The Cisco CCNA® Discovery curriculum provides foundational networking knowledge, practical experience, opportunities for career exploration, and soft-skills development to help students prepare for entry-level careers in IT and networking. The curriculum offers a hands-on approach to learning, and uses interactive tools and easy-to-follow labs to help students learn the general theory needed to build networks.

CCNA Discovery is designed to be offered as an independent, standalone curriculum or combined with programs offered by secondary schools, technical schools, colleges, and universities. Students who enroll in CCNA Discovery are not expected to have any previous technical skills or knowledge, aside from basic PC skills.

CCNA Discovery course, Networking for Home and Small Businesses. The goal of this course is to introduce you to fundamental networking concepts and technologies. This course provides a hands-on introduction to networking and the Internet using tools and hardware commonly found in the home and small business environment. These online materials will assist you in developing the skills necessary to plan and implement small networks across a range of applications. This course prepares you with the skills needed to obtain entry-level Home Network Installer jobs. It also prepares you for some of the skills needed for Network Technician, Computer Technician, Cable Installer, and Help Desk Technician jobs.

More than Just Information
This computer-based learning environment is an important part of the overall course experience for students and instructors in the Networking Academies. These online course materials are designed to be used along with several other instructional tools and activities. These include:

-Class presentation, discussion and practice with your teacher
-Hands-on labs that use networking equipment within the Networking Academy classroom
-Online scored assessments and grade book
-Packet Tracer 4.1 simulation tool
-Additional software for in-class activities

Mind Wide Open™
An important goal in education is to enrich you, the student, by expanding what you know and can do. It is important to realize, however, that the instructional materials and the instructor can only facilitate the change. You must make the commitment yourself to learn new skills. Below are a few suggestions to help you learn:

1. Take notes. Professionals in the networking field often keep Engineering Journals in which they write down the things they observe and learn. Taking notes is an important way to help your understanding improve over time.

2. Think about it. The course provides information both to change what you know, and what you can do. As you go through the course, ask yourself what makes sense and what doesn’t. Stop and ask questions when you are confused. Try to find out more about topics which interest you. If you are not sure why something is being taught, consider asking your instructor or a friend. Think about how the different parts of the course fit together.

3. Practice. Learning new skills requires practice. We believe this is so important to e-learning that we have a special name for it. We call it e-Doing. It is very important that you complete the activities in the online instructional materials and that you complete the hands-on labs and Packet Tracer activities.

4. Practice again. Have you ever thought you knew how to do something and then, when it was time to show it on a test or at work, you discovered you really hadn’t mastered it? Just like learning any new skill, such as a sport, game, or language, learning a professional skill requires patience and repeated practice before you can say you have truly learned it. The on-line instructional materials in this course provide repeated practice for many skills. Take full advantage of them. Work with your instructor to create additional practice opportunities using Packet Tracer and other tools.

5. Teach it. Teaching a friend or colleague is often a good way to improve your own learning. To teach well, you need to work through details you may have overlooked on your first reading. Conversations about the course material with fellow students, colleagues, and the instructor can help solidify your understanding of networking concepts.

6. Make changes as you go. The course is designed to provide feedback through interactive activities and quizzes, the online assessment system, and through interactions with your instructor. You can use this feedback to better understand where your strengths and weaknesses are. If there is an area you are having trouble with, focus on studying or practicing more in that area. Seek feedback from your instructor and other students.

Explore the World of Networking
This version of the course includes a special learning tool called Packet Tracer 4.1. Packet Tracer supports a wide range of physical and logical simulations, as well as providing visualization tools to help you understand the internal workings of a network.

The Packet Tracer activities packaged with this course consist of network simulations, games, activities and challenges that provide a broad range of learning experiences.

Create your own worldsYou can also use Packet Tracer to create your own experiments and networking scenarios. We hope that, over time, you consider using Packet Tracer, not only for experiencing the provided activities, but also to become an author, explorer, and experimenter.

The included Packet Tracer activities launch on computers running Windows® operating systems, if Packet Tracer is installed. This integration may also work on other operating systems using Windows emulation.

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