University of Arkansas at Little Rock

You need the following skills in order to participate in an online course. If you do not have any or one of the following skills, then you can simply visit the Basic Skills Tutorials home page.

Using email

• Sending and receiving messages to individuals or lists
• Creating or opening attachments to e-mail
• Printing, saving, and deleting e-mail messages

Using word processing software

• Saving, deleting, moving, renaming, and printing document files
• Creating and managing document folders

Using the internet

• Searching the web for information
• Downloading and printing information from websites
• Downloading, viewing, and/or printing PDF files

The skills listed above are meant to be baseline criteria, and in no way supersede any criteria set forth by any Instructor and/or degree plan. Students should be aware that further requirements (such as prerequisites, class standing, etc.), software, and skills may be required and should prepare themselves as such. The best way for a student to do this is to consult an academic advisor and to sign into online classes as early as possible to learn of any special requirements.

Go to

• Minimum Equipment Requirements
• Basic Skills Tutorials