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Greetings SkillBuilding Mastery Students: (Teachers—This syllabus is in Microsoft Word. Make changes in yellow areas.)

Supervisor/Teacher: Enter name and email.

General Information—You signed up for a web-based keyboarding class: Follow the syllabus directions on your computer beginning with Step One for a personal demo of this course. This is an advanced skill building course that assumes you can key approximately 35 wpm or more accurately by touch (meaning without looking at the keys). You will never need to turn anything in as I can see all your scores in my Teacher Manager. (You would add to/change this to reflect your course standards: Examples shown below)

Grading Scale: A=45+wpm, B= (Enter your class final grading scale.) How many lessons to complete per week: _____ This class requires approximately 50-60 hours to complete. Beginning and end date for course completion: (Begins 8/25/xx & Ends 12/23/xx)

Step One—Watch the Short Correct Technique Video

To be an excellent typist, you need to have good techniques:

Open a browser in either Firefox or Google Chrome (usually) and add in the URL www.keyboardingonline.com. Rest your pointer on the SUPPORT link, and click on “Popular Videos”

Click on:

You may need to scroll to see it all. Put your cursor on the diamond and it will turn red. Click on the red diamond to begin the Technique Video. After it starts, it continues to the end automatically—you do not need to press the mouse button. Be sure the audio is turned on.

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After viewing this slide, click on the back arrow twice to get to your Login screen.

Step Two—Log in to your data file, beginning with your Student Login/Password

At the top of the Keyboarding Online web page, click the gold LOGIN button.

a. Enter the Student Username or Login given to you by your instructor and depress Enter/Return or click Next. (An example of a Username might be (Mark@MSDY).


b. Enter your Password given to you by your instructor and depress Enter/Return or click Sign in.

c. Click on the picture of your course. It will take you right to your Data File.

Step Three—Follow along on your computer as you read these step-by-step directions. They will give you an explanation and demo of your course. DON’T START TYPING UNTIL YOU SEE THE RED “YOU CAN BEGIN TYPING NOW” (it’s all explanation up to that point).

a. The Course Entry Timing is a good place to start. (You may have to scroll up to the top to see it all.) It shows you what your current skill is in keyboarding.

Click on the diamond to begin.

b. The Course Entry Timing is a 5-minute timing. It usually doesn’t show all the timing at first, and you don’t want to have to stop and scroll down to see the rest of it. The first thing you need to do is drag the bottom margin down until you can view the entire timing. Place your mouse over


the dots on the bottom right of your timing until you see the double arrow. Press the left mouse button and hold it down as you drag it down to lower the bottom margin until you can see the entire timing.

Below is what the entire 5-min. timing looks like. If you get to the bottom during the timing, start over and keep going. The red arrows show the symbol to depress the Enter/Return key and begin a new paragraph. If necessary, click to place the cursor in the rectangle above the “Time: 5:00”. Depress the Tab key to indent before the paragraph beginning with “Quite often.” READ THE NEXT PART BEFORE BEGINNING.

When you start typing, if you happen to look down to see what you are typing, you might notice that instead of seeing what you are typing you see the words “TIMING IN PROGRESS”. To become an


excellent typist, you have to learn the correct key pattern. To help you learn to keep your eyes on the copy, and keep going at a steady pace, your teacher may have set up a 2-second Timeout—if you pause for 2 seconds your practice timing will stop and you will have to start over. Click on the “x” to start over (See the picture below.) You will have longer paragraphs like this later in the course . Take the timing as many times as necessary to achieve a satisfactory score. You are allowed 5 or less errors in order for it to record. (Check with your instructor to see if a Course Entry Timing score is required.) YOU CAN BEGIN TYPING NOW—SEE STEP FOUR BELOW!

Step Four— You are now ready to begin practicing your lessons . The first timed exercises are very easy for a reason. This is where you achieve your speed and accuracy . Take them seriously and repeat each one until you reach your goal or higher—there is NO limit to the number of times you can repeat a practice timing and the higher the score the better! They will gradually get more challenging; the higher your score the easier they will be!

a. Click Lessons to begin.

If you have a very small monitor, you might not be able to see all the options. Click in the box with three short lines to see the menu, then click on “Lessons”.


b. There are 15 timed exercises in Lesson 01; they begin with 15-second timings. Your highest scores on each exercise is shown so you can decide if you want to repeat the practice to obtain a higher score. You also know at a glance where you left off and where to begin your next practice. Click on the orange 01, or anywhere on that icon, to open your first 15-second practice exercise.

Before you begin, would you like to have your letters larger and easier to see?

They might look like this:

You can increase the size of the font (letters) by clicking on the “TT” and moving the blue circle to the right:


Click on the “x” in the upper right corner to remove the Adjust Font icon. After adjusting the font size, this is what your letters could look like: (or larger if you adjust it more)

WOULD YOU LIKE TO ENLARGE YOUR TOTAL KEYBOARDING WINDOW!

To enlarge your window (so you can read the top words easier), hold down the Ctrl key while you depress the + key a few times. If you enlarged it too much and want to make it smaller, hold down the Ctrl key while you depress the - key.

Because you were clicking around with the mouse (to make your letters larger), you will probably need to click in the rectangle under your letters to place the cursor there. Use your thumb for the Spacebar—use the same thumb always. (If you are right-handed, you will always want to use the right thumb.) Under Timing Requirements, notice what your goal is that the teacher set. Your timing will start when you depress the first key! At the end of the line (sad), after the last letter— do not space , just depress the Enter/Return key—begin again and keep going for the full 15 Seconds! During a practice timing, if you feel you made too many mistakes and want to stop the timer and start over, just wait a few seconds and the “Don’t Stop Typing!” message will appear. Click on the “x” to close the message, and begin again. GO AHEAD AND TRY IT NOW! TAKE IT SEVERAL TIMES IF NECESSARY TO REACH YOUR GOAL. Your Best Scores will show on the bottom right:


Did you reach your goal? You can repeat the timed exercise as many times as you want to--UNLIMITED. If your timing wasn’t satisfactory and you want to repeat it:

If your score was less than the minimum, or you made too many errors, it won’t record and the drop-down box may ask you to TRY IT AGAIN.

If your score records but you want to increase your wpm score, click on the “x” in the blue score box to remove it.

Click on the “Time” or “Reset Timer” button.

Repeat the practice until you reach your goal.

Notice that your Best Scores show on the bottom right.

When you are satisfied with your Best Score, click NEXT TIMING.

Step Five—See your best scores! Click on Reports in the menu bar. Click to select Progress Report.

The Progress Report shows all your best scores for each exercise. When you complete all 15 timed exercises in Lesson 01, it will show your Lesson Average in green. If you want to improve a score, Right-Click on that score and take it again. If you increase your score, it will replace the old one. If you do less than your recorded score, it does nothing.


Step Six—You can check your Current Grade for all completed lessons and your Final Grade when you have completed all assigned lessons. Click on Reports in the menu bar and click on Grade Report.

Your “Lessons Completed” shows “1” lesson so far. For the completed lesson with an Average of 50 wpm, your current grade so far is an “A”. If you want to improve your grade, go back to your Progress Report and raise some of your scores! Your new timing score will record only if it is higher than the recorded score. Higher scores on your Progress Report usually translate into a higher grade.


Click to select Progress Report

CONTINUE PRACTICING IN THE CLASS ACCORDING TO YOUR SCHEDULE.

WHEN YOU COMPLETE YOUR CLASS, AND YOU ACHIEVE THE COURSE GOAL IN WPM, YOUR TEACHER CAN GIVE YOU A SIGNED CERTIFICATE:


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NOTE TO STUDENTS WHO NEED TO PURCHASE AN ACCESS CODE (COLLEGES, BUSINESS SCHOOLS, ADULT SCHOOLS:

You may purchase an Access Code from your Bookstore or online from Ellsworth Publishing Company with your credit card. An Access Code is necessary to enter and continue to use your keyboarding software. To purchase an Access Code online:

1. Using a Web Browser, go to www.keyboardingonline.com . (If your screen is real small, you can see the hidden headings by clicking on the three lines in the upper right corner. Then click on the yellow arrow by ORDER NOW).

2. Rest your pointer on “ORDER NOW” tab to reveal next choices.3. Click on “Student Retail” link.4. Click on Keyboarding Online Access Code, $35 (under blue picture of typewriter letters).5. Scroll down to click on pink ADD TO CART button.6. Scroll down and click on the pink PROCEED TO CHECKOUT button.7. Fill out Billing details. Fill out Credit Card Information with a Valid Credit Card.8. Read the Privacy Policy. If necessary, click on the 3 lines to enable clicking back on Checkout.

Click on the pink PLACE ORDER.


As you practice your lessons, you can see a red box above some lessons. Click anywhere in the red box. After entering your Access Code, you will not be asked for it agin during this course.

Click anywhere on the example numbers (1234 ABCD …). Enter the numbers of your Access Code. (No spaces or hyphens) Then click the blue Unlock Lesson Content button.


Note: If you do not have an Access Code yet, a few lessons will show so you can start practicing—probably a week’s worth. It gives you a little extra time to purchase the Access Code. After entering your Access Code, all the remaining lessons will be available to you.

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