Are your learning strategies preparing students for success in today’s workplace? Enhance student learning and retention by using state-of-the-art technologies to perform office jobs relevant to workplace success. Teach Word 2013 while also developing creativity, productivity, communication, and document design skills. Provide experience with projects that simulate realwork environments to give students a competitive edge in the part-time job market and relevant experience required when they graduate. Discover a solution that is easy for students to access and use and for you to train, grade, and assess keyboarding and word processing proficiency.

1. A Productivity/Project Approach to
Teaching Microsoft® Word 2013
Susie VanHuss and Vicki Robertson

2. Agenda
• Introduction to Keyboarding Pro Deluxe
Online
• Benefits
• Instructors Portal
– Installation
– Creating and Updating Class(es)
• Student Installation Site

3. Benefits
• Completely online
• Launches Word 2010 (2013 for fall)
• ―Next‖ bypasses closing Word
• Format checking option
• Video tutorials for students
• Create additional sections from an existing
class
• Improved Gradebook

4. Additional Benefits
• Log in, view, and grade your student’s work from
any computer—no more carrying papers home
or to the office to grade
• Students submit work online
 No more lost flash drives, computer problems, etc.
(student excuses)
• Create your own class preferences
• Students may work on any computer by adding
the plug-ins

5. How Instructors Get Started
• Add KPDO to your Cengage.com dashboard
• Link to Instructor Portal
• Create class
• Distribute Course Code to students

6. Instructor Log In
• http://login.cengage.com
• New Cengage.com Users
– Go to http://login.cengage.com
– Click under Mydashboard to
create a New Faculty User
account
– Fill in all fields with a red *
– Submit form
– Within 48 hours, you will be
able to access instructor
resources
• Returning Users
– Log in at http://login.cengage.com

7. Add ISBN to Your Bookshelf
Step 1 Add 978-1-133-17519-3 to your
bookshelf
Step 2 Select Keyboarding Pro Deluxe
Online, Lessons 1-110 Instructor
Portal Instant Access Code
from the list

8. Instructor Site for KDPO
• Click Keyboarding Pro Deluxe Online, Lessons 1-110 to enter the
instructor portal/site
• Click Instructor Companion Site for your resources

9. System Requirements for Instructor Site
• To install the instructor portal (site), Word
2010 must be installed on the local drive
• During the installation process these tools
will install:
–KPDO Client Tools
–KPDO WORD 2010 Add-In
–Flash Player 10.3.0 or higher
–Visual Studio Tools for Office 3.0 or higher

10. Install Setup Files
Click Install Click Run each time a new file wants
Note message about restarting your browser to install. Follow the prompts.
When the installation is complete, restart your computer and log in
again to login.cengage.com

11. Welcome to Instructors
• To return to this page at any time, click
Keyboarding Pro DELXUE Online shown
in gray

12. Create Class at Instructor Portal
• Click the Class
Management tab
• Click Create New
Class
• Key the Class Name
(no symbols or special
characters)
• Select Lesson Range
(1-25, 1-55, or 56-110)

13. Set Class Preferences
• Preferences on the
General tab apply to the
entire course
• Notice:
• 1 or 2 spaces
• Language choice
• Format checking
• Preferences can be
changed at any time
• Note: The option for
Document Checking does
not display for classes in
the range of 1-25

14. Set Preferences
Lesson Preferences Skill Building Preferences

15. Set Preferences: Timed Writings
• Errors per minute
setting affects the
Best Timed Writings
Report and
availability for grading
• Timings that do not
meet this accuracy
requirement are not
graded
– Grade for gwam is set
in the Gradebook

16. Distribute Course Code to Students
• Course Code displayed
• Students need this code to enroll in your class
• Active Class List displays the
Course Codes for all of your
classes

17. System Requirements for Students
• To install the student portal (site), Word 2010
must be installed on the local drive for
classes in the range of Lessons 1-55 and 56-
110 (not required for Lessons 1-25)
• During the installation process these tools will
install:
–KPDO Client Tools
–KPDO WORD 2010 Add-In
–Flash Player 10.3.0 or higher
–Visual Studio Tools for Office 3.0 or higher

18. Student Registration
• Enter http://login.cengagebrain.com After logging in, enter student
 Enter your username and access code (either a printed
password and click Log In code in a slim pack or an instant
 Click Create an Account if you do access code purchased online)
not have one

19. Install Setup Files
Click Install Click Run each time a new file wants
Note message about restarting your browser to install. Follow the prompts.
When the installation is complete, restart your computer and log in
again to login.cengage.com

20. Enter Course Code
• Students enter the Course Code
• Recommendation: Send the code to your
students with these directions:
– Copy (Ctrl + c) the code from your instructor and
paste (Ctrl + v) it to the field below. Do not key
the code; the chance of error is great.

21. KPDO Student Welcome Screen
• If the Skill Analysis (timed writing)
is required by your instructor, key
the text shown on the screen;
concentrate as you key
• To begin a lesson, click the
Lesson tab (in orange), and then
click a lesson number. The first
activity displays
• To return to the Welcome screen
later, click Keyboarding Pro
DELUXE Online name shown in
gray

22. Tabs Display Activities
• Click the Lesson tab, and • Click the Logout button
select a lesson to begin each time you exit the
software.