Alphasmart NEO2 SmartApplet Manuale utente

SmartApplet

User Manual

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third-party software up-to-date and functional. Although Renaissance Learning will not discontinue support for older

products immediately, we will continue to evaluate system requirements and do our best to provide advance notice

when it becomes necessary to raise our requirements.

08/07 NEO2

Any changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could

void the user's authority to operate the equipment.

ONTENTS

About SmartApplets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-1

About this Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-1

What are SmartApplets?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-1

Which SmartApplets Are Installed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1

Installing SmartApplets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2

Disabling SmartApplets On NEOs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

Disabling SmartApplets on the NEO Itself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4

Disabling SmartApplets within AlphaSmart Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4

Deleting SmartApplets from NEOs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-5

Learning to Use Your SmartApplets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1-7

AlphaWord Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1

Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-1

How to Use Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1

Pasting Calculations into Other Programs (Paper Tape) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Turning off Calculator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

To turn off Calculator While Using AlphaWord Plus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

To Turn Off Calculator from the SmartApplets menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-1

How to Change Settings Using Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1

About the Settings in the Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2

Spell Check Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3

AlphaWord Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4

Turn Show Marks in Files On or Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4

Turn File Passwords On or Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4

Change a Specific File Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5

Reset All File Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5

Change Default SmartApplet Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6

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About Font Sizes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-6

Changing the Font Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7

The System Font. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-7

Turn Calculator Off or On. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8

Two-button On Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8

Set Screen Contrast Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9

Keyboard Command Reference List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-9

View Keyboard Layout Settings (Including Special Characters) . . . . . . . . . . . . .4-11

Display Battery Status Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12

Change Keyboard Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12

Change Keyboard Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-12

Change Slow Keys Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15

Turn Sticky Keys On or Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-15

Auto Repeat and the Slow Keys Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-16

KeyWords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1

Welcome to KeyWords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-1

How the KeyWords SmartApplet Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

Starting the KeyWords SmartApplet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

Adding a Student . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3

Choosing Your Name and Starting Lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Learning New Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-5

Building Accuracy and Speed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6

Accuracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6

Speed Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7

Taking an Accuracy and Speed Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8

How Students Check Progress Using Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9

Teacher Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10

Deleting Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-11

Creating a Group Progress Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12

Setting Speed and Accuracy Goals for KeyWords Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13

Setting Goals Manually Changes How KeyWords Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13

How to Set Goals Manually in the Teacher Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-14

Resetting Goals to the Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-15

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Choosing Whether to Enforce Use of the Correct Shift Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-16

Enforcing Use of the Home Row . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-17

Requiring One or Two Spaces Between Sentences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-17

Using AlphaSmart Manager 2 with KeyWords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-18

Setting KeyWords Options in AlphaSmart Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-18

Retrieving KeyWords Data and Generating Reports in AlphaSmart

Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-21

Synching KeyWords Data with KeyWords RP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-23

About KeyWords Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-26

Creating a Master Class Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-26

About the Options for Generating Reports on the NEO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-27

Using KeyWords RP to View and Print Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-29

How KeyWords RP Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-29

Programs You’ll Use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-30

Learning KeyWords RP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-31

Checking System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-33

Logging in to Renaissance Place and Changing Your Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-33

Switching Roles in Renaissance Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-34

Navigating the KeyWords RP Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-34

Logging Out and Closing the Renaissance Place Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-34

Setting Up the KeyWords RP Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-35

Activating Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-36

Bringing KeyWords Data into KeyWords RP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-37

Viewing KeyWords RP Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-37

KeyWords Resources for Teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-45

Materials for handouts and transparencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-45

Keyboarding ergonomics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-47

Sample lesson plan for getting started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5-48

Lessons in KeyWords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-49

Frequently Asked Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-57

Why can’t I use the backspace key when using KeyWords? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-57

Why is there so much repetition of words in the practice passages? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-57

Why are the passages so easy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-57

Why is the sequence of key introduction so different from what I am used to

in other typing programs? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-57

Why do the students learn the ASKL keys first?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-57

What is the rationale for how the practice passages are sequenced? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-58

Why aren't my test scores updated when I retake an accuracy and speed

builder test in KeyWords? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-58

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Beamer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1

Starting Beamer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-1

Finding the Infrared Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2

Beamer and the NEO Clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-2

Beaming from One NEO to Another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-3

Beaming AlphaWord Plus files between devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6

Beaming from a NEO to a Palm OS Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-6

Beaming from a Palm OS device to a NEO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-8

Cancelling a Beam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6-11

Changing Beamer Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-12

Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13

I want to change a setting, but I don’t know the master password. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13

I don’t see the Send option on my Beamer screen.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13

My NEO says it can’t find a receiving device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-13

I received an error when I tried to beam or receive a file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14

I have data on the clipboard that I don’t want to lose. What should I do? . . . . . . . . 6-14

I keep getting an invalid password message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14

I beamed a file with a password, but now that file doesn’t have a password

on the receiving device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14

What does the message “could not find a sending device” mean? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-14

What do I do if the file I’m receiving is too big? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15

My buddy beamed an AlphaWord Plus file to me, but Beamer didn’t let

me choose a file to put it in. It automatically put it in a new file.

What happened?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-15

AlphaQuiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-1

How AlphaQuiz Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7-1

Programs You’ll Use with AlphaQuiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2

Downloading and Installing QuizDesigner and QuizManager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2

System Requirements for QuizManager and QuizDesigner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2

Windows Instructions for Downloading and Installing QuizDesigner

and QuizManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-3

Macintosh Instructions for Downloading and Installing QuizDesigner

and QuizManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-4

Starting QuizDesigner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5

About the Options in QuizDesigner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5

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Creating Quizzes in QuizDesigner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-6

Opening and Changing Quizzes in QuizDesigner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10

Opening an Existing Quiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10

Changing an Existing Quiz’s Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11

Changing Quiz Options for an Existing Quiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12

Rearranging Quiz Questions in QuizDesigner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13

Deleting Quiz Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-13

Copying Questions in QuizDesigner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14

Copying Questions within a Quiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14

Copying Questions from One Quiz to Another . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14

Password Requirements for Quizzes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16

KeyBoard ShortCuts in QuizDesigner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-16

Previewing Questions in QuizDesigner (Seeing Questions as They

Appear on NEO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-19

Printing a Quiz from QuizDesigner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20

Exporting a Quiz from QuizDesigner to a Word Processing Program . . . . . . . 7-21

Spell-checking a Quiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-22

Deleting Quizzes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-22

Creating a Question Library in QuizDesigner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-23

Windows Instructions for Creating Question Libraries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-23

Macintosh Instructions for Creating Question Libraries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-23

Using Quiz Library Questions in a Quiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-23

Starting QuizManager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-24

About the QuizManager Control Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-24

Sending Quizzes to NEOs Using QuizManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-25

Deleting Quizzes from NEOs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-27

How Students Take a Quiz Using the AlphaQuiz SmartApplet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-29

How Students Print Quizzes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-31

How Students Save Quizzes to an AlphaWord File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-32

Teacher Options in for Quizzes in AlphaQuiz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-32

Retrieving Students’ Responses from NEOs Using QuizManager. . . . . . . . . . . 7-35

Deleting Students’ Responses to Quizzes Using QuizManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-37

Turning NEOs On or Off Using QuizManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-39

Assigning Points (Weights) to Quiz Questions in QuizManager . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-39

Grading Quizzes in QuizManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-41

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Printing Reports in QuizManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-43

About the Reports in QuizManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-43

How to Print Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-44

Exporting Student Quiz Scores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-46

KeyBoard ShortCuts in QuizManager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-48

Frequently Asked Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-50

How many students can take a quiz on one NEO? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-50

How many different quizzes can be loaded onto a NEO? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-51

Does the student response to a short answer question have to be spelled

correctly? Is it case-sensitive?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-51

What happens if a student skips a question? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-51

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? . . . . . . . . 7-51

Can a student spell check an essay question? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-51

What do students do when they complete a quiz? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-52

Can a student take a quiz twice?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-52

Is it possible to print a quiz from the teacher’s computer? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-52

Once an essay question is graded, what capabilities are there to make

notes on the student response in QuizManager? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-52

How and when do I assign the point values for each question? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-53

Can the grades from quizzes be saved as a spreadsheet file or be copied

and pasted directly into a tab-delimited grading program? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-53

In essay responses, will AlphaQuiz or QuizManager highlight

or underline key words that were defined when creating

the question?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-53

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? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-53

Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-54

The QuizManager control bar shows a yellow indicator.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-54

The QuizManager control bar shows a black indicator, but a NEO is

connected to that location on the Cart or to the USB port on

the computer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-54

I have a quiz installed on some NEOs, and I have student responses

that I have not yet retrieved, but I’ve accidentally erased the quiz

document from my computer. Now I can’t retrieve, or even remove,

the responses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-54

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I have a quiz installed on some NEOs, but I have accidentally erased the

quiz document from my computer and I don’t remember the Admin

Password. Now I am unable to remove the quiz from the NEOs.. . . . . . . . . . . . 7-55

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8-1

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