Dictate User Guide

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Dictate

Teachers easily create and give dictation.

Students take dictation on their handhelds and receive instant feedback.

User Guide

Dictate has two modes:

Student and Teacher. Tap

Teacher.

Teacher Mode

When you first start using

Dictate, you must enter

sentences. Tap Sentences.

Tap New to enter a new

sentence.

Enter a sentence. You may

assign the sentence a

category. Tap OK.

Enter as many sentences as

you like. Notice the category in

the upper-right corner. Tap

Groups when you are done

entering sentences.

Tap New and give a name to

your group. Tap OK.

Sentences are stored in categories and can be shared among Groups.

Groups are the sentences used for a dictation exercise.

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Download and install

Dictate from

www.schau.com/s/dictate

Teacher Mode (continued)

Your new group now appears

in the Group List. Tap the

name of the group to add

available sentences.

Tap the + button to add an

available sentence.

Tap a sentence to add to the

group. Note the sentence

category in the bottom-right

corner.

Continue adding available sentences by

tapping +. Change the order of the

sentences by tapping a sentence and

tapping the up or down arrows. Remove

a sentence from the group by tapping a

sentence at then tapping –.

After you have finished creating your

group, tap Beam to send the group to a

student handheld. The receiving

handheld must already have Dictate

installed.

After beaming to all necessary

handhelds, tap Begin to start the

dictation exercise.

Import & Export Groups of Sentences

Want to import sentences from the Memos

application? When in the Sentences screen

select Import from the menu. Then choose a

Memos category to import from and a Dictate

category to import to. Note: All sentences from

the Memos category you select are imported. In

the same way, you can export sentences from

Dictate to Memos.

Tap the icon next to a name in the

Group List to Beam the group to a

student or to Delete that group.

Add More Sentences

Tap the Groups button to return to the

Group List. From there, you can tap

Sentences to input more sentences.

These sentences will be available and

can be added to any group.

Dictate has two modes:

Student and Teacher. Tap

Student.

Student Mode

After receiving a beamed

Group from a handheld in

Teacher mode, the Group will

appear in the Group List. Tap

the title of the Group to begin a

dictation exercise.

Wait for the teacher to say

Sentence #1 aloud. Enter the

sentence. Tap Submit.

After submitting the last

sentence, tap View Score.

To review each sentence, tap

View Answers. To return to the

Group List, tap Groups. To save

your score and to export a report

to Memos, tap Save.

Check the box to export to

Memos. You can then print the

memo or beam the memo to

your teacher.

Stopping the Dictation

To end a dictation exercise

without completing all

sentences, tap the menu and

choose Abort from the

Actions menu.

Change Modes

You can switch between Student and Teacher modes

using the Actions menu on the Group List screen.

Learn about educational

handheld computing at

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Tap the icon next to a name in the

Group List to Beam the group to

another student or to Delete that group.

Beam the Dictate

application to the student

handheld.