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Unit 1 The Online World

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Lesson 4 - Online Documents

(Student Book A Pg 7 - 9)

Starter
a. What does upload mean?
b. What does download mean?
c. What is an algorithm?
a.
its when you add a video or image to your profile to everyone to
see
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b.
when you download a file to your
device
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c.

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1. What is the most common method used to compress a file? What is the most
popular program used to achieve this?

Microsoft file compressor

2. What are the advantages of using online software packages?

a) They are sufficiently well documented

B) they organize files for you
C)

2. How does an automatic backup work?

By automating a backup through a regular backup system so the user does not
have back up the files manually

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3. Find out the meanings of these key terms

Version Control:
Is were there is a repository file is made and for when you update the file

Locked:
Its when the pc is locked until you type a
passwrord

File Permissions:
File permissions is when you need a password to access specific files

4. Match the following file permissions to the correct sentence.

This allows users to retrieve a document,
read it, edit it, add a new document or
delete or archive an existing document.

Read-only Access

This allows a user to look at and read a

document but not change it.

Read/Write Access

This allows the user to look at and read a

document but also to make changes to it.

Full Control

5. Write down what permissions each of these people should have.

Person

Permission

Computer Administrator

Full control

Teacher / Lecturer

Full control

Pupil / Student using a shared drive

Read/write access

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Unit 1 The Online World

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Plenary
a. What is a common format for compressing files?
b. What are the advantages of online documents?
c. What are the disadvantages of online documents?
a.

jpeg
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b.
anyone can access them and do the
work
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c.
you need internet access to view the or do the
work
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