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Using MSC IV
Open MSC IV To open Mastering Skills and Concepts: Course IV (MSC IV), follow these steps:
1. Log in to the Riverdeep Learning Management System (RLMS). (For details, please see the Riverdeep Learning Management User Guide.)
2. Click the Explore Content button.
The Destination Math courseware menu appears.
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3. From this menu click Mastering Skills and Concepts: Course IV. The MSC IV main menu appears.
Start a Session To start a session:
1. From the main menu, click a module tab to select it. The units in that module appear at the left side of the screen.
2. Click a unit to select it.
The unit’s session titles appear at the right.
3. Click a session to select it. The session’s tutorial and workout questions appear as buttons to the right of the session’s title.
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4. Click the tutorial button or a workout button.
Do a Tutorial To work through a tutorial:
1. From the main menu, click on the module, unit, and session you wish to work in.
2. Click the tutorial (T) button on the right side of the menu.
The aims screen for the tutorial opens.
Course title bar
Module tab
Unit title
Exit button
Session title
Tutorial button
Workout buttons
Exit button Continue button
Navigation button
Tools button
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3. Click the Continue button.
The tutorial opens. Once you are in the tutorial, instruction begins automatically. (You can pause the tutorial at any point by pressing the space bar on your computer. Press it again to resume the tutorial.) Follow the narrator’s instructions to complete the tutorial. Tip: If you reach a point in the tutorial where nothing is happening, you may need to:
Click OK to send in your answer. or
Click Continue to move on. At the end of the tutorial you can:
Click Continue to move on to the workout. Click Menu to return to the main menu.
Click Cancel to remain in this tutorial.
Exit button Continue button
Navigation button
Tools button
Pause button Go back one step Go back to start of section
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Do a Workout The workout for a session in MSC IV contains three questions. The difficulty level of each workout is reflected in the color coding: level 1, green (easiest level); level 2, blue; and level 3, purple (most difficult level). You can get to a session’s workout in one of three ways:
At the completion of a tutorial, click Continue. From any point in a tutorial, click the navigation button, then click the button for the workout question you want to do. From the main menu, click a workout button.
Once you have opened the workout, follow the narrator’s instructions to do the workout Tip: If you reach a point where nothing is happening, you may need to:
Click OK to send in your answer. or
Click Continue to move on.
Exit button Continue button
Navigation button
Tools button
Pause button Go back one step Go back to start of section
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Once you have finished all the workout problems you can:
Click Continue or Menu to return to the main menu. or
Click Cancel to remain in this workout. Navigation Panel From any tutorial or workout, click the navigation button to use the navigation panel. When opened, the navigation panel looks like this:
The orange bars represent the aims screen ,tutorial screens 1, 2, and 3, and the summary screen. The green bars on the right represent workout questions 1, 2, and 3. Your current location is indicated by the yellow pointer. Click on any bar to go to a different part of the session.
Close the navigation panel and resume playback.
Close the navigation panel and go to the location indicated by the yellow pointer.
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Tools From any tutorial or workout, click the tools button to open the tools menu.
Assessment Test Format Tests follow a format similar to that of most standardized tests: a problem is posed and the student has to choose or construct the correct answer(s). Questions are presented one at a time. To help students keep track of their progress through the test, a bread crumb trail allows them to see at a glance how many questions have been answered, and how many more are left. Students may exit the test at any point. When the student returns to the test, the welcome screen will indicate that the test is in progress. Clicking the OK button on this screen causes the test to resume where the student exited.
Close the tools menu
Open a glossary of terms
Open the calculator
Open the about box
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Question Format There are a variety of question formats available in MSC IV. Most questions are in the four-choice multiple-choice format familiar to both students and teachers. Some items are in the multiple-select format, in which students can choose one, two, three, or all of the answer choices. Still other items are in a constructed-response or “fill-in” format, in which students type a numeric answer into a text-entry box. While almost all fill-in questions involve only one text-entry box, a few involve two or three text-entry boxes. Example of Multiple-choice Format:
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Example of Multiple-select Format:
Example of Single Fill-in Format:
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Example of Multiple Fill-in Format:
Exit MSC IV To exit MSC IV, click the button at the lower left corner of the main menu screen. Exiting MSC IV returns you to the courseware menu.
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