HP Connectivity Kit User Guide C05332952

Work area ............................................................................................................................................................... 2

Menu bar ................................................................................................................................................................ 2

File menu ............................................................................................................................................. 2

Edit menu ............................................................................................................................................. 2

Window menu ...................................................................................................................................... 3

Help menu ............................................................................................................................................ 3

Icon bar ................................................................................................................................................................... 3

Calculators icon ................................................................................................................................... 3

Content icon ......................................................................................................................................... 3

Save icon .............................................................................................................................................. 4

Messages icon ...................................................................................................................................... 4

Classroom network ID ............................................................................................................................................ 4

Naming a calculator ............................................................................................................................................... 6

Installing Connectivity Kit ...................................................................................................................................... 6

Starting Connectivity Kit ........................................................................................................................................ 6

Connecting a calculator via USB ............................................................................................................................ 6

Connecting a calculator wirelessly ........................................................................................................................ 7

Connecting to the virtual calculator ...................................................................................................................... 7

Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 11

Calculator context-sensitive menu ..................................................................................................................... 11

Using the calculator pane .................................................................................................................................... 11

The editors ........................................................................................................................................................... 12

Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 13

Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 14

The editors ........................................................................................................................................................... 14

Editing complex variables .................................................................................................................................... 16

Editing list variables ............................................................................................................................................ 17

Editing matrix variables ....................................................................................................................................... 17

Editing and creating programs ............................................................................................................................ 18

Editing and creating notes ................................................................................................................................... 19

Editing app content .............................................................................................................................................. 19

Exam-mode congurations ................................................................................................................................. 21

Deleting, resetting, and clearing HP Prime content objects ............................................................................... 22

Downloading new software ................................................................................................................................. 23

Adding a background ......................................................................................................................... 30

Adding an icon ................................................................................................................................... 30

Adding a le ....................................................................................................................................... 31

Distributing an app to the class ........................................................................................................ 31

Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 32

Monitoring the class ............................................................................................................................................ 32

Capturing a student’s calculator display ............................................................................................................. 32

Projecting a student’s calculator display ............................................................................................................ 32

Distributing HP Prime content ............................................................................................................................. 33

Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 36

Sending messages ............................................................................................................................................... 36

HP Prime Message Center .................................................................................................................................... 36

Sending a reply or message from an HP Prime calculator .................................................................................. 36

Sending a quick message .................................................................................................................................... 37

Raising and clearing help ags ............................................................................................................................ 37

HP Connectivity Kit is software that facilitates the creation and distribution of HP Prime content and

establishes a classroom network of HP Prime calculators. The classroom network can then be used to

Whichever mode you choose, Connectivity Kit allows you to create and edit custom HP Prime content to

features that enhance the HP Prime classroom experience.

Connectivity Kit provides the following capabilities:

When the software opens, Connectivity Kit presents three panes, as well as the familiar title, menu, and icon

bars at the top of the window.

center for the HP Wireless Classroom Network, where the Monitor and Messages windows appear.

Once you have connected an HP Prime calculator to Connectivity Kit, you can customize and extend your HP

Prime calculator with data, programs, notes, apps, and so on by using the calculator pane.

also resize the pane to the dimensions that suit your needs. Finally, you can hide and reopen the calculator

pane. When you reopen the pane, its size and location are the same as they were before the pane was hidden.

From the calculator pane in Connectivity Kit, you can do the following:

After the HP Prime calculator appears by name in the calculator pane, right-click the name of the HP Prime

calculator to open its context-sensitive menu. The following options are available:

Click the expand arrow to the left of the name of an HP Prime calculator to display a list of content types on

the calculator. The list includes the following:

If you have HP Prime content on your desktop, you can drag it to a calculator in the calculator pane to copy it

dierent content objects will be sorted and saved to the appropriate locations. You can drag HP Prime content

from your desktop to the content pane. In the content pane, you can right-click content objects and select

Send to class. You can also drag content from the content pane to a calculator in the calculator pane to copy

You can drag a calculator name from the calculator pane to your desktop. A folder with that name will appear

on your desktop, containing all of that calculator’s settings and data.

Each HP Prime content type has its own dedicated editor. See The editors and the work area on page 14 for

The content pane is where you keep the HP Prime content on your computer. The content pane displays the

contents of the working folder, as listed in Preferences in the Edit menu. Within this folder are all the HP

This pane can be undocked from its default location and moved anywhere on your computer screen. You can

also resize the pane to the dimensions that suit your needs. Finally, you can hide and reopen the calculator

pane. When you reopen the pane, its size and location are the same as they were before the pane was hidden.

When broadcasting polls, poll results, or HP Prime content, you can choose to broadcast to the entire class, a

single group within the class, or a single HP Prime calculator.

your computer, while the calculator pane shows many of the same types of content stored on an HP Prime

area. See The editors and the work area on page 14 for more details on each editor.

The work area contains all open editors for HP Prime content. It also contains the Monitor and Messages

windows when you have those windows open.

Each HP Prime content type (note, program, app, and so on) has its own special editor, designed to make it

following sections describe each editor in turn.

6. Repeat steps 4 through 5 for any other real variables you want to edit.

To conrm that the new value of a variable has been saved to your connected HP Prime calculator, go to the

5. Use the computer keyboard to enter the desired value for the variable in the cell, and press Enter. The

6. Repeat steps 4 through 5 for any other complex variables you want to edit.

7. Click the Save icon in the icon bar.

To conrm that a variable has been edited in the connected calculator, go to the Home view, press the key

combination that corresponds to the variable you edited, and press . You will see the edited

You can use Connectivity Kit to edit the list variables L1–L9 and L0.

6. Use the computer keyboard to enter the second element of the list into the cell, and press Enter.

7. Repeat steps 5 through 6 for the other elements in the list, and repeat steps 4 through 6 for any other

8. Click the Save icon in the icon bar.

To conrm that a list has been saved to your HP Prime calculator, go to the Home view, press the key

combination that corresponds to the list you edited and press . You will see the edited value of

the variable in the history. For example, if you set list variable L1 to be {1,2,3,4,5}, when you press

2. Click the expand arrow beside the calculator name to expand the list of content for the calculator.

3. In the expanded list, click the expand arrow beside Matrices to expand a list of the names of matrix

4. In the second expanded list, double-click the name of the matrix variable you want to edit. A matrix

5. Click the top left cell.

6. Use the computer keyboard to enter the desired value into the cell, and press Enter.

To conrm that a matrix has been saved to your HP Prime calculator, go to the Home view, press the key

of the variable in the history. For example, if you set matrix variable M1 to be [[1,2],[3,4]], when you press

2. Click the expand arrow beside the calculator name to expand the list of content for the calculator.

3. In the expanded list, click the expand arrow beside Programs to expand a list of names of user

4. In the second expanded list, double-click the name of the user program you want to edit. A program

5. Use the computer keyboard to edit the program in the editor.

6. Click the Save icon in the icon bar.

To conrm that the program has been saved to your HP Prime calculator, press to open

the Program Catalog. You will see the program name in the catalog. Tap the name, and you will see the edited

and saved program.

You can use Connectivity Kit to edit and create notes for your HP Prime calculator.

4. In the second expanded list, double-click the name of the note you want to edit. A note editor opens in

1. In the calculator pane, locate the name of the calculator in which you want to create the note.

To conrm that the note has been created on your HP Prime calculator, press to open the

Note Catalog. You will see the name of the note in the catalog. Tap the note name to see the note text.

for the dierent types of app content that you can edit. All app editors have Modes, Program, Info (Note),

From the content pane in Connectivity Kit, you can prepare HP Prime content for classroom distribution,

including the following:

The content created here is saved to your computer in the working folder you specify in the Preferences

distribution to a class.

whole class.

arrow to see the list of app functions.

the list of categories to get started.

When you are nished, save the conguration. You can then start and stop the conguration for the whole

2. If you want to edit an existing conguration, double-click the name of the conguration and proceed to

connected and the exam-mode conguration has successfully started. The calculator is then removed from

the list. When all calculators have successfully started the exam-mode conguration, click Stop to deactivate

Proctor mode, and then click the Proctor Mode icon to hide the proctor mode pane.

ready to activate as soon as students connect to HP Connectivity Kit.

You can use Connectivity Kit to create a poll or quiz and save it to your computer for later distribution to the

class. Or you can create a quick one- or two-question poll to inform instructional decisions or enhance class

discussion.

To open or create a poll, click the Poll icon. Or, click the New Content icon and then select Poll.

Connectivity Kit has a dedicated editor for creating and editing polls. The poll editor in the content pane

allows you to do the following:

Each question tab has the following boxes:

If you select Number, Point, or Expression, the question is complete at this point.

following types of multiple-choice response sets:

options, and the question is complete at this point. If you select an ABCDE response set, enter the responses

will see a third set of radio buttons from which to choose your response set:

If you select Selection, you must dene the number of responses in the Answer eld and then enter each

If you select Choose, you must dene the number of responses in the Answer eld and then enter each

response.

1. To create a new poll, click the Poll icon.

3. Use the computer keyboard and the mouse to edit the poll or quiz in the poll/quiz editor.

then distributed to students either one at a time via USB or all at once using the wireless classroom network.

Each default HP Prime app (Function, Advanced Graphing, Geometry, and so on) can be used as a template.

You can enter content such as denitions, expressions, text notes, programs, and data into this template.

Then, save the customized app with a new name.

plots based on the data in the app, compute and draw lines of best t, and so on.

In most cases, the changes you make to an app are made using either your physical or virtual HP Prime

calculator. You can also use the app editors in HP Connectivity Kit. However, there are a few changes that you

can make only by using the virtual HP Prime calculator and Connectivity Kit. See the following sections.

The Plot view of most HP Prime apps can contain an image as a background. This image is selected and

congured on page 3 of Plot Setup.

To add a background to your HP Prime app:

5. The image opens in a new window. A red rectangle outlines the part of the image that will be used as a

saved to the Files tab of your app editor. In HP Connectivity Kit, double-click the app and click the Files tab to

By default, the icon for a new app is the same as the icon for the base app used as a template. You can use

another image as the icon for your new app.

To add a custom icon to an app:

3. Right-click the app, and then select Add app icon.

4. In the window that opens, select the image to be used as the app icon.

5. In the calculator pane, double-click the app to open the app editor, and then click the Save icon. You can

6. Save your changes, and then close the app editor.

You might want to attach resource les to an app.

To add a le to an app:

calculator or the content pane.

To distribute an app from the content pane:

The Monitor window is designed for classroom use. Open this window to see thumbnail images of the displays

of all HP Prime calculators connected to Connectivity Kit. The thumbnail images refresh periodically so that

you can quickly monitor what your students are doing with their HP Prime calculators. You can use the

Monitor window to accomplish the following classroom tasks:

To monitor the activity of all connected calculators, click the Window menu and select Monitor, or click the

Monitor icon on the right side of the icon bar. The Monitor window will open, showing the screens of all

automatically refresh the student displays every few seconds, right-click in the Monitor window and select

Automatic Refresh. You can deselect automatic refresh using the same steps.

To adjust the size of the calculator thumbnail images, right-click in the Monitor window and select Image

Size. A sub-menu opens from which you can choose small, medium, or large.

You can capture and save the display of a student’s calculator from the Monitor window. Right-click the

then click Save.

2. After you see the specic content item you want to broadcast (a poll, an HP app, an exam-mode

The content is sent immediately to each HP Prime calculator in the HP Classroom Network. If you want to send

content to only one HP Prime calculator, rst select the thumbnail of that calculator in the Monitor window,

and then follow the previous procedure. To send content to a group of HP Prime calculators, press and hold

the Ctrl key on your computer keyboard while you select the calculators in the group. Then, follow the

After content is sent to one or more student HP Prime calculators, the students can access that content. If the

content is a list, matrix, note, or program, the students can access it by going to the proper catalog or library.

For example, if you send them a new HP app, they can nd it by pressing to go to their App library.

After the Message Center opens with a poll, the student navigates and responds to the poll using the touch

menu buttons at the bottom of the HP Prime display. The touch menu buttons available for use in a poll are as

follows:

The exact appearance of the last double menu button depends on how many questions the poll contains as

well as whether the Can go back option for the current question was selected when the poll was written.

previous one is deleted.

As the students respond to a poll, you can view the aggregated responses. When a poll is created and saved, a

Results object with the same name is created in the content pane. For example, a poll named funnypoll.hppoll

has a Results le named funnypoll.hpresult. To view the current state of the results of your poll, click the

Results icon or double-click the name of your Results le in the content pane. The Results window for your

poll opens.

The Results window has one tab for each question in the poll. In addition, an All tab aggregates the responses

for all of the questions in the poll in an app that can be distributed to the class. The graphical representation

on each tab varies depending on the response type.

responses to the question.

You can use poll results to make instructional decisions during a lesson or you can project the results to the

class to enhance classroom discussion.

Just as you can broadcast HP Prime content to the class, you can also return poll results to the class.

To open a poll results le, double-click the le. The results from each question are displayed in separate tabs,

with an All tab containing the aggregate results for the poll. Each tab contains a Send to class button. To send

results for an individual question to the class, select Send to class. The results for each question are stored in

the version of the Statistics 1Var app with the same name as the poll, followed by _1 for the rst question, _2

for the second question, and so on.

An exam-mode conguration allows you to temporarily disable features and commands on your students’ HP

Prime calculators for testing purposes. You can use Connectivity Kit to start or stop an exam-mode

To start an existing exam-mode conguration for your class, follow these steps:

3. The exam-mode conguration editor opens with your selected exam-mode conguration. Take a

If you chose Blink LED in the conguration, all the HP Prime calculators in your class will have the same set of

To stop exam mode, click the Stop button in the editor or tell the students the password to enter on the third

After proctor mode is activated, any HP Prime calculator that is connected to HP Connectivity Kit via USB or

the list. When all calculators have successfully started the exam-mode conguration, click Stop to deactivate

You can send an exam-mode conguration to a set of HP Prime calculators without activating it. It can be