Welcome to the Bridges to Benefits Basic Digital Literacy modules! This site was designed to give people the information they want and need to navigate their computers to the web.
We have all the information you need to get started – from selecting and computer and using a mouse, to the basics of using email and using an internet browser.
While you can explore each of these posts as stand-alone guides, they do build upon each other and rely on concepts from previous posts.
To that end, we recommend that you explore the posts in the following order:
1. Computer Basics
- 1.1 What is a Computer?
- 1.2 Selecting a Computer
- 1.3 Using a Mouse
- 1.4 Using a Keyboard
- 1.5 Cut, Copy, Paste
- 1.6 Common Menu Options
2. Internet Basics
- 2.1 What is the Internet?
- 2.2 Connecting to the Internet
- 2.3 Using a Browser
- 2.4 Using Search Engines
- 2.5 Internet Safety
3. Email Basics
