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SKILLBUILDING MASTERY Part 1: Teacher Manager Screen-Based Version No Textbook Needed

Skillbuilding Mastery Course Description. Skillbuilding Mastery is an advanced keyboarding course designed to increase typing speed and accuracy to employable levels of 50 wpm. It is used successfully in High School and College. There are 15-, 30-second, 1-, to 5-minute practice timings. Students k

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SKILLBUILDING MASTERY Part 1: Teacher Manager Screen-Based Version No Textbook Needed

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    1. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 1 SKILLBUILDING MASTERY Part 1: Teacher Manager (Screen-Based Version—No Textbook Needed) 20-minute, Self-Paced, Step-by-Step Directions For setting up the course online (Course Description on Slide 3)

    2. Skillbuilding Mastery Course Description Skillbuilding Mastery is an advanced keyboarding course designed to increase typing speed and accuracy to employable levels of 50+ wpm. It is used successfully in High School and College. There are 15-, 30-second, 1-, to 5-minute practice timings. Students keying approximately 32-35 wpm by touch, without looking at the keys, are prepared to take this course. All of the 1-5 minute timings are taken from the best Human Relations books. While taking timings students learn how to handle irate customers, read tips on being an effective speaker, learn how to get people to like you, learn how to handle mistakes, how to be successful. There are 517 timed drills which takes approximately 50-60 hours (good semester course) to complete. Lessons include alpha, punctuation, numeric and symbol drills. Formatting (letters, memos, tables, reports, etc.) is separate and a free download for our customers. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 2

    3. Print Slides of Step-by-Step Directions Print the slides and follow the step-by-step directions. Save for reference. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 3

    4. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 4 Launch your Browser

    5. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 5 Login with Teacher Login

    6. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 6 Select Teacher Manager for Skillbuilding Mastery

    7. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 7 Profile Manager is where you set up your course standards Click on Profile Manager.

    8. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 8 Creating Course Standards Tab 1-Profile List shows all the course standards created so far. They are available for all teachers in this school to use—each teacher does NOT need to create profiles. It is desirable to have several profiles so you can individualize to students as needed. Click on the “Create Setup Profile” button.

    9. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 9 Creating Course Standards Errors allowed as shown are standard; they can be changed. Block Correction if you wish to disable the Backspace/Delete keys

    10. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 10 Creating Course Standards

    11. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 11 Creating Course Standards Click on Tab “3-Timing Weights”.

    12. Creating Course Standards Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 12 Click on Tab “4-Sections”. For this demo, accept the defaults.

    13. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 13 Creating Course Standards Click on Tab “5-Grading Scale”. Enter the grading scale that you want your students to achieve by the end of the term/block/quarter/semester.

    14. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 14 Creating Course Standards Click on the “Save Profile” tab. In the Profile Name: enter the wpm for an A (50 wpm). The most common error is to enter non-descriptive names like “keyboarding” or “Mrs. Jones”. If you have several profiles, you wouldn’t know what they were later unless you opened each one. (Good examples: 30 wpm—Lessons 1-11; 33 wpm—Lessons 12-24.) If you have a special class, you can identify yours by putting your name in parenthesis after the wpm goal. Click the “Save Profile” button.

    15. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 15 Creating Your Classes Click on Class Manager in the main menu. Click on the Create Class button.

    16. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 16 Creating Your Classes Begin with the teacher’s last name. Enter a descriptive name for your class with a date. (When the time comes to delete a class, you don’t want to have to open them all up to find the old ones!) Click OK. Create two classes. (Period-3 and a Period-5 created here)

    17. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 17 Creating Student Data Files Select “Create Student Files” in the main menu. Under “Choose a Class”, select a class to put students in it. Be sure your “Choose Setup Profile” shows the correct profile for an “A” grade (student goal), 50 wpm in this example. Click the arrow to change it if necessary. Enter a student’s last name, first name—be sure to include your name.

    18. For this demo, give all the students in your class a Student ID/Password of “1” just to make it easy; they can change it later in their data file. (Teachers can lock passwords so students can’t change them—Profile Manager, Select Profile you want to change, Edit Profile button, Tab 2—Options, Advanced Options.) Click the “Create Student File” button. Create three student files (and assign “1” as the Password for each). Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 18 Creating Student Data Files

    19. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 19 Viewing Student Progress First Report—Simple Report Select “View Student Progress” in main menu. Select a class that has students in it. Select a Student. Select “Simple Report” (bottom left). Click on “Get Report” to see the student’s individual scores. You could print this for a student/parent teacher conference.

    20. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 20 Viewing Student Progress First Report—Simple Report The Simple Report is shown below with the best scores for each lesson. To see another student’s scores while you are at it, click on the arrow to “Choose another student”, click on the next student.

    21. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 21 Viewing Student Progress Second Report—Class Progress Report Select “View Student Progress” again from the main menu. Select a Class. Select “Class Progress Report” on bottom center. Click “Get Report”.

    22. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 22 Viewing Student Progress Second Report—Class Progress Report First column has the Student Names. Second column has the students’ personal passwords. If they change their password from a “1” to something else and forget it, you can check here to see what it is. L1, L2, etc., columns are the Lesson Averages. This is just a temperature gauge of how your class is doing—are they keeping up with assignments, who is behind, are they meeting their goals, etc.

    23. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 23 Viewing Student Progress Third Report—Class Summary Report Select “View Student Progress” again from the main menu. Select a class. Select “Class Summary Report”. Click on “Get Report”.

    24. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 24 Viewing Student Progress Third Report—Class Summary Report First column has student names. Second column is the number of Lessons Completed. Third column is Student Effort—how much time they have spent in actual practice. It records the amount of time the timer is going—but they can’t start a timing and walk off because if they don’t get a certain percentage of the timing correct it assumes they are playing around and doesn’t record the time. Last Date Worked column. The last date the data file was opened.

    25. Unweighted WPM so far—simple average of lessons completed; useful in determining Mid-Term grades. Grade/Weighted column. When finished with all assigned lessons, student grades based upon the teacher’s grading scale in Profile Manager will automatically appear. Grades are recorded from this column. Profile Name—useful in checking what profiles are assigned to students, and showing individualized standards when necessary. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 25 Viewing Student Progress Third Report—Class Summary Report

    26. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 26 There is a Course Entry timing in the student data files. For students who take the Course Entry timing, and the Course Exit timing after completing the course, their improvement from taking the course will show on the Grade Report. Individualizing to Students (Identifying the skills of students)

    27. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 27 Individualizing Standards to Students (Assume Barbara Ellsworth was found to be typing 65 wpm) Select “Class Manager” on the main menu. Select the class your student is in. Select the student (Ellsworth, Barbara in this case). Find the “Change Profile” box, click on the arrow and select the profile you want to assign to her—70 wpm in this case. Click “Update Profile” button. Click OK to dialog box question.

    28. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 28 Individualizing to Students Select “View Student Progress” from the main menu. Select your class. Select “Class Summary Report”. Click on “Get Report”. Notice in the Profile Name that Ellsworth, Barbara has a different goal than the rest of the students in the class. You can individualize by raising or lowering standards to fit the needs of students.

    29. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 29 Move Students (Do you sometimes need to move a student to another class because of a schedule change?) Select “Move Students” in the main menu. Select the “Current Class” the student is in and select the name. Select the “New Class” the student will be going into. Click the “Move Student” button. The student data file with all the scores will appear alphabetically with the other students in the new class (when a report is viewed).

    30. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 30 Moving Student Back (Wrong student moved? Move him back!) Select the new “Current Class” the student is now in. In “Students” column, select the student you want to move back. Select the “New Class” you want to put student back into. Click “Move Student” button. Student is now back into original class.

    31. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 31 Using Message Center Select “Message Center” in the main menu Click arrow to “Select Your Class”. Click on your class. The students will appear.

    32. 32 Using the Message Center Click on Beckstead, Jens name. (Hold down the Ctrl key and click to select more than one student.) Click on the first arrow. Students appear in the “Send To” column. Select the Teacher: Enter the Subject: Enter the Message. Click the “Send” button. Close “Message Center” by clicking on [x]. (When you go to the student side, you will see the message.)

    33. Trying to cheat? All data must come from keyboard keys and match the exercise. Students who try to “cut and paste” or “copy and paste” or whatever during a practice timing will see this message: (Our programmer’s sense of humor!) Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 33

    34. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 34 Assigning a Schedule (used mainly to prevent cheating) Assigning a schedule permits opening the data file only during stated times. In the example below, this schedule is Daily from 8:30 – 9:20 am. By assigning this schedule in Class Manager on the main menu, the student’s data file will open only during these times. (Friends outside of class can’t help your student!)

    35. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 35 Deleting a Student

    36. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 36 Restoring a Class

    37. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 37 Free Formatting to Customers (Downloaded from Web Site—Make Copies at School Copy Center)

    38. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 38 Free Introduction to Microsoft Applications to Customers (Downloaded from Web Site—Make Copies at School Copy Center)) You can choose the chapters you want to teach; we’ll keep up with the version changes. Version 2007 has 127 pages. Bound textbooks are available for those that want them at a reasonable cost.

    39. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 39 Good keyboarding techniques are very important to achieving excellent keyboarding skills. The first day of keyboarding class be sure to show students the Technique Tutorial: www.keyboardingonline.com Demos tab Teacher link Correct Keyboarding Techniques Tutorial Tips for Getting Great Results

    40. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 40 Tips for Getting Great Results

    41. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 41 We Give Teachers What They Want

    42. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 42 Technical Information

    43. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 43 Teachers/Administrators Only:

    44. Ellsworth Publishing Company (888) 963-4817 44 To Continue As A Student On a PC, click on the back arrow of your browser to return to Ellsworth Publishing web site where you see your courses. Go to Part 2 to continue as a student.

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