IT Essentials ClassDelta-Schoolcraft CTELearn

Lesson 1.4 · Opening

User accounts and profiles

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What are we learning?

Create local Windows accounts and explain standard users, administrators and user profiles.

How are we learning it?

  • User accounts Bell Ringer
  • Account and profile class discussion
  • Create and inspect Windows accounts in the VM lab

How do I know when I’ve learned it?

I can independently verify the correct account permissions and separate user profiles on my Windows VM.

Learning targets
  • Understand

    I can separate account source, permission level and user profile.

  • Apply & analyze

    I can create the assigned local users and verify their access and profiles.

Instructor planning · Goal, objectives & learning depth

Goal: Give each worker an appropriate identity and workspace while keeping administrative access separate from daily work.

Audience: IT Essentials high-school juniors and seniors.

Action: classify local, Microsoft and domain identities; distinguish standard and administrative access; explain a user profile.

Conditions: Given the fictional workstation request and independent account examples.

Successful evidence: Correctly identify the identity source and permission level separately, with an accurate explanation of what a profile contains

Audience: IT Essentials high-school juniors and seniors.

Action: create standard and administrative local accounts with Local Users and Groups (lusrmgr.msc), then inspect membership and first-sign-in profiles.

Conditions: Using the existing approved Windows 11 Pro guest, the guide and instructor-assigned lab credentials.

Successful evidence: Two verified standard employee accounts, one verified local support administrator and two distinct observed profiles, without host changes or secrets in evidence

Pearson objective 1.4. Four canonical glossary terms retain their exact names. Glossary terms and the three account-topic headings were rechecked October 1. The prior course review remains the detailed scope reference; this is not a claim of a fresh complete video review. NET commands are an instructor-requested practical extension.

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

Study the 4 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!

4 terms · Free practice

Study settings

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

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Instructor references, preparation & sources

Confirm Windows 11 Pro, existing guest administrator, private lab credentials and recovery point. Do not assign host account changes or enable remote access. New screenshots and a fresh provider review remain authoring gates.

Work inside the assigned standalone guest only. Keep the original administrator unchanged. Do not use production identities, enable remote access, change UAC, delete profiles or publish credentials.

Locally interpreted support for Pearson IT Specialist Device Configuration and Management objective 1.4, not complete exam coverage.

Least privilege and configuration verification are introductory connections, not compliance evidence.

  • Complete text instructions accompany the guide.
  • Canonical vocabulary uses the shared study tools.
  • Students can move back through steps and expand reasoning without losing session-only worksheet entries.
Teacher planning sequence

Bell Ringer

Reveal each answer and separate identity-source misconceptions from permission misconceptions.

Choose independently and explain a reason.

Can learners distinguish source, privilege and profile?

Class discussion

Explain the fictional request and connect Windows evidence to each decision.

Predict results and compare the explanation.

Can learners explain why the employees stay standard?

Hands-on lab

Observe the guest boundary, membership checks and profile verification.

Complete the approved work ticket and export actual evidence.

Do the recorded results match the guest?

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