Education - Teaching

EliteTyping 2003 v.4.3

EliteTyping is an AWARD-WINNING touch typing tutor software which teaches you touch typing in an easy, effective and amusing way. It was chosen by PC Magazine, ZDTV's, FamilyPC and Computer Gaming World as one of the BEST FIVE EDUCATIONAL programs for 1999 and 2000 (two years in a row). EliteTyping saves a HUGE amount of hours trying to learn touch typing, and it is suitable for both adults and children. EliteTyping offers a report about all the user’s drills and their scores, and also a typing errors report, about all the user’s typing errors in each key. Moreover extensive graphing capabilities can show your typing progress in many different 3D graphs. EliteTyping is a MUST HAVE tool for anyone who wishes to learn how to type quickly and effectively or just trying to improve his/her typing skills. It enables you to advance step by step according to your own personal pace, you are also offered a variety of exercises of different categories and also the opportunity of creating your own practices. EliteTyping makes the learning process of touch typing amusing and enjoyable thus not damaging the effectiveness of learning. It Includes a full graphical user interface which is very intuitive and simple to operate.

Assessor for Teachers 6.1

Assess your students with style and save time. Assessor for teachers simplifies the processes of preparing assessment plans, marking assessment tasks, recording marks, analysing results and preparing reports PREPARE ASSESSMENT PLAN - Teachers use the program prepare an assessment plan, which can be typed and printed early in the course and amplified later. Assessment tasks are given weightings which are used to calculate weighted course marks. MARK TESTS-GIVE FEEDBACK - task marks are entered with short question comments clicked from a standard list and a comment on the complete task. The program adds the marks and prepares a results slip for each student which includes the assessment task, question comments and the test comment. The teacher prints the slip and attaches it to the work or emails the results to the student. The task comment carries through to the final report and the end of course comment can be prepared and edited as tasks are marked. RECORD MARKS-PROVIDE STATISTICS - a printed summary sheet for each task shows the mark for every student in every question, and the mean and standard deviation for the task and for each question. · Marks are automatically transferred to a grade book which shows a current weighted score out of 100 calculated on tasks so far completed by the class. · Marks can be shown as letter grades if desired PREPARE COURSE REPORTS - the computer prepares data files which are used in an end of course report including the assessment plan, all task comments and an end of course comment. This report is formatted ready for printing as a Microsoft Word merge letter. An interim report can be printed at any time for one student or for the whole class. · EASY TO LEARN - the help files include a tutorial, and fully functional files are included for a class of year 12 Economics which teaches can use as a learning tool.

Reference for Teachers v.6.0

Reference for Teachers helps teachers write student references by allowing them to select from up to ten variants of up to ten sentences which are then merged to form a single reference which includes student, teacher and school names and correct personal pronouns. A teacher using Reference for Teachers writes a reference for a student in a minute or two and then edits the reference so that it exactly suits the student.

School Time Quizzer 1.1

School Time Quizzer allows teachers to make and students to take quizzes on the computer. Scores can be printed at the end of a computer based quiz or recorded directly into a GradeBook1 grade book file.