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Next Friday is a holiday. Plan your time accordingly this week and next to complete the assigned work—Lessons 1-2 for this week and Lessons 3-5 for next week—either at home or in our labs Monday through Thursday next week!

Reminder: At home, From the GDP menu, click Options, Settings. Under Full Editing, uncheck in Drills! You never want to edit your skillbuilding drills! Using the backspace key during skillbuilding leads to poor technique—distraction from copy, looking at keys, looking at hands, etc.

Note: This week's lessons are due by Thursday evening, next week.

Click here to go to the Questionnaire. Fill it in and click submit. I will use the form results to add you to my e-mail address book.

Daily Routine

	Open our class Web site at http://1.gdpkeyboarding.com/. You will see this icon on the Windows desktop or you can open Favorites from the browser menu and find us there.
	Click the Assign. Zimmerly button and open the current week's assignment.
	Double-click the GDP CAOT 1,2,3 icon to launch GDP. Select ZIMMERLY - FRIDAY from the class drop-down list. Select your name, click OK; type your password spring (check with your instructor for your password), and click OK.
	Open your textbook to the appropriate lesson and check your email.

• Words in blue indicate information found in the blue textbook (Gregg College Keyboarding & Document Processing for Windows or the GDP software.
• Words in brown denote information found in the MS Word 2002 Manual for Lessons 1-120.

Getting Started

• Open your textbook to Lesson 1.
     
    

• Skip the tutorial and study the parts of your screen. 

Help Exercises

• From the GDP menu, click Help. From the Contents tab, double-click Gregg College Keyboarding, Introduction, Program Overview, to learn about lesson, skillbuilding, Student Portfolio, etc. Use your Back button after reading each topic.
• Click the Index tab. In keyword box, type any keyword to learn about the desired topic.

Help Exercise

• Press F1, click the Index tab, type Speed pattern, and click the Display button.
  
  Type your drill lines as shown under the Speed Pattern—type each line twice before proceeding to a new line. The first time you type the line, you are learning. The second time, you are reinforcing the new line so it should be easier. If you type a line once and go to a new line without repeating, you are not getting the reinforcement you need.

• Press F1,click the Index tab, type Error Marking, and click the Display button. Read about the color coding on scoring.

Lesson 1-J, 1-Minute Timed Writing 
TW Goal: 10/3e

Click here to go to a Gregg College Keyboarding and Document Processing training site to access a series of training videos on different exercise types used in GDP. Click Exercise Types in the left pane, and then click Timed Writings in the bottom pane to view a training video explaining in depth how Timed Writing drills work. Your skillbuilding is always more effective when you understand and focus on your goals for that particular drill. Enjoy!

If you meet the goal in either of the two timings, you will know you have mastered the lesson and are ready to continue to the next lesson. The goal for this timing is to complete the line before the timing is up within the error limit. The timing begins when you press the first keystroke. If you finish the line before the time is up, press Enter and continue typing until time is up.

• If you meet your timing goal on either of the two timings, proceed to the next lesson.
• If you don't meet your goal after two attempts, press Escape and repeat the lesson. Don't repeat the timing more than two times.
• If your error limit is 3, you are not penalized for making any errors up to 3.
• After 3 errors, you may correct errors or just try to slow down for control. If correcting errors after you have reached your maximum limit helps you relax, please do so. If correcting errors distracts you or slows you down too much, try to slow down slightly for control.

Lesson 2-G, 1-Minute Timed Writing
TW Goal: 11/3e

Upload Quick Start: Upload; Upload work completed since your last update; Upload Work to Student Upload Web Site; Browse (browse to desired location to save file—at LACC, store file on Desktop), Store the Upload File; right-click in the Browse box, Paste, Upload.

Click here to go to the Upload Work page to see steps to upload your work to me at the Instructor Management Web site. Uploading is the last thing you should do before leaving class and the last thing you should do when you work at home.

If you plan to continue working at home on the days between classes, click here to follow the steps to install GDP at Home

Note: You will need your .EXP file before you can import your work at your second location. You create this .EXP file whenever you upload work and save it to the Windows Desktop or to a disk or USB flash/pen drive or you can go to the Student Web site and click Download Grades and follow the steps there to download it. See the presentation "Transferring Work to Multiple Locations" below for details.

Upload Quick Start: Upload; Upload work completed since your last update; Upload Work to Student Upload Web Site; Browse (browse to desired location to save file—at LACC, store file on Desktop), Store the Upload File; right-click in the Browse box, Paste, Upload.

If you install GDP at home, you need to import the work you did at LACC before starting to work. Importing your work is the first step you should take when you arrive home and the first step you should take when returning to campus.

Import Quick Start: File, Import Student Data; in the Look In box, click the list arrow, browse to your .EXP file (which has your first and last name), and click it; click Import.

If you want to print these presentations, right-click the desired link and choose Print Target.

Transferring Work to Multiple Locations

Learn to use GDP's Upload-Import features to transfer work between multiple locations such as the Instructor Management Web site, Student Web site, campus to home and home to campus in one operation. If you use the Student Web site, you will be able to view your work and your annotations anywhere you have an Internet connection and browser available. This presentation is for students who work on campus and at home, upload to the Instructor Management Web site, and use the Student Web site.