Typing & Computer Basics

Go from nervous around a computer to independently confident with one.

Course fee: ₦20,000
Duration: 2 weeks
Sessions: 4 · 2 per week
You leave with: Demonstrated independence

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About this course

Give a complete beginner confidence using a computer — turning on and off correctly, managing files, using the internet safely, creating and using email, and typing at a speed that makes every other course possible.

This is the on-ramp course. Every other practical skill on this page assumes you can sit down at a machine, find a file, download something without breaking it and send an email with an attachment. Four sessions remove that fear permanently.

What you will be able to do

Use a computer independently: power, login, windows and applications
Create, name, organise, move and back up files and folders
Search the internet effectively and download safely
Create and use an email account with attachments and online forms
Type with the correct finger placement and measurable speed

The deliverable

Certificate requirement

Demonstrated independence

You finish by performing a set of computer tasks on your own — create a folder, save a document into it, find a file online, download it, attach it to an email and send it — while the instructor observes and signs off. No prompts, no help.

How the course is assessed

Level 1

Know

You can explain the concept, name the tools involved and recognise the difference between doing it well and doing it carelessly.

Level 2

You can perform the task independently, without the instructor repeating the steps, and fix the obvious problems when they appear.

Level 3

Create

You can use the skill to produce something a real person would pay for — a document, a design, a website, a report, a repaired machine.

Week by week

2 weeks, 4 practical sessions. Click any session to read the complete class lecture — objectives, taught content, the instructor demonstration, practice, mistakes to avoid, homework and the marking rubric.

Week 1 — The machine and the hands

What the hardware is and what it does, correct power and login procedure, the desktop environment, then keyboard and mouse control with typing drills.

Week 2 — Files, internet and digital independence

File and folder management, safe downloading and searching, then email, forms, online meetings, cloud storage and scam awareness — ending in an unaided practical.

Typing & Computer Basics — questions

The things prospective students actually ask before enrolling.

Am I too old for this course?+

No. Our oldest students are in their sixties and seventies, and they usually finish this course faster than they expected because the material is practical rather than theoretical. The only thing that matters is that you get supervised time on a machine, which is exactly what the sessions provide.

Do I need my own laptop?+

Not for this course. Practice happens on academy machines during the sessions, and the typing drills can be done on any keyboard. If you plan to continue into Microsoft Office, Graphic Design or Web Design, you will want your own machine or reliable access to one from week one of that course.

How fast will I be able to type by the end?+

Two weeks establishes correct finger placement and home-row habit, which is the part that cannot be self-taught reliably. Most learners leave typing accurately at 15–25 words per minute and continue improving on their own afterwards. Reaching 40+ wpm typically takes another month of daily 15-minute drills, and we give you the drill plan to do it.

Will you teach me how to use a smartphone too?+

The course is built around a computer because file management, typing and desktop workflow are the transferable skills. However the email, cloud storage, scam-awareness and online-form sessions apply directly to phones, and we cover the phone equivalents as we go so you are not left translating on your own.