General
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This course is the second of the eight courses in the collection of Computing for School - Communication and Networks. This course is an introduction to the operation of the WWW, and how to improve your web searches to find the exact information you require. This course is for anyone who wants to know more about searching on the web. It explains terms such as URLs and hyperlinks and will help you search more effectivly. It has examples of how easy it is to tricked by someone online.
Schools interested in using these materials as part of the National Curricula are free to do so. Additional teaching resources to support the delivery, manage classes and run quizzes are available for free to schools by registering to become a Cisco Academy. http://cs.co/ComputingForSchoolsCourse
This course is free and gives you the opportunity to earn a digital badge as a recognition of your learning. To access the course materials, pass the quizzes and collect the badge, you’ll need to enrol. If you already have an Open University account, you need to sign in before you enrol. Otherwise, it’s easy to create one.
Once you’ve signed in, return to this page and refresh it by clicking on the refresh button in your web browser – this usually looks like a recycling icon that features one arrow in a circle pointing to its tail, or two arrows in a circle pointing to each other. This will update your status so you can enrol by clicking on the ‘Enrol’ button. You are now enrolled and ready to start the course!
To see the other courses in this series, please visit the Computing for School's collection page.
Please send us corrections or comments about this course to ciscocourse@computingatschool.org.uk.
