U SING THE RESPONDER SMARTA PPLET ON NEO 2
Using NEO 2 with the 2Know! Toolbar
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Using NEO 2 with the 2Know! Toolbar
If you have your Renaissance Receiver connected and you’ve installed
AlphaSmart Manager, you can also use NEO 2 with the 2Know! Toolbar.
Participants can use NEO 2 to respond to questions. Teachers can use it to
control the toolbar program as they would use a teacher Responder.
How Participants Respond to 2Know! Toolbar Questions Using NEO 2
Participants follow these steps to respond to questions from the 2Know!
Toolbar:
1. Press on/off to turn NEO 2 on.
2. Press applets.
3. Make sure the cursor is next to Responder; then, press enter.
4. NEO 2 will attempt to join the session. If you have connected to a
Renaissance Receiver before, it will ask if you want to stay connected to
it; press Y for yes or N for no. Then, press enter.
If you haven’t connected to a Renaissance Receiver before, NEO 2 will
show you a list of networks (Renaissance Receivers). Use the arrow keys
to highlight the one you want to connect to; then, press enter.
5. Enter your response to each question:
• For multiple-choice questions, type the letter for the answer you want
to choose and press enter.
• For true/false questions, type T for true or F for false and press enter.
• For questions that require a number for an answer, type the number
and press enter.
• For “pulse” questions, you can enter either T, Y, or G for
true/yes/green, and you can enter F, N, or R for false/no/red; then,
press enter.
• For short-answer questions, type your answer and press enter.
The teacher will let you know when you can send your answer to each
question.
6. When you’ve finished answering questions, the teacher can shut down
the 2Know! Toolbar program. The next time you press enter, NEO 2 will
tell you there is no session and ask if you want to search for networks.
Press N for no and press enter to go back to the SmartApplets menu.
To help students
answer multiple-
choice, true/false, or
pulse questions, you can
press ctrl-caps lock or cmd-
caps lock on NEO 2 to put the
Responder SmartApplet in
“bubble mode.” In this mode,
when students type A–E, T, F,
Y, N, R, or G, answer bubbles
appear (similar to the ones on
Responders) to help students
see the available choices. The
SmartApplet goes back to the
standard text mode when you
press ctrl-caps lock or cmd-
caps lock again, exit the
SmartApplet, or shut off the
NEO 2.
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