having the technical material being covered by existing online lessons found in the ACM learning center and other professional sites
having discussions about how to get the most out of online lessons
demonstrating how to establish education goals, outcomes, and tasks to learn specific tasks.
Note taking at the application level by grading the notes students take while working through online lessons
Technical writing by requiring students to create at at least one user manual and grading the manual on both content and writing ability.
Professionalism at the application level by holding discussions about the differences between maintain one's own (or friend's) systems and doing it as a profession and maintain many computers.
Security at the application level by including modules on securing Windows servers and Linux boxes.
Ethics at an introductory level by discussing TBD.
Verbal communications at the introductory level by requiring each student to make a formal demonstration of their servers and grading not just the quality of the servers and what is installed but how well the presentation was organized.