Keyboarding is an essential skill that is easily taught and easily learned with the KeyWords SmartApplet and the AlphaSmart 3000 or NEO

KeyWords SmartApplet now included with every new NEO / NEO 2 and AlphaSmart 3000 IR (System 3 OS) and is not available to be purchased separately

Keywords SmartApplet allows you to provide complete keyboarding instruction.
You can enrol up to eight students per NEO or AlphaSmart 3000. Keywords comes with 106 language-based lessons covering instruction, accuracy, measurement, speed builders and 60 tests. It monitors students’ progress through the lessons and provides reports on speed and accuracy for each student.

Overview

• Support for up to 8 students sharing a single AlphaSmart NEO for keyboarding while reserving other files for word processing tasks
  
• Teacher-managed, customisable word-per minute benchmarks motivate students to set and achieve higher performance goals
  
• 15 lesson levels systematically advance students through instruction on new keys, accuracy and speed building activities, and assessment tests
  
• 106 language-based lessons guide students from home row introduction to real words and phrases
  
• Automatic speed and accuracy calculations offer immediate feedback to students on their skills development
  
• Detailed reports can be printed or transferred to a computer for evaluating each student and class progress
  
• Home row hand position confirmation ensures correct typing techniques during lessons
  
• Correct shift key usage reinforces proper hand placement

KeyWords SmartApplet is a language-based instruction program for touch-typing and language usage. Because KeyWords SmartApplet uses words, phrases, and rhymes instead of random letters, students learn common letter patterns that are the building blocks of typing. From the beginning, they build writing and reading vocabularies of letter combinations that occur frequently and have meaning. The end result is that students learn the fundamentals of touch-typing while having fun with language.

For existing NEO customers, KeyWords SmartApplet can be downloaded below:

• KeyWords SmartApplet v3.4 PC updater format
  
• KeyWords SmartApplet v3.4 Mac updater format

System Requirements for Installation and Management

• Macintosh without USB requires System 7.5 or later
• Macintosh with USB requires System 9.0 or later
• PC running Windows 98SE/2000/XP
• NEO or AlphaSmart 3000 (will not work with original AlphaSmart keyboard, AlphaSmart Pro, or AlphaSmart 2000)