presentation
- Audio presentation
- Video presentation
- Scanning
- Multimedia presentation


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