All students are required to have certain technology competencies before beginning their professional program at the School of Dental Medicine.

Instructors will assume that you have the following skills on the first day of class:

• Ability to create directories
• Ability to find files
• Ability to save files to removable media
• Ability to use a web browser and search the Internet
• Ability to bookmark web pages for future reference
• Ability to play audio and video files
• Ability to download, view & edit files
  
• Familiarity with a word processing program
• Familiarity with a computer operating system (Windows or MacOS)
• Have and use an e-mail account
• Ability to send and receive e-mail attachments
• Ability to troubleshoot basic technology issues
• Familiarity with UB's Information Technology Orientation course
• Ability to use the SDM eCollections Curriculum DVD--a.k.a. Bookshelf. (basic training in the application will be provided during orientation). For more information and to preview the software, see the links below.
  
  Demonstration: http://downloads.vitalbook.com/images/flash_demo/
  Online Training Module: http://downloads.vitalbook.com/images/training_module/
  
  
  To acquire these skills, students may take courses at a community continuing education program, a computing-training center, or community college. These skills can also be self taught with the help of a textbook (such as the Visual Quickstart series), the instruction manual for the specific software, or completion of online tutorials.