All new undergraduate and postgraduate students of the University of Glasgow must obtain certification of having reached the IT Baseline.
The Baseline currently consists of the following skills, awarenesses and knowledge:
- Logging on and off a network
- Familiarity with a graphical user interface
- Essential File Management
- Use of electronic mail
- Basic Word Processing
- Insertion of non-text objects into documents
- Use of on-line library facilities
- Location, retrieval and evaluation of online resources
- Basic use of a spreadsheet
- Integrating IT applications
- Use of Help systems and documentation
- Consideration of appropriate use of IT facilities
- Adoption of a responsible approach to use of IT facilities
- Responsible use of IT facilities
I have to sit a test in this stuff before I can go on into 2nd year. It’s absolutely ridiculous. As if I can’t do that stuff! You have to show you can send and recieve email in the test, but to arrange the time and date of your test they email you!
I have already done a module here as part of my course on various bits of software and applications like excell. In all of my highers I had to use word and I ran the school website and now of course my own.
It’s hard to belive anyone could get into uni now without being having these ’skills’ because you can’t avoid them at school, so why they feel the need to test people on them I do not know.
Have a look at the ‘online study aids’ I have to be able to do to pass and then give me your sympathy for this beaurocratic nonsense.