Skills inventory for Publisher 2003: Advanced

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

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5

Creating a newsletter based on a built-in Publisher design

 

 

 

 

 

Modifying the layout and contents of a newsletter

 

 

 

 

 

Converting a newsletter to a Web site

 

 

 

 

 

Creating a Web site based on a built-in Publisher design

 

 

 

 

 

Applying a background texture to a Web page

 

 

 

 

 

Editing and updating a personal information set

 

 

 

 

 

Inserting logos, pictures, and borders into a Web page

 

 

 

 

 

Adding background sounds and motion clips to Web pages

 

 

 

 

 

Adding a preformatted form page to a Web site

 

 

 

 

 

Adding form controls and modify form control properties

 

 

 

 

 

Changing the title of a Web page

 

 

 

 

 

Creating text-based, object-based, and button-based hyperlinks

 

 

 

 

 

Modifying and remove hyperlinks

 

 

 

 

 

Creating, modifying, and removing hot spots

 

 

 

 

 

Saving a Publisher Web page in HTML format

 

 

 

 

 

Understanding file transfer protocol (FTP) and ISPs

 

 

 

 

 

Creating and editing a Publisher address list

 

 

 

 

 

Performing a mail merge

 

 

 

 

 

Sorting and filtering a recipient list

 

 

 

 

 

Importing Word documents and Excel worksheets