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
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Beamer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-1
Starting Beamer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1
Finding the Infrared Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
Beamer and the NEO Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2
Beaming from One NEO to Another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3
Beaming AlphaWord Plus files between devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
Beaming from a NEO to a Palm OS Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6
Beaming from a Palm OS device to a NEO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8
Cancelling a Beam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-11
Changing Beamer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-12
Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13
I want to change a setting, but I don’t know the master password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13
I don’t see the Send option on my Beamer screen.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13
My NEO says it can’t find a receiving device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13
I received an error when I tried to beam or receive a file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14
I have data on the clipboard that I don’t want to lose. What should I do? . . . . . . . . 6-14
I keep getting an invalid password message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14
I beamed a file with a password, but now that file doesn’t have a password
on the receiving device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14
What does the message “could not find a sending device” mean? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14
What do I do if the file I’m receiving is too big? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15
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?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15
AlphaQuiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7-1
How AlphaQuiz Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7-1
Programs You’ll Use with AlphaQuiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
Downloading and Installing QuizDesigner and QuizManager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
System Requirements for QuizManager and QuizDesigner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
Windows Instructions for Downloading and Installing QuizDesigner
and QuizManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3
Macintosh Instructions for Downloading and Installing QuizDesigner
and QuizManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4
Starting QuizDesigner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5
About the Options in QuizDesigner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5