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Computer
Competency - First Year Requirement: Two Components
Students
are required to complete both the Basic Skills & Word
Processing Component and the Library Skills
Component within two academic terms of entering UST. The requirement
covers both new freshman and transfer students.
Failure
to complete the requirements on time results in loss of registration
priority. Loss of registration priority results in registration
time being pushed back after everyone else, and can make it
difficult to register for popular or hard-to-get classes. If
a student has already lost registration priority, registration
priority may be restored for the following academic term if
the two requirements are completed by the mid-point of the current
term.
Basic
Skills & Word Processing (BSWP) Component
This
requirement covers:
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Copying text and pictures from the Web
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Word Processing (MS Word)
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Email and Attachments
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Blackboard
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The
BSWP test is provided for your convenience online - follow the
link at the bottom of this page to start the test.
Questions
about the BSWP component? Please contact the IRT Tech Desk at
(651) 962-6230 or email IRTHelp@stthomas.edu
Library
Skills Component
This
requirement covers how to use CLICnet, the UST Libraries’ online
catalog; how to best use an online periodical database; how
to evaluate Web sites; and includes exercises on each concept.
There are three options for completing this requirement:
Questions
about the Library Skills component?
Please contact Jan Orf at (651) 962-5007 or email:
jmorf@stthomas.edu
1.
Some students will complete this requirement in some sections
of the following courses:
Eng.
111, 112, 190
QMCS 220
Theo 101, 200, 204, 210, 215, 220
PoliSci 105
Psych 111
Soc 100, 110
Hist 111
Music 115, 130, 222
Comm 100
2.
The course is also available online through Blackboard (My UST).
Allow 45-75 minutes to complete the exercises. Follow the link
at the bottom of this page to start the test.
3.
Individual sessions are also available. Contact Earl Belisle,
(651-962-5004, embelisle@stthomas.edu ) to schedule a time.
To
take either of these components online click here
to start the test!
Second
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