User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contact Information
- Copyright Notice
- Contents
- About SmartApplets
- AlphaWord Plus
- Calculator
- Control Panel
- How to Change Settings Using Control Panel
- About the Settings in the Control Panel
- Spell Check Settings
- AlphaWord Settings
- Change Default SmartApplet Font
- Turn Calculator Off or On
- Two-button On Setting
- Set Screen Contrast Setting
- Keyboard Command Reference List
- View Keyboard Layout Settings (Including Special Characters)
- Display Battery Status Setting
- Change Keyboard Settings
- KeyWords
- Welcome to KeyWords
- How the KeyWords SmartApplet Works
- Starting the KeyWords SmartApplet
- Adding a Student
- Choosing Your Name and Starting Lessons
- Learning New Keys
- Building Accuracy and Speed
- Taking an Accuracy and Speed Test
- How Students Check Progress Using Reports
- Teacher Options
- Deleting Students
- Creating a Group Progress Report
- Setting Speed and Accuracy Goals for KeyWords Students
- Choosing Whether to Enforce Use of the Correct Shift Key
- Enforcing Use of the Home Row
- Requiring One or Two Spaces Between Sentences
- Using AlphaSmart Manager 2 with KeyWords
- About KeyWords Reports
- Using KeyWords RP to View and Print Reports
- How KeyWords RP Works
- Programs You’ll Use
- Learning KeyWords RP
- Checking System Requirements
- Logging in to Renaissance Place and Changing Your Password
- Switching Roles in Renaissance Place
- Navigating the KeyWords RP Software
- Logging Out and Closing the Renaissance Place Software
- Setting Up the KeyWords RP Software
- Activating Schools
- Bringing KeyWords Data into KeyWords RP
- Viewing KeyWords RP Reports
- KeyWords Resources for Teachers
- Lessons in KeyWords
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Why can’t I use the backspace key when using KeyWords?
- Why is there so much repetition of words in the practice passages?
- Why are the passages so easy?
- Why is the sequence of key introduction so different from what I am used to in other typing programs?
- Why do the students learn the ASKL keys first?
- What is the rationale for how the practice passages are sequenced?
- Why aren't my test scores updated when I retake an accuracy and speed builder test in KeyWords?
- Beamer
- Starting Beamer
- Finding the Infrared Ports
- Beamer and the NEO Clipboard
- Beaming from One NEO to Another
- Beaming AlphaWord Plus files between devices
- Beaming from a NEO to a Palm OS Device
- Beaming from a Palm OS device to a NEO
- Cancelling a Beam
- Changing Beamer Settings
- Troubleshooting
- I want to change a setting, but I don’t know the master password.
- I don’t see the Send option on my Beamer screen.
- My NEO says it can’t find a receiving device.
- I received an error when I tried to beam or receive a file.
- I have data on the clipboard that I don’t want to lose. What should I do?
- I keep getting an invalid password message.
- I beamed a file with a password, but now that file doesn’t have a password on the receiving device.
- What does the message “could not find a sending device” mean?
- What do I do if the file I’m receiving is too big?
- 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?
- AlphaQuiz
- How AlphaQuiz Works
- Programs You’ll Use with AlphaQuiz
- Downloading and Installing QuizDesigner and QuizManager
- Starting QuizDesigner
- About the Options in QuizDesigner
- Creating Quizzes in QuizDesigner
- Opening and Changing Quizzes in QuizDesigner
- Copying Questions in QuizDesigner
- Password Requirements for Quizzes
- KeyBoard ShortCuts in QuizDesigner
- Previewing Questions in QuizDesigner (Seeing Questions as They Appear on NEO)
- Printing a Quiz from QuizDesigner
- Exporting a Quiz from QuizDesigner to a Word Processing Program
- Spell-checking a Quiz
- Deleting Quizzes
- Creating a Question Library in QuizDesigner
- Starting QuizManager
- About the QuizManager Control Bar
- Sending Quizzes to NEOs Using QuizManager
- Deleting Quizzes from NEOs
- How Students Take a Quiz Using the AlphaQuiz SmartApplet
- How Students Print Quizzes
- How Students Save Quizzes to an AlphaWord File
- Teacher Options in for Quizzes in AlphaQuiz
- Retrieving Students’ Responses from NEOs Using QuizManager
- Deleting Students’ Responses to Quizzes Using QuizManager
- Turning NEOs On or Off Using QuizManager
- Assigning Points (Weights) to Quiz Questions in QuizManager
- Grading Quizzes in QuizManager
- Printing Reports in QuizManager
- Exporting Student Quiz Scores
- KeyBoard ShortCuts in QuizManager
- Frequently Asked Questions
- How many students can take a quiz on one NEO?
- How many different quizzes can be loaded onto a NEO?
- Does the student response to a short answer question have to be spelled correctly? Is it case-sensitive?
- What happens if a student skips a question?
- 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?
- Can a student spell check an essay question?
- What do students do when they complete a quiz?
- Can a student take a quiz twice?
- Is it possible to print a quiz from the teacher’s computer?
- Once an essay question is graded, what capabilities are there to make notes on the student response in QuizManager?
- How and when do I assign the point values for each question?
- Can the grades from quizzes be saved as a spreadsheet file or be copied and pasted directly into a tab-delimited grading program?
- In essay responses, will AlphaQuiz or QuizManager highlight or underline key words that were defined when creating the question?
- 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?
- Troubleshooting
- The QuizManager control bar shows a yellow indicator.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Index
I NDEX
8-3
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Callout format 5-32
Can’t find a receiving device in Beamer
6-13
Cancelling a beam
6-11
Capabilities in Renaissance Place
5-45
Carriage returns, showing
4-4
Certificate Report in KeyWords RP
5-43
Changing Beamer settings
6-12
Changing keyboard layout
4-12
Changing quiz options in QuizDesigner
7-12
Changing quiz questions in QuizDesigner
7-11
Changing specific file passwords
4-2, 4-5
Changing the default SmartApplet font
4-2, 4-6, 4-7
Checking KeyWords RP system requirements
5-33
Choosing keyboard layout
4-12
Class Report in KeyWords RP
5-43
Clipboard and Beamer
6-2
Clipboard, overwriting in Beamer
6-13
Congratulations certificate for KeyWords
5-47
Contrast
4-2, 4-9
Control bar in QuizManager
7-24
Control Panel
1-1, 4-1
AlphaWord Plus settings
4-2, 4-4
auto repeat keyboard setting
4-16
Calculator settings
4-2, 4-8
changing keyboard settings
4-2, 4-12
changing settings
4-1
displaying battery status
4-2, 4-12
installing
1-2
keyboard command reference list
4-2
screen contrast setting
4-2
set screen contrast
4-9
settings
4-1, 4-2
spell check settings
4-2, 4-3
starting
4-1
turning Calculator on/off
4-2
two-button on setting
4-2, 4-8
view keyboard layout
4-2
Copying questions from one quiz to another in
QuizDesigner
7-14
Copying quiz questions in QuizDesigner
7-14
Corrected Quiz Report in QuizManager
7-43
Could not find a sending device in Beamer
6-14
Creating a question library in QuizDesigner
7-23
Creating quizzes in QuizDesigner 7-6
D
Darken NEO screen 4-2
Date of birth
5-44
Deactivating KeyWords RP schools
5-36
Default file password
4-5
Default goals in KeyWords
5-13, 5-15
Default SmartApplet font
4-2, 4-6, 4-7
Delay for keys
4-12, 4-15
Deleting quiz questions in QuizDesigner
7-13
Deleting quizzes
7-22
Deleting quizzes from NEOs using QuizManager
7-
27
Deleting SmartApplets from NEOs
1-5
Deleting students in KeyWords
5-11
Deleting students’ responses to quizzes using Quiz-
Manager
7-37
Deleting the user dictionary
4-2, 4-3
Diagnostic Report in KeyWords RP
5-43
Disabled backspace key in KeyWords lessons
5-57
Disabling SmartApplets in AlphaSmart Manager
1-4
Disabling SmartApplets on NEOs
1-3
Disabling SmartApplets on the NEO itself
1-4
Disabling spell check
4-3
Disabling the Calculator
3-3, 4-8
Disabling the Calculator within AlphaWord Plus
3-3
Displaying battery status
4-2, 4-12
Downloading QuizDesigner and QuizManager
7-2
Dvorak keyboard layout
4-2, 4-12
E
Enabling spell check 4-3
Enabling the Calculator
4-8
Enrollment Report in KeyWords RP
5-43
Entering special characters
4-11
Ergonomics, keyboarding
5-47
Error while beaming a file
6-14
Exponents in the Calculator
3-2