IT Essentials ClassDelta-Schoolcraft CTELearn

Lesson 2.1 · Opening

Applications and optional features

Teacher controls

What are we learning?

Explain how applications and optional Windows features are installed, checked and removed.

How are we learning it?

  • Software Bell Ringer
  • Compare sources, permissions and installation choices
  • Install, test and remove software in the Windows VM

How do I know when I’ve learned it?

I can independently test Windows app and feature changes, explain my two-line script and accurately document each observed result.

Learning targets
  • Choose

    I can choose an approved source, package and permission level.

  • Verify

    I can test software changes and save evidence of the result.

Instructor planning · Goal, objectives & learning depth

Goal: Make an approved software change and verify its effect without changing unrelated apps or the host.

Audience: IT Essentials high-school juniors and seniors.

Action: distinguish software sources, package architecture, installation scope and feature purposes.

Conditions: Given Windows screenshots and original support scenarios.

Successful evidence: Choose an appropriate route and explain its purpose or limitation in each scenario

Audience: IT Essentials high-school juniors and seniors.

Action: install and uninstall an application using GUI and a scaffolded quiet MSI script, inspect its matching Windows Installer event, then add, test and remove a Windows capability.

Conditions: Using an approved Windows VM, original work ticket and guided checklist.

Successful evidence: Record observed app, script, event and feature results with task-specific screenshots; restore practice baseline and report failures honestly

Pearson 2.1 locally interpreted; Provider teaching-point review, authentic capture coverage and document acceptance tracked as open gates.

Vocabulary games support practice; finishing a game does not establish independent understanding or physical servicing skill. Formal grading remains outside this site.

Study the 5 lesson vocabulary terms

How do you want to study?

Touch, mouse, or keyboard. No grades or saved progress. Optional timer and temporary game points in Describe It!

5 terms · Free practice

Study settings

Practice at your own pace. No grades or saved results.

Read this lesson

Instructor references, preparation & sources

Verify clean guest baseline, recovery point, x64 MSI, authorized elevation and optional-feature download. Review capture/provider/manual accessibility gates before assigning.

Change only the assigned guest. Confirm that 7-Zip and XPS Viewer are absent before starting; do not remove existing software. Keep credentials private. Do not disable UAC, change policy, enable remote access or install host features. Stop and report blocked setup.

Original local interpretation of Pearson 2.1; provider teaching-point verification remains open.

Authorized change and verification are introductory connections, not compliance evidence.

  • Definition links and text alternatives.
  • One action at a time with readable numbered instructions.
  • Partial PDF export and honest blocked-task notes.
Teacher planning sequence

Bell Ringer

Ask students to justify their source and verification choices.

Choose independently and compare feedback.

Are shortcuts confused with installations?

Discussion

Use concept comparisons and genuine software controls to explain why.

Predict effects and distinguish tools.

Can students explain scope and evidence?

VM ticket

Support approved guest-only setup and troubleshooting.

Install, test, capture, remove and save the report.

Does evidence show actual results rather than only clicks?

Lesson draft · Illustrated real-VM guide and evidence worksheet. Instructor and document accessibility review remain required.