Course specifications

Course number: 60-530

Software version number: 4.0

Course length: 1/2 day(s)

Hardware/software required to run this course You will need 12 megabytes (MB) of Random Access Memory (RAM) if you are using Windows NT Workstation 4.0. See your reference manual for hardware considerations that apply to your specific hardware setup. In addition, you will need printers if you want to print the documents created in the course.

Course description

Overview: Students will learn how to use Windows NT Workstation 4.0 to accomplish tasks they have been doing in Windows 3.1.

Prerequisites: Windows 3.1: The Desktop or Windows 3.1: Orientation or equivalent knowledge.

Delivery method: Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Benefits: Students will learn how to transition from the Windows 3.1 graphical user interface to the Windows NT Workstation 4.0 graphical user interface.

Target student: Students enrolling in this course should understand how to use the Windows 3.1 interface and techniques such as using the mouse, managing files, and multitasking.

Performance-based objectives

• Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Identify desktop objects and set object properties by using the Control Panel.

• Locate local and shared resources by using My Computer and the Network Neighborhood.

• Work with multiple applications and files by using the taskbar, Quick View, and the Documents menu.

• Manage folders and documents by using the Windows NT Explorer and the create, move, copy, and find commands.

• Print and delete files.

• Customize the user interface by changing taskbar and desktop properties and by annotating Help.

Course content

Lesson 1: Introduction to the Windows NT Workstation user interface

• Orientation to the Windows NT Workstation user interface

• Examining the Control Panel

Lesson 2: Using My Computer and the Network Neighborhood

• Examining disk drives and system folders

• Creating shortcuts

• Orientation to the Network Neighborhood

Lesson 3: Running multiple programs

• Switching among multiple active tasks

Lesson 4: Managing documents and folders

• Orientation to Windows NT Explorer

• Manipulating folders and documents

• Finding folders and documents

Lesson 5: Printing, recycling, and deleting

• Printing files

• Using the Recycle Bin

Lesson 6: Customizing Windows NT Workstation

• Changing taskbar properties

• Changing desktop properties

• Using Help

• Shutting down Windows NT Workstation