Desktop shows no toolbar

I just read about Trisquel yesterday and it sounded exactly like what I wanted so I installed it today. I was looking for a distro that would be similar to Windows as it is for my daughter and she and computers don't get along very well. I wanted to keep it as similar to Windows as possible so she would have a bit less of a learning curve. However, after installing it and rebooting, I have no toolbar/taskbar on my desktop and no access to the programs or to see if it is connected wirelessly. The toolbar was there until I rebooted.

Appreciate any help.
PegM