A location on your computer where you can store and organize files.
What is a folder?
100
A popular web browser and can be used in class. It is recommended for use with your Google apps for CPU Core.
What is Google Chrome?
100
A pointing device used to maximize the benefits of a graphical user interface.
What is a mouse?
100
Some common ones include External or Internal Hard Drives, USB drives, CD’s, DVD’s, and Smart Phones.
What are storage devices?
200
A portion of the computer’s hard drive that you are working on that you have access to save files to. Any other portion of the physical machine you are on besides your network folder and the this location restricts saving.
What is the Thawspace or E-Drive?
200
A small picture that is displayed on the screen intended to graphically represent a specific task or piece of software.
What is an icon?
200
A folder stored on a shared location.
What is a network folder?
200
A feature that allows you to scroll up and down, left or right in order to view portions of your work area.
What is a scrollbar?
200
A value used by an application when it is not instructed to use any other.
What is default?
300
A lightweight transportable microcomputer designed for easy carrying and to be used on a person’s lap.
What is a laptop?
300
This requires the user to respond to a message before continuing. Normally the response is in the form of a yes, no, or cancel.
What is a dialog box?
300
The Google app that is used to build a website or e-portfolio.
What is Google Sites?
300
An action performed using the mouse when you wish to move files from one place to another on your computer screen.
What is Drag and Drop
300
Examples of this include a keyboard, a mouse, a joystick, and a scanner.
What are input devices?
400
Examples include jpg, doc, pdf, ppt, and wmv.
What is a file extension?
400
A list of options presented to the user that enables him or her to perform a specific task.
What is a menu?
400
Sites, Drive, Play, Maps, Slides, Docs, and Wallet are examples of these.
What are Google Apps?
400
Entering any of your files into permanent memory for later use or modification.
What is saving?
400
An output device that resembles a small TV and is used to display images generated by the computer.
What is a monitor?
500
The main device for entering information such as letters or numbers into the computer.
What is a keyboard?
500
A flashing rectangle or line on the screen that shows exactly where you are working.
What is a cursor?
500
Google's online storage app that allow you to store files and access them from any device that can connect to a web browser.
What is Google Drive?
500
An input device that uses optical character recognition.