U3A COMPUTING GROUP QUESTIONNAIRE 2019 RESULTS

Desktop Computer, 7

Laptop Computer, 9

Tablet, 10

Smart Phone, 8

Smart Speaker, 5

Kindle, 4

Types of Devices Used

Apple MacOS, 7

Microsoft Windows 7, 1

Microsoft Windows 8, 1

Microsoft Windows 10, 8

Operating Systems Used

Email, 12

Surf the Internet, 12

Write Documents, 10Create Spreadsheets, 7

Create Presentations, 4

Watch Videos, 6

Edit Photos, 6

Edit Video, 3

Play Games, 2

Listen to Music, 3

Publisher, 1

Things you do on your Computer

Email, 11

Surf Internet, 11

Write Documents, 1

Watch Videos, 7

Edit Photos, 2

Play Games, 3

Listen to Music, 1

Home Automation, 2

Sat Nav, 2

Faceboook, 2

Youtube, 3

Things you do on your Tablet or Phone

Microsoft Word, 10

Microsoft Excel, 8

Microsoft Power Pont, 4

Microsoft OneNote, 2

Evernote, 1

Apple Pages, 1Apple Numbers, 1

Apple Keynote, 1

Apple Photos, 2

iTunes, 4

Adobe Photoshop, 2

Adobe Premiere, 1

Luminar Photo Editing, 1

Office365, 2

Publisher, 1

Google Drive, 2

Google Photos / Picasa, 3

Google Calender, 2

Apple Mac Aperture, 1

Adobe Lightroom, 1

Adobe Elements, 2

Microsoft Outlook, 2

iPlayer, 2

Which of these software programs do you use on your Computer, Tablet or Phone?

Facebook, 9

Facebook Messenger, 7

You Tube, 7Twitter, 3

Pinterest, 3

WhatsApp, 8

Linkedln, 2

Instagram, 3

Snapchat, 1Which of these social media networks do you use?

TALKTALK

GMX

APPLE .ME

YAHOO! MAIL

BT INTERNET

OUTLOOK.COM / HOTMAIL

GOOGLE GMAIL

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Which Email Service(s) do you Use?

INTERNET EXPLORER

MICROSOFT EDGE

FIREFOX

SAFARI

GOODLE CHROME

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Which Internet Browser do you use?

RESEARCH

TROUBLESHOOTING

BUYING A NEW ONE

WEB DEVELOPMENT

SOCIAL NETWORKING

GETTING MORE OUT OF WORD

CREATING PRESENTATIONS

EDITING VIDEO

SHOPPING

GETTING MORE OUT OF EXCEL

MOBILE APPS

MANAGING FILES ON MY COMPUTER

CONFIGURAING MY COMPUTER

PROTECTING MY INFORMATION

SHARE INFORMATION WITH OTHERS

EDITING PHOTOS

COMPUTER MAINTENANCE

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Which area of Computing would you like to learn more about?

• Creating Shortcuts to Access Programs

• More about social media – Facebook – how to use it?

• What is Twitter – should I use it – what does it do?

• Instagram – what is it?

• How to clean up an old Apple Mac before selling or reusing

• Which new computer should I buy? Windows, Mac or Chromebook

• How to remove unused programs on Windows and Mac

Feedback

• How best to use cloud storage

• Understand how data is shown from the cloud

• How to organise files in google drive – how this works

• How to organise photos in google photo

• Use of Charting / Graphs in Excel

• Formatting / Layout of Documents in Word

Feedback

• Possibly the use of exercises in the topics we cover?

• Practical exercises that help to cement the things we cover

• Should we change for format of the current meetings?

• Should we have laptops in the meetings?

Discussion