What to do after registration

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What to do after registration

• Using Train Assess IT
• to learn Office

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Introduction

• Train Assess IT is a well tested and effective
  means of teaching yourself the Office
  applications.
• The requirements and methods outlined are the
  result of extensive testing and user experience.
• Nobody will fail the course because they cannot
  do the work

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Disclaimer

• There is a lot of information in these slides.
  You may need to return to them in the future.

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Structure Summary

• Take the assigned prescriptive pretests online at
  http//www.phgenit.com.
• You must make 80 on all of them before you take
  the graded exam.
• Take four graded exams in lab under supervision.
  You must make 70 on each.

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Structure Summary

• If you fail an exam, you must redo the
  prescriptive pretests to 80.
• Then, during the week after the exam, go to
  Glocker 63 any time it is open and show ID to the
  lab montior.
• The lab monitor will enter the password for the
  retest
• Retaking the exam without having redone the
  tutorials is grounds for receiving NP for the
  course.

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Structure

• Slides that follow show you how to access the
  prescriptive pretests.
• Prescriptive pretests give you optional tutorials
  which you can use to improve your next pretest
  score.
• If you make less than 80 on the pretest, do the
  tutorials and then retake the pretest.

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Structure

• Do not take the posttests.
• Do not simply do the tutorials without taking the
  prescriptive tests first. This wastes your time,
  as you do tutorials for things you already know
  how to do.

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Structure

• Graded exams are taken in lab. You show ID, and
  have the exam password entered for you.
• You must make at least 70 on all four exams.
• If you fail a graded exam, you must redo the
  prescriptive tests to 80 for that application,
  and then retake the exam during the week after
  initial testing.

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Structure

• To do the pretests, first log on at
  http//www.phgenit.com.
• We recommend you use Internet Explorer or the
  Partial Local Install, rather than Netscape.
• The slides that follow show you what to do there.

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After you log in, scroll down to the bottom of
the screen. Download the Authorware Web Player
in order to do the tutorials. Or use the Partial
Local Install. Authorware should be in all labs
on campus by now.
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To Begin your Windows XP Training, click here.
Take the pretest first and then pick the
tutorials from WindowsXP_1, WindowsXP_2 and
WindowsXP_3. (For Windows Training, you dont
have to finish all the tutorials because most of
you have some basics about windows.) Remember,
80 required on the pre test score before you
take the graded exam.
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2. This module contains all the tutorials. Use
it if you need more than you get in the
prescriptive testing tutorials.
1. Click here to begin your Word training. This
module contains the pretests. Take the pretest
before you do any tutorials.
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Click Here and Take the Word Chapter 1 Pretest
First.
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After you complete the pretest, the system will
generate a set of tutorials based on the
questions you missed. You are given tutorials
that have generated for you. If you feel these
tutorials do not help you on a particular
question, you can go to the module that contains
all the tutorials by clicking the back button.
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After you complete all the required tutorials,
you will be given a post test. Ignore the post
test. Retake the pretest, if needed. We require
you to make at least 80 in every pretest.
The 80 rule ensures that very few students fail
the graded exams.
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For any pretest you have completed, you can click
on the status link and get a full report of the
results.
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At least 80...

• No need to print out scores to give to us
• We run reports from the system to check your
  grades.

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Other resources at Train Assess

• The slides that follow show you some useful
  resources at Train Assess.

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You can click here to contact us by sending an
e-mail. But we more reliably check and answer
e-mail sent to our UTK addresses.
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You can click My Messages to check messages
from the professor, but we usually use e-mail
from the course website.
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Use My Statistics to generate your own grade
reports.
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Downloadable (.pdf) or html-based user guides are
provided at this link. They show you how to use
the Train Assess features.
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Click on Sign Out when you have completed your
training and/or testing modules. Use the same
User ID and Password the next time you wish to
access Prentice Halls Train and Assess IT.
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Some Added Instructions

• Pretests and Posttests are the same. Thus we only
  require you to take the pretests.
• The questions in the exams you will take in lab
  come from pretests.
• When you take the tests, changes do not occur on
  the test window, but as long as you push the
  correct button or choose the correct menu item,
  you will be counted correct by the system.
• Scoring is very reliable.

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Some Added Instructions

• Pretests you must finish to pass the course
• 1. All Chapters in Word except Chapter 7.
• 2. All Chapters in Excel except Chapter 6 and 8.
  However, you are responsible for several
  tutorials in Excel Chapter 6. They are "Apply
  Conditional Formatting", "Create Named Ranges",
  "Edit and Remove Comments", "Add Data Validation
  Criteria to Cells" and "Explore Templates.
• 3. Both Chapters in PowerPoint.

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A Final Reminder

• Remember, you must score 80 or above on all
  required pretests before you take the graded
  exams.
• You also must do this in order to pass the
  course.
• If you must retake a graded exam, you are
  required to first retake the pretests at or above
  80.

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