DyKnow Training

1. DyKnow Training Ver 5.0 – June 2008 Brad O’Brien

2. Welcome!!! • What we will be covering today: • Setting up a class • Joining/Starting a session • Importing PowerPoint • Student/Instructor Options • Taking Notes • Saving Notebooks • Monitor

3. Setup DyKnow 5.0 • Setting up DyKnow 5.1 • What version do I have? (Help/About) • We Will be using the 5.1 client installed – the old version (4.x) will NOT work • F:\install\Dyknow\dyknowinstall51_86.exe • Client Only Install for Instructors • Server – sdsmt-cp01

4. Setting up a class • DyKnow Explorer • My Current Classes • Insert/Class Folder • Please follow these naming conventions: • SOC 100 MWF 8-9am • Section Number of your class

5. Joining a Class • Click on “Show Offered Classes” • Click on “DyKnow Training SDSMT” • Click on “Enroll?” • Once I start the session, you can then “Join Session”

6. Import PowerPoint Can be done at the start of the session Larger Powerpoint presentations should be imported before the class. Use DyKnow Explorer to import larger powerpoints into your class. Go to the class you want to import your powerpoint Select File/Import and select the PowerPoint Things that don’t work as of yet – web links, sound, transitioning slides, etc. Basically, DyKnow just takes snapshots of slides.

7. Synchronization • The “Tack” • Tacked Out (Manual Sync) • Tacked In (Auto Sync) • Status – Sync’d • Status – Not Sync’d – push to Sync • Students can tack in/out to lag behind and finish notes • Instructors can set the default to keep students sync’d.

8. Panel Navigation • First Panel of Notebook (Powerpoint Presentation) • Previous Panel • Next Panel • Last Panel of Notebook • Add Blank panel to the end of the notebook • Add next prepared panel to the end of the notebook

9. Film Strip Viewer Displays all panels that have been appended in the current session – pressing it again removes the filmstrip view Allows navigation to a panel with just one click

10. My DyKnow Page Offered Classes Current Classes New/Open Notebook Monitor Create Class Start Session Join Session

11. Private Notes • Icon to toggle private notes section • Private Keyboard Notes • Private Freehand Notes (using the pen) • Completely private for both instructor and student • (if not using the overhead projector) • Private notes have blank page for each new panel

12. Writing and Editing • Lasso Tool • Line Thickness • Pen • Full Panel Text • Highlighter • Eraser • Text Box • Recent Colors • Justification for text • Text formatting • Lists • Indents Text is handled much like Microsoft word. You can use either the Full Panel Text (it uses the full panel as if it were a blank page) or the Text box (if you want text in only a certain area of the page) Shapes: View/Toolbars/Shapes – allows you to draw lines, arrows, boxes, circles, and tables.

13. Use the drawing tools Draw a circle here: Draw a rectangle here Draw and arrow from the rectangle to the circle Use the text tool to type your name Use the lasso tool and erase your name

14. Saving Current Tool Settings Tools/Save Current Tool Settings Saves time by using your tool preferences

15. How to deal with ink on the slides • Instructors and students can write on the panel • Use a text box and remind students that you will NOT write in that box – it is for their use • Use Private Notes whenever possible Student writes here

16. Multiple Choice Polling • Students can participate in real-time multiple choice questions (you need the question embedded into your Powerpoint – students will only see boxes to select – you can not send the text for the questions.) • Answers are automatically graphed (anonymously) To request answers – press the button at the top of the screen – select the appropriate boxes and hit the Request Answers button – hit the Show Results to see the class answers.

17. Your Question • Who makes the best Pizza in Rapid City a) Pizza Hut b) Dominoes c) Papa Johns d) Mom e) I don’t eat that junk

18. Submitting Panels by Students • Students click this button to submit their panels • Instructors can display student’s panels • Allows anonymous submissions

19. Questions 4+4= a,e,i,o… There was a farmer, had a dog What was the dog’s name? Submit your answers when finished

20. Adding Web Links to your Panels • Bryan Schumacher’s Web Page • Need to use “Insert/Link” from DyKnow – Web Links need to be inserted after the fact – through the DyKnow application – they will NOT work otherwise. http://www.bryanschumacher.com/

21. Participant Status • Show’s who is currently viewing your class • Show’s how well your students are understanding the concepts. Request Participant’s Status Students click on one of the Status symbols to show their level of understanding Graph shows on instructors screen for student understanding

22. Chat Sessions • Allows students and instructors to “chat” via the keyboard • Instructors can send messages to individual students or all students • Setup for a “distance” type setting, but could be used for office hours, etc.

23. Session Options • Allow anonymous Panel Submission • Participant Auto Synchronization • Turn On Turn Off • Attendance

24. Monitor • Allows instructors to “limit” what students have access to while they are in the class • Students will always be able to “get around” Monitor, but the school has setup a policy on this specific issue. • Students will be monitored anywhere on campus if they have skipped class

25. Monitor Continued… • Select the class you want to monitor • Monitor/Application Blocking • Allows instructors to setup “rules”

26. Monitor Continued Still… • See Who’s being Monitored • See Thumbnails of screen shots

27. Replay Panel • View/Replay Panel • Allows students to see the steps taken in each panel of the notebook (presentation) • Very useful for showing step by step process of equations, etc

28. Replay Panel Demonstration

29. Administrative Options • Logging into the Administrative Webpage • http://sdsmt-cp01.sdsmt.edu • Must be logged out of DyKnow application or it will log you out • Removing Students from your class • Checking attendance

30. Thanks!!! What we have covered today: Setting up a class Joining/Starting a session Importing PowerPoint Student/Instructor Options Taking Notes Saving Notebooks Monitor