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User Manual
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Table of Contents
Default Chapter
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Table of Contents
4
About Smart Applets
11
About this Manual
11
What Are Smartapplets
11
Which Smartapplets Are Installed
11
Installing Smartapplets
12
Disabling Smartapplets on Neos
13
Disabling Smartapplets on the NEO Itself
14
Disabling Smartapplets Within Alphasmart Manager
14
Deleting Smartapplets from Neos
15
Learning to Use Your Smartapplets
17
Alpha Word Plus
19
Calculator
21
How to Use Calculator
21
Pasting Calculations into Other Programs (Paper Tape)
22
Turning off Calculator
23
To Turn off Calculator While Using Alphaword Plus
23
To Turn off Calculator from the Smartapplets Menu
23
Control Panel
25
How to Change Settings Using Control Panel
25
About the Settings in the Control Panel
26
Spell Check Settings
27
Alphaword Settings
28
Turn Show Marks in Files on or off
28
Turn File Passwords on or off
28
Change a Specific File Password
29
Reset All File Passwords
29
Change Default Smartapplet Font
30
About Font Sizes
30
Changing the Font Size
31
The System Font
31
Turn Calculator off or on
32
Two-Button on Setting
32
Set Screen Contrast Setting
33
Keyboard Command Reference List
33
View Keyboard Layout Settings (Including Special Characters)
35
Display Battery Status Setting
36
Change Keyboard Settings
36
Change Keyboard Layout
36
Change Slow Keys Setting
39
Turn Sticky Keys on or off
39
Auto Repeat and the Slow Keys Setting
40
Key Words
41
Welcome to Keywords
41
How the Keywords Smartapplet Works
42
Starting the Keywords Smartapplet
42
Adding a Student
43
Choosing Your Name and Starting Lessons
44
Learning New Keys
45
Building Accuracy and Speed
46
Accuracy
46
Speed Builder
47
Taking an Accuracy and Speed Test
48
How Students Check Progress Using Reports
49
Teacher Options
50
Deleting Students
51
Creating a Group Progress Report
52
Setting Speed and Accuracy Goals for Keywords Students
53
Setting Goals Manually Changes How Keywords Works
53
How to Set Goals Manually in the Teacher Options
54
Resetting Goals to the Default
55
Choosing Whether to Enforce Use of the Correct Shift Key
56
Enforcing Use of the Home Row
57
Requiring One or Two Spaces between Sentences
57
Using Alphasmart Manager 2 with Keywords
58
Setting Keywords Options in Alphasmart Manager
58
Retrieving Keywords Data and Generating Reports in Alphasmart
61
Manager
61
Synching Keywords Data with Keywords RP
63
About Keywords Reports
66
Creating a Master Class Report
66
About the Options for Generating Reports on the NEO
67
Using Keywords RP to View and Print Reports
69
How Keywords RP Works
69
Programs You'll Use
70
Learning Keywords RP
71
Checking System Requirements
73
Logging in to Renaissance Place and Changing Your Password
73
Switching Roles in Renaissance Place
74
Navigating the Keywords RP Software
74
Logging out and Closing the Renaissance Place Software
74
Setting up the Keywords RP Software
75
Activating Schools
76
Bringing Keywords Data into Keywords RP
77
Viewing Keywords RP Reports
77
Keywords Resources for Teachers
85
Materials for Handouts and Transparencies
85
Keyboarding Ergonomics
87
Sample Lesson Plan for Getting Started
88
Lessons in Keywords
89
Frequently Asked Questions
97
Why Can't I Use the Backspace Key When Using Keywords
97
Why Is There so Much Repetition of Words in the Practice Passages
97
Why Are the Passages so Easy
97
Why Is the Sequence of Key Introduction so Different from What I am Used to in Other Typing Programs
97
Why Do the Students Learn the ASKL Keys First
97
What Is the Rationale for How the Practice Passages Are Sequenced
98
Why Aren't My Test Scores Updated When I Retake an Accuracy and Speed Builder Test in Keywords
98
Beamer
99
Starting Beamer
99
Finding the Infrared Ports
100
Beamer and the NEO Clipboard
100
Beaming from One NEO to Another
101
Beaming Alphaword Plus Files between Devices
104
Beaming from a NEO to a Palm os Device
104
Beaming from a Palm os Device to a NEO
106
Cancelling a Beam
109
Changing Beamer Settings
110
Troubleshooting
111
I Want to Change a Setting, but I Don't Know the Master Password
111
I Don't See the Send Option on My Beamer Screen
111
My NEO Says It Can't Find a Receiving Device
111
I Received an Error When I Tried to Beam or Receive a File
112
I Have Data on the Clipboard that I Don't Want to Lose. What Should I Do
112
I Keep Getting an Invalid Password Message
112
I Beamed a File with a Password, but Now that File Doesn't Have a Password on the Receiving Device
112
What Does the Message "Could Not Find a Sending Device" Mean
112
What Do I Do if the File I'M Receiving Is too Big
113
What Happened
113
Alpha Quiz
115
How Alphaquiz Works
115
Programs You'll Use with Alphaquiz
116
Downloading and Installing Quizdesigner and Quizmanager
116
System Requirements for Quizmanager and Quizdesigner
116
Windows Instructions for Downloading and Installing Quizdesigner
117
And Quizmanager
117
Macintosh Instructions for Downloading and Installing Quizdesigner
118
And Quizmanager
118
Starting Quizdesigner
119
About the Options in Quizdesigner
119
Creating Quizzes in Quizdesigner
120
Opening and Changing Quizzes in Quizdesigner
124
Opening an Existing Quiz
124
Changing an Existing Quiz's Questions
125
Changing Quiz Options for an Existing Quiz
126
Rearranging Quiz Questions in Quizdesigner
127
Deleting Quiz Questions
127
Copying Questions in Quizdesigner
128
Copying Questions Within a Quiz
128
Copying Questions from One Quiz to Another
128
Password Requirements for Quizzes
130
Keyboard Shortcuts in Quizdesigner
130
Previewing Questions in Quizdesigner
133
Appear on NEO)
133
Printing a Quiz from Quizdesigner
134
Exporting a Quiz from Quizdesigner to a Word Processing Program
135
Spell-Checking a Quiz
136
Deleting Quizzes
136
Creating a Question Library in Quizdesigner
137
Windows Instructions for Creating Question Libraries
137
Macintosh Instructions for Creating Question Libraries
137
Using Quiz Library Questions in a Quiz
137
Starting Quizmanager
138
About the Quizmanager Control Bar
138
Sending Quizzes to Neos Using Quizmanager
139
Deleting Quizzes from Neos
141
How Students Take a Quiz Using the Alphaquiz Smartapplet
143
How Students Print Quizzes
145
How Students Save Quizzes to an Alphaword File
146
Teacher Options in for Quizzes in Alphaquiz
146
Retrieving Students' Responses from Neos Using Quizmanager
149
Deleting Students' Responses to Quizzes Using Quizmanager
151
Turning Neos on or off Using Quizmanager
153
Assigning Points (Weights) to Quiz Questions in Quizmanager
154
Grading Quizzes in Quizmanager
155
Printing Reports in Quizmanager
157
About the Reports in Quizmanager
157
How to Print Reports
158
Exporting Student Quiz Scores
160
Keyboard Shortcuts in Quizmanager
162
Frequently Asked Questions
164
How Many Students Can Take a Quiz on One NEO
164
How Many Different Quizzes Can be Loaded Onto a NEO
165
Does the Student Response to a Short Answer Question Have to be Spelled Correctly? Is It Case-Sensitive
165
What Happens if a Student Skips a Question
165
If I'M Using an Alphahub (Smartoption Cart), and I also Have an Open USB Port on My Computer, Can I Use both Methods of Communication between Quizmanager and Neos at the same Time
165
Can a Student Spell Check an Essay Question
165
What Do Students Do When They Complete a Quiz
166
Can a Student Take a Quiz Twice
166
Is It Possible to Print a Quiz from the Teacher's Computer
166
Once an Essay Question Is Graded, What Capabilities Are There to Make Notes on the Student Response in Quizmanager
166
How and When Do I Assign the Point Values for each Question
167
Can the Grades from Quizzes be Saved as a Spreadsheet File or be Copied and Pasted Directly into a Tab-Delimited Grading Program
167
What Happens if the NEO Is Turned off before a Quiz Is Completed? What Appears on the Screen When the NEO Is Turned Back On? How Does a Student Continue the Quiz
167
Troubleshooting
168
The Quizmanager Control Bar Shows a Yellow Indicator
168
The Quizmanager Control Bar Shows a Black Indicator, but a NEO Is
168
The Responses
168
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Alphasmart NEO2 SmartApplet Specifications
General
Category
Desktop
Display
LCD
Display Lines
4
Keyboard
Full-size
Connectivity
USB
Type
Word processor
Power
Battery
Battery Life
700 hours