Elements and Performance Criteria
- Access the internet
- Open an internetbrowser and set a home page of personal choice by setting internetoptions
- Adjust the display of the internetbrowser to suit personal requirements
- Modify toolbar to meet user and internetbrowser needs
- Access a particular website, note privacy and other conditions of use and retrieve data
- Enter a uniform resource locator (URL), in the address line of the internet browser
- Search the internet
- Locate and select appropriate search engine and define search expressions based on the data required
- Save search expression results and present them in a report according to the information requirements
- Create a bookmark within the internetbrowser or a link for the required web page and save it in a bookmark folder
- Modify the internetbrowser options for printing and print a web page
- Close the internet browser
- Research and apply 'netiquette' principles
- Select searchengine and using key word search research the concept of netiquette (or web etiquette)
- Review rules of good online manners from at least two netiquette sites
- Develop a personal list of netiquette principles to be applied to email and newsgroup discussions
- Check that these are consistent with organisational policies
- Send and organise messages
- Open an email application package and create a new email message
- Add addressee to the email message
- Compose the text of an email message according to organisational guidelines
- Create and add an automatic signature for the user, so that it appears automatically in every new email message that the user creates
- Attach files to the email message, using the attachment feature
- Determine and set a priority for an email message and spell check and edit text as required
- Send the email message
- Reply to received messages and forward as appropriate, using the carbon copy and forward features
- Open and save an attachment to the relevant folder
- Search for an email message and set a priority setting or delete as necessary
- Sort inbox according to sender's name and date received
- Save email messages in a folder
- Compact folder to save space
- Print an email message
- Create an address book