Get oriented to a device
Identify the basic controls, settings, input methods, accessibility options, and safe shutdown or restart steps on a device.
Getting Started on a Computer
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During the course primer, listen for ideas that change how you approach “Get oriented to a device.” Pause once to capture a useful point, then apply it while producing a device orientation card with labeled controls, one accessibility preference, and a safe recovery routine.What this lesson is really solving.
Identify the basic controls, settings, input methods, accessibility options, and safe shutdown or restart steps on a device. This is lesson 1 because later decisions depend on a device orientation card with labeled controls, one accessibility preference, and a safe recovery routine. A device is a workspace with inputs, storage, settings, and recovery—not a mystery box. Use your own numbers, files, environment, and constraints so the result survives outside the course.
Understand the idea before touching the steps.
A device is a workspace with inputs, storage, settings, and recovery—not a mystery box.
Follow these steps in order.
Take the action in each step; then use the deliverable below to prove the lesson is finished.
- 1
Locate the power, volume, network, battery, keyboard, pointer or touch controls, and help or settings area.
- 2
Open accessibility settings and test one display, input, caption, or audio option that could reduce friction.
- 3
Practice opening, switching, closing, restarting, and safely signing out of a non-sensitive application.
See the standard in context.
Chris increases text size, turns on captions, and writes down how to return to the setting after using a library computer. The learner saves a device orientation card with labeled controls, one accessibility preference, and a safe recovery routine and notes the evidence or assumption behind the choice so it can be reviewed and improved later.
Inspect before you move on.
- The finished work visibly includes a device orientation card with labeled controls, one accessibility preference, and a safe recovery routine.
- You tested the work against this common failure: Changing a setting without recording the old state or using a shared device as if every account and file belongs to you.
- Another person could verify this mastery standard: You can find the settings and controls needed to start, adjust, save, close, and recover from a basic problem.
Your deliverable
A device orientation card with labeled controls, one accessibility preference, and a safe recovery routine.
Watch for this
Changing a setting without recording the old state or using a shared device as if every account and file belongs to you.
Prove it—don’t just recognize it.
You can find the settings and controls needed to start, adjust, save, close, and recover from a basic problem.
Quick knowledge check
Answer from the lesson—not from confidence alone. Score at least 2 of 3 to unlock completion.
This curriculum-aligned check is scored automatically and stored with your account when signed in. It is an objective learning signal, but it has not yet been independently validated as a standardized assessment.
Tools, templates, and references
Pass the knowledge check above first.
Completion unlocks after a score of 2 out of 3. Then confirm that you produced the lesson deliverable.
Go to the knowledge check