AlphaSmart NEO2 SmartApplet User manual
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SmartApplet
User Manual
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Copyright Notice
Copyright © 2007 by Renaissance Learning, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Any changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate the equipment.
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C
ONTENTS
About SmartApplets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
AlphaWord Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1
Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1
Pasting Calculations into Other Programs (Paper Tape) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2
Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1
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View Keyboard Layout Settings (Including Special Characters) . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-11
KeyWords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
Setting Speed and Accuracy Goals for KeyWords Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13
Setting Goals Manually Changes How KeyWords Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13
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Choosing Whether to Enforce Use of the Correct Shift Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-16
Requiring One or Two Spaces Between Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-17
Using AlphaSmart Manager 2 with KeyWords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-18
Retrieving KeyWords Data and Generating Reports in AlphaSmart
Using KeyWords RP to View and Print Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-29
Logging in to Renaissance Place and Changing Your Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-33
Why can’t I use the backspace key when using KeyWords? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-57
Why is there so much repetition of words in the practice passages? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-57
What is the rationale for how the practice passages are sequenced? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-58
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Beamer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
Beaming AlphaWord Plus files between devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
I want to change a setting, but I don’t know the master password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13
I have data on the clipboard that I don’t want to lose. What should I do? . . . . . . . . 6-14
What does the message “could not find a sending device” mean? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14
AlphaQuiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1
Downloading and Installing QuizDesigner and QuizManager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
System Requirements for QuizManager and QuizDesigner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
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Opening and Changing Quizzes in QuizDesigner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10
Previewing Questions in QuizDesigner (Seeing Questions as They
Exporting a Quiz from QuizDesigner to a Word Processing Program . . . . . . . 7-21
Sending Quizzes to NEOs Using QuizManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-25
How Students Take a Quiz Using the AlphaQuiz SmartApplet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-29
How Students Save Quizzes to an AlphaWord File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-32
Retrieving Students’ Responses from NEOs Using QuizManager . . . . . . . . . . . 7-35
Deleting Students’ Responses to Quizzes Using QuizManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-37
Turning NEOs On or Off Using QuizManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-39
Assigning Points (Weights) to Quiz Questions in QuizManager . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-39
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If I’m using an AlphaHub (SmartOption Cart), and I also have an open
How and when do I assign the point values for each question? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-53
What happens if the NEO is turned off before a quiz is completed?
What appears on the screen when the NEO is turned back on?
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Password. Now I am unable to remove the quiz from the NEOs.. . . . . . . . . . . . 7-55
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-1
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A
BOUT
S
MART
A
PPLETS
About this Manual
This manual explains what SmartApplets are and how you can install them on
NEOs or remove them from your NEOs. It also explains how to use the
SmartApplets that are installed when you receive your NEO(s).
What are SmartApplets?
SmartApplets are programs that are installed on your NEO. These programs allow you to write on the NEO, practice keyboarding skills, do calculations, change settings, administer quizzes to your students, or “beam” files from one
NEO to another.
Which SmartApplets Are Installed?
All NEOs come with these SmartApplets installed. SmartApplets are listed in the order in which they appear on the NEO.
SmartApplet
AlphaWord Plus
Calculator
Control Panel
KeyWords
Beamer
AlphaQuiz
What It Does
This is the program that opens when you first turn on the NEO. The writing that you do on NEO in files 1-8 is done in AlphaWord Plus.
Allows you to do calculations right on your NEO. (It can be disabled using the Control Panel settings.)
Allows you to change settings for the NEO and for some
SmartApplets.
Allows students to learn and practice keyboarding skills.
Allows files to be sent from one NEO to another without using cables
(using infrared technology). You can disable this functionality if you wish on the AlphaSmart Manager Settings tab or in the Beamer settings on the NEO.
When used with QuizManager and QuizDesigner, AlphaQuiz allows you to administer quizzes to students on the NEO.
Where to Find More
Information
See Chapter 2.
See Chapter 3.
See Chapter 4.
See Chapter 5.
See Chapter 6.
See Chapter 7.
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A B O U T S M A R T A P P L E T S
Installing SmartApplets
Installing SmartApplets
To install SmartApplets that are not on your NEO, you’ll need AlphaSmart
Manager installed on your computer. For instructions, see the AlphaSmart 2
User Manual . Once you have AlphaSmart Manager installed, follow these steps.
1.
If you have received a new SmartApplet, close AlphaSmart Manager if it is already running.
2.
If you have a single NEO, use the USB cable that came with your NEO to connect it to your computer.
If you have a SmartOption Cart with several NEOs, connect the NEOs to the appropriate cables in your cart. (Your computer must be connected to the cart’s AlphaHub.)
3.
If you have received a new SmartApplet, on your computer, use Windows
Explorer or Macintosh Finder to browse to the location where you unzipped or unstuffed the SmartApplet files. Double-click the file that ends with .OS3KApp (such as KeyWords.OS3KApp). AlphaSmart Manager will start and display the SmartApplets tab.
If you want to install a SmartApplet that you already have, start
AlphaSmart Manager and click the SmartApplets tab.
4.
If the SmartApplet that you want to install is not already in the Install List
A , click it in the SmartApplet list and click Add => to add it to the list.
(You can also drag the SmartApplets between lists.)
Make sure the Memory column B shows that there is enough space on the NEO(s) to install this SmartApplet.
B
A
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A B O U T S M A R T A P P L E T S
Disabling SmartApplets On NEOs
5.
Click the Send List tab and make sure the SmartApplet that you’re installing is listed in the SmartApplets section of the list.
C
6.
If you have a SmartOption Cart, and you don’t want to send the
SmartApplet to all NEOs, click Select Devices C , check the NEOs that you want to have the SmartApplet, and then click OK .
7.
Click Send to send the SmartApplet to your NEO(s).
Disabling SmartApplets On NEOs
You can disable SmartApplets so that they cannot be used on your NEO(s).
The SmartApplets are not deleted, but they are not available. (To delete
There are two ways to disable SmartApplets: you can change the settings in
AlphaSmart Manager, or you can disable SmartApplets on the NEO itself.
You’ll find both procedures below.
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A B O U T S M A R T A P P L E T S
Disabling SmartApplets On NEOs
Disabling SmartApplets on the NEO Itself
1.
With the NEO on, press applets .
2.
Use the arrow keys to move the cursor next to the SmartApplet that you want to disable.
3.
Press ctrl z -L.
4.
Enter the NEO’s master password. (This password is set in AlphaSmart
Manager in the System settings; for more information, see the
AlphaSmart Manager 2 User Manual .)
Disabling SmartApplets within AlphaSmart Manager
You need AlphaSmart Manager installed on your computer to follow these steps.
1.
If you have a single NEO, use the USB cable that came with your NEO to connect it to your computer.
If you have a SmartOption Cart with several NEOs, connect the NEOs to the appropriate cables in your cart. (Your computer must be connected to the cart’s AlphaHub.)
2.
Start AlphaSmart Manager on your computer.
3.
Click the Settings tab.
4.
In the list on the left , click the SmartApplet that you want to disable.
5.
Check the box labeled Disable this SmartApplet .
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A B O U T S M A R T A P P L E T S
Deleting SmartApplets from NEOs
6.
Click the Send List tab and make sure your setting change is in the list
.
7.
If you have a SmartOption Cart, and you don’t want to disable the
SmartApplet on all NEOs, click Select Devices , check the NEOs on which you want to disable the SmartApplet, and then click OK .
8.
Click Send to send the setting change to your NEO(s).
Deleting SmartApplets from NEOs
By following these steps, you can delete SmartApplets from NEOs. This is helpful if you want to free space on the NEO or if you don’t plan to ever use a specific SmartApplet. However, if you’re expecting to use the SmartApplet again in the future, it may be better to disable the SmartApplet instead as
You need AlphaSmart Manager installed on your computer to follow these steps.
1.
If you have a single NEO, use the USB cable that came with your NEO to connect it to your computer.
If you have a SmartOption Cart with several NEOs, connect the NEOs to the appropriate cables in your cart. (Your computer must be connected to the cart’s AlphaHub.)
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A B O U T S M A R T A P P L E T S
Deleting SmartApplets from NEOs
2.
Start AlphaSmart Manager on your computer.
3.
Click the SmartApplets tab.
4.
In the SmartApplet List , select all the SmartApplets that you do want installed on your NEO(s) and click Add => to add them to the Install List
. You can add the SmartApplets one at a time, or you can select multiple SmartApplets by holding down the Ctrl key (Windows), the z key
(Macintosh), or the Shift key as you click SmartApplets.
5.
Check the Delete box . This ensures that any SmartApplet that is not in the Install List will be removed from the NEO(s).
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A B O U T S M A R T A P P L E T S
Learning to Use Your SmartApplets
6.
Click the Send List tab to make sure that your SmartApplet selections will be send.
D
7.
If you have a SmartOption Cart, and you don’t want to delete the
SmartApplet on all NEOs, click Select Devices D , check the NEOs on which you want to delete the SmartApplet, and then click OK .
8.
Click Send to send the change to your NEO(s) and to delete the
SmartApplets that were not selected.
Learning to Use Your SmartApplets
The rest of this manual explains how to use each of the SmartApplets that came installed on your NEO(s). You can use this manual to learn to use the
SmartApplets, or you can use it as a reference as you use the SmartApplets on your NEO.
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A B O U T S M A R T A P P L E T S
Learning to Use Your SmartApplets
1-8
A
LPHA
W
ORD
P
LUS
When you start your NEO, AlphaWord Plus opens automatically (unless you’ve changed settings to have another SmartApplet open).
AlphaWord Plus is the program that lets you write in NEO. Simply press one of the file keys (file 1, file 2, etc.) to choose the file to write in and start typing.
Characters are saved in that file as you type them; there’s no need to worry about losing text if you accidentally shut off the NEO. The arrow keys, backspace , and delete all work as they do on a typical computer keyboard.
If you want to delete the text from one of the files, press clear file . Then, press Y for “yes” when the NEO ask if you’re sure you want to clear the file.
If you want to name and save a file so you can use the file space for other text, press ctrl and S together. Then, type a name for the file and press enter . You can then clear the file space without losing the file you saved.
You’ll find detailed instructions for using AlphaWord Plus in the NEO User
Manual that you received with your NEO.
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A L P H A W O R D P L U S
2-2
C
ALCULATOR
NEO includes a basic calculator that can perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentiation, and scientific notation.
How to Use Calculator
1.
Turn on your Neo and press applets .
2.
Press
↓ once so the cursor is next to “Calculator.” Then, press enter .
Note: The first time you use Calculator, a help screen may appear. Press esc to exit from it. You can press a -H to view it again when you want to see it.
3.
Enter the formula you want to calculate. The table below shows you which characters to use for each type of calculation; it also provides examples of formulas.
Use these operands To perform these tasks
+ Add
–
Example: 89 + 91
Example: 15 + 16 + 17
Subtract
Example: 9 – 2
Example: 100 – 50 – 25
* or x
/
Multiply
Example: 2 * 5
Example: 45 x 2 x 8
Divide
Example: 18 / 2
Example: 100 / 2 / 10
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C A L C U L A T O R
Pasting Calculations into Other Programs (Paper Tape)
Use these operands
^ e
( )
To perform these tasks
Exponentiate (raise the first number to the power of the second)
Example: 3 ^ 2
Example: 2 ^ 2 ^ 2
Calculate scientific notation
Example: 10e6
Example: 1.2e15
Construct more complex formulas
Example: (15 *2) + 10 / 4
Example: (25*3) – (45/5)
4.
Press = or enter to calculate the result.
If you begin the next formula with an operand (such as + or *), Calculator uses the result from your previous calculation as the first number in the next formula. (This doesn’t apply to the e operand.)
5.
Press esc when you’ve finished.
The next time you use Calculator, your previous calculations appear. Press clear file to remove them.
Pasting Calculations into Other Programs (Paper Tape)
If you prefer to copy just the result of one calculation, press ctrl-C or z
-C instead.
Calculator can record up to fourteen lines of calculations. Each new calculation is added to the bottom of the list, and when you reach the maximum number, older calculations are removed from the top of the list.
This is called the paper tape feature.
If you would like to copy a series of calculations into another SmartApplet, such as AlphaWord Plus, follow these steps:
1.
Press applets , move the cursor down to the Calculator in the list, and press enter .
2.
Enter a series of calculations.
3.
Press shifta -C to copy all calculations in the list. You should see the calculations selected momentarily as they are copied. (If this does not happen, your caps lock may be selected. Press the caps lock and try again.)
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C A L C U L A T O R
Turning off Calculator
4.
Press applets and select the SmartApplet that you want to paste the calculations into.
5.
Place the cursor in the SmartApplet where you want to paste the calculations.
6.
Press ctrl-V or -V .
You can also type a formula in AlphaWord Plus, copy it, then paste it into
Calculator to obtain the result.
Turning off Calculator
There may be times when you don’t want Calculator to be available, such as when students who have NEOs are doing math work. If you want to turn off
Calculator on a single NEO, follow the instructions below. If you want to turn
off Calculator for a group of NEOs using AlphaSmart Manager, see “Disabling
SmartApplets within AlphaSmart Manager” on page 1-4. You can also turn off
the Calculator on a NEO in the Control Panel (see page 4-8).
To turn off Calculator While Using AlphaWord Plus
1.
Press ctrla -C .
2.
Type the master password and press enter . (For more about the master password and how to set it, see the AlphaSmart Manager User Manual .)
To Turn Off Calculator from the SmartApplets menu
1.
Press applets .
2.
Move the cursor down next to Calculator.
3.
Press ctrla -L . If the Calculator is on, this turns it off; if it is off, this turns it on again.
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C A L C U L A T O R
Turning off Calculator
3-4
C
ONTROL
P
ANEL
Control panel and the keyboard shortcuts are only available when the NEO is not connected to a computer.
Control Panel is a SmartApplet that lets you define settings for your NEO.
You can also define many of these settings using keyboard shortcuts or through AlphaSmart Manager. (For more information about AlphaSmart
Manager, see the AlphaSmart Manager 2 User Manual ).
How to Change Settings Using Control Panel
1.
Press applets .
2.
Press
↓
twice to move the cursor next to Control Panel. Then, press enter .
3.
Use the arrow keys to move the cursor next to the setting you want to view or change; then, press enter .
4.
If you are changing spell check settings or disabling/enabling the calculator, you will be asked to enter the master password. Type the password and press enter . (This password is set in AlphaSmart Manager in the System settings; for more information, see the AlphaSmart
Manager 2 User Manual .)
5.
If you want to make changes, follow the instructions on the screen.
6.
Press esc to return to the previous screen. You might need to press esc several times to return to Control Panel or the SmartApplets menu.
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C O N T R O L P A N E L
About the Settings in the Control Panel
About the Settings in the Control Panel
Control Panel setting
Spell Check settings
AlphaWord settings
Change default SmartApplet font
Turn Calculator on/off
Two-button On
View keyboard layout
Display battery status
Change keyboard settings
You can change the following settings in Control Panel:
Set Screen Contrast
Keyboard command reference list
What You Can Do
• Turn Spell Check on and off
• Turn the ability to add words to the user dictionary on and off
• Delete the user dictionary
• Add a new word to the user dictionary
• Turn Show Marks on and off
• Turn file passwords on and off
• Change a specific file password
• Reset all file passwords
• Sets the font size for SmartApplets on the NEO
• Turns Calculator on and off
• Sets whether two buttons are required to turn on the NEO
• Sets your screen lighter or darker
• Lists keyboard commands for a variety of actions on the NEO
• Displays a representation of the current keyboard layout
• Shows how much battery power is left on the NEO
• Changes keyboard layout
(QWERTY, Dvorak, Right, or Left)
• Changes Slow Keys setting
• Turns Sticky Keys on and off
Where to Find More
Information
4-2
C O N T R O L P A N E L
Spell Check Settings
Spell Check Settings
To change Spell Check settings in Control Panel, you need to enter the master password, which you can set using AlphaSmart Manager.
You can change these spell check settings:
• Turn Spell Check off and on . To change this setting, move the cursor next to it and press enter . If spell check was on, it will turn off; if it was off, this will turn it on again. When spell check is off and you attempt to use it in AlphaWord Plus, the NEO will notify you that spell check is off.
• Turn add words to user dictionary off and on . The user dictionary is made up of words that the NEO user has added to a dictionary during a spell check. For example, if the spell check flagged the user’s name as being misspelled, the user may have added his or her name to the dictionary so it won’t be marked misspelled again. This setting controls whether users are allowed to add words to a user dictionary during the spell check. To change this from on to off or from off to on, move the cursor next to the setting and press enter .
• Delete user dictionary . This setting deletes the user dictionary. Use caution when selecting this setting; you can’t recover a user dictionary that’s been deleted. (You can, however, send a new user dictionary to devices by using AlphaSmart Manager. See the AlphaSmart Manager 2
User Manual for details.)
• Add new word to user dictionary . This setting lets you add words to the user dictionary, one word at a time. To use it, move the cursor next to the setting and press enter . Then, enter one word you want to add and press enter ; the NEO will notify you that the word has been added. Press any key to leave the setting. Repeat these actions for each word you want to add.
Note: If you have a big list of words you want to add, it’s more efficient to create a text file of words and send it to your NEO using AlphaSmart
Manager.
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C O N T R O L P A N E L
AlphaWord Settings
AlphaWord Settings
You can change the following AlphaWord settings:
Turn Show Marks in Files On or Off
When you send text to your computer and you have Show
Marks on, the arrows won’t transfer to your computer, but the tabs and returns will.
When “Show Marks” is on, as you write in AlphaWord Plus, you will see right arrows where you insert tabs, and you’ll see return arrows when you press enter .
Carriage return
Tab
To change the setting, move the cursor next to the setting and press enter to switch from “On” to “Off” or from “Off” to “On.”
You can also set Show Marks from within AlphaWord Plus by pressing option- -K , pressing 3 when the instruction screen appears, and then pressing esc to exit the screen.
Turn File Passwords On or Off
When you first receive your NEO, you cannot set a password for each file until you turn file passwords on. You can do use this Control Panel setting or use
AlphaSmart Manager (see the AlphaSmart Manager 2 User Manual .)
To turn file passwords on using the Control Panel AlphaWord settings, you need the master password. (You can set the master password for NEOs using
AlphaSmart Manager. If you want to use the default master password, contact
Technical Support to get the password.)
If you turn file passwords on, whenever you press one of the file keys or open a file, you will be asked to enter the file password. (If you don’t know the individual file’s password, you can enter the master password instead.)
To turn file passwords on, follow these steps:
1.
From Control Panel , select AlphaWord settings , then select Turn File
Passwords On/Off , OR
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From AlphaWord Plus, press ctrl-optiona -p .
The following message appears.
C O N T R O L P A N E L
AlphaWord Settings
2.
Type the master password and press enter .
When you first turn file passwords on, the password for all files is write .
To change individual file passwords on the NEO, open a file and press option- -p . Then, type the current password for the file and enter the new password twice. Press enter . The NEO will tell you that the password has been changed. Press any key. You can also change file passwords in the
Control panel as described below.
If you prefer all files to have the same password, you can use AlphaSmart
Manager to set a password for all files on the NEO. Simply click the Settings tab in AlphaSmart Manager, click AlphaWord Plus in the list on the left, and enter the password you want to use in the File passwords field.
Passwords can be up to six characters long. They aren’t case-sensitive and can contain letters, numbers, and symbols, but not spaces.
Change a Specific File Password
When you have turned file passwords on as described above, you can use this setting to change the password for an individual file. To start, move the cursor next to this setting and press enter . Then, follow these steps:
1.
Use the arrow keys next to the file that needs its password changed; then, press enter . Files 1 through 8 are listed as F1, F2, and so on.
2.
Type the current password for the file; then, type the new password twice.
3.
Press enter . The NEO will notify you that the password has changed.
Press any key.
Reset All File Passwords
You can set the master password for
NEOs in AlphaSmart
Manager by changing the system settings on the
Settings tab.
When you have turned file passwords on as described on page 4-4, you can
use this setting to reset the password to write for all AlphaWord Plus files. To start, move the cursor next to the setting and press enter . Then, enter the master password. When the NEO notifies you that the passwords have been reset, press any key.
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C O N T R O L P A N E L
Change Default SmartApplet Font
Change Default SmartApplet Font
About Font Sizes
If some font sizes are removed from your NEO using
AlphaSmart Manager, the
NEO defaults to the four-line system font.
You can change the onscreen font size in AlphaWord Plus on your Neo.
Changing the font size changes how text appears onscreen, letting you work at a screen size that suits your needs. It doesn’t change font attributes associated with the text, so when you send text to your computer or printer, the text itself is plain text.
There are six font settings from which to choose:
• System (four lines per screen using a fixed width font)
• Small (six lines per screen)
• Medium (five lines per screen)
• Large (four lines per screen)
• Very large (three lines per screen)
• Extra large (two lines per screen)
When you change the font size, that change applies to all files and workspaces in AlphaWord Plus. Here are examples of the font sizes.
Extra large (two lines)
Very large (three lines)
Large (four lines)
Medium (five lines)
Small (six lines)
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Change Default SmartApplet Font
Changing the Font Size
Follow these steps to change the font size:
In AlphaSmart
Manager, you can reset connected
NEOs to the system font
(four lines per screen). Click the Settings tab, click
System on the left, and click
On behind Reset system font to default .
1.
Do one of the following:
• Press ctrl-optiona -F .
• In the Control Panel, move the cursor next to Change default
SmartApplet font and press enter .
2.
Use the arrow keys to move the cursor next to the font size you want to use; then, press enter .
The System Font
If you changed the font size with the keyboard command, you’re returned to the workspace where you were working previously. If you used Control Panel, you’re returned to the list of settings; press applets , then select AlphaWord
Plus to view the change in font size.
The four-line System font is slightly different from the Large font, which also takes four lines per screen. The four-line System font is a “fixed-width” or
“monospace” font, and the four-line large font is a proportional font. With fixed-width fonts, every character and space occupies the exact same width.
With proportionally spaced fonts, each character occupies only the space it needs to display that particular character. So, for example, an m character takes up more space than an i character.
This illustration shows the difference between Neo’s four-line fonts:
Large four-line font
(proportional)
System four-line font
(fixed width)
Note the different widths of the words “William,” “ill,” and
“lollipop” in each illustration
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Turn Calculator Off or On
Turn Calculator Off or On
This setting allows you to disable or enable the calculator on NEOs. There may be times when you don’t want Calculator to be available, such as when students who have NEOs are doing math work. If you want to turn off
Calculator on just one NEO, follow the instructions below. If you want to turn
off Calculator for a group of NEOs using AlphaSmart Manager, see “Disabling
SmartApplets within AlphaSmart Manager” on page 1-4.
You need to enter the master password to turn the calculator off or on.
To set the master password for
NEOs, in AlphaSmart
Manager, click the Settings tab and click System on the left. Enter a new master password in the field provided and send it to the NEOs.
To Turn Calculator Off or On in this Control Panel setting
1.
In the list of Control Panel settings, move the cursor next to Turn
Calculator Off (or On ) and press enter .
2.
Enter the master password and press enter .
3.
Press any key.
To Turn Calculator Off or On in the SmartApplets Menu
1.
Press applets .
2.
Move the cursor down next to Calculator.
3.
Press ctrla -L . If the Calculator is on, this turns it off; if the Calculator is off, this turns it on again.
To Turn Calculator Off or On While Using AlphaWord Plus
1.
Press ctrla -C
2.
Type the master password and press enter .
Two-button On Setting
You can also enable the Two-button on option in
AlphaSmart Manager . To do this, click the Settings tab, click System on the left, scroll down through the list on the right to find “Two button on mode,” and click the On option.
The Two-button On setting lets you control whether you turn your NEO on with one key press or two. NEO’s default behavior is to turn on when you press on/off . However, if you often carry your Neo in a backpack or briefcase, you might want to change this behavior so that you don’t accidentally turn the device on as you carry it and drain power from the NEO.
When the Two-Button On setting is On, you must press and hold down enter , then press on/off to turn your Neo on.
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Set Screen Contrast Setting
Follow these steps to turn this option on or off:
1.
In the list of Control Panel settings, use the arrow keys to move the cursor next to Two-button On option ; then, press enter .
2.
The next screen will tell you if the option is enabled (on) or disabled. If you want to change the setting, press enter . If not, press esc .
Set Screen Contrast Setting
The Set Screen Contrast setting lets you control how light and dark both the screen background and the onscreen characters appear. This lets you optimize the screen for your current lighting conditions.
To change the screen contrast, follow these steps:
1.
In the list of Control Panel settings, use the arrow keys to move the cursor next to Set screen contrast ; then, press enter .
2.
Use the arrow keys to change the contrast. Pressing the
↑
key increases the number and darkens the background; pressing the
↓ key decreases the number and lightens both the background and the text. The setting ranges from 1 to 16.
3.
Press esc when you’re ready to exit the setting.
Keyboard Command Reference List
This Control Panel option is actually a table of the keyboard commands or shortcuts that you can use to perform actions on the NEO. Most commands can also be accessed elsewhere on the NEO, but the keyboard commands help you do the actions quickly. The table below lists the commands that you’ll find in this menu.
Action
Open help.
Print.
Open Printer Selection menu.
View clipboard status (number of pages in clipboard and number available).
Keyboard
Command
z
-H or ctrl-H print or z
-P option-print optionz -c
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Keyboard Command Reference List
Action
View clipboard status (number or characters in clipboard and number available).
View clipboard contents.
Copy selected text to clipboard.
Paste text from clipboard.
Set the amount of time the NEO must be idle before it automatically shuts down.
Choose a keyboard layout (QWERTY, Dvorak, right one-
handed, or left one-handed). See page 4-11.
Keyboard
Command
shift-ctrl-optionz
-C ctrl-optionz -C z -C or ctrl-C z
-V or ctrl-V optionz
-T
Set the cable transfer speed.
Set the infrared (IrDA) transfer speed.
optionz -L (Then press 1 for
QWERTY, 2 for
Dvorak, 3 for Right, or 4 for Left.) optionz
-S (then choose the number next to the speed you want) ctrl-optionz
-S
(then choose 1 for the fastest speed or 2 for compatibility speed) optionz
-V View the NEO system information and language, the current file number, the speed setting, the keyboard layout, and settings for auto repeat, sticky keys, and passwords.
Disable or enable spell check. See page 4-3.
View and set the auto repeat and sticky keys settings.
Disable or enable the calculator. See page 4-8.
Disable or enable the slow keys setting.
View battery charge/status.
Lock or unlock the selected SmartApplet in the
SmartApplets menu.
In the SmartApplet menu, make the selected SmartApplet the one that starts when you turn the NEO on.
In the SmartApplet menu, view information about the selected SmartApplet.
optionz check
-spell optionz -K ctrlz
-C ctrl-optionz
-K ctrlz -B ctrlz -L ctrl-applets option-applets
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View Keyboard Layout Settings (Including Special Characters)
View Keyboard Layout Settings (Including Special
Characters)
This option lets you view the keyboard layout that is currently selected. This can be useful if you’ve switched to a different layout from what you’re used to and you’re not quite sure of the new locations of keys.
You can also use this option to view a second screen on how to enter these commonly used special characters in AlphaWord Plus:
£ ¥ ® «
¶ µ ¢ ¡
™ ˜ ˆ ƒ
π Σ
÷
. ¨`§ ´
∞
© ø æ
å ç
Note: ISO (European) keyboard layouts vary slightly from the following illustrations, which depict ANSI (US) keyboards.
1.
In the Control Panel, use the arrow keys to move the cursor next to View keyboard layout ; then, press enter . The layout appears onscreen. (The example shown is the standard QWERTY layout.)
You can view a list of international characters and find out how to type them by pressing ctrl-H in AlphaWord
Plus.
2.
To see the layout when the shift key is pressed, press and hold shift .
3.
To view some of the special characters available, press and hold option .
These are the keys you can type by holding the option key. Note their location on the keyboard. (For example, to type the ™ character in
AlphaWord Plus, hold down option and press 2 .)
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Display Battery Status Setting
4.
To view the remaining special characters, hold down both option and shift . (For example, to enter ¿ in AlphaWord Plus, hold down the option and shift keys and press ?
.)
Display Battery Status Setting
To check the battery charge as a percentage, move the cursor next to Display
Battery Status in the Control Panel list; then, press enter .
You can also press ctrlz -B at any time to display the current battery charge.
Change Keyboard Settings
You can also change these settings in
AlphaSmart
Manager . When you click the
Settings tab and click
System on the left, the available settings that you can change on the right will include Sticky Keys, Keyboard
Layout and Slow Keys. It also includes Auto Repeat .
To choose the keyboard settings in the Control Panel, move the cursor next to
Change keyboard settings and press enter . Then, move the cursor next to the option you want to change and press enter . You can change the following:
Option
Keyboard layouts
Slow Keys
Sticky Keys
Does this
Sets alternate keyboard layouts (see below)
Sets a time delay for holding down a key before the character appears onscreen
Sets whether you must hold keys down for keyboard commands or whether you can press them sequentially
Change Keyboard Layout
When you choose this setting, NEO gives you a choice of four different keyboard layouts to provide for special needs or preferences:
• QWERTY, the standard default layout of most keyboards and typewriters
• Dvorak, a scientifically-designed keyboard layout that requires much less finger reaching and stretching for the most commonly used keys, and results in faster and easier typing
• Right hand only, a layout that lets people with special needs type faster
• Left hand only, a layout that lets people with special needs type faster
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Change Keyboard Settings
The illustrations shown in these steps show ANSI
(US) keyboards. ISO
(European) keyboard layouts vary slightly. If you have an
ISO keyboard and you want to check key locations for different specialized layouts, use the Control Panel’s View
Keyboard Layout option (see
When you switch keyboard layouts, all dialog boxes and keyboard commands conform to the new layout. The command keys ( ctrl , option , a , for example) remain in the same location, but letter keys are derived from the new layout. For instance, to access the Speed menu, you still press optiona -S , but the S key is in a different location.
Important: When you send text to your computer from your NEO using a
USB cable and send , the computer must use a QWERTY layout.
To change the keyboard layout, follow these steps:
1.
Do one of the following:
• From the Control Panel, select Change Keyboard Settings , then select Change Keyboard layout .
• From within a SmartApplet, press optiona -L .
2.
Select a keyboard layout from the following choices:
• Press 1 to select the QWERTY layout. on/off file 1 file 2 file 3 file 4 file 5 file 6 file 7 file 8 print spell check find clear file home end applets send
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A
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• Press 2 to select the Dvorak layout. on/off file 1 file 2 file 3 file 4 file 5 file 6 file 7 file 8 print spell check find clear file home end applets send
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The Dvorak keyboard layout
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Change Keyboard Settings
• Press 3 to select the right hand only layout. on/off file 1 file 2 file 3 file 4 file 5 file 6 file 7 file 8 print spell check find clear file home end applets send
~
` tab caps lock
!
1
$
4
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The right one-handed keyboard layout
• Press 4 to select the left hand only layout.
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3.
When the NEO notifies you that the keyboard layout has been changed, press any key to continue. If you chose a layout other than QWERTY, the next time you start the NEO, the startup screen will include the keyboard layout you’ve chosen.
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Change Keyboard Settings
Change Slow Keys Setting
The Slow Keys setting lets you decide how long you must hold down a key before the character appears onscreen. This setting is useful for someone who has unsteady hands or difficulty in targeting specific keys.
For example, if you set the Slow Keys option to one second, you would have to press and hold down a character key for one entire second before that character would appear. One second is probably too long a delay for many users, but some fraction of a second might help alleviate inadvertent typing for certain users.
To set the Slow Keys delay, follow these steps:
1.
Do one of the following:
• From the Control Panel, select Change keyboard settings , then select Change slow keys setting .
• From within a SmartApplet, press ctrl-optiona -K .
2.
To increase the delay, press
↑
to increase the amount of time you need to hold down keys in increments of a tenth of a second. Press
↓
to decrease the delay.
3.
Press enter to accept the change or press esc to exit the screen.
If the Slow Keys delay is greater than one second, the delay before keystrokes is repeated (normally about one second) increases to match it. For example, if the Slow Keys delay is set to 1.5 seconds, the delay before keys are repeated increases to 1.5 seconds as well. This means that after pressing and holding a key down, 1.5 seconds pass before the character appears, and after an additional 1.5 seconds, the character begins to repeat.
Turn Sticky Keys On or Off
For some keyboard commands on NEO, you need to hold down several keys at the same time. This may be difficult for some users. For those users, NEO has a Sticky Keys setting that lets you type key combinations one key at a time without holding down all the keys at once. So you could, for instance, press option , then a , then S individually to get to the Send Speed menu, rather than pressing all three keys as a group.
Sticky Keys affects these four keys: shift , option , a , and ctrl . When Sticky
Keys is on, pressing one of these keys effectively keeps that key pressed down for the next normal key press.
To turn the Sticky Keys option on or off in the Control Panel, select Change keyboard settings , then select Turn sticky keys ON or Turn sticky keys OFF and press enter .
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Change Keyboard Settings
You can also set Sticky Keys from within AlphaWord Plus by following these steps:
1.
Press optiona -K .
2.
Press 2 to turn Sticky Keys on or off.
3.
Press esc to exit the screen and return to your work.
Auto Repeat and the Slow Keys Setting
Auto Repeat lets you set whether keys repeat when held down. Usually if you press and hold a character key for an extended period of time, the letter continually repeats itself across the screen. You can change this behavior so that keys won’t repeat. This is helpful for beginning typists or for users who have difficulty typing. For example, if you’re administering an activity to a group of users whose typing skills are at a beginning level, you can turn off
Auto Repeat so they aren’t penalized for holding down a key longer than normal.
You can also change the Auto Repeat setting in
AlphaSmart Manager . When you click the Settings tab and click System on the left, the available settings that you can change on the right will include Auto Repeat. Click On or Off .
When Auto Repeat is on (the default setting), a character repeats when a key is held down; when it’s off, only one character appears per keystroke.
Though the Auto Repeat setting is related to the Slow Keys setting, this setting is not in the Control Panel. To turn Auto Repeat on or off while using
AlphaWord Plus, follow these steps:
1.
Press optiona -K .
2.
Press 1 to turn auto repeat on or off.
3.
Press esc to exit the screen and return to your work.
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EY
W
ORDS
Welcome to KeyWords
The KeyWords SmartApplet develops basic keyboarding skills using fun and interesting lessons. Keyboarding is an essential skill for success, and good keyboarding skills allow you to write much more quickly than if you had to spend time hunting for each key.
KeyWords keeps learners interested as it teaches typing, employing a language-based system that entertains as it trains. It provides cumulative lessons that teach accuracy and speed a few keys at a time, and it offers encouragement with positive feedback and helpful hints. KeyWords also checks progress at each level with typing tests. You can then view progress reports on the NEO or by using the KeyWords program in Renaissance Place.
The KeyWords design is based on research about how people learn to type:
• Speed and typing fluency increase more readily if simple words are used and repeated. The KeyWords method follows this model of repetition, presenting diverse vocabulary, rhymes, and humor to keep lessons interesting.
• Typists learn patterns of keystrokes more quickly when they aren’t interrupted by immediate corrections. The KeyWords error-checking method emphasizes the importance of words and phrases.
• Speed skills and accuracy are best developed independently. KeyWords provides separate lessons for these skills. You can set proficiency goals and view reports as learners test themselves.
• Speed increases with practice typing words and phrases instead of random letters. By practicing with words and phrases, new typists learn common letter patterns that are the building blocks for simple and complex words.
This promotes the ability to quickly recognize and type letter combinations that occur frequently.
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How the KeyWords SmartApplet Works
How the KeyWords SmartApplet Works
If you plan to use the
KeyWords RP reports (within
Renaissance Place) , you’ll need to perform some additional setup. See
1.
Teachers add students, or learners add themselves as students.
2.
The student selects a group of keys to learn.
3.
The student works through the activity for learning the new keys.
4.
The student uses the accuracy and speed builder activities.
5.
The student takes an accuracy and speed test.
6.
The student or teacher checks student progress using reports on the
NEO, or the teacher synchronizes the KeyWords data with Renaissance
Place and views reports in the KeyWords RP program.
Starting the KeyWords SmartApplet
If KeyWords is not installed on your install it.
NEO,
KeyWords comes installed on each NEO. To start KeyWords, follow these steps:
1.
After starting the NEO, press applets .
Select a SmartApplet and press enter:
K
Calculator 3.02
- Control Panel 1.01
L
Keywords 3.4
2.
Press the
↓ key to move the cursor down until it is next to KeyWords ; then, press enter .You’ll see this KeyWords startup screen:
Select your name or choose to add name:
- Teacher options
- Add a student
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Adding a Student
Adding a Student
These steps describe how to add a student to the
KeyWords SmartApplet.
If you want to use KeyWords RP for reports, you’ll need to add students in Renaissance
If you are a teacher using KeyWords in the classroom, you can follow the steps below to add a student. If you are the student or the person learning the keyboarding skills, you can follow these steps to add yourself as a student.
1.
After starting KeyWords, press the
↓ key to move the cursor next to Add a student ; then, press enter
Select your name or choose to add name:
- Teacher options
- Add a student
If you make a mistake, press backspace to erase and correct the error. If the error is on a different line, use the arrow keys to go to the error so you can correct it.
2.
Enter the student’s first name, press enter , and enter the student’s last name. Then, press enter .
Enter your first and last name:
First Name:
Last Name:
Press enter after typing the names.
3.
Enter a password for the student (two to six characters), press enter , and enter the password again. Then, press enter .
4.
NEO will show you that the student is being added; then, it will return to the KeyWords start screen, which will now include the new student’s name.
Select your name or choose to add name:
- Teacher options
- Add a student
L
Luis Camacho
5.
If you want to add more students, repeat the steps above. All students that you add will be listed alphabetically by last name.
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Choosing Your Name and Starting Lessons
Choosing Your Name and Starting Lessons
After you’ve been added as a student, you can begin working through the lessons. The first lesson is an introductory overview to teach you how to sit properly and where to place your hands on the keyboard. The other lessons help you learn new keys, build speed and accuracy, and test your proficiency.
Students can follow these steps to start work in the KeyWords SmartApplet.
1.
After starting KeyWords, use the arrow keys to move the cursor down next to your name in the list. Then, press enter .
Select your name or choose to add name:
- Teacher options
- Add a student
L
Luis Camacho
The arrows on the screen show you that there are more options above or below the ones you’re viewing.
2.
Type your password and press enter . (The password was assigned when you were added as a student.)
3.
To start the first lesson, move the cursor next to Start Here!
and press enter .
Select Lesson or Option:
- Student reports
- Start Here!
L
A S K L Keys
4.
Follow the instructions on the NEO screen to learn about the space bar and enter keys, how to sit properly, and where to put your hands on the keyboard.
Note: This lesson will refer you to the keyboard picture. You or your teacher can find this picture in the KeyWords Extras folder on the
AlphaSmart Manager 2 CD. For more about the resources available to
KeyWords teachers, see page 5-45.
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Learning New Keys
5.
After you complete this lesson, you will return to the lesson list. Notice that there is an asterisk (*) next to the lesson you’ve completed. The * will appear next to each lesson as you complete it. A + will appear next to each lesson that you have started, but not finished.
Select Lesson or Option:
K
*Start Here!
- A S K L Keys
L
D J F Keys
6.
Now, move the cursor next to another lesson you want to complete (such as A S K L Keys ) and press enter . In each of the other lessons, you can choose one of three options:
• Learn new keys helps you learn to type the keys. For more information about this, see the next section.
• Use accuracy and speed builders helps you improve your accuracy and increase your speed while typing these keys. For more
• Take accuracy and speed test lets you test your proficiency using
these keys. For more information, see page 5-8.
As you complete each task, you can choose another option within this lesson, or you can select another lesson. To go back to a previous screen
(such as the lesson list or the list of names), press esc until you get to that screen.
Learning New Keys
When you choose the Learn new keys option within a lesson, KeyWords asks you to type the keys you’re learning and to type combinations of the keys in different sequences.
If you type the wrong key, KeyWords will make corrections, but if you continue to type the wrong keys, KeyWords will give you a hint and show you the keyboard layout with the key highlighted to help you find it. You must press the correct key to go on.
You can find visual materials that help you learn keyboarding on the
AlphaSmart Manager 2 CD. See page 5-45.
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Building Accuracy and Speed
Building Accuracy and Speed
You can’t skip forward or backward during a lesson.
You must perform the activities as they are presented. However, you can stop a lesson by pressing esc .
When you choose Use accuracy and speed builders in a lesson,
KeyWords helps train you to press keys correctly, which improves your accuracy and helps you build up speed. For each lesson, there are six practice passages in the accuracy and speed builders. The following example shows the practice passages for the ASKL keys. (On the NEO, you would typically only see three of these passages listed at one time.)
Select a passage:
- ALL ASK
- AS ALL ASK
- A LASS ASKS
- AS A LASS ASKS
- ASKS A LASS
- ALAS ALL ASK
To choose the passage you want to work on, move the cursor next to it and press enter .
Accuracy
During the accuracy portion of this activity, KeyWords will ask you to type each of the words and then give you the words in different sequences. The accuracy builder helps you practice your newly learned keystrokes with whole words and phrases. It emphasizes precision, not momentum. KeyWords presents passages of small words or letter patters to type.
Type carefully: tree frog free frog tree fr_
When you complete all the lines in the passage, KeyWords displays the number of errors you made. Errors are the number of words you typed incorrectly; even if you make more than one mistake typing a word, it counts as only one error. Typing extra spaces between words also counts as one error.
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Building Accuracy and Speed
Speed Builder
KeyWords compares your accuracy (number of errors) to the passing criteria
(see page 5-13). If you don’t meet the passing criteria, a message will tell you
to type more carefully so you make fewer mistakes, and you will not go to the speed builder. Instead, you will go back to the screen where you can select passages.
You had 20 errors. You will need 12 or fewer to continue. Please type more carefully so you make fewer mistakes.
(Press [SPACE BAR] to continue.)
If you meet the passing criteria, you will see a message like the one below, and when you press the space bar, you will go on to the speed builder.
Nice job! You only made 1 error.
You are now ready for Speed Builder.
(Press [SPACE BAR] to continue.)
After you pass the accuracy activity, KeyWords gives you a speed builder activity. You cannot go straight to the speed builder activity; it always starts automatically after you pass the accuracy activity. Even if you’ve completed the accuracy activity before, you must go through it again before you can work on the speed builder.
KeyWords shows you your goal before the activity, and afterwards, it shows
you whether you met the goal. (To set goals, see page 5-13.) Goals are based
on the number of words you type per minute. Type the text on the screen and press the space bar when asked to do so.
When you finish the activity, a message will show you whether you met your goal. If you met your goal, you will see a message like this:
Way to go! Your typing rate was 20 words per minute. Your goal rate was
8 words per minute. You passed!
(Press [SPACE BAR] to continue.)
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Taking an Accuracy and Speed Test
If not, you will see a message like the one below. Then, you will see a message asking if you want to try the speed builder again. Press y for yes or n for no.
Your typing rate was 5 words per minute. You need to type 8 words per minute or more.
(Press [SPACE BAR] to continue.)
Taking an Accuracy and Speed Test
The third option in each lesson, Take accuracy and speed test , lets you test your progress. Each lesson has four different tests that you can take. You can retake a test anytime. Your record shows only your best results.
When you choose this option, the NEO shows the goals you need to meet for accuracy and speed in order to pass the test.
Your goal for the Speed and Accuracy
Test is 12 Words Per Minute with
12 errors or fewer.
(Press [SPACE BAR] to continue.)
As in the accuracy builder, the number of errors is counted as the number of incorrectly typed words. Even if you make more than one mistake while typing a word, it counts as only one error. Typing extra spaces between words also counts as an error.
The top two lines on the screen show you the text to type and when to press enter . After you’ve typed the text, the screen shows your accuracy and speed scores, your goal, and whether you passed for accuracy and for speed. Note that you may pass either accuracy or speed without passing the other element. When you press the space bar after viewing the score, you’ll return to the lesson screen.
Your score
40 WPM
Your goal
8 WPM
Passed
Yes
7 Errors 10 Errors Yes
(Press [SPACE BAR] to continue.)
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How Students Check Progress Using Reports
How Students Check Progress Using Reports
Teachers can also create a Group
Progress Report .
also available in KeyWords
RP in Renaissance Place; see
You can check your progress any time to see how well you’re doing on your
KeyWords lessons.
The Student Progress Report includes all lessons you’ve worked on. It shows the keys you did each lesson for, your goals for words per minute (WPM) and accuracy, and your actual scores. It also shows whether you have passed the test, and it lists the accuracy and speed builders that you have done.
The Last Lesson Report shows the keys the lesson was for, your goal for words per minute (WPM), your actual words per minute, your goal for errors, your actual number of errors, and whether you passed.
When you choose a report, KeyWords can print it, send it directly to the computer, or send it to an AlphaWord Plus file. If you choose to send it to an
AlphaWord Plus file, the report may wrap across several lines, making it difficult to read, but you can then transfer the file to a computer or printer and see the report with its proper formatting. Sending reports to AlphaWord
Plus is also useful because if you are using several NEOs with AlphaSmart
Manager, you can use that program to retrieve the files from multiple NEOs at the same time, and you can then view, save, or print the reports.
Follow these steps to create a report:
1.
In KeyWords, select your name from the student list and press enter .
2.
Type your password and press enter .
3.
On the Select Lesson or Option screen, press
↑
to move the cursor up next to Student reports , which is at the top of the list. Then, press enter .
Select Lesson or Option:
- Student reports
-*Start Here
L
*A S K L Keys
4.
You can choose a student progress report or a report on the last lesson.
Move the cursor next to the report you want; then, press enter .
Student reports
- Create Student Progress report
- Create Last Lesson report
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Teacher Options
If file passwords are enabled for
AlphaWord Plus (see
you must enter the password for the file you’ve chosen before the KeyWords report can be saved there.
You can substitute the master password for the file password.
5.
Select one of the options and press enter :
• Print: Choose this option if you want to print the report directly. Then, press print . (NEO must be connected to a printer with a USB cable or be able to send the file to a printer wirelessly.)
• Send directly to computer: Choose this option if you want to send the report to a file on your computer. Make sure AlphaSmart Manager is not running on the computer. Then, connect your NEO to the computer via USB cable (or AlphaHub) as directed by the NEO, open the file on the computer, and press send on the NEO. Disconnect the cable when the file has been sent. (If characters get jumbled in the computer file, you may need to change the transfer speed by pressing option- -s .)
• Transfer to AlphaWord file: Choose this option if you want to send the report to an AlphaWord Plus file in one of the eight file spaces on the NEO. Then, type the number of the file you want to send the report to. If the NEO warns you that the text that’s already in the file will be deleted, press y for “yes” if you want to continue. In the SmartApplet list that appears next, you can select AlphaWord Plus, and the file that you sent the report to will open.
Create Student Progress report
- Send directly to computer
- Transfer to AlphaWord file
Teacher Options
You can also change these settings in
AlphaSmart
Manager. Click the Settings tab, then click KeyWords on the left to see the settings you can change.
The Teacher Options in KeyWords allow you to do the following:
• Delete one or more KeyWords students
• Control whether home row confirmation is required
• Control whether KeyWord reinforces use of the correct shift key
• Set whether one space or two spaces are required between sentences
• View student progress using various reports
The master password is required when you set teacher options.
You can use AlphaSmart Manager to set the master password for your NEOs.
For instructions, see the AlphaSmart Manager 2 User Manual . You can find the CD on the AlphaSmart Manager CD or in the Start menu (Windows) or the program folder (Macintosh).
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Deleting Students
Follow these steps to change teacher options:
1.
In KeyWords, use the arrow keys to move the cursor next to Teacher options and press enter .
2.
Type the master password and press enter . The teacher options will be listed.
Select a Teacher Option:
- Delete a student
- Delete all students
Create group progress report
Deleting Students
You can also delete all KeyWords students using
AlphaSmart Manager . To do this, click Settings , click
KeyWords on the left, and choose Yes for the Delete all students option. You cannot remove individual students in
AlphaSmart Manager.
Within the teacher options, you can choose to delete one or more KeyWords students. (This does not delete students from KeyWords RP.)
Important: After you delete a KeyWords student, there is no way to recover that student’s work. Make sure you want to permanently delete the students work before following the steps below.
Follow these steps:
1.
In KeyWords, move the cursor next to Teacher options and press enter .
2.
Type the master password and press enter .
3.
In the list of teacher options, do one of the following:
• If you want to delete just one student, move the cursor next to Delete a student and press enter. Then, move the cursor next to the student’s name, and press enter .
• If you want to delete all KeyWords students, move the cursor next to
Delete all students and press enter .
Select a Teacher Option:
- Delete a student
- Delete all students
Create group progress report
4.
A message will warn you that the data for the student(s) is about to be erased. If you’re sure you want to continue, press y for “yes.” If not, press n .
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Creating a Group Progress Report
Creating a Group Progress Report
Students can also view Progress
Reports and Last
Lesson Reports . See
available in KeyWords in
Renaissance Place; see
One of the teacher options is the ability to create a group progress report. This report provides information on each student’s last lesson, including the student’s goals and actual performance for speed and accuracy and whether the student passed. The report includes only those students who have used
KeyWords on this NEO.
Follow these steps to create the report:
1.
In KeyWords, move the cursor next to Teacher options and press enter .
2.
Type the master password and press enter .
3.
Move the cursor down next to Create group progress report and press enter .
4.
Select one of the options and press enter :
Choose this option if you want to print the report directly. Then, press print .
(NEO must be connected to a printer or be able to send the file to a printer wirelessly.)
Send directly to computer
Choose this option if you want to send the report to a file on your computer.
a.
Make sure AlphaSmart Manager is not running on the computer.
b.
Connect your NEO to the computer via USB cable (or AlphaHub) as directed by the NEO.
c.
Open the file on the computer. (For best formatting results, use a monospace font like Courier for the report text.) d.
Press send on the NEO.
e.
Disconnect the cable when the file has been sent.
If file passwords are enabled for
AlphaWord Plus (see
you must enter the password for the file you’ve chosen before the KeyWords report can be saved there.
You can substitute the master password for the file password.
Transfer to AlphaWord file
Choose this option if you want to send the report to an AlphaWord Plus file in one of the eight file spaces on the NEO. On the NEO, the report may wrap across several lines, making it difficult to read, but you can then transfer the file to a computer or printer and see the report with its proper formatting.
Sending reports to AlphaWord Plus is also useful because if you are using several NEOs with AlphaSmart Manager, you can use that program to retrieve the files from multiple NEOs at the same time, and you can then view, save, or print the reports.
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Setting Speed and Accuracy Goals for KeyWords Students
Follow these steps to send the report to AlphaWord Plus: a.
Type the number of the file you want to send the report to.
b.
When the NEO warns you that the text that’s already in the file will be deleted, press y for “yes” if you want to continue. The file will open in
AlphaWord Plus.
You will see a report like the one below, showing information for each student’s latest KeyWords lesson:
KeyWords Group Progress Report
Student Name Latest Goal Actual Goal Actual Passed
Lesson WPM WPM Errors Errors
__________________________________________________________
Luis Camacho ASKL 8 77 12 2 Yes
Benjamin Donne ASKL 8 48 12 19 No
Keisha Fuller ASKL 8 5 12 24 No
Setting Speed and Accuracy Goals for KeyWords
Students
In the Teacher Options, you can also set new speed (Words Per Minute or
WPM) and accuracy (error) goals for students who use KeyWords on this
NEO. As your students’ typing improves, you may want to set a higher goal for words per minute and a lower goal for errors. Only teachers can set goals; students can’t set their own goals.
When you set goals, you are setting them for all lessons and all students who use this NEO. You can’t set different goals for different students who are using the NEO. The goals apply to all accuracy and speed builders and to tests.
Setting Goals Manually Changes How KeyWords Works
If you set goals using the teacher options, those goals will stay the same for all lessons and students until you change them.
If you do not set goals using the teacher options, KeyWords starts with easy goals for all students and gradually makes the goals more difficult as students progress through lessons. The following table shows how the goals progress as the student works through lessons.
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Lesson
ASKL Keys
DJF Keys
TH Keys
GO Keys
EI Keys
PR Keys
QU Keys
WY Keys
Z? Keys
X. Keys
C, Keys
MV Keys
NB Keys
“ ‘ ! Keys
Number Keys
Accuracy/Error Goal
(Maximum)
8
8
8
6
8
8
8
8
10
10
10
8
12
12
12
Words Per Minute (WPM)
Goal (Minimum)
22
22
14
14
18
16
18
20
14
16
16
16
8
10
12
If you have set goals in the teacher options and you want to go back to the default automatic goals that are shown in the table, see the instructions on
How to Set Goals Manually in the Teacher Options
Follow these steps to set new goals that are the same for all students and lesson activities:
You can also set
KeyWords goals in
AlphaSmart
Manager.
With NEO connected, click the Settings tab in AlphaSmart Manager and click Keywords on the left. Then, check and change the WPM and error goals.
1.
In KeyWords, move the cursor next to Teacher options and press enter .
2.
Type the master password and press enter .
3.
Move the cursor down next to Set custom WPM and error goals and press enter .
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4.
To make the words per minute (WPM) goal higher, press the
↑
key. To decrease it, press the
↓
key.
Use the arrow keys to change the words per minute:8
(Press [SPACE BAR] to continue.)
5.
Press the space bar.
6.
To increase the number of allowable errors, press the
↑
key. To decrease it, press the
↓
key.
Use the arrow keys to change the
Allowable errors:12
(Press [SPACE BAR] to continue.)
Resetting Goals to the Default
You can also reset
AlphaSmart
Manager.
With NEO connected, click the Settings tab in AlphaSmart Manager and click Keywords on the left. Then, choose Yes after
Reset WPM/error goals to default.
Follow these steps to change back to the default goals, which change as students progress through the lessons. (See the table that starts on
1.
In KeyWords, move the cursor next to Teacher options and press enter .
2.
Type the master password and press enter .
3.
Move the cursor down next to Reset WPM and error goals to default and press enter .
4.
A message will tell you that the goals have been reset. Press the space bar.
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Choosing Whether to Enforce Use of the Correct Shift Key
Choosing Whether to Enforce Use of the Correct Shift
Key
You can also change this setting in
AlphaSmart
Manager . With NEO connected, click the Settings tab in AlphaSmart Manager, click KeyWords on the left, and choose Yes or No after
Turn Require correct shift key OFF or ON .
For faster and more accurate touch typing, students should learn to type a capital letter by holding down the shift key with the opposite hand from the one that is typing the letter. For example, to type “A,” you should hold down the shift key using the little finger of the right hand while typing a with the little finder of the left hand.
If you choose to enforce this practice, in the teacher options, Correct Shift Key
Enforcement should be “On” (as it is when you first receive the NEO). If it is on, when students are learning new keys in lessons that require them to type capital letters, NEO will notify them if they use the incorrect shift key. (See the sample message below.)
To type a capital A, press the right shift key.
(Hold down the right [shift] key and press A now.)
Follow these steps to turn this option on or off:
1.
In KeyWords, move the cursor next to Teacher options and press enter .
2.
Type the master password and press enter .
3.
Move the cursor down next to Turn require correct shift key ON (or
OFF ) and press enter .
4.
The next screen will show you whether correct shift key enforcement is on or off; then, it will ask if you want to turn it on (if it’s off) or off (if it’s on). If you want to change the setting, press y for “yes.”
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Enforcing Use of the Home Row
Enforcing Use of the Home Row
You can also change this setting in
AlphaSmart
Manager . With NEO connected, click the Settings tab in AlphaSmart Manager, click KeyWords on the left, and choose Yes or No after
Turn Home Row
Confirmation ON or OFF .
Because returning your fingers to the home row is such an important concept in touch typing, you can choose to have KeyWords request that students press the home row keys ( a s d f j k l ; ) in sequence during lessons.
When this option is turned on, students see the message below at the beginning of each accuracy and speed builder activity and each test. They must then type the home row keys in order from left to right before they can exit the screen and go on to the lesson. If they type the keys incorrectly,
KeyWords backspaces to where they made the error, and it won’t let them continue until they press the correct letters in the correct order
Place your fingers on the Home Row now.
Type each Home Row key one at a time from left to right.
This option is off by default. To turn it on or off again, follow these steps:
1.
In KeyWords, move the cursor next to Teacher options and press enter .
2.
Type the master password and press enter .
3.
Move the cursor down next to Turn Home Row Confirmation ON (or
OFF ) and press enter .
4.
The next screen will show you whether home row confirmation is on or off; then, it will ask if you want to turn it on (if it’s off) or off (if it’s on). If you want to change the setting, press y for “yes.”
Requiring One or Two Spaces Between Sentences
You can also change this setting in
AlphaSmart
Manager . With NEO connected, click the Settings tab in AlphaSmart Manager, click KeyWords on the left, and choose 1 or 2 after Set
Spaces between sentences .
Traditional keyboarding classes taught with typewriters specified that typists should put two spaces after a period before starting a new sentence.
Typesetting, word processing, and web pages all use just one space between sentences.
In the teacher options, you can specify the number of spaces that you want your students to include between sentences. Follow these steps:
1.
In KeyWords, move the cursor next to Teacher options and press enter .
2.
Type the master password and press enter .
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Using AlphaSmart Manager 2 with KeyWords
3.
Move the cursor down next to Set one/two spaces between sentences and press enter .
4.
Use the
↑ and
↓
keys to increase or decrease the number of spaces between sentences. You can specify either 1 or 2.
5.
Press the space bar when you have finished making the change.
Using AlphaSmart Manager 2 with KeyWords
AlphaSmart Manager 2 comes with each NEO. When you’re using KeyWords, this program can be useful in many ways:
• It lets you set all KeyWords options from one screen at your computer.
• If you have a SmartOption Cart with an AlphaHub, AlphaSmart Manager 2 lets you manage KeyWords options for up to thirty NEOs at the same time.
• In AlphaSmart Manger version 2.6 and higher, the program can retrieve
KeyWords data from NEOs and create reports that you can print and save.
• AlphaSmart Manager version 2.6 and higher can also synchronize that data with the KeyWords program in Renaissance Place, allowing you to use that
program to generate reports. (See page 5-23.)
The following procedures explain how to use some KeyWords features of
AlphaSmart Manager 2. For complete instructions for AlphaSmart Manager, refer to the AlphaSmart Manager User Manual that is available on the program CD.
Setting KeyWords Options in AlphaSmart Manager
The KeyWords settings that you can change in AlphaSmart Manager are the same ones that you can change on the NEO itself in the Teacher Options.
However, changing the settings is sometimes faster in AlphaSmart Manager because you can make all setting changes in one window, and you can change settings for all NEOs that are connected to your computer.
The table on the next page describes the KeyWords settings you can change and where to find the same settings on the NEO itself.
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Setting
Disable this
SmartApplet
Delete all students
Set custom WPM goals
Set custom error goals
Reset WPM/error goals to default
Turn require correct shift key OFF
Turn Home Row confirmation ON
Set spaces between sentences
What It Does
Turns off access to KeyWords so it can’t be used on the
NEO(s). KeyWords is still installed, but if anyone tries to select it in the list of SmartApplets, they are notified that it is disabled. Users of NEO need the master password to enable it again. Click Yes or No .
Where to Find on the NEO
Press applets , move the cursor down next to KeyWords , and press ctrlz -L . Then, enter the master password and press enter . An open square with four corners will appear next to
KeyWords in the list.
You can delete students in the teacher options in KeyWords.
Deletes all students who have been added to
KeyWords and their KeyWords data. Note: In
AlphaSmart Manager, you can delete all students, but not individual students. To do that, use the KeyWords teacher options on the NEO. Click Yes or No.
Sets a specific words per minute (WPM) speed goal for all students and all lessons. This overrides the automatic progression of goals that KeyWords
normally uses (see page 5-13). Type the minimum
words per minute you want students to achieve. (The default is 8.)
Sets a specific goal for maximum errors allowed per activity for all students and all lessons. This overrides the automatic progression of goals that KeyWords
normally uses (see page 5-13). Type the maximum
errors you want students to be allowed. (The default is 12.)
Resets goals to the ones used by default in KeyWords
Yes or No .
You can set goals in the teacher options in KeyWords. (See
You can set goals in the teacher options in KeyWords. (See
You can reset goals in the teacher options in KeyWords.
You can turn this requirement on or off in the teacher options
Determines whether KeyWords checks to make sure that students use the shift key opposite the letter they are typing to make that letter uppercase. If students use the wrong shift key, they will see a message asking them to use the other shift key. Click Yes or No .
Determines whether KeyWords requires students to type the home row keys at the beginning of each accuracy and speed builder activity and the beginning of each test. This helps get students used to placing their hands on the home row. Click Yes or No .
Determines whether students are required to type one space or two between sentences. Click 1 or 2 .
You can turn this requirement on or off in the teacher options
You can change the spaces required between sentences in the teacher options in
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Using AlphaSmart Manager 2 with KeyWords
If KeyWords isn’t in the Settings list, one or more of the NEOs doesn’t have KeyWords installed. To install it on all connected NEOs, click the
SmartApplets tab, click
KeyWords in the list, and click
Add . Then, send the
SmartApplet to the NEOs. For
Follow these steps to change KeyWords options in AlphaSmart Manager.
These steps assume that you have started the program and connected your
NEO(s) as described in the AlphaSmart Manager 2 User Manual .
1.
Click the Settings tab in AlphaSmart Manager.
2.
Click KeyWords A in the list of SmartApplets on the left as shown.
A
To restore all
KeyWords settings to the defaults, click
Restore Defaults at the bottom of the window.
3.
Make changes as needed to the settings listed on the right. (Make sure the box is checked for each setting you’re changing.)
4.
Click the Send List tab and make sure that your changes are listed.
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5.
If you have multiple NEOs and you want to limit the changes to certain
NEOs, click Select Devices , check the NEOs that should get the changes, and click OK .
6.
Click Send .
Retrieving KeyWords Data and Generating Reports in AlphaSmart Manager
Follow the steps below to retrieve your students’ KeyWords data from NEOs and view, save, or print reports. These steps assume that you have started the program and connected your NEO(s) as described in the AlphaSmart
Manager 2 User Manual .
1.
Click the KeyWords tab in AlphaSmart Manager. AlphaSmart Manager will retrieve students’ KeyWords data from connected NEOs. You can use the drop-down list A to choose whether to list by student or to list students under the device (NEO) they’ve used.
A
B
2.
Check the boxes next to the students or devices (NEOs) you want to include in reports and click Reports B . (If you don’t check any students, the program will assume you want to include all students listed.)
3.
First, click the report you want to generate: Student Detail or Student
Progress C . The Student Detail Report lists each student’s information separately by lesson, including the goals, actual words per minute and errors, whether the lesson was passed, and the accuracy and speed builders completed. The Student Progress Report includes information on each student’s latest lesson, including the goals, actual words per minute, actual errors, and whether the lesson has been passed.
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Next, click the group you want to include: the selected (checked) students or all students D .
Click OK to continue.
C
D
4.
The report will open in a new window.
To save the report, click Save , type a name for the report and choose a location for the file, and click Save .
To print the report, click Print , choose your printer, and click OK
(Windows) or Print (Macintosh).
To close the report window, click Close .
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Using AlphaSmart Manager 2 with KeyWords
Synching KeyWords Data with KeyWords RP
By following these steps, you can synchronize your KeyWords data with the
KeyWords program in Renaissance Place.
To find manuals in
Renaissance Place, click the Download
Manuals link in the top right corner of any page. Then, click Download next to the manual you want to open.
Renaissance Place is a web-based information system that brings together a wealth of student data, giving teacher, principals, and administrators the information they need in one place. You can use KeyWords in Renaissance
Place if you own and have registered any other Renaissance Place product, such as Accelerated Reader, Accelerated Math, STAR Reading, or STAR
Math.
Before you synchronize KeyWords data with KeyWords in Renaissance Place, you must do the following:
• Make sure KeyWords RP is installed on your server. (If you’re using your own server, see the Renaissance Place Installation Guide .)
• Register at least one other Renaissance Place product.
• Activate your school(s) in Renaissance Place (see page 5-36).
• Decide which Renaissance Place account (user name and password) will be used to synchronize data since only one may do so.
• Add your KeyWords students to Renaissance Place (see the Renaissance
Place Software Manual ). Make sure that the first and last names are identical to the student names in KeyWords on the NEOs. This is important because students’ KeyWords data is matched to their records in
Renaissance Place. Data can only be synchronized for students who’ve been added to Renaissance Place.
• Make sure your KeyWords courses, classes, and teachers have been added to Renaissance Place. Teachers must be assigned to the classes with
KeyWords RP checked for the teachers, and students must be enrolled in the classes. For instructions, see the Renaissance Place Software Manual .
Follow these steps to synchronize KeyWords data with RP. These steps assume you have already started AlphaSmart Manager and connected your
NEO(s) as described in the AlphaSmart Manager User Manual .
1.
Click the KeyWords tab in AlphaSmart Manager.
AlphaSmart Manager will retrieve students’ KeyWords data from connected NEOs. You can use the drop-down list A to choose whether to list by student or to list students under the device (NEO) they’ve used.
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A
B
2.
Click Synch with RP B .
3.
Enter the web address that you use to access Renaissance Place C .
C
D
E
4.
Enter the user name and password that you use to log in to Renaissance
Place D .
5.
If you have synchronized with RP before, you can choose to automatically synch students that have already been matched, or you can use the full wizard to change previous matches of KeyWords with RP E . Click an option.
6.
Click Next > .
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The first time you synchronize,
AlphaSmart Manager performs a basic name match
(auto-matching) between the list of Renaissance Place students and the KeyWords students on the NEOs.
7.
If this is your first time synchronizing, or if you chose to use the full wizard to change previous matches, select the school you want to use if necessary. Click Next > .
If you have synchronized before and chose to automatically synch students with Renaissance Place in the previous step, a message will appear telling you how many students were successfully imported into
Renaissance Place. Click Finish and go to step 11.
8.
Check the class(es) containing the students that you want to synchronize with Renaissance Place. Click Next > .
9.
Match the KeyWords students with the Renaissance Place students as described below.
I
F G
H
J
F Click a KeyWords student name that you want to match to a
Renaissance Place student.
The list is based on the students entered into the NEO(s) connected to your computer.
G Click the Renaissance Place student name you want to match to the KeyWords student you selected. The list is based on Renaissance Place students already enrolled in the school and class you selected in the previous dialog boxes.
H Click Match >>
I If you do not want to accept that match, click the student names in the Matched Students column and click << Unmatch to separate the names and move them back to their respective columns on the left side.
J Click Next > when you have finished.
to match the students and move them to the
Matched Students area on the right.
10.
After the progress dialog box disappears, the program will show you how many students had data successfully imported into Renaissance Place.
Click Finish .
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About KeyWords Reports
11.
Open your Web browser and go to the server address (URL) where
Renaissance Place is installed.
12.
Log in to Renaissance Place (see page 5-33).
13.
View and/or print KeyWords RP reports in Renaissance Place (see
About KeyWords Reports
There are several different ways to get reports on student work in KeyWords:
• Students can view a Student Progress Report that shows their work on all
lessons, or they can choose a Last Lesson Report. See page 5-9.
• Teachers can create a Group Progress Report that includes information on
each student’s last lesson. See page 5-12.
• You can view a Student Detail Report or Group Student Progress Report
within AlphaSmart Manager. See page 5-21.
• Teachers can use the templates that come with KeyWords to create a master class report. This report includes each student’s Last Lesson Report.
See the next section.
• Teachers can also view and print reports in KeyWords in Renaissance
Creating a Master Class Report
By following the steps below, you can create a master class report that includes the Last Lesson Reports from each of your students.
When you send a Last Lesson Report to a program on your computer instead of printing it or sending it to AlphaWord Plus, the column headers aren’t included so that you can easily create a master classroom report. To create the master class report, you open a Microsoft Excel file that you want to put the data in; then, you have your students create a Last Lesson Report and send it to your computer into the file one at a time. Follow the steps on the next page.
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About KeyWords Reports
1.
Copy the LastLessonreport.xls file that is on the AlphaSmart Manager 2
CD in the KeyWords Extras folder. Paste the file onto your computer and open it. Click on the first cell under the heading as shown A .
A
2.
Have your students create a Last Lesson Report on their devices. (See
page 5-9.) Tell them to wait before choosing to print the report, send it to a
computer, or send it to an AlphaWord Plus file.
3.
Have a student connect his or her NEO to your computer using the USB cable. Then, ask the student to move the cursor next to Send directly to computer and press enter . After a moment, the student will be asked to press send . This will send the student’s data into the first row below the column headings. When the data has been sent, have the student disconnect the NEO. Click in the first cell in the next row.
Repeat this step for each student.
4.
Add any other information you want in the report, such as your name or the classroom, and then save or print the file for your records.
About the Options for Generating Reports on the NEO
When you create KeyWords reports on the NEO, you can choose one of three options:
• Print the report from the NEO directly to a printer, either by connecting the NEO to the printer with a USB cable or by using IR beaming to send the report wirelessly.
• Send the report to an open file on your computer via a USB cable connection.
• Transfer the report to one of the AlphaWord Plus file spaces (file 1— file 8).
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Printing Reports
If you chose to print the report, follow these steps:
1.
Connect the NEO to your printer using a USB cable, or put the NEO in range of an IR printer.
2.
Press print . KeyWords will inform you that the NEO is connected to your printer; then, it will send the report and go back to the report options screen.
3.
Press esc until you return to the KeyWords main screen.
If you notice missing characters or jumbled text, you might need to slow down the transfer speed for NEO. To change the speed for one
NEO, press optionz -S . To change it for several NEOs, use AlphaSmart Manager 2.
Sending Reports
If you chose to send the report to your computer, follow these steps:
1.
On your computer, open the program and file that you want to send the report to. Make sure your cursor is in the file so that it is active. For best formatting results, choose a fixed-width or monospace font like Courier; these fonts make the columns and header information line up correctly.
2.
Using a USB cable, connect the NEO to your computer.
3.
Press send . The text will appear in the file you had open.
4.
Press esc until you return to the KeyWords main screen.
Transferring Reports to AlphaWord Plus
When you transfer a KeyWords report to AlphaWord Plus, you save it to one of the existing file spaces (file 1–file 8). Any text that is already in the file you choose will be overwritten.
This is a quick way to see reports right on the NEO. However, because the
NEO screen is not as wide as a computer screen or printer page, the report will wrap across several lines, making it hard to read onscreen. If you transfer the file to a computer or printer, the report will return to its proper formatting.
If you have a SmartOption Cart with several NEOs connected, saving reports to an AlphaWord Plus file is also useful because you can use AlphaSmart
Manager to retrieve the files from all connected NEOs at the same time. Then, you can view, save, or print the reports from your computer.
If you choose to transfer a report to an AlphaWord Plus file, follow these steps:
1.
Type the file number that you want to send the report to.
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2.
If the file is not empty, KeyWords will warn you that there is text in the file that will be deleted. To continue, press y for yes. (If you don’t want to continue, press n for no. KeyWords will ask you to choose a different file.)
3.
KeyWords will save the report in that file and open it in AlphaWord Plus.
Using KeyWords RP to View and Print Reports
KeyWords RP is a Renaissance Place program that allows you to generate reports about your students’ work in KeyWords on NEOs. You do not have to purchase KeyWords RP separately. You can use it if you have another
Renaissance Place program registered and if you are using KeyWords on
NEOs.
KeyWords RP provides powerful and easy-to-use reports so teachers can see information for individual students, classes, and entire schools.
How KeyWords RP Works
To find the
Renaissance Place
Software Manual, click Download Manuals in the top right corner of any
Renaissance Place page.
Then, click Download next to the manual.
1.
A Renaissance Place administrator activates the schools that will be using KeyWords. This registers KeyWords RP for those schools. (See
2.
The Renaissance Place administrator also adds the KeyWords students and their teachers, courses, and classes. Teachers must be assigned to the classes with KeyWords RP checked for each teacher, and students must be enrolled in those classes. To find out how to perform these tasks, refer to the Renaissance Place Software Manual . The student names must exactly match the student names you’ve added in KeyWords on the NEOs.
3.
Students complete KeyWords lessons on their NEOs.
4.
Teachers use AlphaSmart Manager to synchronize the KeyWords Data
on the NEOs with the data in KeyWords RP. (See page 5-23.)
5.
Teachers, principals, or administrators use a web browser to go to their
Renaissance Place address. Then, they log in to Renaissance Place.
6.
Users click Reports to choose the report they would like to generate. See
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Programs You’ll Use
KeyWords RP
The KeyWords RP reporting software—accessible from the Renaissance Place
Home page—reports on students’ performance on KeyWords lessons on
NEOs. You’ll need this program installed on your Renaissance Place server.
What You’ll Use KeyWords RP to Do
Activate schools
Synchronize data with NEOs via AlphaSmart Manager
Print reports
Get software tips and manuals to help you use KeyWords
RP in the classroom
See Page
Renaissance Place
Renaissance Place is the management program that comes with all RP products. It lets you view and manage district, school, student, teacher, parent, course, and class information, which is shared by all Renaissance
Place software used in your district or school. The tasks that you can perform in this program depend on your user level. For example, district-level users have more management tasks available than school users or teachers. Sample tasks may include:
• Adding, editing, or deleting courses and classes, and assigning teachers and students to them
• Choosing a different school year to work in
• Viewing student information
KeyWords SmartApplet on the NEO
The KeyWords SmartApplet on the NEO is the program students use to work through their lessons. KeyWords RP is compatible with KeyWords 3.3 or higher.
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AlphaSmart Manager
AlphaSmart Manager 2 is the link between the KeyWords SmartApplet on the
NEO and KeyWords RP. AlphaSmart Manager helps you retrieve KeyWords data from NEOs and synchronize it with the data in KeyWords RP. You can also use AlphaSmart Manager to change KeyWords settings for all connected
NEOs. KeyWords RP is compatible with AlphaSmart Manager versions 2.6 and higher.
Learning KeyWords RP
You’ll find many tools in the software to help you learn to use KeyWords RP.
Do you have questions?
Send general questions about KeyWords RP to [email protected]
.
Send technical questions to [email protected]
.
Online Manuals and Tips
On every page in Renaissance Place and KeyWords RP, you’ll see a
Download Manuals link. Click this link to see a list of the documents that are available; then, click Download next to the document you want to open.
For KeyWords RP, you’ll find these documents helpful:
Document
KeyWords User Manual
(this document)
Tips for Getting Started with KeyWords
Renaissance Place
Software Manual
What It Gives You
• General information about the program
• Step-by-step instructions for performing every function
• Helpful hints to get you started to using the program
• Procedures for managing all school and district information, including students, teachers, courses, and classes
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Online Help
To access the online help, click Help in the upper-right corner of any page.
The help usually appears in a separate window to the right of the page, as shown below.
The Help link is on every page in the program. Click it to get more information about the page currently displayed in the software.
Use the links at the top of the
Help page to navigate the help.
• Click Contents to display the table of contents for the help.
• Click Index to display an alphabetical list of topics.
• Click Search to find a word or ask a question.
• Click Other Help to see a list of the Renaissance Place software installed on your server and click one of those products to view its help.
• Click Back to view previously selected help pages.
• Click Close Help to close the help window.
This logo lets you know you’re in the KeyWords RP Reports help. If you click Other Help at the top of the Help page and select another program’s help, the logo for that program will appear.
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Checking System Requirements
To use KeyWords RP, you must have Adobe Reader installed on your computer so you can view reports. If you want to see if a specific computer has the necessary software to run KeyWords RP, click Check Software
Requirements on the Renaissance Place Welcome page before you log in.
Fro the most up-to-date hardware requirements for KeyWords RP, visit www.renlearn.com/requirements.
Logging in to Renaissance Place and Changing Your Password
Use these instructions to log in to Renaissance Place so you can access the
KeyWords RP program. You can also change your password (either by choice or when the system requires it).
If the Change
Password page appears and you didn’t select it when logging in, one of two things has happened. Either your system administrator wants you to change it for security reasons or you haven’t changed it in a year and the system requires it.
Only personnel who have been added to the program by the administrator can log in.
1.
In your browser window, go to the Web address (URL) for Renaissance
Place. Supported browsers include Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, and Safari.
2.
On the Welcome page, click Teacher/Administrator .
3.
Enter your user name and password. To change your password, check the Change
Password box.
4.
Check Log In . If you’re not changing your password, your
Home page opens.
5.
If you are changing your password, enter it now, type it again to verify it, and click Save to open your Home page.
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Switching Roles in Renaissance Place
Some people in your district or school may be assigned more than one role, or they may be assigned to more than one school. For example, the librarian in the high school might also teach a reading class in one of the middle schools.
Renaissance Place keeps track of these multiple roles and school assignments. If you have more than one role or school assignment, choose the correct role or school from the drop-down list on the Home page when you log in to the software.
You can switch between roles or schools at any time from your Home page without having to log out of the software.
Navigating the KeyWords RP Software
The yellow navigation bar at the top of each page shows you where you are in the software.
If you need to go back to a previous page, use the links in the navigation bar rather than the browser’s Back button, which can sometimes give you unexpected results. For example, if you’re on the Reports page and want to display the Home page, click Home in the navigation bar.
Logging Out and Closing the Renaissance Place Software
Automatic logout after 20 minutes.
If you don’t use
KeyWords RP for about 20 minutes, it automatically logs you out, and you’ll have to log in again when you return to the software.
When you’ve finished working in KeyWords RP Reports, log out to keep your data secure.
1.
Click Log Out in the upper-right corner of any page.
2.
Close the software by closing your browser.
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Setting Up the KeyWords RP Software
Much of the preliminary setup for your Renaissance Place programs occurs before you log in for the first time. For example, KeyWords RP should be installed by your program administrator, or it may be installed on a server hosted by Renaissance Learning.
The tasks listed below must be performed after KeyWords RP is installed and before you synchronize KeyWords data so you can view reports. You may or may not be the one required to perform these tasks.
Task
Enter district information
Add school years
Add school information
Add school administrators and district staff
Register at least one other Renaissance
Place product
Activate schools for KeyWords RP
Reports
Add teachers, school staff, and students
(make sure student names match exactly what is entered in KeyWords on your NEOs)
Add school marking periods
District
Usually Performed By
School
Admin.
Staff Admin.
Staff
3
3 3
3 3
3 3
3
3
3 3 3
3 3
3 3 3 3 Add courses and classes, assign teachers— designate a lead teacher for each KeyWords RP class—and enroll students in classes
Make sure teacher and student computers have the necessary software installed
3 3
Teacher
3
Where to Find
Instructions
Renaissance Place
Software Manual
Renaissance Place
Software Manual
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Activating Schools
Who Can Do This?
5 District Administrator
District Staff
School Administrator
School Staff
Teachers
To deactivate a school, see
“Removing
Registration” in the
Renaissance Place Software
Manual.
After KeyWords RP has been installed on your server, schools have been entered, and at least one other Renaissance Place product has been registered, a district or program administrator must activate the school that will be using KeyWords RP. KeyWords RP is automatically registered when you activate a school; it does not need to be registered separately.
Note: One other Renaissance Place product (such as Accelerated Reader or
STAR Math) must be registered before you activate KeyWords schools. See the Renaissance Place Software Manual to register those products.
Follow these steps to activate schools for KeyWords RP:
1.
Click Activate Schools in the list of KeyWords RP tasks on the Home page. If you don’t see a list under KeyWords, click Show Details .
2.
Click Activate by the school you want to activate A on the Activate
Schools page. You can only activate one school at a time. Repeat this step for each school you want activated.
C
A
B
After the schools have been activated, be sure to assign a
Lead KeyWords RP teacher to the KeyWords RP classes you create. Check the KeyWords box and select Lead from the role drop-down list when assigning personnel to a class.
B After you click Activate , the software will enter the necessary codes for you and the link will change to Activated.
C Click Previous or Next to move back and forward through the list of schools if the list goes to more than one page.
3.
Click Done when you have finished. The Reports link will now be available in the list of KeyWords RP tasks on the Home page.
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Bringing KeyWords Data into KeyWords RP
To bring your KeyWords data from NEOs into KeyWords RP in Renaissance
Place, you need to use AlphaSmart Manager to synchronize the KeyWords
data from the NEOs with KeyWords RP. For instructions, see page 5-23.
Viewing KeyWords RP Reports
KeyWords RP reports give you more information about your students’ progress and performance on KeyWords lessons and tests on the NEO.
KeyWords RP reports also provide details about class performance, student and teacher information (including logins and passwords), and schoolwide performance in KeyWords.
Renaissance Place Reports vs. KeyWords RP Reports
On your Renaissance Place Home page, you will see a Consolidated Reports link under Renaissance Place in addition to the Reports link under
KeyWords.
When you click Consolidated Reports A under the Renaissance Place tab, administrators and teachers can generate reports with data from more than one Renaissance Place product. However, KeyWords data does not appear on any Renaissance Place consolidated report.
When you click Reports B under the KeyWords tab, you can generate reports about your student’s KeyWords lessons.
A
B
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Check for Adobe Reader Before You Generate Reports
KeyWords RP reports are in PDF format. You will need Adobe Reader installed on your computer to view and print these reports. (On some
Macintosh computers, you can use the Preview program that is already installed.) When you click Reports in the list of KeyWords tasks on the
Renaissance Place Home page, KeyWords checks for this software. If your computer does not have the software, the Check Software Requirements page will open. To get the software you need, click Update in the Action column for Adobe Reader. You will go to a Web site where you can download Adobe
Reader.
Who Can Do This?
5 District Administrator
District Staff
School Administrator
School Staff
Teachers
Creating and Printing KeyWords RP Reports
1.
Click Reports in the KeyWords RP task list on the Home page. KeyWords
RP will make sure that Adobe Reader is installed on this computer. (See the information above.)
2.
Select your school from the School drop-down list if necessary.
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3.
Click the report name on the Reports page.
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Custom report options.
Each report has its own set of options. For more information about the custom options available for each type of report, see page 5-43.
4.
Select the options you want to customize for this report on the Report
Options page. (If the report can’t be customized, the report will be generated as described in step 5.) Click View Report when you’ve finished C .
B
A
C
A For many reports, you can choose students by name or class. To choose them by name, click Select Individual
Students . To choose them by class, choose a class from the drop-down list or click Select
Multiple Classes .
B Reporting parameter groups let you choose students with common traits. For more information, see page 5-41.
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Don’t use the browser’s print function. If the report opens in a browser window, don’t try to print it using the browser’s buttons or menus because only the top of the page will print. Use the Adobe
Reader buttons instead.
5.
KeyWords RP Reports will generate the report. When it’s ready, the report will appear in the browser window or a separate window. To save or print it, use the Adobe Reader buttons, not the browser buttons.
On Macintosh computers, the report may open in
Preview. If so, click the File menu and choose Print to print it.
Use the save button to save the report.
Use the printer button to print the report.
These options let you customize a report or go back to choose a different one.
About Reporting Parameter Groups
Reporting parameter groups let you limit reports to students with common traits. When you choose custom options for some KeyWords RP reports, you can choose a reporting parameter group from a drop-down list. You can also create or change a group by clicking Create New or Edit Selected .
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By entering an Enroll date, you select students enrolled in the school before the date you specify.
You can specify each student’s ethnicity, gender, language, and grade when you add the student or edit his or her information. See the Renaissance Place Software
Manual . Then, you can check the groups that you want to include in the report on this page.
You can assign characteristics to students separately. You can also add your own custom characteristics and assign them to students. See the Renaissance
Place Software Manual . When you check characteristics here, be sure to click an option on the left to choose whether to include students with “any” of the characteristics or only those with all checked characteristics.
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Report
Certificate
Class
Diagnostic
Enrollment
Schoolwide
Summary
Report Descriptions
This table lists the KeyWords RP reports with a description of why you would use it.
Why You Would Use It
Recognizes students who have successfully completed their goals for number of WPM (words per minute) and errors. Each certificate includes a title, the student name, the accomplishment, and two signature lines.
Things You Can Change
You may select:
• classes or students to include
• date range
• text included
• signature lines
No custom options.
Lists your KeyWords classes, their teachers, and their students.
Things to Note
• Only KeyWords RP classes are included. To make a class a KeyWords RP class, check the KeyWords box when you assign a teacher.
Helps you monitor student work on keyboarding lessons in NEO KeyWords. It notes progress toward goals and alerts you to problems students are having.
The report includes the number/percentage of completed lessons/total, the number/percentage of passed lessons/taken, diagnostic codes, and detailed information about the lessons completed (including the lesson names, goal WPM/error, actual WPM/error, and the date the data was imported into RP from
AlphaSmart Manager).
Things to Note
• Diagnostic codes are defined on the report. They help you see potential problems.
• Supports a direct discussion with an individual student’s parents or guardians.
• There is a page break after each group.
Lists students in your classes and each student’s ID, grade, class, and teacher.
Provides details from your students’ most recent
KeyWords tests. Shows averages of the all the lessons completed and the latest lesson completed by grade and class.
Things to Note
• Use this report to get a good overall picture of your students’ keyboarding performance while using
KeyWords on the NEO.
You may select:
• classes or students to include
• date range
• grouping used
No custom options.
You may select:
• date range
• grouping used
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Report
Student Detail
Student
Information
Student Login
Student Record
Teacher
Why You Would Use It
Lists your students. Includes each student’s ID, gender, date of birth, grade level, ethnicity, and characteristics.
Things to Note
• To find out how to set this information for each student, see the Renaissance Place Software
Manual .
• If the administrator hasn’t given you the capability to see ethnicity and characteristics, they won’t appear on the report.
Lists each student’s name, ID, gender, date of birth,
Renaissance Place user name, and Renaissance Place password.
Things You Can Change
No custom options.
Lists each student’s name, ID, gender, date of birth,
KeyWords user name, and KeyWords password.
Things to Note
• Print this report before a KeyWords practice or test session and give your students their KeyWords user names and passwords. Students (and teachers) need this information to log in to KeyWords on NEOs so they can take lessons and tests.
Provides information about student performance on their keyboarding lessons. Includes the lesson name, whether or not it was passed, the student’s goal and actual WPM/Error, and the Accuracy and Speed
Builders completed.
Lists KeyWords RP teachers, their user names, classes, and class position.
Things to Note
• This report can help the administrator see which teachers are using KeyWords RP.
• When teachers print the report, it includes only their information. It doesn’t include other teachers.
• Only teachers of KeyWords RP classes are included.
To make a class a KeyWords RP class, check the
KeyWords box when you assign a teacher.
You may select:
• classes or students to include
• sorting used
• grouping used
• page break after each group (if grouping is used)
You may select:
• classes or students to include
• sorting used
• grouping used
• page break after each group (if grouping is used)
You may select:
• classes or students to include
• date range
• page break after each student’s information
No custom options.
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Capabilities in Renaissance Place Programs
Capabilities in Renaissance Place programs give users the right to perform specific tasks in the software. They are preassigned based on
• The user group you belong to and the position you hold in your district or school
• The tasks that group usually performs
KeyWords RP has no capabilities that are unique to that program, but you can find a table of Renaissance Place tasks and the standard set of capabilities in the Renaissance Place Software Manual . Within Renaissance Place, district or school administrators can change the capabilities assigned to:
• New users added to a specific group
• Groups of current users already in the database
• A specific person
To find out how to change capabilities, see the Renaissance Place Software
Manual . That manual also includes a list of the user groups and the positions in each group.
KeyWords Resources for Teachers
This section gives teachers information about how to use KeyWords to teach your students touch-typing. It explains
• Reference materials provided with KeyWords that you can use to make handouts and transparencies
• A review of ergonomic typing posture and body placement
• A sample lesson plan for using KeyWords in a classroom with NEOs
Materials for handouts and transparencies
You need Adobe
Reader to view and print this file.
In the KeyWords Extras folder on the AlphaSmart Manager CD (and in the
AlphaSmart Manager download files), you’ll find a file named KeyWords
SmartApplet Master.pdf
. This file contains helpful handouts and transparencies.
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The handouts and transparency masters contained in the PDF file are described in the following table.
Name of handout Description of master
Prepare these masters before using KeyWords on NEOs:
Posture and Wrist Placement
Key Strike
Finger Zones
Home Row Keys
This master shows a drawing of a student seated properly with good wrist and hand position. Use it to create an overhead transparency or a reference handout for students.
This master shows close-up sketches of correct finger strike positions. Use it to create an overhead transparency or a student handout.
This master illustrates the keyboard divided into zones. A graphic shows the fingers that correspond to the zones on the keyboard on each hand.
This master shows Home Row positions for the left and right hands. Use this master as a handout or a poster.
Use these masters while working with KeyWords on NEOs:
Finger Placement for Lesson 1: Start
Here!
This master illustrates the right and left hands with fingers labeled, and shows those fingers in their home row positions. It also illustrates the finger reach to the enter key and the use of the thumb to strike the space bar . Use it to create handouts or posters.
Finger Placement for Lessons 2 through
16
Progress Report
These masters illustrate finger placement and reaches useful for student reference as they learn each level. Use the masters to create a handout for each lesson.
Use this master to create hardcopy reports for students to fill in so they can track their progress or hand in progress reports. This is the same information kept by the NEO in the students’ records.
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Name of handout Description of master
Use these masters as supplemental materials to KeyWords lessons on NEOs:
Sustained Practice for All Keys These masters contain additional practice exercises for each lesson.
Students can do the exercises by typing in AlphaWord Plus. Use these lessonappropriate practice sheets as students pass each lesson.
Congratulations Certificate Use this master to create certificates to reward students as they pass each
KeyWords lesson.
Keyboarding ergonomics
Teaching students about proper posture and physical setup can help them prevent health problems caused by typing.
Keep the following tips for wrists and hands in mind:
• Keep wrists aligned, straight, and level. (See the illustrations below.)
• Position chairs so students do not stretch to reach keys.
• Wrists should not rest on anything.
• Take periodic rest breaks.
Correct hand and wrist position Incorrect hand and wrist position
Follow these guidelines to properly adjust equipment and posture:
• The keyboard should be just below elbow height so the elbows are bent at a
90° angle.
• The chair should adjust so it can fit the various sizes and shapes of your students.
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• Forearms and thighs should be parallel to the floor when the student is seated at the computer.
• Feet should be flat or placed on a tilted footrest.
• Position devices so that light does not reflect off the screen. Light reflecting off the screen can cause eyestrain and frustration.
Sample lesson plan for getting started
This sample lesson plan teaches basic keyboarding information. You should present this lesson to students at the beginning of keyboarding instruction.
Students learn
• Correct typing posture
• Correct wrist placement
• Home row keys
• How to strike keys
• How to strike space bar
• How to strike enter
Preparation
Prepare the following overhead transparencies from the masters in the
KeyWords SmartApplet Master.pdf file:
• Posture and Wrist Placement
• Key Strike
• Finger Zones
• Home Row Keys
Teaching the lesson
Explain to students that there are several basic practices that promote successful keyboarding. These practices include sitting with the proper posture, holding the wrists properly, striking the keys correctly, and returning the fingers to the home row keys. The following steps guide you through the lesson.
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1.
Use the Posture and Wrist Placement overhead transparency to show the correct typing posture and wrist placement. Have students sit at their desks with their NEOs and demonstrate the correct posture and wrist placement. Monitor students, helping them make needed adjustments.
2.
Use the Key Strike overhead transparency to explain how to strike the keys. Have students demonstrate and practice striking the keys.
(Students can use AlphaWord Plus on their NEOs to practice striking keys.) Monitor students, helping them make needed adjustments.
3.
Use the Home Row Keys overhead transparency to show the home row keys. Have students place their fingers on the home row keys and practice typing a s d f and then j k l ; . Repeat several times until students can strike the home row keys correctly.
4.
Use the Finger Zones overhead transparency to show students the keyboard zones for each finger. Have students practice striking another key with one finger and then returning that finger to the home row key.
Practice with several fingers. Monitor students, helping them make needed adjustments.
5.
Show students how to strike enter and space bar .
The right little finger strikes enter and then returns to the home row key. Either thumb is used to strike space bar . Have students practice striking enter and space bar and returning to the correct home row key. Monitor students, helping them make needed adjustments.
6.
Explain to students that enter moves the cursor to the beginning of the next line and that space bar inserts a space between words.
7.
Review the basics of sitting properly, using correct wrist placement, striking the keys, and always returning to the home row keys.
Lessons in KeyWords
The following tables list the lessons provided in KeyWords. Each table shows the keys introduced in the lesson, the words and word patterns learned, and
the passing criteria for testing (based on the default goals—see page 5-13).
Keys introduced
Words learned
Patterns
Passing criteria none none none
0 WPM
Lesson 1: Start Here!
0 errors
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Keys introduced
Words learned
Patterns
Passing criteria
A S K L all alas sl ll
8 WPM
Lesson 2: ASKL
as alk
12 errors ask as lass ask
Keys introduced
Words learned
Patterns
Passing criteria
D J F add lad jad fl
10 WPM
Lesson 3: DJF
dad salad jasks ad
12 errors fall flask s (plural) sad jalls
Keys introduced
Words learned
Patterns
Passing criteria
T H sat that ash hash hall salt th st
12 WPM
Lesson 4: TH
flat has flash sash tall half alt at
12 errors hat fast slash talk shall ast ash slat last dash stalk stall sh
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Keys introduced
Words learned
Patterns
Passing criteria
G O dog jog shook lag lot sold of soot oat load stood ood og ost gh
14 WPM
Lesson 5: GO
10 errors hog look hag got old fold off tooth goat ghost flood old ot oad fog took sag shot told soft stool toast float good ook ool ag log hook shag hot gold aloft fool toad soak hood oa oat oast
Keys introduced
Words learned
E I eat tea geese the solid gate kite slide high seaside shoes
Lesson 6: EI
seal eel goose these tie skate ashes silk tight steak headlight flea feel loose did lake jade flashes jog light fish eagle feed lose lid fake like glide sigh flight elfish
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Patterns
Passing criteria ee ed ie ide oe
16 WPM
Lesson 6: EI
ea ake ish ilk
10 errors es ade ike igh se id ite ight
Keys introduced
Words learned
Patterns
Passing criteria
P R hop slop fear deer red tried are dark ill thrill girl reddish pillar prettiest refrigerator op re ark oll str
16 WPM
Lesson 7: PR
ear ee ope ir
10 errors stop ear pear free fled tar large lark shrill dope radishes apples fairies sorriest er ar iest thr shop hear eager tree tire jar ark spark starfish rope soap roses parrot alligator es ard or shr flop dear read see fire hard park star earth hope horse spider strolled
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Lessons in KeyWords
Keys introduced
Words learned
Patterns
Passing criteria
Q U rug hour out soup flush pure quiet quail quip said ug ush
16 WPM
Lesson 8: QU
hug four shout gush trust suds quake quarter squirt heartful ou ust
8 errors jug pour loud hush judge three quilt quart spirit stutter out udge our flour house just fudge quit quote equip dollar sputter ouse qu
Keys introduced
Words learned
Patterns
Passing criteria
W Y day play why flowers washed write hurry ay ory wr
18 WPM
Lesson 9: WY
8 errors try playful whole pillow yaks laws story ow urry way stay where yellow owls you followed wh aw away joyful flow plow hoot furry slowly ly wh
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Lessons in KeyWords
Keys introduced
Words learned
Patterns
Passing criteria
Z ?
zip zigzag gazes jazz azz zz
16 WPM
Lesson 10: Z?
zipper sizzle drizzle zesty uz zi
8 errors pizazz puzzles zero ze zeal
Zeus lazy izz
Keys introduced
Words learned
Patterns
Passing criteria
X .
expert express apex tax paradox ex pre
18 WPM
Lesson 11: X.
explode relax explore ox exasperate ox
8 errors extra reflex prefix fox ax exit exhale wax duplex re
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Lessons in KeyWords
Keys introduced
Words learned
Patterns
Passing criteria
C , ace circles chick cupcake quack could deck chocolate ace uck
20 WPM
Lesson 12: C,
face sticky peck cheetahs call carrot crawls circ uice
8 errors race quick chew duck cows exactly cards eck ch circus pick juice
Chuck careless clothes choose ick cr
Keys introduced
Words learned
Patterns
Passing criteria
M V love grove give very caramel scratch pilgrim might ove im
22 WPM
Lesson 13: MV
dove am arrive avoid muddy pimples shrimp church ive ime
8 errors glove my thrive swerve comics rimful limp av move five alive wave slime whim mild ve
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Lessons in KeyWords
Keys introduced
Words learned
Patterns
Passing criteria
N B big job wobbles beach balloons subway extinction ob ld in
22 WPM
Lesson 14: NB
bit cob singing brown blossom caution ub bb ion
8 errors nibble hobby dancing building bouquet explosion br bbl sion rabbit blue bang brave barley motion bl by
Keys introduced
Passing criteria
" ' !
14 WPM
Lesson 15: " ' !
8 errors
Keys introduced
Passing criteria
Lesson 16: Numbers
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
14 WPM 6 errors
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Frequently Asked Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Why can’t I use the backspace key when using KeyWords?
Backspace is disabled because keyboarding research shows that students need to learn the patterns of keystrokes uninterrupted by immediate corrections. Disabling backspace benefits students because they can concentrate on speed, not on correcting errors.
Why is there so much repetition of words in the practice passages?
Research has shown that speed and confidence increase more readily if simple words are used and are repeated often. KeyWords offsets the repetition by providing text with humor, poetry, and rhythmic chants.
Why are the passages so easy?
Easy practice material develops speed and typing fluency more effectively, giving the student a feeling of confidence and a sense of success. Though the passages are easy, they provide practice in all the needed key patterns.
Why is the sequence of key introduction so different from what I am used to in other typing programs?
Many other typing programs are based on 1950s typing instruction.
KeyWords designers sensed the need for a more language-based program, one that reinforces the development of a reading and writing vocabulary as it teaches typing.
The content of the passages is based on word list analysis. High frequency words that help develop reading and writing vocabulary and spelling skills were chosen for the practice material. KeyWords maximizes kinesthetic and linguistic patterns, which is why it is the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn to touch-type.
Why do the students learn the ASKL keys first?
Two design principles distinguish KeyWords from all other keyboarding programs: the application of kinesthetic (tactile, sensory) patterning and the application of linguistic (language) patterns in all skill-building activities.
When students are learning the home row keys in the first lesson, they type as . Students are typing enough on the left side of the home row keys to ensure that their fingers are where they belong. Students are also using two fingers
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Frequently Asked Questions that are next to each other to press two keys that are next to each other in a left-to-right motion; this is a kinesthetic pattern. The action results in a word, as , which is also part of many other words, like fast ; so as is also a linguistic pattern. Learning the kinesthetic pattern generates a linguistic pattern.
On the right side of the home row keys, there are no little words to teach.
However, if a student types as on the left side and then adds a k , the student has typed ask : All flowing left to right—a kinesthetic pattern—and all forming a word—a linguistic pattern. Similarly, by typing all, the student is introduced to the second right side home row letter in a fully patterned manner.
Students learn the ASKL keys first because these letters are part of the home row and they can be combined to form words. When new letters are added, they are incorporated within kinesthetic and linguistic patterns. Such patterning makes learning to touch-type very efficient and enjoyable.
What is the rationale for how the practice passages are sequenced?
Practice passages adhere to two important principles:
• Patterned words are repeated enough times to build up a rhythm and fluency that then transfers to typing the word within a phrase or sentence where it is not repeated.
• Passages progress from simpler to more complex phrase and sentence patterns.
When the phrase and sentence patterning combines with the linguistic patterning, student typing develops in an almost effortless manner.
Why aren't my test scores updated when I retake an accuracy and speed builder test in KeyWords?
After you take an accuracy and speed builder test for the first time, the results of the test are logged automatically. The only way to replace a logged score is to get a higher word-per-minute score. Fewer errors do not constitute an improvement that causes the score to update; an improved word-per-minute score is required.
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B
EAMER
Beamer is a SmartApplet that lets NEO send text wirelessly to and from another NEO, a Dana, or a Palm OS device. Beamer uses IrDA technology to transfer information in seconds, without the use of cables, cords, or networks.
Beaming between NEOs
Beaming from a NEO to a Palm OS device
Beaming from a Dana to a NEO
The Beamer SmartApplet is installed on your NEO when you receive it.
Starting Beamer
If Beamer is not installed on your install it.
NEO,
Follow these steps to start the Beamer SmartApplet:
1.
Press on/off to start your NEO, then press applets . The SmartApplets menu appears.
2.
Press
↓
to scroll down until your cursor is next to Beamer . Then, press enter .
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Finding the Infrared Ports
Finding the Infrared Ports
Beamer can be used with devices that have infrared capabilities. Before you begin, locate the infrared port on each device you’ll be using. On NEO, the port is in the middle of the back of the device as shown below.
You’ll need to know where the port is on each device you’re using so that you can point the ports at each other when you beam.
On Palm OS devices such as the Dana, the port may be located along the side or top. Consult the documentation that accompanied your product for more information.
Beamer and the NEO Clipboard
Beamer uses the clipboard to receive data before placing it into a SmartApplet such as AlphaWord Plus. If you already have data in the clipboard, Beamer will warn you before receiving a beam. This gives you a chance to save the data on the clipboard in another file before you agree to receive the beam.
For example, text that you have copied from AlphaWord Plus may be in the clipboard, and you may not have copied it into another file yet. The warning gives you the chance to do this before overwriting the clipboard with the beamed information.
If you’re beaming frequently, you might not want to be warned about clipboard data each time. In this case, you would turn this setting off in the
Beamer settings (see page 6-12).
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Beaming from One NEO to Another
Beaming from One NEO to Another
Make sure you have used AlphaWord
Plus at least once on the device that will be receiving the beam. This initializes the program.
You can beam AlphaWord or AlphaWord Plus files between two AlphaSmart devices as long as both devices have infrared ports and are within three feet of each other. You can send the files from NEO to NEO, NEO to AS3000, or
AS3000 to NEO.
Follow the steps below to beam an AlphaWord or AlphaWord Plus file between NEOs. Note: If you are working in AlphaWord Plus, you can beam a
file without leaving it; see page 6-6.
If you choose a file that is protected by an individual password, you will be asked to enter that password before you can send the file. You can enter the file password or the master password. For more on password protection, see
On the sending device:
1.
Make sure you know which AlphaWord or AlphaWord Plus file contains the data you want to send.
2.
Turn on the NEO by pressing on/off .
3.
Press applets to view the SmartApplets menu.
4.
Press
↓
to scroll down and move the cursor next to Beamer in the list; then, press enter . The Beamer screen appears.
Select a Beaming function:
- Send
- Receive
- Settings
5.
On the device from which you want to beam, move the cursor next to
Send and press enter . (If Send is not available, the Beamer settings have
been changed so that beaming is not allowed; see page 6-12.)
After you choose Send, files that contain data appear in a list.
Select the file you want to send:
- File 1 (274 bytes)
- File 2 (992 bytes)
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File 6 (1433 bytes)
6.
Select the file you want to send by doing one of the following:
• Using the arrow keys, scroll through the list of files to move the cursor next to the one you want; then, press enter .
• Press the appropriate file # key along the top of the keyboard on the device.
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Beaming from One NEO to Another
7.
Make sure the receiving device is turned on, that it is within three feet of the beaming device, that it is ready to receive, and that both devices have their infrared ports pointing at each other.
8.
Beam the file by pressing send on the beaming device. Beamer starts beaming the file to the receiving device.
On the receiving device:
1.
Turn on the NEO by pressing on/off .
2.
Press applets to view the SmartApplets menu.
3.
Press
↓
to scroll down and move the cursor next to Beamer in the list; then, press enter . The Beamer screen appears.
Select a Beaming function:
- Send
- Receive
- Settings
4.
On the receiving device, move the cursor next to Receive and press enter .
5.
If the receiving device contains data on the clipboard, the following screen appears:
There is data currently on the clipboard. Press the enter key to overwrite the data.
(Press esc key to cancel)
If there’s no data on the clipboard, or if device hasn’t been set to warn
Ready to receive a file.
(Press esc key to cancel)
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Beaming from One NEO to Another
If you choose a file that is protected by an individual password, you will be asked to enter that password before you can receive text into the file. You can enter the password for the file or the master password. For more on password protection, see
6.
Do one of the following to receive the file:
• Press enter if your AlphaSmart device displayed the clipboard warning and you want to overwrite the data.
• Press esc to cancel receiving the beam.
• If your AlphaSmart device didn’t display a clipboard warning, go on to step 7.
7.
Select a file where you want to store the beamed file, either by scrolling the list and pressing enter , or by pressing one of the file # keys along the top of the keyboard.
If you’re in AlphaWord Plus, you can save to named files that aren’t in workspaces, or save to a new file. If you choose either of these options, when you start AlphaWord Plus on the receiving device, you’ll have to open the file yourself. (AlphaWord Plus automatically opens a beamed file if it’s stored in a workspace.)
Select a file to store the data to:
- File 1 (27 bytes)
- File 2 (667 bytes)
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File 3 (empty)
8.
If the file you selected was empty, Beamer places the beamed file in the empty file.
If the file wasn’t empty, choose to overwrite the existing file or to append the new file to it.
File x is not empty. Choose one:
- Overwrite the file?
- Append to the file?
(Press esc key to exit)
The beamed data should now be in the file you specified on the receiving device. To view it, press applets and select AlphaWord Plus. AlphaWord
Plus automatically opens the file it received.
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Beaming AlphaWord Plus files between devices
Beaming AlphaWord Plus files between devices
If you are working in AlphaWord Plus, you can beam a file without leaving the program. Both devices must have AlphaWord Plus installed. Follow these steps to beam a file within AlphaWord Plus:
1.
On the sending device, start AlphaWord Plus and go to the file you want to send.
2.
On the receiving device, start AlphaWord Plus and go to the file # that will receive the data.
3.
Place the devices within three feet of each other and align their infrared ports.
4.
On the sending device, press ctrl-send .
5.
On the receiving device, press ctrl-B .
6.
If the file was empty, the file will be received into it. If the file contained text, choose whether to overwrite the text or append the new data to the end of it.
Beaming from a NEO to a Palm OS Device
You can beam AlphaWord Plus files to Palm OS devices, such as Dana or
Dana Wireless by AlphaSmart or typical hand-held Palm OS devices.
You can beam to AlphaWord on Dana or Dana Wireless, or you can beam
AlphaWord files to the Memo Pad program. Before following the step below, use the Beamer settings to set whether the file will be sent as an AlphaWord file or a Memo Pad file
To beam between a NEO and a Palm OS device, both devices must have infrared ports and be within three feet of each other.
Follow the steps below to beam an AlphaWord file to a Palm OS device.
On the NEO (the sending device):
1.
Make sure you know which AlphaWord file contains the data you want to send.
2.
Turn on both the NEO and the Palm OS device.
3.
On the NEO, press applets to view the SmartApplets menu.
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Beaming from a NEO to a Palm OS Device
4.
Press
↓
to scroll down and move the cursor next to Beamer in the list; then, press enter . The Beamer screen appears.
Select a Beaming function:
- Send
- Receive
- Settings
5.
Move the cursor next to Send and press enter . Files that contain data appear in a list.
6.
Select the file you want to send by doing one of the following:
• Using the arrow keys, scroll the list of files to select the one you want, then press enter .
• Press the appropriate file # key along the top of the keyboard on the device.
7.
Make sure the Palm OS device is turned on, that it is within three feet of the NEO, and that both devices have their infrared ports pointing at each other.
8.
On the NEO, press send to start beaming. Beamer begins beaming the file to the Palm OS device.
On the Palm OS Device (Dana, Dana Wireless, or a
Handheld Device):
To receive the beamed file on your Palm OS device:
1.
Make sure your Palm OS device is turned on and is within three feet of the NEO, with its infrared port pointing at the NEO’s port.
2.
On your Palm OS device, tap Yes in the Beam Status dialog box that appears.
This message appears when you beam an AlphaWord file to a Palm OS device
This message appears when you beam a Memo Pad file to a Palm OS device
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Beaming from a Palm OS device to a NEO
3.
To view the transferred file, do one of the following, depending on the file format:
• For AlphaWord, tap the Applications Launcher icon, then tap
AlphaWord . Tap the menu icon, then tap to select File > Open . A list of files appears. Tap the beamed file to open it in AlphaWord.
• For Memo Pad, beaming automatically launches Memo Pad and displays the transferred file on the screen.
Beaming from a Palm OS device to a NEO
You can beam particular text-based items from Palm OS devices to
AlphaWord Plus on a NEO. The types of items you can beam are based on industry file formats. If the Palm OS application you want to beam from uses one of the following file formats, you’ll be able to beam an item from it over to
AlphaWord Plus:
• Note or memo-like items (vNote format), including AlphaWord for Palm
OS devices
• Contact or address items (vCard 3.0)
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Beaming from a Palm OS device to a NEO
• Event or date information (vCal 1.0 or iCalendar format)
A memo item from a Palm OS device
(Dana) beamed to a NEO
An address item from a Palm OS device beamed to a NEO
An event item from a Palm OS device beamed to a NEO
Important: You should be familiar with how to beam items from your Palm
OS device and its applications. Consult the documentation that came with your Palm OS device for complete information.
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Beaming from a Palm OS device to a NEO
Follow these steps to beam from a Palm OS device to a NEO:
1.
Turn on the Palm OS device and from the Applications Launcher, start the application that contains the item you want to send.
2.
Turn on the NEO, press applets , then press
↓
to scroll down and move the cursor next to Beamer in the list. Press enter . The Beamer screen appears.
Select a Beaming function:
- Send
- Receive
- Settings
3.
On the NEO, move the cursor next to Receive and press enter .
4.
Make sure both devices are within three feet of each other and that the infrared ports are facing each other.
5.
On the Palm OS device, locate the item you want to send, tap the appropriate area on the screen to activate the menus, and choose the beaming option you want. The Palm OS device starts beaming the item you specified.
6.
On the NEO, do one of the following, depending on its Beamer settings:
• If the NEO has data on the clipboard, press enter to overwrite the clipboard, or press esc to cancel receiving the beam.
There is data currently on the clipboard. Press the enter key to overwrite the data.
(Press esc key to cancel)
• If the NEO doesn’t have data on the clipboard, or if the NEO hasn’t been set to warn about overwriting the clipboard (and you see the screen pictured here), go on to the next step.
Ready to receive a file.
(Press esc key to cancel)
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Cancelling a Beam
7.
Using the arrow keys, move the cursor next to the file you want to receive the data and press enter , or press one of the file # keys along the top of the NEO.
Select where you want to store the file:
- File 1 (empty)
- File 2 (1437 characters)
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File 3 (empty)
8.
If the file you selected is empty, Beamer places the beamed file in the empty file.
If the file isn’t empty, choose whether to overwrite the existing file or to append the new file to it.
File x is not empty. Choose one:
- Overwrite the file?
- Append to the file?
(Press esc key to exit)
The beamed data should now be in the file you specified on the NEO. To view it, press applets and select AlphaWord Plus, then press the appropriate file # key. AlphaWord Plus automatically opens the file you selected to receive the item.
Cancelling a Beam
At any time, from any device, you can press esc to cancel either beaming or receiving a file.
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Changing Beamer Settings
Changing Beamer Settings
You can also change
Beamer settings using AlphaSmart
Manager.
Click the Settings tab and click Beamer in the list on the left; then, make your setting changes. Be sure to send them from the Send List tab. This is the most efficient way to change Beamer settings for several NEOs connected to your computer in a SmartOption Cart.
The Beamer settings allow you to customize how the program works. You can change these settings:
• Choose whether to permit the NEO to send
• Choose whether NEO warns you if receiving data will overwrite what’s on the clipboard
• Choose whether to send to Palm OS devices in AlphaWord or Memo Pad file format
• Choose whether to require a master password to change Beamer settings on this NEO
If you’re an individual user using Beamer, you probably won’t need to change your settings very often. If you’re using several NEOs and Palm OS devices in a group setting such as a classroom, you might want more control over who can beam data and how.
Follow these steps to change Beamer settings:
1.
On your NEO, press applets .
2.
Press
↓
to scroll down and move the cursor next to Beamer in the list; then, press enter . The Beamer screen appears.
Select a Beaming function:
- Send
- Receive
- Settings
3.
Move the cursor next to Settings and press enter.
4.
Move the cursor next to the setting you want to change and press enter .
Since each setting has only two options, pressing enter automatically chooses the option that isn’t currently selected.
For example, if you move the cursor next to “Permit Send: YES” and press enter , the setting will change to “Permit Send: NO.”
There are four Beamer settings:
• Permit Send determines whether this NEO is allowed to beam to other devices. You can choose “Yes” or “No.” If you choose “No,” the
Send option is not available on the Beamer screen. This setting is useful if you don’t want students to beam files to each other.
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Troubleshooting
The master password can be set using AlphaSmart
Manager.
With your NEO(s) connected, simply click the
Settings tab, click System on the left, and scroll down to find the master password setting.
Then, enter a new password.
• Warn if overwriting clipboard affects what happens when you are receiving a file beamed from another device and you already have something in your NEO clipboard. If this is set to “Yes,” NEO will ask if you want to overwrite the clipboard before receiving the file.
• Send to Palm device as ALPHAWORD file or MEMO file determines the format in which AlphaWord Plus files are sent to Palm devices (such as Dana). You can send files in AlphaWord format or
Memo Pad format. Most Palm OS devices have the Memo Pad program; AlphaWord is included on Dana and Dana Wireless devices.
• Require master password determines whether the NEO user must enter a master password after choosing “Settings” in Beamer. If this is set to No, a password is not required to change the settings. If it is set to Yes, you must enter the master password after you choose
“Settings.” It is a good idea to require the master password if you have set Permit Send to “No” so that students can’t beam files to each other.
Troubleshooting
This chapter contains information about common Beamer issues.
I want to change a setting, but I don’t know the master password.
See the AlphaSmart Manager User Manual for information about changing the master password.
I don’t see the Send option on my Beamer screen.
If the device has been set to prohibit beaming (see page 6-12), the Send
option won’t appear on the beaming screen.
My NEO says it can’t find a receiving device.
Bring the receiving device closer, make sure the infrared ports are pointing toward each other, and make sure the receiving device is in the proper mode to accept a beam. For Palm OS devices, you usually don’t have to do anything.
For NEOs, you have to set up the device so that it’s ready to receive the beam;
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Troubleshooting
I received an error when I tried to beam or receive a file.
You might receive an error if the transfer process was interrupted. There are a few reasons why this might happen. For example, the person receiving the beam might have cancelled the transfer before the beam was complete. Or, users might have moved the devices being used, causing the infrared ports to move out of alignment before the beam was complete. Try beaming the file again.
I have data on the clipboard that I don’t want to lose. What should I do?
If you’re about to receive a beam, press esc to cancel receiving it. Then paste the data in the clipboard into an AlphaWord Plus file. When you’re ready to receive the beam, press enter to overwrite the data on the clipboard. Be sure that you don’t select the AlphaWord Plus file where you pasted the data as the file to receive the beam. Alternatively, you can choose to append the data rather than overwrite it. (Appending adds the data to the end of the file.)
I keep getting an invalid password message.
If the file you are sending is password-protected, you need to know the exact individual file password associated with that file in order to beam it. If you are receiving a file, and your NEO’s files are password-protected, you must know the exact file password for the receiving file to receive it.
If you don’t know the file password(s), you can enter the master password instead. You can find out more about file passwords (including disabling
them for a NEO) and master passwords on page 4-4 or in the
AlphaSmart
Manager User Manual .
I beamed a file with a password, but now that file doesn’t have a password on the receiving device.
If the sending device uses file passwords, but the receiving device doesn’t, the password associated with the file being beamed isn’t sent.
What does the message “could not find a sending device” mean?
It means that Beamer on the NEO is ready to receive a beam from another device, but it is not sensing any device that is sending anything.
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Troubleshooting
What do I do if the file I’m receiving is too big?
The device receiving the beam will accept as much data as it can and truncate the file at the point where it can’t receive any more. To work around this, the person beaming the file should break up the file into separate files and beam them separately.
My buddy beamed an AlphaWord Plus file to me, but Beamer didn’t let me choose a file to put it in. It automatically put it in a new file. What happened?
What likely happened is that AlphaWord Plus on your AlphaSmart device hadn’t been “initialized,” meaning it hadn’t set itself up yet to receive beamed files. This can happen if you have a brand new NEO, or if you have a new installation of AlphaWord Plus on a NEO, and you started Beamer before ever starting up AlphaWord Plus.
All you need to do to initialize AlphaWord Plus is to start it. Do this before you use Beamer again, and Beamer should give you the opportunity to choose a file the next time it’s receiving a file.
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Troubleshooting
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LPHA
Q
UIZ
The AlphaQuiz SmartApplet allows students to take quizzes on their NEOs.
You can use the QuizDesigner program on your computer to create the quiz; then, you can use the QuizManager program to send quizzes to NEOs and receive and score their answers for automatic grading and reporting.
Quizzes can include true/false, multiple-choice, short answer, and essay questions.
How AlphaQuiz Works
1.
The teacher uses QuizDesigner to create a quiz on his or her computer.
2.
The teacher connects the computer to NEOs using one of these methods:
• Connect the computer to a SmartOption Cart so you can send the quiz to several NEOs at the same time.
• Connect the computer to individual NEOs one by one using a USB cable.
3.
The teacher sends the quiz to the student NEOs using QuizManager.
4.
Students take the quiz on their NEOs in the AlphaQuiz SmartApplet.
5.
Students connect their NEOs to the SmartOption cart, or they connect them to the computer one by one using a USB cable.
6.
The teacher retrieves quiz responses into his or her computer using
QuizManager, which automatically grades true/false, multiple-choice, and short answer questions. (Short Answer questions may not be graded automatically if you didn’t enter answers when you created the quiz.)
7.
The teacher grades any questions that were not graded automatically and enters scores for those questions in QuizManager.
8.
The teacher prints a Corrected Quiz Report for each student. The teacher can also print a Quiz Summary and Statistics Report for his or her own records.
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Programs You’ll Use with AlphaQuiz
Programs You’ll Use with AlphaQuiz
When you use AlphaQuiz, you actually use three programs:
Program
AlphaQuiz SmartApplet
QuizDesigner
QuizManager
Purpose
Students use this SmartApplet on the NEO to take the quizzes that you have created and sent to NEOs.
Teachers use this program on a computer to create quizzes that their students can take in AlphaQuiz. You must download and install this program; see the next section.
Teachers use this program on a computer to send quizzes to NEOs and to receive student responses for grading. You must download and install this program; see the next section.
Downloading and Installing QuizDesigner and
QuizManager
If AlphaQuiz is not installed on your
NEO, it may have been removed by another user.
To install it again, see
The AlphaQuiz SmartApplet comes installed on your NEO, but to create and send quizzes and retrieve answers, you must download and install the
QuizDesigner and QuizManager on your computer. Follow the steps for your operating system.
System Requirements for QuizManager and QuizDesigner
Before you download and install these programs, make sure your computer meets these system requirements:
• Windows computers: Windows 98 (Second Edition) or higher with a web browser for viewing help.
• Macintosh computers: OS 9.0 or higher with a web browser for viewing help.
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Downloading and Installing QuizDesigner and QuizManager
Windows Instructions for Downloading and Installing QuizDesigner and
QuizManager
1.
Go to http://www.alphasmart.com/support/downloads.html.
2.
Under the NEO downloads, next to “AlphaQuiz SmartApplet System,” click PC . If your browser allows you to choose what to do with the file, choose to save it and choose a common location.
3.
Open the .zip file and extract all files. By default, they will be extracted to a folder called AlphaQuiz3.x.
4.
Open the AlphaQuiz folder.
5.
Double-click QuizDesigner Setup.exe
. After the setup has been prepared, the QuizDesigner installation Wizard will appear.
6.
Click Next in the Welcome panel of the Wizard.
7.
Read the license agreement. (If you prefer to read a printed copy, click
Print to print it.) Then, click I accept the terms of the license agreement and click Next > .
8.
After reviewing the installation location, click Next > .
9.
Click Install . The program will be installed.
10.
The computer needs to be restarted after installation. Decide whether to restart your computer now or later and click the corresponding option; then, click Finish .
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Downloading and Installing QuizDesigner and QuizManager
11.
Now that QuizDesigner is installed, you need to install QuizManager.
Back in the AlphaQuiz3.x folder, double-click QuizManager Setup.exe
.
12.
When the installation Wizard appears, click Next in the Welcome panel.
13.
Read the license. (If you prefer a printed copy, click Print .) Then, click I accept the terms of the license agreement and click Next .
14.
Click Install . The program will be installed.
15.
Click one of the restart options. Then, click Finish .
Macintosh Instructions for Downloading and Installing QuizDesigner and
QuizManager
If you install
QuizDesigner first, the installer will notify you that QuizManager is not installed. You can still install
QuizDesigner, but to avoid this message, you can install
QuizManager first.
1.
Go to http://www.alphasmart.com/support/downloads.html.
2.
Under the NEO downloads, next to “AlphaQuiz SmartApplet System,” click Mac . In most cases, the file will be downloaded to your desktop.
3.
The .sit file that you downloaded should be automatically unstuffed into an
AlphaQuiz3.x folder. If it is not unstuffed automatically, double-click the .sit file to do this.
4.
Open the AlphaQuiz3.x folder.
5.
Double-click QuizManager Installer first.
6.
Click Continue in the QuizManager Installer screen.
7.
Read the QuizManager license agreement. (If you prefer to print or save a copy, click Print or Save As .) Then, click Accept . The program will be installed.
8.
Click Quit when the installation is finished.
9.
Double-click QuizDesigner Installer .
10.
Click Continue in the QuizDesigner Installer screen.
11.
Read the license agreement. (If you prefer to print or save a copy, click
Print or Save As .) Then, click Accept . The program will be installed.
12.
Click Quit when the installation is finished.
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Starting QuizDesigner
Starting QuizDesigner
Once you’ve installed QuizDesigner, you can start the program so that you can begin creating quizzes.
On Windows Computers:
Click Start or Programs (or All Programs ) AlphaSmart
QuizDesigner QuizDesigner .
On Macintosh Computers:
Open the Applications folder, then the QuizDesigner folder. Double-click
QuizDesigner .
About the Options in QuizDesigner
QuizDesigner is the program you use to create the quizzes that students will take in AlphaQuiz on the NEO. Once you’ve installed QuizDesigner, you can use it to create or change quizzes and print them as needed.
You can create quizzes on almost any subject, and your quizzes can be short or long, simple or complex, for students at any level. You can reuse the quizzes you create for multiple classes, revise them, and share them with other teachers.
In QuizDesigner, you can create quizzes with these question types:
• True/false
• Multiple-choice
• Short answer (up to 18 characters)
• Essay (with the maximum number of words you set)
You can also place these restrictions on how students use their NEOs during a quiz:
• Prevent students from using the Calculator SmartApplet.
• Prevent students from using the NEO’s spell check feature.
• Require the use of an access password and student passwords to maintain test security and to make sure that only assigned students take the quiz.
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Creating Quizzes in QuizDesigner
Creating Quizzes in QuizDesigner
Follow these steps to create a quiz in QuizDesigner:
1.
Start QuizDesigner (see page 7-5). The Quiz Options window will appear
with the Basic tab selected.
Note: If you are already in QuizDesigner and you want to start a new quiz, click (Windows), or click the File menu and choose New (Windows) or New Quiz (Macintosh).
A
The Admin
Password for the quiz helps make the quiz more secure by ensuring that only you can change the quiz or see the answers. It also prevents unauthorized removal of a quiz from a NEO. You can also substitute this password during student login.
2.
On the Basic tab A , enter a name for the quiz, the author’s name, a password for making changes to the quiz (1-6 characters), and any comments that may be helpful to you. Be sure to choose a quiz name that will make the quiz easy for students to identify.
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3.
Click the Advanced tab and make any changes as needed:
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
B This prevents students from using the NEO for other things until the quiz is finished. It also prevents students from changing their answers after they finish a quiz. The three boxes below this one are available only if you check this box.
C This prevents students from using anything other than
AlphaQuiz on the NEO during a quiz.
D This prevents students from using the Calculator on NEO during a quiz.
E This prevents students from using NEO’s spell check feature during a quiz.
F This requires students to enter the password that you specify at the beginning of a quiz. This ensures that only authorized students can take the quiz and see the questions. The default password is “hello,” but you should use a unique password for each quiz.
G This requires students to create their own passwords so that other students can’t see their quiz answers.
H This requires students to enter a class number so that
QuizManager can group student responses by class.
I This lets students send the quiz to a read-only AlphaWord Plus file.
J This lets students print the quiz questions and answers.
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Creating Quizzes in QuizDesigner
4.
Click the Prompts tab and make changes to the instructions that appear on the quiz. You can change the prompt for each type of question, or click
Defaults to go back to the default prompts shown here.
On Windows computers, you can click the button for the question type (TF, M, SA, or E) on the toolbar instead of clicking Add Question and then choosing the question type.
5.
Click OK to save the quiz options. (If you decide to change them later, just click Quiz Options to see the options again.)
6.
Next, you’ll see an empty window that has the name of your quiz in the title bar. Click Add Question C .
C
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Remarks aren’t visible to students during the quiz.
You can use them for reminders, comments, or references that pertain to the question, and you can include them on students’ Corrected Quiz
Reports if the information may be useful to students (see
7.
Click the type of question you want to add and click OK .
8.
Enter the required information for the question:
• True/False: Enter the statement, click True or False , and enter any remarks.
• Multiple Choice: Enter the question and each possible answer, and check the box next to the correct answer(s). You can also enter remarks.
• Short Answer: Enter the question text. If you wish, you can also enter the correct answer or answers so that the computer can check the student’s answer against yours D . If there is more than one correct answer, separate them with commas. Each answer can be up to 18 characters long.
If you enter the correct answer, be sure to click one of the options to choose whether the answers are case sensitive or whether you would like to accept
D
E only numbers and a hyphen in student answers E . (If you choose “Case sensitive,” student answers must match the case you used in order to be considered correct.) You can also enter remarks as needed.
• Essay: Enter the question text, the maximum number of words allowed, and any remarks.
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Opening and Changing Quizzes in QuizDesigner
When you save a quiz you’ve saved before, the program may remind you that if the quiz has already been loaded on student NEOs, you should use
Save As and use a new file name if you still want to retrieve students’ answers to the original quiz. If you want to continue saving anyway, click
Save. Then, click OK to verify that you want to overwrite the old quiz.
9.
Click OK to finish adding the question. As you add questions, watch the Quiz Capacity bar at the bottom of the window F . Since the file size of each quiz is limited, this shows how much is still available based on the questions you’ve entered so far.
10.
When you’ve finished creating the quiz, click in the toolbar
(Windows) or click the File menu and choose Save (Windows or
Macintosh). Then, do one of the following:
• If you haven’t saved the quiz before, in the dialog box that appears, choose where to save the quiz and click Save .
F
• If you have saved the quiz before, click Save to save the new version.
• If you want to save the quiz under a new name (as a new version), click Save As , choose where to save the quiz, and click Save .
Opening and Changing Quizzes in QuizDesigner
Once you’ve created and saved a quiz, you can change it at any time. This is useful when you want to adapt quizzes for different classes.
Opening an Existing Quiz
Follow these steps to open a quiz that you have saved and closed.
Opening Quizzes on Windows Computers
Click in the toolbar or click the File menu and choose Open . Then, go to the folder where you saved the quiz, click the quiz name, and click Open .
Opening Quizzes on Macintosh Computers
Click the File menu and choose Open Quiz . Then, go to the folder where you saved the quiz, click the quiz name, and click Open .
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Opening and Changing Quizzes in QuizDesigner
Changing an Existing Quiz’s Questions
1.
Open the quiz (see page 7-10).
2.
Do one of the following:
• Double-click the quiz question in the list A .
A
• Click the question once in the list A . Then, click the Question menu and choose Edit Question .
3.
Make changes to the question as needed. When you’ve finished, click
OK .
4.
Save the quiz.
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Changing Quiz Options for an Existing Quiz
1.
Open the quiz (see page 7-10).
2.
Click Quiz Options A toward the bottom of the quiz window.
A
3.
Click the tab where you want to make changes B (Basic, Advanced, or
Prompts) and make changes as needed. Click OK when you’ve finished your changes.
B
4.
Save the quiz.
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Opening and Changing Quizzes in QuizDesigner
Rearranging Quiz Questions in QuizDesigner
1.
Open the quiz (see page 7-10).
2.
Do one of the following:
• If you want to rearrange questions into a specific sequence, drag the questions one by one to the new position in the list. All questions will automatically be renumbered.
• If you want QuizDesigner to randomly rearrange the questions, click the
Question menu and choose Shuffle
Question Order . If you change your mind after shuffling the questions, you can click the Edit menu and Undo , but this only undoes the change if you do it right after shuffling the order.
3.
Save the quiz.
Deleting Quiz Questions
1.
Open the quiz (see page 7-10).
2.
Click the question that you want to delete so that it is highlighted A .
A
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Copying Questions in QuizDesigner
If you accidentally delete a question, press ctrl-z
(Windows) or z -z (Macintosh) immediately to restore it.
3.
Do one of the following:
• Press the Delete key on your computer keyboard, or
• Click the Question menu and choose Remove Question .
4.
Save the quiz.
Copying Questions in QuizDesigner
Copying Questions within a Quiz
To copy a question within a quiz, click the question in the quiz window. Then, click the Edit menu and choose
Duplicate . This creates an exact copy of the question just below the original question. This command can help you save time if you have questions with similar wording—you can just edit the text of the copy to quickly create a new question.
Copying Questions from One Quiz to Another
By following these steps, you can copy a question from one quiz into another.
This can save you time if you use similar questions in different quizzes.
1.
Open the two quizzes so that they are side by side in Quiz Designer. (On
Windows computers only, you can click the Window menu and choose
Tile Quiz Windows to line them up quickly.)
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2.
Drag the question from one quiz window to the other. The question will be copied into the new quiz, and it will remain in the original quiz.
3.
Be sure to save the quiz that now has a new question when you have finished working on that quiz.
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Password Requirements for Quizzes
Password Requirements for Quizzes
Password Type
Quiz Access
Password
In the Quiz Options for any quiz, on the Advanced tab, you can choose to require students to enter a quiz access password. You can also require them to create their own student password for quiz answers. The table below explains how each of these passwords is used.
When the Student Enters or Creates the Password
When a student first opens the quiz, the student must enter this password.
Student password After the student types in his or her first and last name, the student must create a password.
Protection It
Offers
Only those students who have the quiz access password can open that quiz.
It prevents other students from seeing a student’s quiz responses.
How to Require This
Password
In the Advanced Quiz
Options, check the box labeled Require students to enter quiz access password and type the password you want students to use.
In the Advanced Quiz
Options, check the box labeled Require students to create a student password for their quiz answers.
KeyBoard ShortCuts in QuizDesigner
Action
Start a new quiz.
Open a saved quiz.
Close a quiz.
The following keyboard shortcuts give you a quick way to perform many of the tasks in QuizDesigner. The table below also includes the equivalent menu commands.
Keyboard Shortcut
Ctrl-N (Windows) z
-N (Macintosh)
Ctrl-O (Windows) z
-O (Macintosh)
None (Windows) z
-W (Macintosh)
Equivalent Menu Item
File New (Windows)*
File New Quiz (Macintosh)
*On Windows computers, you can also click in the toolbar.
File Open (Windows)*
File Open Quiz (Macintosh)
*On Windows computers, you can also click in the toolbar.
File Close (both Windows and
Macintosh)
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Action
Save a file.
Save As.
Keyboard Shortcut
Ctrl-S (Windows) z -S (Macintosh)
None
Open/edit Quiz Options.
Ctrl-I (Windows) z
-I (Macintosh)
None Export a quiz in text format.
Set print or page setup.
None
Print a quiz.
Close QuizDesigner.
Ctrl-P (Windows) z -P (Macintosh)
None (Windows) z
-Q (Macintosh)
Undo last action.
Ctrl-Z (Windows) z
-Z (Macintosh)
Cut selected text.
Copy selected text.
Paste text that you have cut or copied.
Clear all text in the field your cursor is in
(Macintosh computers only).
Ctrl-X (Windows) z
-X (Macintosh)
Ctrl-C (Windows) z -C (Macintosh)
Ctrl-V (Windows) z
-V (Macintosh)
None
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KeyBoard ShortCuts in QuizDesigner
Equivalent Menu Item
File Save (both Windows and
Macintosh)
On Windows computers, you can also click in the toolbar.
File Save As (both Windows and Macintosh)
Macintosh also has a Save As
Quiz Library item in this menu.
On Windows computers, you can choose the quiz library file type after you choose Save As .
File Quiz Options (both
Windows and Macintosh)
File Export (both Windows and Macintosh)
File Print Setup (Windows)
File Page Setup (Macintosh)
File Print (both Windows and
Macintosh)
File Exit (Windows)
File Quit (Macintosh OS 9)
QuizDesigner Quit
QuizDesigner (Macintosh OS 10)
Edit Undo (both Windows and
Macintosh). The menu item includes a description of what you can undo.
Edit Cut (both Windows and
Macintosh)
Edit Copy (both Windows and
Macintosh)
Edit Paste (both Windows and
Macintosh)
Edit Clear (Macintosh computers only)
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KeyBoard ShortCuts in QuizDesigner
Action
Select all text in the field your cursor is in
(Macintosh computers only)
Duplicate a selected question.
Add a true/false question to a quiz.
Keyboard Shortcut
None (Windows) z -A (Macintosh)
Ctrl-D (Windows) z -D (Macintosh)
Ctrl-T (Windows) z -T (Macintosh)
Add a multiple choice question.
Ctrl-M (Windows) z -M (Macintosh)
Add a short answer question.
Ctrl-B (Windows) z
-B (Macintosh)
Add an essay question.
Ctrl-E (Windows) z
-E (Macintosh)
Edit a question.
None
Remove a question.
Shuffle the question order in a quiz.
delete key (with the question highlighted)
None
Show a preview of a question as it will appear on a NEO.
None
Equivalent Menu Item
Edit Select All (Macintosh computers only)
Edit Duplicate (both Windows and Macintosh)
Question Add True/False
(both Windows and Macintosh)
On Windows computers, you can also click in the toolbar.
Question Add Multiple
Choice (both Windows and
Macintosh)
On Windows computers, you can also click in the toolbar.
Question Add Short Answer
(both Windows and Macintosh)
On Windows computers, you can also click in the toolbar.
Question Add Essay (both
Windows and Macintosh)
On Windows computers, you can also click in the toolbar.
Question Edit Question
(both Windows and Macintosh)
Question Remove Question
(both Windows and Macintosh)
Question Shuffle Question
Order (both Windows and
Macintosh)
Question AlphaSmart View
(both Windows and Macintosh)
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Previewing Questions in QuizDesigner (Seeing Questions as They Appear on NEO)
Previewing Questions in QuizDesigner (Seeing
Questions as They Appear on NEO)
As you work on a quiz, it can be helpful to see how a question will look to students on the NEO. By following the steps below, you can preview the questions as they will look on a NEO. This shows you whether your questions flow well and scroll easily.
1.
Open the quiz you want to preview (see page 7-10).
2.
In the quiz window, click the first question or another question that you want to preview .
3.
Click the Question menu and choose
Show AlphaSmart View . A window will appear that shows a simulation of the
NEO screen with the question displayed just as your students will see it.
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Printing a Quiz from QuizDesigner
4.
In this window, you can use the key commands listed in the table below to move through your question.
Press These Keys...
↑ (up arrow)
↓ (down arrow) enter
OR
Ctrl↓ (Windows) z
↓ (Macintosh)
Ctrl↑ (Windows) z ↑ (Macintosh)
...To Do This:
Scroll up in the question text.
Scroll down in the question text.
Go to the next question
Go to the previous question.
5.
Click Done to finish previewing the quiz.
Printing a Quiz from QuizDesigner
Follow these steps to print a quiz you’ve created in QuizDesigner. Printing a quiz can be helpful if you want to review it before sending it to NEOs or if you want to administer a paper quiz.
1.
Open the quiz that you want to print (see page 7-10).
2.
With the quiz open, click the File menu and choose Print , or press Ctrl-P
(Windows) or z -P (Macintosh). The Quiz Printing Options window will open.
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Exporting a Quiz from QuizDesigner to a Word Processing Program
The blanks for student name and class number are useful if you are administering a paper quiz.
3.
Check each item that you want to be included on the printed quiz. If you are printing the quiz for students to take on paper, make sure that you don’t check the correct answers box. Click OK after choosing the items to print.
4.
In your computer’s print dialog box, click OK (Windows) or Print
(Macintosh). The quiz will be printed.
Exporting a Quiz from QuizDesigner to a Word
Processing Program
The export options are similar to the ones you have when you print a quiz. The blanks for the student name and class number are useful if you plan to use this file to develop a paper quiz. For paper quiz files, be sure to leave out the correct answers.
By following the steps below, you can export a quiz in a format that you can use outside of AlphaQuiz, QuizDesigner, or QuizManager. The exported file will be a text (.txt) file that you can bring into word processing programs.
1.
Open the quiz that you want to export (see page 7-10).
2.
With the quiz open, click the File menu and choose
Export . The Quiz Export Options window will open.
3.
Check the items that you want to include in the exported file. Then, click OK .
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Spell-checking a Quiz
4.
In the dialog box that opens, enter a name for the exported file and choose a location. (On Macintosh computers, you may need to click the down arrow to see the full dialog box that lets you choose any location.)
Then, click Save .
Macintosh
Spell-checking a Quiz
QuizDesigner does not have a built-in spell check feature. However, you can export a file and use a word processing program to check a quiz. Follow these steps.
1.
Export the quiz as described on page 7-21.
2.
Start your word processing program and open the file that you just exported. When you choose the file in Windows, you may need to use a drop-down list to choose to view “All Files” instead of just files of a certain type.
3.
Use the spell check feature in your word processing program to find each spelling error. You may also be able to check grammar. Note any changes that need to be made.
4.
Return to QuizDesigner and type in the corrections where they are needed.
Deleting Quizzes
To delete a quiz that you have created, simply delete the file from the location where you’ve saved it. Before deleting a quiz, you should be sure that you will not use the quiz again.
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Creating a Question Library in QuizDesigner
Creating a Question Library in QuizDesigner
In QuizDesigner, you can create a question library for storing large numbers of questions. Unlike quizzes, a quiz library can include any number of questions. It has no capacity limit because a library is not intended to be sent to NEOs—the library is simply a place to store questions that you expect to use in quizzes.
Windows Instructions for Creating Question Libraries
To create a question library, follow the same steps that you perform when you create a quiz. However, before you add the questions, click the File menu and choose Save , and choose QuizDesigner Library Files (*.qzl) in the Save
As drop-down list in the dialog box. Once you do this, the Quiz Capacity bar will disappear since there is no capacity limit for libraries, and you can add as many questions as you’d like.
Macintosh Instructions for Creating Question Libraries
To create a question library, follow the same steps that you perform when you create a quiz. However, before you add the questions, click the File menu and choose Save As Quiz Library instead of choosing
Save or Save As. Once you do this, the Quiz Capacity bar will disappear since there is no capacity limit for libraries, and you can add as many questions as you’d like.
Using Quiz Library Questions in a Quiz
To bring questions from a quiz library into a quiz, follow the instructions for
copying a question from one quiz to another on page 7-14.
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Starting QuizManager
Starting QuizManager
QuizManager is the program you use to send quizzes to student NEOs, retrieve their responses, assign points to questions, grade quizzes, generate and print reports, compile statistics, and export scores.
To start QuizManager, follow the instructions for your type of computer.
On Windows Computers:
Click Start or Programs (or All Programs ) AlphaSmart
QuizManager Launch QuizManager .
On Macintosh Computers:
Open the Applications folder, then the QuizManager folder. Double-click
QuizManager .
About the QuizManager Control Bar
When you have started QuizManager, a status message across the top of the control bar lets you know how many NEOs are connected to your NEO (if any), either through a SmartOption cart or by a direct USB cable connection.
If you’ve closed the
Control Bar on a
Windows computer and you want to open it again, you can click the
Window menu and choose
View Control Bar . You cannot close the Control Bar separately on Macintosh computers.
The numbered circles show you NEOs connected through a SmartOption
Cart. The Direct USB circle shows you NEOs connected directly to the computer with a USB cable. The color of each circle shows you the status of each NEO:
• Green means a NEO is connected at this location, and the NEO has
AlphaQuiz installed.
• Black means no NEO is connected in this location (or it is an older device with older software). If you have a NEO connected at this location and the circle is still black, disconnect the NEO and turn it on; then, reconnect it.
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• Yellow means a NEO is connected, but it does not have the AlphaQuiz
SmartApplet installed. To install the SmartApplet on that NEO, see
• Red means a NEO is connected but is not communicating properly.
The buttons in the control bar perform these functions:
Control Bar Button
Send Quiz
Delete Quiz
Retrieve Responses
Delete Responses
Power On
AlphaSmarts
Power Off
AlphaSmarts
What It Does
Sends a quiz to the connected NEOs.
Removes a quiz from connected NEOs, including all questions and student responses.
Retrieves student responses to a quiz from NEOs without removing either the quiz or the responses from the NEOs.
Removes all student responses for a quiz from NEOs.
Turns on all connected NEOs if they were shut down using QuizManager.
Turns off all connected NEOs.
Sending Quizzes to NEOs Using QuizManager
NEOs have space for up to four quizzes.
You may need to delete a quiz before sending a
find out how to delete quizzes.
By following the steps below, you can use QuizManager to send a quiz to
NEOs. (The quiz itself must be created in QuizDesigner before you can send
it; see page 7-6 to create quizzes.)
1.
Connect your NEOs to the computer, either through a SmartOption Cart with an AlphaHub or directly with a USB cable. In QuizManager, make sure your NEOs are connected as shown by the indicators (see
2.
Click Send Quiz on the control bar, or click the Communication menu and choose Send Quiz . On Windows computers, you can also click in the toolbar in the QuizManager window.
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If you created the quiz on a Macintosh computer and you are sending it from a
Windows computer, make sure the quiz name ends with
“.qzz” so that the
QuizManager program shows it in the list.
3.
Find the quiz that you want to send and click the quiz file to highlight it.
Then, click Select . QuizManager will make sure there is enough space on the connected NEO(s) for this quiz.
Windows
Macintosh
4.
If any connected NEOs do not have space for another quiz, the program will notify you. Click Close (Windows) or OK (Macintosh). You may need
to delete quizzes from NEOs; see page 7-27.
5.
In the Send Quiz dialog box, you can decide whether to use a quiz access password and which password to use:
• If you chose to require a quiz access password when you created the quiz , the access password is filled in. You can leave it as is or change it, or you can remove the password and leave the field blank if you don’t want students to have to enter it. Changing the password here will not change it in the original quiz file.
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• If you did NOT choose to require a quiz access password when you created a quiz, you can enter one now that students must enter before taking the quiz, or you can leave the field blank so that students don’t need to enter a quiz access password. Setting a password here will not change the options selected in the original quiz file.
6.
Click Send to send the quiz to the connected NEOs. The program will show you messages as the quiz downloads.
7.
Click Close (Windows) or OK (Macintosh) when the program notifies you that the quiz has been sent.
8.
Disconnect your NEOs (or have your students disconnect them). Your students can now take the quiz.
Deleting Quizzes from NEOs
By following these steps, you can delete quizzes from connected NEOs. It’s a good idea to delete older quizzes from NEOs before you send new ones since a
NEO can only store up to four quizzes.
Be sure to retrieve student responses for a quiz before you delete it unless you do not want a record of the responses. To retrieve responses, see
You may also want to delete quizzes if you have a different quiz you want students to take instead. In that situation, you may not need to retrieve responses before deleting an old quiz.
1.
Connect your NEOs to the computer, either through a SmartOption Cart with an AlphaHub or directly with a USB cable. In QuizManager, make
sure your NEOs are connected as shown by the indicators (see page 7-
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Deleting Quizzes from NEOs
2.
Click Delete Quiz in the QuizManager control bar, or click the
Communication menu and choose Delete Quiz . On Windows computers, you can also click in the toolbar in the QuizManager window.
If the connected
NEOs have different quizzes on them, you may see more than four quizzes listed even though individual NEOs can only store four quizzes.
3.
In the Delete Quizzes dialog box, check each quiz that you want to delete from the
NEO(s) .
The list shows you how many results were retrieved . For example, if the Results /
Retrieved column shows 2/1, then two students have completed the quiz, but results have only been retrieved for one student so far. You may want to retrieve the other student’s results before deleting the quiz from the NEOs.
If the quiz has an administrative password , you must enter it before you can delete the quiz. (This is the password you enter on the Basic tab in the Quiz Options in QuizDesigner. It is different from the access password.)
4.
Click OK to delete the checked quizzes from the NEOs.
5.
If the quizzes have any unretrieved student responses, the program will notify you. If you want to continue anyway, click Yes (Windows) or OK
(Macintosh).
6.
Click Close (Windows) or OK (Macintosh) when the program notifies you that the quizzes have been deleted.
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How Students Take a Quiz Using the AlphaQuiz SmartApplet
How Students Take a Quiz Using the AlphaQuiz
SmartApplet
If you see letters next to the quiz, some SmartApplets or functions are blocked because a student did not finish the quiz. S means spell check is blocked. C means
Calculator is blocked. L means all SmartApplets are blocked. The blocks are based on what you chose in the Advanced Quiz Options when you created the quiz in
QuizDesigner.
The Advanced Quiz
Options determine whether the quiz access password, a student password, and the class number are required. You set these options when you
for details. You can also set a quiz access password when you send a quiz; see
Students follow the steps below to take a quiz that you have sent to their
NEOs. (To send a quiz using QuizManager, see page 7-25. To create a quiz
using QuizDesigner, see page 7-6.) Students use the AlphaQuiz SmartApplet
on their NEOs to take the quiz.
1.
If students are not already seeing the AlphaQuiz menu on their NEOs, they must do the following: a.
Start the NEO.
b.
Press applets .
c.
Press the ↓ key to scroll down until the cursor is next to AlphaQuiz , which is at the bottom of the list of SmartApplets.
d.
Press enter to select AlphaQuiz.
2.
In the Select a Quiz menu, students use the arrow keys to move the cursor next to the quiz they want to take; then, they press enter .
Select a quiz:
- Multiplication Quiz
- American History Quiz 3 S C L
L
Weather Quiz
3.
Next, students may be asked to enter a quiz access password. If so, they type the password and press enter .
4.
Next, each student must enter his or her first and last name. The student must type the first name, presses tab or enter , type the last name, and press enter .
Enter your first and last name:
First Name:
Last Name:
Press Enter after typing the names.
5.
Next, students may be asked to create a password to remember. This password is used to prevent other students from seeing this student’s answers; the next time the student selects this quiz, the student must enter his or her password.
The student types a unique password, presses enter, types it again, and presses enter again.
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6.
Next students may be asked to enter their class number (two characters or less—letters and/or numbers). Each student types the number and presses enter .
7.
Next, students press any key to start the quiz.
8.
Students enter an answer for each question in the quiz and press enter .
After they answer each question, the next one appears until the quiz is done. Students can also use these keys to move through the quiz or to find unanswered questions:
Press these keys...
...to do this:
esc
↑
↓ z ↓ z ↑ enter
Exit the quiz (if marking the quiz “finished” is not required).
Scroll up within this question.
Scroll down within this question.
z -enter tab z
-J z -B
Go to the next question.
Go to the previous question.
Go to the next question, except in the answers to essay questions. In those answers, enter inserts a line break so students can begin a new paragraph.
Go to the next question from the essay question answer.
In essay questions, switch between the question and the answer. If you go to the answer, the cursor returns to the student’s last location in the answer.
Go to any question in the quiz. After you press this key combination, the NEO will ask you to enter the question number. Type the number and press enter .
Check for unanswered questions. After you press these keys, the NEO will show you which questions you have not answered. Type the question number that you want to go to and press enter .
Students may also be allowed to print their answers (see page 7-31) or
save their quiz to an AlphaWord file (see page 7-32).
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How Students Print Quizzes
When a quiz is marked finished, students can select the quiz and see their answers, but they are not allowed to change their answers. You can choose whether students are required to mark a quiz finished in the
Advanced Quiz Options when you create a quiz (see
9.
After students answer the last question, students see a screen like the one below. They can then use the keys listed go back to the quiz or a specific question, find unanswered questions, or mark the quiz finished.
End of the quiz. Esc to return to the quiz.
Cmd-J to jump to any question.
Cmd-B to find any unanswered questions.
Cmd-F if you are finished.
If students are within the quiz and have answered all questions, they can then press esc to finish the quiz. If you did not choose to require students to mark the quiz finished, they will exit the quiz. If you did require this, students will see the screen shown below. The student has these choices:
• Pressing R takes the student back to the last question he or she saw.
• Pressing E allows the student to go back to the list of available quizzes. The student can select the quiz again later and see or change his or her answers until the quiz is marked finished. The letters “S C L” may appear to the right of the quiz name in the list of available quizzes.
• Pressing F marks the quiz as finished, meaning the student cannot change his or her quiz answers.
The quiz has not been marked finished.
Press F if you are finished.
Press E to exit the quiz.
Press R to return to the quiz.
10.
If the student chooses to finish a quiz, the program will remind the student that he or she cannot change responses once the quiz has been marked finished. If any questions were not answered, the program notifies the student of that as well. Students press y for “yes” to continue.
How Students Print Quizzes
When you create a quiz, in the Advanced Quiz Options, you can choose whether to allow students to print their quiz answers. If you allow this, students can press print on their NEOs before exiting the quiz to print their answers.
On NEOs, you can print using a cable connection to a printer or using infrared beaming. For more information, see the NEO User Manual .
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How Students Save Quizzes to an AlphaWord File
How Students Save Quizzes to an AlphaWord File
When you create a quiz, in the Advanced Quiz Options, you can choose whether to allow students to save their quiz to an AlphaWord file. If you allow this, students can follow these steps to save the quiz:
1.
Before exiting the quiz, the student must press send .
2.
The NEO asks the student to choose a file. The student presses the file number he or she wants to save the quiz in; then, the student presses enter .
3.
If the file isn’t empty, the NEO warns the student that the quiz will delete any text that is in the file now. If the student wants to continue, he or she presses y for “yes.” If not, the student presses n for “no” and then presses a different file number. The NEO will automatically exit AlphaQuiz and open the AlphaWord file (unless the quiz needs to be marked finished).
Teacher Options in for Quizzes in AlphaQuiz
For most teacher tasks, you’ll use QuizDesigner and QuizManager on your computer to create quizzes, send them, and retrieve responses. However, the
AlphaQuiz SmartApplet also includes a few teacher options that you can use right on the NEO. These options let you do the following:
• Check a student’s password so you can give it to a student who has forgotten the password and needs it to finish a quiz.
• Delete a student’s answers.
• Change the finished status of a quiz. For example, if a student leaves a class without marking a quiz finished, and you want to use the NEO for other functions, you may want to mark it finished yourself.
• Viewing a student’s responses before they are sent to QuizManager.
Follow these steps to use the teacher options:
1.
Start the NEO and press applets .
2.
Press the ↓ key to scroll down until the cursor is next to AlphaQuiz , which is at the bottom of the list of SmartApplets. Then, press enter to select
AlphaQuiz.
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If you don’t remember the quiz admin password, open the quiz in
QuizDesigner, click Quiz
Options , and view the password on the Basic tab.
If you see U and F together, the student may have run out of time. The student may have had to mark the quiz finished even though he or she did not answer all the questions. If you see neither F nor N , students aren’t required to mark the quiz finished.
3.
In the Select a Quiz menu, use the arrow keys to move the cursor next to a specific quiz that you want to work with; then, press enter .
Select a quiz:
- Multiplication Quiz
- American History Quiz 3
L
Weather Quiz
4.
If an access password is required for this quiz, NEO will ask for that password. Enter the password and press enter .
5.
When the NEO asks you to enter your name, enter teacher for the first name and options for the last name. Then, press enter . This tells
AlphaQuiz that you are a teacher who wants to access the teacher options.
Enter your first and last name:
First Name: teacher
Last Name: options
Press Enter after typing the names.
6.
Next, you must enter the admin password that you set when you created the quiz. If you did not enter an administrative password when you created the quiz, you can enter the NEO’s master password. (For more about the master password and how to set it, refer to the AlphaSmart
Manager 2 User Manual .)
7.
Next, the teachers who have started the quiz on this NEO will be listed.
Student Response List:
- Johanna Espinosa A F
- Jessica Knutson A F
- Anna Martin U N
U
F
N
The letters to the right of each students name tell you whether the student has answered all questions and whether the student has marked the quiz as finished. This is what each letter means:
Letter
A
What It Means
Student has answered all questions
Student has not answered all questions
Student has marked test finished
Student has not marked test finished
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Teacher Options in for Quizzes in AlphaQuiz
If a student’s quiz is not marked finished, access to some
SmartApplets may be blocked on the NEO until the quiz is finished. The blocks are based on the Advanced Quiz
Options you chose when you created the quiz in
QuizDesigner. They will remain in place until the student finishes the quiz or until you delete the student’s responses.
From this screen, you can do the following:
What You Can Do How to Do It
View a student’s responses
View a student’s password
Mark a student’s test finished
Delete a student’s responses to all questions.
View the quiz access password (if one was set for the quiz)
Use the arrow keys to move the cursor next to a student’s name. Then, press enter . You can now move through the questions as the student does
(see the table that starts on page 7-30), viewing the
student’s answer to each question. When you have finished, press esc to exit the quiz.
Use the arrow keys to move the cursor next to the student’s name. Then, press z -P to see the student’s password. (If nothing happens, no student password was required for this quiz.) To leave the screen, press any key.
This is only necessary if you require students to mark a quiz finished and a student has not marked a quiz finished (perhaps because the student became ill or had to leave the room). To mark the student’s quiz finished, use the arrow keys to move the cursor next to the student’s name. Then, press z
-F . You will see the second letter behind the student’s name change from N (not finished) to F
(finished). (If nothing happens, students weren’t required to mark this quiz finished.) You can press z
-F again to change the status back.
When you delete a student’s responses, they cannot be recovered.
To do this, use the arrow keys to move the cursor next to the student’s name.
Then, press z
-D . When NEO warns you that all quiz responses for this student will be deleted, press y for “yes” if you want to continue. The student’s responses will be deleted, and the student’s name will no longer be in the student response list.
While viewing the student response list, press z -A .
The screen will show the access password. To leave the screen, press any key.
8.
To leave the teacher options, press esc in the Student Response List.
You’ll return to the quiz list.
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Retrieving Students’ Responses from NEOs Using QuizManager
Retrieving Students’ Responses from NEOs Using
QuizManager
QuizManager makes it easy for you to retrieve students’ responses to quizzes from the NEOs they used to take the quizzes. You can then grade the quiz responses in QuizManager.
You can retrieve quiz responses more than once for the same quiz if necessary. This is helpful if some students did not complete a quiz before the end of class and they need to continue it another time.
1.
Connect your NEOs to the computer, either through a SmartOption Cart with an AlphaHub or directly with a USB cable. In QuizManager, make sure your NEOs are connected as shown by the indicators (see
2.
Click Retrieve Responses in the QuizManager control bar, or click the
Communication menu and choose Retrieve Responses . On Windows computers, you can also click in the toolbar in the QuizManager window.
3.
Find the quiz that you want to retrieve responses for and click the quiz file to highlight it. Then, click Select . You need to select the quiz file because
QuizManager uses some information in this file to organize the data from the NEOs. The Retrieve Responses window will appear.
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Retrieving Students’ Responses from NEOs Using QuizManager
4.
Check the box next to each student whose responses you want to retrieve
. You can click them one by one, click Select All , or click Select None and then check the boxes for the students whose responses you want. As you select students, note the status for each one ; R means you’ve already retrieved the responses. F means the student’s quiz has been marked finished (if you required them to mark it finished).
5.
Choose the date the quiz was administered:
• Windows computers: Choose the date from the drop-down list .
• Macintosh computers: Click each portion of the date and click the arrows to increase or decrease the number.
6.
Click one of the Student Response Options :
• Create a new document: Choose this if you have never retrieved responses for this quiz before of if you are starting over.
• Merge into an existing document: Choose this if you have retrieved and saved some students’ responses from this quiz, but you have more student responses to merge in to that document. Be sure that you save the document before merging responses into it.
7.
Click OK . Student responses will be retrieved. If you chose to merge responses into an existing document, you’ll be asked to select that document and click Open .
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Deleting Students’ Responses to Quizzes Using QuizManager
When the process is done, the students will be listed under the class in the QuizManager window.
To grade the responses, see page 7-41.
To save the responses, click the File menu, choose Save , and choose a name and location for the saved responses. Then, click Save . (On
Windows computers, you also can click in the QuizManager toolbar.)
To delete the responses from NEOs after you have saved them in
QuizManager, see the next section of this manual.
Deleting Students’ Responses to Quizzes Using
QuizManager
Once you have retrieved and saved students’ responses to a quiz, you can use
QuizManager to remove them from NEOs by following the steps below. The quiz itself will remain on the NEO until you delete it so that other students can take the quiz, but the responses of students who have already taken the quiz will be deleted.
1.
Connect your NEOs to the computer, either through a SmartOption Cart with an AlphaHub or directly with a USB cable. In QuizManager, make sure your NEOs are connected as shown by the indicators (see
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2.
Click Delete Responses in the QuizManager control bar, or click the
Communication menu and choose Delete Responses . On Windows computers, you can also click in the toolbar in the QuizManager window.
You can use Select
All to quickly check all boxes.
Click
Select None if you want to remove all check marks before checking the quizzes you want.
3.
Check the quizzes for which you want to delete responses on the NEO(s)
. As you select quizzes, note the information in the Results/Retrieved column . The first number (Results) shows how many students have taken the quiz. The second (Retrieved) shows how many students you’ve retrieved responses for. Make sure you’ve retrieved student responses for the quiz before you delete those responses unless you want students to start over or you want to discard student work on this quiz.
The administrative password can be set when you create a quiz.
To find it for an existing quiz, open the quiz in
QuizDesigner, click Quiz
Options , and look in the
Admin Password field.
4.
If an administrative password was set for the quiz, you must enter it in the blank field after the quiz.
5.
Click OK . The student responses for the quiz will be deleted from the connected NEO(s).
6.
Click Close (Windows) or OK (Macintosh) when the program notifies you that the responses have been deleted.
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Turning NEOs On or Off Using QuizManager
Turning NEOs On or Off Using QuizManager
When you exit QuizManager with NEOs connected, the NEOs are automatically turned off. If you want to turn off all NEOs while QuizManager is still open, do one of the following:
• Click Power Off AlphaSmarts on the Control Bar .
• Click the Communication menu and choose Power Off AlphaSmarts .
• On Windows computers only, click window.
in the toolbar in the QuizManager
To turn the AlphaSmarts on again through QuizManager, do one of the following:
• Click Power On AlphaSmarts on the Control Bar.
• Click the Communication menu and choose Power On AlphaSmarts .
• On Windows computers only, click in the toolbar in the QuizManager window.
Assigning Points (Weights) to Quiz Questions in
QuizManager
On Windows computers, you can click on the
QuizManager toolbar to
document instead of choosing
Open from the File menu.
By default, each question in a quiz is worth one point. In QuizManager, you can assign different points (weights) to each question by following the steps below. You can either change points after grading based on how difficult the questions seemed for students, or you can change them before grading the quiz. However, you must retrieve student responses before you can assign points to questions.
1.
Make sure you have retrieved student responses from the quiz (see
page 7-35) and that you are viewing the student response document. If
you closed the document, click the File menu, click Open , and select and open the document.
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Assigning Points (Weights) to Quiz Questions in QuizManager
2.
Click Points at the bottom of the window.
3.
In the Question Points window, you can change the points for each question by clicking in the field and changing the number. The percentage next to each question will adjust automatically.
If you want to enter fractional points, use a decimal point. You can enter one digit after the decimal point.
If you decide to throw out a question so it does not count for any student, enter “0” for that question.
You can press the tab key to move from the points for one question to the next question.
4.
Click OK to save your changes to points.
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Grading Quizzes in QuizManager
Grading Quizzes in QuizManager
After you’ve retrieved student responses for a quiz (see page 7-35), you can
grade the quiz by following the steps below. You may also want to assign
different points to questions (see page 7-39) before grading the quiz.
Some questions can be graded automatically by QuizManager, such as multiple choice questions, true/false questions, and short answer questions for which you’ve entered an answer that QuizManager can match to student answers.
1.
Select the students whose quizzes you want to grade:
• To select all students in a class (if classes are listed), click the class name.
• To select one student, click the student’s name to highlight it.
• To select more than one, hold down the Ctrl key (Windows) or the key (Macintosh) as you click student names. To select a group of students, click the first name in the group, hold down the Shift key, z and click the last name in the group. You can select students from more than one class.
• Click – to collapse a class so you don’t see its students, or click + to see the students in a class again.
• If the circle next to a name is filled in, that student’s quiz has already been graded. (See the circle next to Luis Camacho in the example below.) The student’s score is shown after the circle.
2.
Click Grade at the bottom of the window.
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Grading Quizzes in QuizManager
You can’t change the correct answer or the remarks in
QuizManager.
Those were set when you created or edited the quiz in
QuizDesigner.
3.
In the grading window, adjust the student’s points for each question as needed. For essay questions and short answer questions, QuizManager does not award points automatically, so you must award them yourself.
The name of the student whose quiz you’re grading.
The gray bar includes the question number, the question, and the question type.
The Response is the student’s answer. The correct answer is shown below it.
Change the points earned as needed. For true/false, multiple-choice, and some short answer questions,
QuizManager awards points automatically. For essay questions and some short answer questions, you must award points yourself. You can’t enter more points than the question is worth. To set
Comments may help explain to the student why he or she did not receive full credit. They may also provide extra information or encouragement.
You can include comments in the Corrected Quiz Report.
Remarks were entered when you created the quiz. They may include references to the textbook or other information that will help students. You can include remarks in the
Corrected Quiz Report.
You can view all questions, just those that weren’t automatically graded, or just those that need grading because no points have been awarded.
If you selected multiple students, after you finish grading one student’s quiz, you can click the next student’s name to grade his or her quiz.
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Printing Reports in QuizManager
4.
When you’ve finished grading this quiz for this student, you can click the next student’s name J if you chose more than one student.
5.
Click Done Grading when you’ve finished grading the quiz for all the students you selected. If necessary, select other students and click Grade to grade their quizzes.
Printing Reports in QuizManager
About the Reports in QuizManager
In QuizManager, you can print reports that provide more information about your students’ work on a quiz. You can print four reports, which are described in the table below. The table also shows which information you can choose to include when you print the report. In addition to these options, you can choose whether to use tabs in the report so it’s easy to export to a spreadsheet.
Report
Grading Sheet
Corrected Quiz
Report
When to Use It
A printed grading sheet for a quiz.
This can be helpful if your quiz contains questions that can’t be automatically scored, such as essay questions. The printout lets you grade the quiz away from the computer and enter the points into
QuizManager later.
A graded quiz report that you can hand back to students to show them how they did on the quiz.
Each student’s report prints on a separate page.
Information You Can Choose to Include
• Quiz name
• Class number
• Date the quiz was taken
• The questions and answer choices
• Student responses (answers)
• Blanks for scores for each question
• Blanks for comments for each question
• All questions or only those that weren’t automatically graded
• Quiz name
• Student name
• Class number
• Date quiz was taken
• Score
• The questions and answer choices
• Student responses (answers)
• The correct answers
• Teacher comments from grading
• The question remarks you added when creating the quiz
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Report
Quiz Summary
Report
Statistical Report
When to Use It
A tab-delimited list of student names and grades for a quiz. This report is intended for teachers only.
A report that provides statistics such as class averages, medians, and score distributions as well with the frequency of missed questions.
Information You Can Choose to Include
• Quiz name
• Class number
• Date the quiz was taken
• Student names
• Student scores
• Average score
• Median score
• High and low scores
• Score distribution
• Missed question summary
How to Print Reports
To print reports in QuizManager, follow these steps:
1.
Make sure you have retrieved student responses from the quiz (see
page 7-35) and that you are viewing the student response document. If
you closed the document, click the File menu, click Open , and select and open the document.
2.
Click Reports A at the bottom of the window.
A
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3.
On the left side of the window, click the name of the report you want to print B .
B
C
D
On Macintosh computers only, you can also choose whether to view the report for all selected students or just one student. Click the drop-down list at the bottom of the window to choose a student name or All
Students .
4.
On the right side of the window, check the boxes for the information you want to include C . If you want tabs in the report text, check that box D .
5.
Click Create Report . The report will appear in a window like the one shown below.
6.
Use the buttons in the window to print or save the report:
• To print the report, click Print . In the print dialog box, click OK
(Windows) or Print (Macintosh).
• To save the report as a text file, click Save . Then, choose a location for the report file and enter a name; then, click Save .
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7.
Click Done to close the report window.
8.
Click Close to close the Reports window.
Exporting Student Quiz Scores
By following the steps below, you can export student quiz scores so that you can bring them into a computerized gradebook program. If you want
QuizManager to match the students’ quiz scores to their names in the grade book program, the gradebook program must be able to 1) export a text file roster of student names, and 2) import a text file of names and scores.
1.
In your gradebook program, export a student roster and save it as a text file if you’d like QuizManager to match the student scores to these names.
Make sure you enter the last name, a comma and space, and then the first name (as in Smith, John).
2.
Make sure you are viewing the student response document. If you closed the document, click the File menu, click Open , and select and open the document.
3.
Click Export A at the bottom of the window.
A
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4.
If you exported a text file of student names from your gradebook program, click Browse B to select the file. In the dialog box that opens find the file, click it once, and click Select (Windows) or Choose (Macintosh). The path to the file will be shown.
QuizManager can’t match names if they’re not in the last name, first name format.
Different formats will cause the Export Name Conflict window to appear.
B
C
5.
Click Export .
6.
If you are using a roster file, QuizManager compares the students who responded to the quiz to those in the text file you exported from your gradebook program.
If QuizManager can’t match a name, you’ll see the Export Name Conflict window. If the correct name is in the list, click it and click OK . If not, click
Skip (or Skip All to skip all non-matching names). Skipped students won’t be in the exported file.
7.
In the Save As dialog box, choose a location for the exported file and enter a name. Then, click Save .
8.
In your gradebook program, import the file that you exported.
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KeyBoard ShortCuts in QuizManager
KeyBoard ShortCuts in QuizManager
Action
Open a file of retrieved
(and possibly graded) quiz responses.
Close a student response file for a quiz.
Save a file.
Save As.
Set print or page setup
(Macintosh only).
Print the student response set you’re viewing (Macintosh only).
Close QuizManager.
Undo last action.
The following keyboard shortcuts give you a quick way to perform many of the tasks in QuizManager. The table below also includes the equivalent menu commands.
Keyboard Shortcut
Ctrl-O (Windows)
-O (Macintosh)
None (Windows)
-W (Macintosh)
Ctrl-S (Windows)
-S (Macintosh)
Equivalent Menu Item
File Open (both Windows and
Macintosh)*
*On Windows computers, you can also click in the toolbar.
File Close (both Windows and
Macintosh)
None
None
None
File Save (both Windows and
Macintosh)
On Windows computers, you can also click in the toolbar.
File Save As (both Windows and Macintosh)
File Page Setup (Macintosh only)
File Print (Macintosh only)
None (Windows)
-Q (Macintosh)
File Exit (Windows)
File Quit (Macintosh OS 9)
QuizManager Quit
QuizManager (Macintosh OS 10)
Edit Undo (Macintosh only)
Cut selected text.
Copy selected text.
Paste text that you have cut or copied.
Ctrl-Z (Windows)
-Z (Macintosh)
Ctrl-X (Windows)
-X (Macintosh)
Ctrl-C (Windows)
-C (Macintosh)
Ctrl-V (Windows)
-V (Macintosh)
Edit Cut (Macintosh only)
Edit Copy (Macintosh only)
Edit Paste (Macintosh only)
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Action
Clear all text in the field your cursor is in
(Macintosh computers only).
Select all text in the field your cursor is in
(Macintosh computers only)
Go to the next student’s responses.
Go to the previous student’s responses.
Send a quiz to NEOs.
Keyboard Shortcut
None
Ctrl-A (Windows)
-A (Macintosh)
Ctrl-] (Windows)
-] (Macintosh)
Ctrl-[ (Windows)
-[ (Macintosh)
None
Delete a quiz from NEOs.
None
Retrieve student responses to quizzes from
NEOs.
None
Delete student quiz responses from NEOs.
None
A L P H A Q U I Z
KeyBoard ShortCuts in QuizManager
Equivalent Menu Item
Edit Clear (Macintosh only)
Edit Select All (Macintosh only)
Edit Next Student (Macintosh only)
Edit Previous Student
(Macintosh only)
Communication Send Quiz
(Windows)
Communications Send Quiz
(Macintosh)
On Windows computers, you can also click in the toolbar.
Communication Delete Quiz
(Windows)
Communications Delete
Quiz (Macintosh)
On Windows computers, you can also click in the toolbar.
Communication Retrieve
Responses (Windows)
Communications Retrieve
Responses (Macintosh)
On Windows computers, you can also click in the toolbar.
Communication Delete
Responses (Windows)
Communications Delete
Responses (Macintosh)
On Windows computers, you can also click in the toolbar.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Action
Turn connected NEOs on
(after having turned them off through
QuizManager).
Keyboard Shortcut
None
Turn connected NEOs off.
None
Equivalent Menu Item
Communication Power On
AlphaSmarts (Windows)
Communications Power On
AlphaSmarts (Macintosh)
On Windows computers, you can also click in the toolbar.
Communication Power Off
AlphaSmarts (Windows)
Communications Power Off
AlphaSmarts (Macintosh)
On Windows computers, you can also click in the toolbar.
Window View Toolbar
(Windows only)
View or turn off toolbar in
QuizManager student response window
(Windows only). The toolbar is visible when the menu item is checked.
View or close the Control
Bar (Windows only). The
Control Bar is visible when the menu item is checked.
Tile windows for open student response files.
This allows you to arrange the windows so you can view both at the same time.
None
None
None
Window View Control Bar
(Windows only)
Window Tile Windows
(Windows only)
Frequently Asked Questions
How many students can take a quiz on one NEO?
The AlphaQuiz SmartApplet can hold responses for up to eight students for all quizzes combined. For example, if two quizzes have been sent to
AlphaQuiz on the NEO, and two students have taken one of the quizzes, six can take the other quiz.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many different quizzes can be loaded onto a NEO?
Up to four different quizzes can be on the NEO at the same time.
Does the student response to a short answer question have to be spelled correctly? Is it case-sensitive?
If you have entered answers for short answer questions when you created the quiz in QuizDesigner, QuizManager can only match student responses that use the exact same spelling. To help QuizManager match student answers, you can enter more than one correct answer in QuizDesigner with variations in spelling, or you can enter multiple forms of the word (such as “rain” and
“raindrops”). When you create the quiz in QuizDesigner, you can turn on case sensitivity. You can also restrict answers to numbers only.
What happens if a student skips a question?
AlphaQuiz allows students to answer questions in any order they like. They can skip any question and return to it later. At the end of the quiz, students can choose to view a list of questions with blank answers by pressing -B ; then, they can jump directly to one of those questions by pressing -J and entering the question number. When you create the quiz in QuizDesigner, you can choose whether students can exit the quiz and enter it later to update responses, or whether students must mark the quiz finished so they can no longer change their responses.
If I’m using an AlphaHub (SmartOption Cart), and I also have an open USB port on my computer, can I use both methods of communication between
QuizManager and NEOs at the same time?
Yes. QuizManager supports AlphaHub communication and a direct USB connection simultaneously. This allows you to work with up to 31 NEOs at once with QuizManager.
Can a student spell check an essay question?
Spell check can’t be used directly within AlphaQuiz, although it can be used in other SmartApplets, such as AlphaWord Plus. In QuizDesigner, the author of a quiz can choose whether to allow use of spell check during the quiz. When use of spell check is allowed, the student can copy text from an essay answer, switch to AlphaWord on the NEO, and spell check the text there. When spell check is disabled, the student cannot spell check the text in any SmartApplet.
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Frequently Asked Questions
By default, spell check is enabled unless you do the following on the Advanced tab in the Quiz Options in QuizDesigner:
• Check Require students to mark quiz as finished.
• Do not check Enable AlphaSmart Spell Checker when taking the quiz.
• Do not check Enable other AlphaSmart SmartApplets when taking the quiz so that students can’t use spell check in other SmartApplets.
What do students do when they complete a quiz?
Press -F (for “finished”) to return to the quiz menu. At this point, the NEOs can be connected to your computer so you can retrieve quiz responses.
Can a student take a quiz twice?
Yes. This can be done in one of two ways:
• Delete the responses for the quiz from the NEO (see page 7-37) and have
the student take the quiz again.
• When the student enters his or her name at the beginning of the quiz, have the student use a different form of his or her name (such as Olivia Smith-2).
If the student tries to use the same name used for the first quiz, AlphaQuiz will simply open the students’ first set of responses again.
Is it possible to print a quiz from the teacher’s computer?
The QuizManager reports let you choose to print elements of a quiz. The
Grading Sheet and Corrected Quiz Reports allow you to include the questions on the quiz and the students answers, and the Corrected Quiz Report also allows you to include the correct answers and teacher comments. All
QuizManager reports can be printed directly or saved to text files. To print
You can also print the original quiz (without any student responses) in
Once an essay question is graded, what capabilities are there to make notes on the student response in QuizManager?
When you grade the quiz in QuizManager, you can enter comments for each of the student’s responses, and you can include these comments when you print the student’s Corrected Quiz Report.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How and when do I assign the point values for each question?
You can assign point values to each question any time after you retrieve the
student responses for a quiz. For instructions, see page 7-39.
When you first write a quiz in QuizDesigner, all questions have the same weight/point value—one point. You can click Points in QuizManager to change the point values for each question. QuizManager will calculate the weight (in %) for each question based on the point values you enter.
Can the grades from quizzes be saved as a spreadsheet file or be copied and pasted directly into a tab-delimited grading program?
Yes, When you export the student quiz scores from QuizManager (see
page 7-46), you are creating a tab-delimited file that you can open with a
spreadsheet program or import into a gradebook program. QuizManager can also match student scores to a student roster exported from a gradebook program, and it allows you to manually match names that QuizManager could not match.
In essay responses, will AlphaQuiz or QuizManager highlight or underline key words that were defined when creating the question?
No, this feature is not available.
What happens if the NEO is turned off before a quiz is completed? What appears on the screen when the NEO is turned back on? How does a student continue the quiz?
All the student’s responses are saved when the NEO is turned off. When it is turned back on, the NEO starts its default SmartApplet, which is usually
AlphaWord Plus. The student can press applets , select AlphaQuiz , and then select the quiz again. All responses are preserved and displayed as if the student had never exited the quiz.
If you chose to require students to mark the quiz as finished, and if you chose to block access to other SmartApplets during the quiz, when the NEO starts, you will see this message: “The other applets, including AlphaWord, cannot be used because a quiz has not been marked as finished. Press any key to continue.” After the student presses a key, the student can log in to the quiz again.
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Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
The QuizManager control bar shows a yellow indicator.
A yellow indicator means that this connected NEO does not have the
AlphaQuiz SmartApplet installed. Send any files that you want to save from the NEO to your computer, and use AlphaSmart Manager to install
AlphaQuiz on that NEO (see page 1-2).
The QuizManager control bar shows a black indicator, but a NEO is connected to that location on the Cart or to the USB port on the computer.
There are a few reasons why this might happen:
• That NEO may be off, or it may have a version of AlphaWord earlier than v1.4 installed. Make sure the AlphaSmart device is on, and check the version number that appears when the device starts up.
• Some older AlphaSmart 3000s need to be powered on before they are connected to either the hub or the computer. If the device is connected but the indicator is black, disconnect the device, turn it on, and then reconnect it.
• Make sure that QuizManager was properly installed. When installed correctly, the installer loads drivers (required software) for AlphaHub and
USB communications. On the Macintosh, you can use the System Profiler to check whether the system software detects the AlphaHub.
I have a quiz installed on some NEOs, and I have student responses that I have not yet retrieved, but I’ve accidentally erased the quiz document from my computer. Now I can’t retrieve, or even remove, the responses.
To recover the responses, press send on the NEOs from within the quiz to create a copy of the quiz and responses in an AlphaWord file, or directly print the responses. Once you have recovered all responses, use QuizManager’s
Delete Quiz function to clear the quiz from the NEOs (see page 7-27). You can
then create a new version of the quiz for future use.
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Troubleshooting
I have a quiz installed on some NEOs, but I have accidentally erased the quiz document from my computer and I don’t remember the Admin
Password. Now I am unable to remove the quiz from the NEOs.
If there are any responses for other quizzes stored on the NEOs, use
QuizManager to retrieve them. Then, print any response sets for the “lost”
quiz on each NEO (see page 7-31), or save each one as an AlphaWord file and
transfer it to your computer for archival (see page 7-32). You can now delete
and reinstall AlphaQuiz using AlphaSmart Manager; this will remove all quizzes, including the “lost” one.
Follow these steps:
1.
On the SmartApplets tab in AlphaSmart Manager, select all the
SmartApplets you want to keep on the NEOs except for AlphaQuiz and click Add . Check the Delete SmartApplets that are not in the Install
List box. Click the Send List tab and click Send .
2.
When AlphaSmart Manager finishes sending the SmartApplets to the
NEOs, open a new send list by choosing File New Send List . On the
SmartApplets tab, select AlphaQuiz and click Add , and uncheck the
Delete SmartApplets box. Click the Send List tab and click Send .
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Troubleshooting
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I
NDEX
A
A code in AlphaQuiz
About this manual
Accuracy activities in KeyWords
Accuracy and speed builders in KeyWords
Accuracy and speed test in KeyWords
Accuracy goals in KeyWords
Activating schools in KeyWords RP
Adding a new word to the user dictionary
Adding a student in KeyWords
Adding words to the user dictionary
Allowing beaming from NEOs
AlphaQuiz
A code
assigning points (weights) to questions
changing quiz options in QuizDesigner
changing quiz questions in QuizDesigner
copying quiz questions in QuizDesigner
Corrected Quiz Report
creating a question library
creating quizzes in QuizDesigner
deleting a student’s responses to all questions
deleting quiz questions in QuizDesigner
deleting quizzes from NEOs
deleting students’ responses to quizzes
downloading QuizDesigner and QuizManager
exporting quizzes to a text file
exporting student quiz scores
F code
grading quizzes in QuizManager
Grading Sheet
how it works
installing
installing QuizDesigner and QuizManager
marking a student’s test finished
N code
number of quizzes per NEO
number of students per NEO
opening a quiz in QuizDesigner
passwords
points for quiz questions
previewing questions
printing a quiz from QuizDesigner
printing quizzes from
printing reports
programs with
prompts for quizzes
quiz access password
quiz limit
Quiz Summary Report
QuizDesigner
rearranging quiz questions in QuizDesigner
remarks for questions
reports
retrieving students’ quiz responses from NEOs
saving quizzes to AlphaWord files
sending quizzes to NEOs
spell checking a quiz
starting QuizDesigner
starting QuizManager
Statistical Report
student limit
system requirements
taking quizzes
teacher options
troubleshooting in QuizManager
turning NEOs off and on using QuizManager
U code
viewing a student’s password
viewing a student’s responses
viewing the quiz access password
weights for quiz questions
AlphaSmart Manager
Beamer settings
changing settings in
deleting all KeyWords students
deleting SmartApplets from NEOs
disabling SmartApplets
8-1
I N D E X generating KeyWords reports
installing
installing SmartApplets with
KeyWords
KeyWords settings
retrieving KeyWords data
settings
synchronizing KeyWords data with KeyWords
RP
AlphaWord format for beams to Palm OS devices
AlphaWord Plus
adding a word to the user dictionary
beaming files
deleting the user dictionary
installing
KeyWords reports in
settings
showing tabs and carriage returns
user dictionary settings
using
AlphaWord Plus settings
Changing a specific file password
Resetting all file passwords
Turn file passwords on or off
Turn show marks in files on or off
Assigning points (weights) to quiz questions in Quiz-
Manager
Auto repeat of keys
changing settings
clipboard
clipboard, overwriting
could not find a sending device
disabling beaming
finding infrared ports
format for beams to Palm OS
installing
large files
master password requirement for settings
overwriting the clipboard
Permit Send setting
settings in AlphaSmart Manager
starting
troubleshooting
truncated files
warn if overwriting clipboard
Beaming files from a Palm OS device to NEO
Beaming files from NEO to a Palm OS device
Beaming files from one NEO to another
Beaming, blocking
Beaming, cancelling
Blocking beaming from NEOs
B
Backspace key, disabled in KeyWords lessons
Battery status
Beamer
allowing beaming
beaming between NEOs
beaming from NEO to Palm OS device
beaming from Palm OS device to NEO
beaming in AlphaWord Plus
can’t find a receiving device
cancelling a beam
C
Calculator
calculations
disabling
disabling from the SmartApplets menu
disabling within AlphaWord Plus
exponents
installing
operands
paper tape
pasting calculations into other SmartApplets
scientific notation
starting
turning off
turning on or off
using
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I N D E X
Callout format
Can’t find a receiving device in Beamer
Cancelling a beam
Capabilities in Renaissance Place
Carriage returns, showing
Certificate Report in KeyWords RP
Changing Beamer settings
Changing keyboard layout
Changing quiz options in QuizDesigner
Changing quiz questions in QuizDesigner
Changing specific file passwords
Changing the default SmartApplet font
Checking KeyWords RP system requirements
Choosing keyboard layout
Class Report in KeyWords RP
Clipboard and Beamer
Clipboard, overwriting in Beamer
Congratulations certificate for KeyWords
Contrast
Control bar in QuizManager
Control Panel
AlphaWord Plus settings
auto repeat keyboard setting
Calculator settings
changing keyboard settings
changing settings
displaying battery status
installing
keyboard command reference list
screen contrast setting
set screen contrast
settings
spell check settings
starting
turning Calculator on/off
two-button on setting
view keyboard layout
Copying questions from one quiz to another in
QuizDesigner
Copying quiz questions in QuizDesigner
Corrected Quiz Report in QuizManager
Could not find a sending device in Beamer
Creating a question library in QuizDesigner
Creating quizzes in QuizDesigner
D
Darken NEO screen
Date of birth
Deactivating KeyWords RP schools
Default file password
Default goals in KeyWords
Default SmartApplet font
Delay for keys
Deleting quiz questions in QuizDesigner
Deleting quizzes
Deleting quizzes from NEOs using QuizManager
Deleting SmartApplets from NEOs
Deleting students in KeyWords
Deleting students’ responses to quizzes using Quiz-
Manager
Deleting the user dictionary
Diagnostic Report in KeyWords RP
Disabled backspace key in KeyWords lessons
Disabling SmartApplets in AlphaSmart Manager
Disabling SmartApplets on NEOs
Disabling SmartApplets on the NEO itself
Disabling spell check
Disabling the Calculator
Disabling the Calculator within AlphaWord Plus
Displaying battery status
Downloading QuizDesigner and QuizManager
Dvorak keyboard layout
E
Enabling spell check
Enabling the Calculator
Enrollment Report in KeyWords RP
Entering special characters
Ergonomics, keyboarding
Error while beaming a file
Exponents in the Calculator
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Exporting a quiz from QuizDesigner to a text or word processing file
Exporting student quiz scores from QuizManager
Extra large font
H
Handouts for KeyWords teachers
Help for KeyWords RP
Home row confirmation in KeyWords
Home row keys handout for KeyWords
How AlphaQuiz works
How KeyWords works
F
F code in AlphaQuiz
File passwords
changing
resetting
File passwords and saving KeyWords reports
,
Finger placement handout for lesson 1 in KeyWords
Finger placement handout for lessons 2-16 in Key-
Words
Finger zones handout for KeyWords
Fixed-width font
Font sizes
extra large
large
medium
small
system
very large
Fonts, changing on NEOs
Formulas with Calculator
Frequently asked questions about QuizManager
Frequently asked questions, KeyWords
G
Gender
Goals in KeyWords
Grading quizzes in QuizManager
Grading Sheet in QuizManager
Group Progress Report in KeyWords
I iCalendar format
Infrared ports
Installing AlphaQuiz
Installing AlphaWord Plus
Installing Beamer
Installing Calculator
Installing Control Panel
Installing KeyWords
Installing QuizDesigner and QuizManager
Installing SmartApplets
Invalid password message in Beamer
ISO keyboard layouts
K
Key strike handout for KeyWords
Keyboard command reference list
Keyboard layout
changing
Dvorak
Left hand only layout
QWERTY
Right hand only
Keyboard layout, viewing
Keyboard settings
,
auto repeat
keyboard layout
Slow Keys
Sticky Keys
Keyboard shortcuts in QuizDesigner
Keyboard shortcuts in QuizManager
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I N D E X
Keyboarding ergonomics
KeyWords
about
accuracy activities
accuracy and speed builders
accuracy and speed test
accuracy goals
activating schools in KeyWords RP
adding a student
Adobe Reader and KeyWords RP
AlphaSmart Manager and
automatic goals
certificate
Certificate Report in KeyWords RP
Class Report in KeyWords RP
congratulations certificate
deactivating KeyWords RP schools
default goals
deleting students
Diagnostic Report in KeyWords RP
Enrollment Report in KeyWords RP
ergonomics
Finger placement handout/transparency for lesson 1
Finger placement handout/transparency for lessons 2 through 16
finger zone handout/transparency
frequently asked questions
getting data into KeyWords RP
goals
Group Progress Report
handouts
help for KeyWords RP
home row confirmation
home row handout/transparency
how it works
how KeyWords RP works
installing
key strike handout/transparency
KeyWords RP
learn new keys
lesson details
,
,
,
lesson plan
logging in to Renaissance Place
logging out of Renaissance Place
master class report
posture and wrist placement handout/transparency
printing reports
printing reports in KeyWords RP
Progress Report master
Renaissance Place and
reporting parameter groups in KeyWords RP
reports
reports in KeyWords RP
reports, printing in KeyWords RP
require correct shift key
resources for teachers
retrieving data and generating reports in
AlphaSmart Manager
sample lesson plan
Schoolwide Summary Report in KeyWords RP
sending reports to computer
setting up KeyWords RP
spaces between sentences (one or two)
speed builder activities
speed goals
starting
starting lessons
Student Detail Report in KeyWords RP
Student Information Report in KeyWords RP
Student Login Report in KeyWords RP
Student Record Report in KeyWords RP
student reports
sustained practice for all keys handout/transparency
switching roles in Renaissance Place
synchronizing data with KeyWords RP
teacher options
Teacher Report in KeyWords RP
tests
Tips for Getting Started
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I N D E X transferring reports to AlphaWord Plus
transparencies
Kinesthetic patterns in KeyWords
L
Large files in Beamer
Large font
Last Lesson Report
Lead teacher for KeyWords RP class
Learn new keys lesson in KeyWords
Left hand only keyboard layout
Left hand only layout
Lesson plan for KeyWords
Lessons in KeyWords
,
,
,
starting
Lighten NEO screen
Linguistic patterns in KeyWords
Locating infrared ports
Logging in to Renaissance Place
Logging out of Renaissance Place
battery status
beaming from one NEO to another
beaming to a Palm OS device
beaming to from a Palm OS device
Blocking beaming
changing default font
contrast
darken screen
deleting quizzes from
deleting SmartApplets from
disabling SmartApplets in AlphaSmart Manager
disabling SmartApplets in Applets menu
disabling SmartApplets on
installing SmartApplets
keyboard command reference list, viewing
keyboard layout, viewing
keyboard settings
lighten screen
number of students for AlphaQuiz
previewing AlphaQuiz questions for
quiz limit
screen contrast
sending quizzes to
settings
taking quizzes using AlphaQuiz
two-button on setting
viewing keyboard layout
M
Master class report in KeyWords
Master password requirement for Beamer settings
Matching student quiz scores to names from a gradebook program
Materials for teachers in KeyWords
Medium font
Memo Pad format for Palm OS devices
Monospaced font
O
Opening a quiz in QuizDesigner
Operands in Calculator
N
N code in AlphaQuiz
navigating in KeyWords RP
NEO
P
Paper tape in Calculator
Passwords default file password
file passwords
Pasting calculations copied from the Calculator
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I N D E X
Patterns, linguistic and kinesthetic in KeyWords
Points for AlphaQuiz questions
Posture and Wrist Placement for KeyWords
Previewing AlphaQuiz questions
Printing a quiz from QuizDesigner
Printing KeyWords reports
Printing quizzes from AlphaQuiz
Printing reports in QuizManager
Progress report master for KeyWords
Prompts for quiz questions in QuizDesigner and AlphaQuiz
Proportional fonts
Q
Question library in QuizDesigner
Quiz access password in AlphaQuiz
Quiz passwords in AlphaQuiz
Quiz Summary Report in QuizManager
QuizDesigner
changing quiz options
changing quiz questions
copying questions from one quiz to another
copying quiz questions
creating a question library
creating quizzes
deleting quiz questions
deleting quizzes
exporting quizzes to a text file
installing
keyboard shortcuts
opening a quiz
previewing quiz questions
printing a quiz
prompts for quiz questions
quiz options
rearranging quiz questions
remarks for quiz questions
show AlphaSmart view
spell checking a quiz
starting
system requirements
QuizManager
assigning points (weights) to quiz questions
control bar
Corrected Quiz Report
deleting quizzes from NEOs
deleting students’ responses to quizzes
exporting student quiz scores
frequently asked questions
grading quizzes in
Grading Sheet
installing
keyboard shortcuts
power off AlphaSmarts
power on AlphaSmarts
printing reports
Quiz Summary Report
reports
retrieving students’ quiz responses from NEOs
sending quizzes to NEOs
starting
Statistical Report
system requirements
troubleshooting
turning NEOs off
turning NEOs on again
QWERTY keyboard layout (default)
R
Rearranging quiz questions in QuizDesigner
Registering KeyWords RP schools
Remarks for AlphaQuiz quiz questions
Renaissance Place capabilities
logging in
logging out
setup
switching roles
Renaissance Place manuals, finding
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I N D E X
Renaissance Place Software Manual
Reporting parameter groups in KeyWords RP
Reports
Certificate Report in KeyWords RP
Class Report in KeyWords RP
Corrected Quiz Report in AlphaQuiz
descriptions of KeyWords RP reports
Diagnostic Report in KeyWords RP
Enrollment Report in KeyWords RP
Grading Sheet in AlphaQuiz
KeyWords reports in KeyWords RP
printing from KeyWords
Progress Report master for KeyWords
Quiz Summary Report in AlphaQuiz
Schoolwide Summary Report in KeyWords RP
sending KeyWords reports to computer
Statistical Report in AlphaQuiz
Student Detail Report in KeyWords RP
Student Information Report in KeyWords RP
Student Login Report in KeyWords RP
Student Record Report in KeyWords RP
Teacher Report in KeyWords RP
transferring KeyWords reports to AlphaWord
Plus
Reports for students in KeyWords
Reports in KeyWords
Reports in KeyWords RP
Reports in QuizManager
Resetting all file passwords
Resources for KeyWords teachers
Retrieving students’ quiz responses from NEOs (AlphaQuiz)
Returns, showing
Right hand only keyboard layout
S
Sample lesson plan for KeyWords
Saving AlphaQuiz quizzes to AlphaWord files
Schoolwide Summary Report in KeyWords RP
Scientific notation in the Calculator
Screen contrast
Sending KeyWords reports to computer
Sending quizzes to NEOs using QuizManager
Setting goals in KeyWords
Setting keyboard layout
Setting up KeyWords RP
Settings for Beamer
Settings in Control Panel
Shift key requirements in KeyWords
Show Marks
Showing carriage returns and tabs
Slow Keys setting in Control Panel
Small font
SmartApplets
AlphaQuiz
AlphaWord Plus
Beamer
Calculator
Control Panel
defined
deleting from NEOs
disabling
disabling in AlphaSmart Manager
disabling right on the NEO
font, changing
,
installed
installing
KeyWords
Spaces between sentences in KeyWords
Special characters
Speed builder activities in KeyWords
Spell check turning off and on
Spell check settings
Spell-checking a quiz
Starting Beamer
Starting KeyWords SmartApplets
Starting QuizDesigner
Starting QuizManager
Statistical Report in QuizManager
Status of batteries
Sticky keys for keyboard commands
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I N D E X
Sticky Keys setting in Control Panel
Student Detail Report in KeyWords RP
Student ID number
Student Information Report in KeyWords RP
Student Login Report in KeyWords RP
Student Progress Report
Student Record Report in KeyWords RP
Students adding in KeyWords
deleting in KeyWords
password for quiz, viewing in AlphaQuiz
starting KeyWords lessons
Sustained practice for all keys handout for KeyWords
Switching roles in Renaissance Place
System font
System requirements for QuizDesigner and Quiz-
Manager
System requirements, checking for KeyWords RP
T
Tabs, showing
Taking quizzes in AlphaQuiz
Teacher for KeyWords RP class
Teacher options in AlphaQuiz
deleting a student’s responses to all questions
marking a student’s test finished
viewing a student’s password
viewing a student’s responses
viewing the quiz access password
Teacher options in KeyWords
deleting students
home row confirmation
printing the Group Progress Report
require correct shift key
setting goals
spaces between sentences (one or two)
Teacher Report in KeyWords RP
Tests in KeyWords
Tips for Getting Started with KeyWords
Transferring KeyWords reports to AlphaWord Plus
Troubleshooting for AlphaQuiz
Troubleshooting for Beamer
Truncated files in Beamer
Turn add words to user dictionary on and off
Turn Spell Check on and off
Turning file passwords on and off
Turning off the Calculator
Turning Show Marks on and off
Turning the Calculator on or off
Two-button on setting
U
U code in AlphaQuiz
User dictionary ability to add words
adding a new word
deleting
User name
V vCal 1.0 format
vCard 3.0 format
Very large font
Viewing keyboard layouts
vNote format
W
Weights for AlphaQuiz questions
Words per minute goals in KeyWords
,
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