Do you enjoy working and learning individually rather than as a part of a group?
Yes
No
4.
Do you have good time management skills?
Yes
No
5.
Can you set schedules and stick with them to get your work completed on time?
Yes
No
6.
Are you willing to seek help when you have a question?
Yes
No
7.
Do you usually read and understand the textbook without help?
Yes
No
8.
Can you communicate adequately in writing?
Yes
No
9.
Can you understand and follow written instructions?
Yes
No
10.
Are you comfortable participating in a class where you are not physically present and may not know the instructor or the other students?
Using a Computer:
Yes
No
11.
Do you know how to turn on a computer, monitor, and printer?
Yes
No
12.
Do you know how to start up Internet Explorer?
Yes
No
13.
Do you know how to navigate between programs and tasks?
Yes
No
14.
Do you know how to use a mouse and move the cursor around on the screen?
Yes
No
15.
Can you locate the up/down arrows, delete key, and back-slash key?
Yes
No
16.
Can you insert and remove a disk, CD/DVD disk and USB drive (Jump Drive)?
Yes
No
17.
Do you know how to properly shut down the computer?
Word Processing: (Microsoft Word is the required word processor for all online courses)
Yes
No
18.
Do you know how to create a word file, write a document and save the file/document to a disk or to a file?
Yes
No
19.
Do you know how to use the spell checker?
Yes
No
20.
Are you familiar with using the keyboard commands or the mouse to highlight, delete, cut, copy and paste text, make it bold or change font size?
Accessing the Internet:
Yes
No
21.
Do you know how to access the web?
Yes
No
22.
Are you familiar with being able to set and modify your browser setting for optimum access to your blackboard course site?
Yes
No
23.
Do you know how to enter a URL address?
Yes
No
24.
Do you know how to use a search engine, like google.com or yahoo.com, to locate sites that are needed for research?
Yes
No
25.
Do you know how to save information from the Internet to the desktop or to a disk?
e-mail
Yes
No
26.
Do you have a valid e-mail address?
Yes
No
27.
Can you enter your e-mail address?
Yes
No
28.
Do you know how to create, send , receive, and reply within an e-mail?
Yes
No
29.
Can you print and save e-mail messages?
Yes
No
30.
Do you know how to attach a word document to an e-mail?
Discussion Board:
Yes
No
31.
Do you know how to post messages to a discussion board forum?
Yes
No
32.
Do you know how to reply to a posted message?
Yes
No
33.
Do you know how to attach a word document in a discussion board forum?
Digital Drop Box:
Yes
No
34.
Do you know that the digital drop box consists of 2 steps: posting and then submitting?
Yes
No
35.
Do you know how to attach documents such as assignments and research papers?
Yes
No
36.
Do you understand that the dates will be posted on the date of submission?
RESULTS
All NO-
The benefits of online learning could be outweighed by the difficulties you encounter and indicate that your chances for success would be greater in a traditional course setting.
All YES-
You are a great candidate for online learning!
Combination of both -
It is possible that you still have the characteristics of being an effective online learner but may struggle in some areas. You might want to consider strengthening your weaknesses and take a course in the classroom before taking an online course.
