Type to Learn 4 Web/Internet Licenses

Item Description:

Type to Learn 4: Agents of Information a New Foundation of the Type to Learn Series! Type to Learn 4 is a Typing Software for grades Pre-K through 12th.

Type to Learn 4 has an integrated cycle of review, demonstration, practice, and assessment, with continuous reinforcement of home row positioning, teaches proper fingering for each key with ample opportunity for skills practice. The program emphasizes both accuracy and words per minute speed, and provides each student with individualized remediation and goals for success. This engaging new product wraps keyboarding lessons into an intriguing world of adventure and information, complete with exciting new activities and redesigned student and teacher interfaces.

Available as either a CD-ROM product or as a web-based application, Type to Learn 4 can now be used by students anywhere with an internet connection! Type to Learn 4 addresses an essential, life-long skill for students in today’s technology-driven world.

Learning is extended from the instructional lessons by 5 supporting practice activities. There is also a diagnostic pre-test and 6 formative assessments placed throughout the lessons. Assessments analyze students’ accuracy and speed, setting and adjusting achievement goals as the student improves. Lessons also track students’ accuracy and speed and assign immediate, individualized remediation where needed.

Teachers and parents will appreciate the real-time record-keeping, including progress graphs and reports on lessons, activities, and assessments. Teachers can analyze student errors by hand, finger, and key to pinpoint problem areas. The new parent report, accessed from the student login, allows parents to track their child’s progress and scores throughout the program.

Only the Internet version allows use of product from outside of the school; and has remote access to reports for teachers

Learning is extended from the instructional lessons by 5 supporting practice activities. There is also a diagnostic pre-test and 6 formative assessments placed throughout the lessons. Assessments analyze students’ accuracy and speed, setting and adjusting achievement goals as the student improves. Lessons also track students’ accuracy and speed and assign immediate, individualized remediation where needed.

Teachers and parents will appreciate the real-time record-keeping, including progress graphs and reports on lessons, activities, and assessments. Teachers can analyze student errors by hand, finger, and key to pinpoint problem areas. The new parent report, accessed from the student login, allows parents to track their child’s progress and scores throughout the program.

1. TTL4 Web Version is NOT a “web-based” application. Students do not go to a URL in a web browser to use the program. The full program needs to be installed to every client machine, including the students’ home computers. There IS a client install. Their data is stored on a Sunburst web server and that is what makes it a web version. That is what allows students to work from either school or home and maintain their scores. Installing the full application to your machine also eliminates performance issues common to other web applications, like server errors, slowness, and lost data, because you are not relying on the internet to run the program. The client install is a GOOD thing.
2. TTL4 is a large program. Each version, standalone, network, and web, is just under 1GB. The large size comes from all the great graphics and animation, and all the new updated features, including the Spanish ESL audio files. The size is not going to go down. Think of it as getting “a whole lotta software” for your money!
3. Because of its size, downloading the application will take approximately 20-30 minutes on a high-speed internet connection. Download times may vary depending on connection speed. This is a 1-time download of about 20-30 minutes on each machine. Not a major inconvenience. We do not support or recommend downloading the program over a dial-up connection.
4. For customers who purchased for hundreds or possibly thousands of client computers, we can provide a silent installer to make the process a little easier. They can then use their own methods to push that install across their network to all client machines. This will not be quick, because of the program’s size, but is also not a Herculean task. If set up to run overnight or over a weekend they should be able to push the program to all machines, no problem.
********************

Mac:
Platforms: Intel and PowerPC
Operating Systems: MacOS X 10.3.9, 10.4.x, 10.5.x

Minimum Specs:
PowerPC G4 or higher, 800 MHz or faster;
512MB RAM or more;
OSX 10.3.9 or higher;
Minimum screen resolution 1024x768;
U.S. English keyboard.

Recommended: Intel Processor, 1 GB RAM or more.

Windows:
Operating Systems:
Windows 2000 Service Pack 4;
Windows XP Service Pack 2;
Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit).

Minimum Specs:
Pentium 3 or higher, 1 GHz processor or faster;
512MB RAM or more;
Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 or higher;
DirectX 9.0c;
Minimum screen resolution 1024x768 at 32 bits;
U.S. English keyboard.

Recommended: Pentium 4 or higher; 1.5 GHz processor or faster; 1GB RAM or more; Windows XP Service Pack 2 or better.

Hard Drive Space (Mac and Win):
Client – 1.5 GB
Server – 400 MB

Server Requirements (Mac and Win):
At least the recommended specs above, or better;
Windows 2000 server;
Windows 2003 server;
Intel-Based or PowerPC Macintosh or any XServe running at least MacOS X 10.4 or 10.5 (earlier versions of the operating system are not supported, such as OS X 10.3);
It is also possible to run the server on a standard Windows XP or Vista machine, on networks which do not have any machines using Windows Server.

Web Browser Requirements:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or 7;
Firefox 2 and above;
Safari 3.1.2 and above (OS X 10.3.9 users must use Firefox or Internet Explorer).
High-speed internet connection (cable or DSL).