Getting Started

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Buy Supplies and Start Class
Log On and Launch GDP
Work on Lessons
Review the Portfolio
Exit GDP and Log-Off

  Working on Campus and at Home

Buy Supplies and Start Class
  • On the start date, it is your responsibility to have your supplies.

Log On and Launch GDP 
Double-click on the GDP CAOT 1 2 3 icon to launch GDP. Select your class from the class drop-down list on the Welcome screen, and click New Student.
Note: The next time you log on, just select your name from the class list.
  • Type your information and click Save.

  • The Welcome Tutorial starts. Click the numbered buttons at the bottom of the screen to complete the tutorial and click Exit when you're done.

  • Under Options, Personal Information, Your initials, type in your correct reference initials (lowercase, no spaces, no periods, and no parentheses) and click OK. Type these exact initials for any documents requiring reference initials, such as correspondence.

Work on Lessons

Note: If you are using the first printing of Gregg College Keyboarding & Document Processing, Microsoft Office Word 2007 Update and the first printing of the Microsoft Office Word 2007 Update Manual for Gregg College Keyboarding & Document Processing, your books are no longer synchronized with changes and corrections made to the GDP software via GDP's Live Update feature. This will result in document scoring errors occurring in documents that you have typed correctly.

Click here to download an errata file, which includes corrections and changes you should make to the first printing of your books to bring them into alignment with the current GDP software and to provide you with valuable tips and information as you complete your document processing jobs in the text and practice exercises in the Word Manual.

  • To begin working in GDP, select a lesson from the Lessons menu. Follow the directions on the screen and in the textbook and those from your instructor to type your lessons. You are responsible for checking due dates and submitting work on time.

Review the Portfolio 

  • To review your work, click Portfolio. Your instructor might have annotated your work, so check for annotations and grades.

Exit GDP and Log-Off 

  • Click the Close button, Yes to exit GDP.

Working on Campus and at Home

GDP Upload Quick Start: Upload; Upload all work; 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.

SWS Download Grades Quick Start: Log in at the Student Web Site; click Download Grades tab; Download Grades; Save, browse to desired destination, Save, Close.

GDP 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.

Note: Repeat these steps when you leave and move to your second location. Students working only at home may skip this presentation. If you want to print this presentation, right-click the desired link and choose Print Target.

Note: Click here to download GDP_Upload_Download_Import.doc, a helpful  handout you can print.

 
 
Learn to use GDP's Export, Import, and Upload-features to transfer work between multiple locations such as campus to home, home to campus, and to the Instructor Management Web Site and Student Web Site 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. Click here for the pdf version.
Click here for a 15-minute movie. Click here for a Flash movie (resizable window).
 

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