| Expectations | Skill should be achieved by |
| Students understand and practice proper care and handling of the laptops. | 1st month |
| Students bring their laptops to school fully charged and functioning. | 1st month |
| Students understand how to properly store their laptops in the classroom or locker. | 1st month |
| Students understand school rules around usage of laptops. | 1st month |
| Students understand processes and expectations around taking the laptops home. | 1st month |
| Students perform some initial troubleshooting tasks when their laptops experience problems | .5 yr |
| Students understand how to access the Internet and type in an address when given to them by their teachers. | .5 yr |
| Students understand and use the procedures established in their school of what to do when their laptops experience problems. | .5 yr |
| Students understand how to access their email and send a message. | .5 yr |
| Students understand how to access the school server to back up their work. | .5 yr |
| Students can use advanced email functions such as reply, forward and adding attachments. | .5 yr |
| Students understand and use the basic functions of a word processing program such as Save and Open, and can create a document with simple formatting such as Bold, Italics and Underline. | 1st yr |
| Students understand and use the basic functions of a presentation program such as Open, Save and Run, and can create a short presentation using text and Clip Art. | 1st yr |
| Students understand how to use an Internet search engine to conduct simple search and copy/paste information they find into a document or folder. | 1st yr |
| Students understand how to electronically pick up an assignment, send the completed work to their teachers and get it back when corrected. | 1st yr |
| Students can use the operating system to find misplaced files. | 1st yr |
| Students can search the Internet using advanced techniques. | 1st yr |
| Students can use advanced word processing features such as Tables, the Formatting Palette, Dictionary and Thesaurus. | 1st yr |
| Students can use advanced features of a presentation program such as adding sound, movies, transitions and animations. | 1st yr |
| Students understand the basic functions of the operating system such as creating folders, moving, copying and renaming files. | 1.5 yr |
| Students understand and use the basic functions of a spreadsheet program such as Open, Save, entering data and creating simple graphs. | 1.5 yr |
| Students can use more advanced word processing features such as inserting Clip Art, Word Art, double-spacing and Spell Check. | 1.5 yr |
