National Qualifications Online - Core skills

Starting a program

This is an activity to try on your computer

Now that you are familiar with using the Dock, try this exercise.

  1. Move the mouse over the Dock again.
  2. Move the mouse over the Calculator icon.
  3. Click the mouse. A calculator will appear.
  4. Clicking on the icon instructs the computer to run the calculator program.

You now know how to find and run a program using the Dock.