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- Publisher:Software MacKiev
- Grade Level: 1-Adult
- Platform: Mac OSX
- Item #: MKV005MS2
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Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is a wonderful software for looking for a way to learn how to type fast like an actual typist. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing has multiple different modes for different people. It is incredibly easy to use, even for complete beginners to typing. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing has multilingual support.
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Description
For more than 25 years, Mavis Beacon has provided dynamic personal instruction, placing students in lessons based on their current skill level and adjusting their path as their typing improves. The enhanced Classroom Manager now allows teachers to easily set goals for a single student or an entire classroom at once, set and change student passwords and more!
Both speed and accuracy count in competitive racing games played over the school's network. And for motivation to practice, students can type RSS feeds, song lyrics or the entire text of dozens of classic novels from Pride and Prejudice to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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Features & Benefits
Features Include:
• Classroom Manager – Installed on the school's server, Classroom Manager allows teachers to easily set goals and track student progress, set and control
passwords and more.
• Custom Lesson Designer – Teachers can create lessons with any text, set lesson limits (time, number of errors, number of words) and goals (speed, accuracy).
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• Type a Novel for Practice – Students can catch up on their classics while they practice, with the full text of dozens of novels from Pygmalion to Huckleberry Finn.
• Mavis Avatar – Mavis has an avatar that's so realistic, your students will think she's inside their computers cheering them on.
• Built in RSS Feeds – Students get smarter while they practice with up-to-the-minute news feeds from BBC® News to The Weather Channel®.
• Ergonomics Lesson - Ergonomics checklists and videos in the Media Center show students how good posture, typing habits, and workspace design can promote typing safety.
Learning Benefits:
• Strengthens and improves keyboarding skills
• Demonstrates correct form with each keystroke
• Offers guidance and positive encouragement
• Extends learning and develops language skills
• Provides keyboard improvement for ESL students
System Requirements
School Billing/Shipping Address and Email Required.
Mac OS X Edition
Minimum System Requirements:
System: macOS 10.6.8 and later, including 10.13 High
Sierra
Processor: G4 867 MHz or faster, including any Intel-based Mac
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Display: 1024x768, Millions of Colors
Free Hard Disk Space: 800 MB
DVD-ROM drive: For installation only
Minimum Server Requirements
Hardware - Any Mac or PC that is
capable of supporting 50 simultaneous users.
Operating System - Any of the
following are supported:
• Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later,
including OS 10.10 'Yosemite'
• Windows Server 2003 or later
• Novell Netware 6 or later
* When used over a network, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing - Academic Edition installs on a Mac OS X or Windows Server,
supports up to 50 simultaneous users, and does not require a DVD disc in the server drive
for operation. Ships with one set of installation media and a network license
certificate. May not be used on a computer that is not connected to the network
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Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is a software program that teaches touch typing. Mavis Beacon is published by Encore Software (Mac and Windows) and Software MacKiev (Mac OSX). Early versions supported both QWERTY and the alternative Dvorak Simplified Keyboard layout but later versions only taught QWERTY keyboarding until the 2011 Ultimate Mac Edition from Software MacKiev which returned full Dvorak typing lessons. The current Windows/ Mac versions are published under the Brøderbund brand by Encore and Software MacKiev.The Mavis Beacon software includes speed tests which keep a record of your words-per-minute typing speed. It also has a number of games to make it more fun to use and to practice various typing skills.
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Includes:
- 430 Personalized lessons, exercises and tests
- 16 Arcade-style games, including multi-level games
- Detailed tracking and progress reporting
- Choose from new music options or import your own MP3 files and type to your own tunes
- New Certificates of Completion
- Hybrid - Works with Windows and Mac OS X
- Unique Custom Lesson Designer
- Practice Sessions in English, Spanish and French
- New multi-level arcade-style games
- Import your own text as Word.doc formats - be productive while practicing your typing skills
- Choose to type from hundreds of interesting articles and stories
- Mavis Beacon assesses your skill levels and customizes lessons to suite your needs.
- You can create your own custom design lessons
- Use typing speed tests to check your words-per-minute progress
The 2011 Ultimate Mac Edition OS X by Software MacKiev has two-player competitive typing games, is integrated with iTunes, Dvorak keyboard typing lessons, song lyrics for typing practice , RSS news feeds and classic novels you can use to stay motivated learning keyboarding. You also get a printable certificate of achievement when you complete the tests.
Why is it important to learn to type and have great keyboarding skills?
- No matter what job you are in these days it is going to involve some computer input.
- Keyboarding is really a necessity these days whether you are at school, at work or just at home surfing the net and emailing your friends.
- Learning to type means you can get your work or assignments done faster leaving time to chillax.
- It increases your self-esteem and makes you more employable.
- If you don’t know how to type you are really going to be left behind and put yourself at a disadvantage.
- Your friends and family will think you are awesome!!!
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