Skills inventory for Office 2003: New Features

Use the following form to gauge students’ skill level entering the class (students have copies in the introductions of their student manuals). For each skill listed, have students rate their familiarity from 1 to 5, with five being the most familiar. Emphasize that this is not a test. Rather, it’s intended to provide students with an idea of where they’re starting from at the beginning of class. If a student is wholly unfamiliar with all the skills, he or she might not be ready for the class. A student who seems to understand every skill, on the other hand, might need to move on to the next course in the series.

Skill	1	2	3	4	5
Using Web-based Assistance
Downloading templates
Downloading clip art
Faxing through the Internet
Using Office Marketplace
Searching the Web for Office updates
Discussing Instant Messaging
Using the Research task pane
Using enhanced accessibility in Word 2003
Using Reading Layout view
Inserting voice comments
Applying formatting restrictions
Protecting a document for tracked changes
Applying smart tags to cells in Excel
Using smart tags in Power Point
Using the Thesaurus
Packaging a presentation for CD
Setting smart tags in Access
Inheriting properties
Viewing database object dependencies
Creating database backups
Checking for errors in forms
Getting context-sensitive help
Creating and using search folders in Outlook
Integrating the Calendar with Contacts
Assign a flag to a message
Exporting and importing XML documents in Access
Exporting a database object as an XML document with its XSL file
Using the XML Source task pane
Importing XML data into a workbook
Exporting data from a workbook to an XML file
Creating an XML document in Word
Inserting an XML document
Attaching an XML schema to a Word document