ACTIVITY PROCEDURES

GENERAL PROCEDURE

The following steps describe the general procedure of the

Lab 100 activities, and guide you through the main Lab 100 session procedures.

By following these steps you can perform any of the Lab 100 activities. After the general description, each particular activity is explained in detail to guide you through the specific characteristics of each activity.

CREATING A SESSION

1. In the toolbar, click the New Session button.

The Session Screen activates.

SELECTING MEMBERS FOR THE SESSION

You can select members for the session, by either mouse clicking to select an individual, or by dragging the mouse over a number of student icons.

2. Click on a student icon, or drag the mouse over the student icons you want to include in a session.

3. If you want to change your selection, that is, add or remove students, click the Add/Remove button, and select again.

Note that you can make multiple consecutive selections, by pressing and holding down Shift or Ctrl on your keyboard, and selecting the students as described above.

SELECTING AN ACTIVITY FOR THE SESSION

4. Select an activity from the list that opens by clicking on the activity field. The controls needed to accomplish the activity appear.

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The Lab 100 activity list

SELECTING AN AUDIO SOURCE

5. Select audio source from the list that opens by clicking the source field.

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A drop-down menu for the Lab 100 audio sources

SESSION CONTROLS

6. To give instructions, click the Session Call button.

The red-highlighted On the Air sign appears in the upper right corner of the main window.

All the students in the session now hear your voice. To break the connection, click the button again.

7. To initiate the activity, click Start.

Initiating an activity means connecting the audio source to students and starting the recording(s).

If your source is an MSU file, the activity starts when you click the Start button. If the source is any other than an MSU file, remember to start also the source player. For example, to start to play a CD, click play in the CD player.

PAUSING THE ACTIVITY

You may want to pause the activity, for example, to ask students questions.

8. To pause the activity, click Pause.

Pausing the activity means pausing the recordings and the connection between the students and the source. Auxiliary sources are stopped manually.

9. To continue the activity, click Continue.

The students are connected to the source again. Auxiliary sources are started again manually.

10. To stop the activity, click End.

The source is disconnected from the students. Auxiliary sources are stopped manually.

ALLOWING STUDENTS ACCESS TO THEIR

RECORDERS

You can now allow the students practice individually. To do this, click Free to set the students’ audio panels to free mode.

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The students are then able to work with the master track at their own pace. Note that if the material used for the activity is an MSU file, you can set the student audio panels to free mode right away, without listening to the source together first.

In Free mode, if the source the students are working with is other than an MSU file, the program prompts you to define the time the students are able to record their output.

Æ For more information about allowing the students’ individual work, see Free and Lock mode.

REPLAYING THE STUDENT TRACKS

If you have recorded the student tracks during the activity, you can replay the tracks for the students. By doing this, you have more time to monitor the students and comment on their work.

To replay the student tracks, click Replay.

Æ On how to monitor a student, see chapter Monitor and

intercom earlier in this guide.

The playback stops automatically when the tracks reach the end. You yourself can stop the playback by clicking the button again. However, if you stop the playback and click the button again to restart the playback, the track is played from the beginning.

GRADING STUDENTS

To open the grading window, click the Grading button.

For more information about grading students, see chapter

Grading students later in this guide.

EXITING THE SESSION

11. To quit the session, click the Exit Session button.

A panel for saving the master track or collecting the student tracks opens (see the description below).