Question 5
A student was given an assignment which involved typesetting a passage at home using a laptop computer. The student was required to bring the soft copy of the assignment in a flash drive with volume label STUDENT_ASSIGNMENT to the school.
Highlight the steps the student would take to:
(a) save the typeset work in the flash drive;
(b) create a folder named ASSIGNMENTS on the desktop of a computer in the school’s computer laboratory and save the typeset assignment in the folder;
(c) print the assignment from the folder created in 5(b).
The question tested candidates’ skills on computer operations.
Observation
The expected answer is:
(a) Steps in saving the documents in the flash drive
- insert the flash drive into the USB port on the laptop
- click on the Office button/File menu
- select “Save As”
- on the save As dialog box, select the flash drive named STUDENT_ASSIGNMENT
- type in/give a name for the document in the box labeled “File Name”
- click on the “Save” button/press enter
(b)Creating a named folder and saving the document in it:
- right-click on an empty space on the desktop
- point to New
- select folder
- type in the name “ASSIGNMENTS” as the folder name
- click on an empty space or press the ENTER key
- insert the flash drive into the USB port on the computer
- open the flash drive
- copy the file into the clipboard
- open the folder named ASSIGNMENTS
- paste the file from the clipboard into the folder
- open the folder named ASSIGNMENTS
- open the document to be printed or right-click and select print
- click on the print command or press “Ctrl + P”
- choose the printer to be used from the options
- click on print
(c)Printing the assignment from the folder:
The Chief Examiner reported that candidates’ responses in this question revealed poor practical skills among majority of those who attempted the question.