Duration: 30 Minutes
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Today, we're going to talk about how you can prepare
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your users for spring testing with
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Gale Presents: Peterson's Test and Career Prep
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My name is Amber Winters and
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I am your training consultant for the day.
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So our agenda first, I just wanna go over the very
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basics of Gale presents Peterson's
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test and career prep. So if you're not
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familiar with it, I just wanna give you a basic
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background before we really dive in. But after
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that background, we'll take a look at the features
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you're going to find in our test prep.
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So just a few different things your
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users will be able to click through to really kind
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of capture everyone in whatever learning
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style they prefer.
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We'll spend the majority of the time actually walking
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through our tests though. So we'll see what tests
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are available where they're found how
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our users can access them. And we'll also walk
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through a test. So you can see what that platform looks
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like as well.
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And again, if you have questions, you can put them in the
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Q and A at any time and I'll be able to answer them
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as we move forward or feel
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free to wait until the end of the session
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if you prefer and we'll have time at the very
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end for any questions as well as some wrap
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up information.
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Let's go ahead and get started here. So Gale Presents:
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Peterson's test and career prep
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does. As you would expect. first,
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it prepares your users for exams.
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So they're going to find practice tests,
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full courses related to different tests,
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ebooks and flash cards. They're going
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to help really all of your learners,
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whatever level they are. If they're at the secondary
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school level, if they're at the graduate level,
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if this is specifically for a vocational
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test, so they're adult learners, they'll find
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their prep within this resource.
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We also include a great foundational skills
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section. So if you have users coming
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in who are preparing for an exam but
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are maybe not quite there yet and need that
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more beginner information,
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they'll find some great foundational skills
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learning that we'll take a look at today.
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And those are focused in math and science, computer
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skills, which are great for older individuals
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who may be getting back in the workforce who may not be
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familiar with computers or
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just trying to pick up some new skills. And we
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also have information related to reading
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and writing within the resource as well.
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We're not going to go into this very
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closely today since we're talking about exam prep.
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But I definitely want to point out we do have a school
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and scholarship search in this platform
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and we have career tools available as
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well. So a career advice, our online resume
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builder, as well as different job searching
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tools.
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So again, we're talking about spring testing today.
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So we're really going to be focused on exam
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prep as our subject. So let's take a closer
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look at that and see what features we have
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with our exam prep. So of course, the first
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one as you would expect is going to be our practice
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tests and these tests are
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timed. Your users won't
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be stopped when time runs out. Some of them
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are time to show the remaining
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time. Some of them, they just give you an estimate
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of how long it took you to take the test. So
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they won't ever be paused. But
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users will be able to see how long
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it took them to take whatever tests. And if they know how
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long they have, they can kind of fine tune
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to either maybe take longer
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if they sped through it or maybe try to speed up
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a little bit if they took a long time
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and this information will be saved to user accounts.
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Remember Gale Presents: Peterson's
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resources do have named user accounts.
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So once the user starts a test,
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they'll be able to go back to it whenever they want
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to. Once they're submitted, they are
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automatically graded excluding essay
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responses. Um Those won't receive
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a grade, but they'll be able to see samples
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and examples of what's
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high quality responses are going to look like
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and they'll be able to compare their response to that.
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And many of our tests have more than one
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practice option available. So they
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are unlimited use. Users can
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take the same practice test, you know, 10 times
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if they feel like they need to take it 10 times.
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But oftentimes they'll find you know, two
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different versions of practice tests for the same
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test. So they'll get those different questions
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and be able to kind of shake it up a little bit.
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In addition to those practice tests, a lot
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of our tests, you have full ebooks that are
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downloadable. So they'll download to the desktop
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for your users. So they won't need to have access
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to the internet to use those. So they'll be able to take
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them offline.
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And what's great is they come in an actual kind
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of ebook design. So they're not just
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getting this long, you know, html
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text page that they're supposed to read through. if
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there are images or graphics or graphs
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or statistics or whatever it is
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within that ebook, it's going
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to download it like that for them. So they'll still
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get engaging content and they'll have that off
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the platform whenever they need it.
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We also have great flash cards for a lot of
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our tests here as well. These are really
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nice and quick. So I love these for users
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who are coming in, you know, saying I have like an hour
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and I just want to get some quick studying in. What
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should I do
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take a look at these flash cards? Just kind of click
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through these and you can go through as many as you like.
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If you only have a short amount of time,
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we're also going to include some different supplemental
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articles you could see for,
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I've pulled forward here, tips
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and strategies for the AC T. So
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these supplemental articles are
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going to be a lot of like strategies and things like
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that, but they'll also find basic test information.
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So, if they're taking the A
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P biology test coming up and they have absolutely
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no idea what it's gonna look like, what to
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expect what they should do. They
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can take a look at these supplemental articles to kind of
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get a better understanding. So they're not as
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overwhelmed, they're kind of ready to go in that
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sense. And
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finally, we also include links to testing
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websites here as well. So, if
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this is not something they're doing through school, maybe
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they need to register on their own.
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We can link them all over to those websites for
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this. You'll see, we have the GRE testing websites,
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and they can click in as a test taker and
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kind of move forward from there. If they need more
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information than what we provide or if
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they want to register for a test, they can do
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that. Right through Peterson's, we'll direct them
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to where they need to go.
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Now, I wanna just dive right into the resource
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so we can see all of the different tests we have,
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see how it's going to function for your users.
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Before I do, I haven't seen any questions
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in the Q and A but do we have any questions
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before we dive right in?
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Ok. I don't see any. We've got a quiet crowd
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crowd today, no problem. So
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this is the home page here of Gail presents Peterson's
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test and career prep and I do just want to
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pause here.
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If you have access to Gale
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presents Peterson's test prep,
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it's going to look a little bit different than this. You won't have
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those career tools. And if
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you have access to Gale presents Peterson's
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career prep, it will look a little
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bit different as well. So we have three different resources.
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We have test and career, we have career
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and we have tests. So if you're
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following along and you notice yours is a little bit different
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than mine, that's most likely why you'll still find
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great features. It'll just function a little
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bit differently than what I'm gonna show you today.
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So first I want to log in, you'll see, I can
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kind of scroll through and see what's going
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on in this resource without signing in.
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But for users to take any tests or
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use any of the features, they are going to need to have
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their account.
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We've got a question here. Are the tests updated to look
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like the digital SAT starting in 2024.
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I can check with my product manager. I know
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we do update frequently. I know there
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is an SI T update coming. I don't know exactly
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what it is. The person that you
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asked that anonymously, if you don't mind sending
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me an email after the session, I'll get
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with my product manager and I can give you an exact
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answer. So go ahead and
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either ask this non anonymously if you don't
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mind or send me a direct email once
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the session ends and I can give the exact answer
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for you. Ok?
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So let's go ahead and hit log in
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or sign up and
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this blue button here. I've already got an account.
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So I'm going to use that. I can sign up if I need
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to. So if this is the first time your users are
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clicking in,
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I recommend having them sign up immediately.
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Don't even scroll through the platform yet. Just
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sign up first. So they don't need to kind
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of stop their learning to sign in.
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There we go. But I already have my account set up here.
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Now, there are quite a few different ways that we
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can access our test prep,
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sections here. So the first one is
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going to be using the browse menu, which is
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found either in the Spanner here or
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at the very top of our page.
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Clicking into this, you'll see here, this gives
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kind of a um
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what your goal is as the first step. So
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they're going to click in, they want to improve a test
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score since we're talking about test prep and
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then you'll see we have some different categories here.
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So for today, the two kind of major
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categories we're most likely going to be looking
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at are going to be high school where they're going to find
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things like A P testing.
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If you have someone coming in taking the GED,
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they'll find that content by clicking into high school
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and they get kind of this next step here.
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And I will mention if I have anyone on the line from
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Texas or Florida, we do have
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specific sections for
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some assessments that you take at the state level
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if you need to for your users
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to those.
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And college prep is also listed here. This
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is where you're going to find the AC T,
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the PSAT the SAT, all that good stuff,
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grad school, we have listed here as well.
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So if we have individuals coming in, planning
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on taking the MC A T, they can find their information
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here as well.
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So in addition to using that browse menu, they can also
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scroll down
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and in the middle of the page, this gives them kind
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of more of an interactive feel
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and it's really helping them have kind of actionable
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steps. So they know they need to prepare
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for an exam. That's the step they need to take, they can
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click into, prepare for an exam.
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And just like previously, they just have to narrow
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it down here. So if they want high school prep
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again, we have the same kind of bits of information.
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Maybe they want to take a look at A P testing,
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theyll be pulled forward there
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and we have one final way to access the content.
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And that's if I go back to home and
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scroll down one more time,
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We kind of have this expanded
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look of these different sections. So I like
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this because it gives a quick view of what they
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can expect in each section. So previously,
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they had to click through high school then to see
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what comes in the high school section. But here
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you'll see, I've got a high school listed and it's telling
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me quickly, I'll find some A P, I'll
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find some different stem tests that I may be taking.
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If I'm taking an equivalency exam,
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I can click in here. Same for college
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prep. It's telling me the different things we're going to find
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here. I
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will mention we also have a full Us citizenship
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test won't go into it too much, but that's found
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under international. And there is another
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big one that users are often looking for
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scrolling under that we have our vocational test
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prep pulled out separately here. So if they need
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something related to vocations, they can find that
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here as opposed to this, improve
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your test score section
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and then scrolling down. We're going to get into the career tools
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that we're not going to look at today, but you
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do have those down here at the home page as well.
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So let's go ahead and click in first. We'll take
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a look at A P. We have a lot of students
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needing some support with A P testing. So
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I'm going to click directly here into where it says
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high school.
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Now, when you do that, you see it really kind of
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opens up a huge list of what we
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can take here. So we'll have all of our different
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options listed with these little tiles that kind
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of organize them for us.
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I will also mention here, we do have GED
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test prep in Spanish. We have practice
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tests. So if you have native Spanish speakers
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coming and looking for support and they're
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looking to get their GED, we have
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that listed in this platform,
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but let's click at advanced placement here
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and let's just view all of these to see what we have
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available. As you can imagine. We have a lot
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because there are a lot of different advanced placement
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tests,
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but you'll see here when I have these
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options, it's going to first give me just
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the course that I can click into.
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But next to that I have articles here,
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this one is specifically related to the college
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board and things like that.
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And then we've got an about section here as well.
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So notice that changes based on the test
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here, sometimes you'll see books
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listed, like for a P calculus. It looks like
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we have a book related to A P calculus.
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Just depending on what we have for each of the tests,
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it does vary based on what's published for each
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test.
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But your users can go through and find whatever they need
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and you'll see, I have the option to add to my resources
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here. What this is going to do, this
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is going to save it as you would expect to the
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my resources section which is found in the
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toolbar, toolbar up top here.
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So it's kind of like a quick link to get back
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to this. So if they're going to be taking, let's say the
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advanced placement biology practice test
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frequently, you know, if they're coming back
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through the next few weeks to make sure they're ready for
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their test, they may want to hit add
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to my resources. So then they don't need to
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kind of click through and find it again. They can just go
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right to my resources
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if they don't add it to my resources that's
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fine. They'll still be able to take the test.
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It'll still save their results
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to their
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their account name.
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It just won't be under my resources. But
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let's click into a P biology here so we can
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take a look at how this is all organized for
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us.
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And I will mention this does open in a separate
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tab. You'll see a top here. It opened in a different one.
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So if they're planning on studying for
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maybe more than one assessment
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or maybe they want to have um some
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test prep pulled up on one, maybe some different
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strategies on another or some foundational
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skills videos on another
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tab, they'll be able to do that and they'll open
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the the browser for them.
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But this is what all of the different exam
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preps are going to look like. So they get on this
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main page and the content available
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again is going to change based on the test
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for our A P exams.
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The majority of them, you're going to find flashcards
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and study materials, an introduction that gives
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just kind of the background about the exam,
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what to expect things like that.
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It does oftentimes include instructional
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videos and then we have our practice tests here
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as well.
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So we can click into any of these. Lets just look at flash
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cards here
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and you'll see on this left hand side, it's showing us
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what flash cards we have available.
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I can click into any of these here,
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we'll see if anyone remembers their biology.
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So it's just give me the word and it's
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really simple, exactly what you would expect
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for flash cards. So, again, a really
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simple way
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to kind of go through and just get
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that very brief understanding of
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A P biology.
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Once I'm done with this here, I can hit my back
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button in the top left corner and that's going
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to pull me back to this main prep page.
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Now, let's go ahead and look at a practice test. So you'll see
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this one. I've actually already started here. So I've
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got a few different topics. I've already
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completed. I know that because I saved
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it to my account.
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So I'll click back in here so we can take a look.
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Let's,
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we'll do one that I haven't touched yet. So
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you'll see, I have a check on this first multiple choice
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because I actually already ran through that and
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submitted it.
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So let's go to the second one that I haven't done yet.
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So it gives me some quick instructions.
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You have 100 and 20 minutes to complete
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the exam before you submit your quiz.
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You want to go back and check to make sure you didn't miss anything.
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This is going to auto save so they won't need to hit
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save. So if they do just do a couple
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questions and then hop off, they
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didn't lose that content it's going to automatically save
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for them.
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And then when I'm ready to go, it's going to tell
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them to hit start quiz.
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Once they finish an attempt, they're
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going to get the grade for that attempt. If they want
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to start over, they'll just hit start quiz
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again and they'll get it'll list it as another
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attempt for them. So they'll be able to take it as
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many times as they want to.
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So, let's start with the quiz here.
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So, on the left side here, they're going to see how
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many questions they're going to have to answer
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and then they're just gonna go through and check them.
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We'll see if I get any right by quick clicking.
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But you'll see sometimes here they're going to have graphs
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and things. So we're trying to keep this as close to
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the actual tests as we possibly can
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and they can answer all of them. They can answer
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none if they really want to answer none.
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it's up to them, they can answer as many as they want
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to at the top here. This is showing
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how much time has elapsed. So I've been here
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for 30 seconds.
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So again, it's not going to cut me off,
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you know, once I hit, I think 100 and 20 minutes
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is how long they have for this section. it
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won't cut me off at that time, but it's going to tell me,
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you know, if I went past that time. Then I need to figure
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out um, how I can speed it up a little
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bit because on this, the actual test, I'm gonna run
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out of time. but
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let's go. So we answered some of those. Let's just call
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it a day. Let's say this is all I want to answer.
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I can hit submit quiz here. You'll see. It's telling
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me that I've only answered eight of 60.
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That's ok. I'm just gonna sub submit
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it anyways.
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It gives me another warning. I haven't answered
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these questions. My sense is I can
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actually click right back here. So if I didn't
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know that I didn't finish question 17,
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I can click right to it from this page, but
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I'm not gonna, we're gonna say this is good.
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So again, I have to say submit quiz again. So
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we really want to try to make sure they know if
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they didn't answer all the questions, but we'll
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submit our quiz here. It's gonna take
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a quick second to process the results. Of course,
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if they did finish
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the entire quiz, it might take a little bit longer
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to finish that because they're going to have to look
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through all of those questions. Let's
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see here.
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It looks like I actually got a couple right. So you'll see it's going
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to tell them their score.
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It's going to tell them the overall grade,
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which is the highest attempt as well. So if they have
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attempted this four times. it's going
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to show them which one they did the, the
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best on. Of course, I've only taken this once
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and I got three out of 60 so I got 50%.
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It's going to show them what the correct answer is and
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what they chose
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and then it's giving them feedback here as well. So
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this, I personally think is really important
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as your users are taking these if they don't know
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why they got a question wrong or if they just
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guessed and they don't know why they got it right.
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This supplemental information is going
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to be really handy for them and it's going to pop
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up on everything. If they got it right or
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wrong, you'll see here if they got it wrong,
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they get this little X and it does show them
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the correct answer. And again, we've got
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our feedback listed here.
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They can go all the way through once they're done, they'll just
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hit done.
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And now from here they're going to see all of their attempts
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with this nice little graphic here.
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Again, I've only taken it once, but I'll
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be able to kind of pull that forward here to see all
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of those different grades.
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And when I'm ready I can click into, let's say I
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want to take a look at the free response
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again, free responses aren't going to be
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graded automatically because we don't, you
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know, have individuals who are going through and reading these
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responses, but we can hit star
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quiz here.
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No. And you see, it's gonna look the same here.
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So they'll be able to type this out
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if they're at using
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um, like a P calculus or some other math
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tests. They have some math tools available for
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them, but
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theyll be able to go through and type out their answers
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here
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and just the same, they're going to submit just like
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with those multiple choice and then they'll get
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they'll see sample responses to see
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you know how their stacks up. If they had some of
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the same responses, if they had kind of the same
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layout or formatting, they'll be able
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to, to take a look at that.
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Now, I want to jump back here because I want to show you what
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an ebook is going to look like in this resource.
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And we don't have
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any book attached to a P biology.
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So I want to jump into a different test. But
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before I do, does anyone have questions just
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about the formatting of how
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these tests work? What students
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should expect anything like that?
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Ok. I don't see any. So let's
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go ahead and jump back. I'm just gonna close out of this tab. Remember
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the test open in a different tab?
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Just wanted to pull me back here.
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If I ever want to get back to home. You'll see.
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I've got a breadcrumb trail up top here.
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Or I can just hit the Petersons testing career
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prep banner up top
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and it'll pull me forward here.
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Now, let's scroll down again and let's look
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at a college prep. So we took a look at a high school
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test. Let's look at our college prep here.
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You'll see, we have it laid out the same to
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try to make it as easy as possible for this. You'll
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find the AC tpsatsat,
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all that great stuff here.
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Let's click into AC T
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I am gonna hit my view all first because I wanna show you,
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you see for a lot of our standardized tests, we not
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only have the AC T practice test
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section, but we also have a full
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online course. So this is really starting
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them from the very beginning.
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They can click into this and it's going to look familiar
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in the layouts, but it's going to be a little
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more comprehensive here.
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You'll see it's going down, going
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through like basic and advanced grammar,
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how to write,
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how to
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the intro to math, all that good stuff. You'll see,
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there's, there's a lot for the AC T as you could imagine.
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But this is a full course that they can click
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through it. So instead of just getting those
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practice tests, they can really dig
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in and start from the, the ground level all
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the way up.
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But I do want to show you up top here. So you'll see now
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I have my books section listed
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here. And for this, I've got a Peterson's
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AC T prep guide ebook
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and they'll be able to download this ebook.
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Here we go. And of course it downloads in the browser.
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They can save it to their desktop or wherever they want
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to save it to. And again, it is a complete
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ebook here. You'll see this one's 1000 pages.
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So it's a, it's a big hefty ebook, but they
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can go through
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whatever section they need to access
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to learn about that section here.
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And again, they can choose to download it, save
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it wherever they want it to go. It's
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ready to go for them.
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We can also add these ebooks to my
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resources as well.
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Maybe just add a few things so you can see what that looks
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like. So if they know
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they want to take a look at this HCT stuff
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and they don't have time right now. Add
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to my resources, we can click in at any
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point of top here.
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I've got a few other things saved here
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as well.
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But you'll see, I've got my ac T saved
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right here. I previously
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saved a different biology prep
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exam prep
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and I can click back into any of these whenever
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I need to. You'll see, I can also save
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schools, scholarships and jobs.
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But the my resources section, that's where
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they're going to find any testing that they've saved.
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We've got about five minutes and I've not
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seen any questions come in. We've got a very
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quiet group today, but I'd love for
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you to type your questions in the Q and A for me.
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I've got some wrap up information.
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Looks like we have a quick question.
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Um, about the ebooks. Can they highlight
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sections, paragraphs, et cetera? And the ebook is there
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in any interactivity?
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Um, unfortunately, there's not, it does download
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as a PDF. So if
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they can edit PDF S, um they can certainly
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highlight it that way using like a, you
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know, their Adobe products or anything like that. But
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um we don't include like any tools you find
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in other gale resources or anything like that in the
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download because it does download as a, a standard
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PDF file.
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Lets go ahead and take a jump back here.
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So just as a wrap up, if you have more questions
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about gale persons, Peterson's test in
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queer prep, or if you maybe want to talk
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about how you can best utilize it in your learning learning
[00:23:46.818]
community because of course everyone's is different.
[00:23:49.180]
You all have different users. If you want
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to be a little more specific to talk about it,
[00:23:53.259]
related to your learning community,
[00:23:55.529]
reach out to your customer success manager.
[00:23:57.618]
If you haven't talked to them yet, feel free to email
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[email protected]
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we'll forward you to the correct individual
[00:24:04.680]
and then you can talk specifics about the resource
[00:24:07.180]
about how you can promote it to your learning
[00:24:09.318]
community, maybe how you could train your staff,
[00:24:11.459]
whatever you need to talk about.
[00:24:13.680]
If right now, you don't have access to this
[00:24:15.789]
resource and you want to talk about that, you can reach
[00:24:17.920]
out to your sales consultant. If you don't know who
[00:24:20.098]
that is, you can just go to
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support.gale.com/repfinder
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We'll forward you to correct individual
[00:24:26.949]
there. You'll put in your information and we'll give you that
[00:24:29.049]
contacts name
[00:24:31.068]
and we also have some premade training
[00:24:33.318]
and support materials ready to go for you. So
[00:24:35.420]
if you want to promote this to your library
[00:24:37.500]
staff or maybe to your learning community
[00:24:39.880]
as a whole, we've got things like flyers,
[00:24:42.660]
short tutorials, bookmarks,
[00:24:45.559]
tip sheets, resource guides. The
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list goes on and on. So I would suggest
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if you are planning on getting this out and you want
[00:24:51.989]
to give your learning community
[00:24:54.239]
some information, take a look
[00:24:56.250]
at support.gale.com. We have quite
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a bit there for you
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and I do have a session survey if you have
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the time to take it, got about four minutes
[00:25:04.969]
left. So hopefully you wouldn't mind taking it
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with those four minutes. Just
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let us know that we're covering everything you need.
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And if we're not, we would love to have suggestions
[00:25:13.430]
to make sure these sessions
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are valuable for your time. I appreciate
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everyone for being on the line. If you have additional
[00:25:19.924]
questions like Megan that you need answered.
[00:25:22.505]
Feel free to send me an email after
[00:25:24.594]
the session and I'll be able to answer those for you
[00:25:26.914]
again. Thanks for being here everyone. Hopefully
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we'll see you all on future sessions.
Today, we're going to talk about how you can prepare
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your users for spring testing with
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Gale Presents: Peterson's Test and Career Prep
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My name is Amber Winters and
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I am your training consultant for the day.
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So our agenda first, I just wanna go over the very
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basics of Gale presents Peterson's
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test and career prep. So if you're not
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familiar with it, I just wanna give you a basic
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background before we really dive in. But after
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that background, we'll take a look at the features
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you're going to find in our test prep.
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So just a few different things your
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users will be able to click through to really kind
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of capture everyone in whatever learning
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style they prefer.
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We'll spend the majority of the time actually walking
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through our tests though. So we'll see what tests
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are available where they're found how
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our users can access them. And we'll also walk
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through a test. So you can see what that platform looks
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like as well.
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And again, if you have questions, you can put them in the
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Q and A at any time and I'll be able to answer them
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as we move forward or feel
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free to wait until the end of the session
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if you prefer and we'll have time at the very
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end for any questions as well as some wrap
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up information.
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Let's go ahead and get started here. So Gale Presents:
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Peterson's test and career prep
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does. As you would expect. first,
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it prepares your users for exams.
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So they're going to find practice tests,
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full courses related to different tests,
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ebooks and flash cards. They're going
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to help really all of your learners,
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whatever level they are. If they're at the secondary
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school level, if they're at the graduate level,
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if this is specifically for a vocational
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test, so they're adult learners, they'll find
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their prep within this resource.
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We also include a great foundational skills
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section. So if you have users coming
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in who are preparing for an exam but
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are maybe not quite there yet and need that
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more beginner information,
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they'll find some great foundational skills
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learning that we'll take a look at today.
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And those are focused in math and science, computer
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skills, which are great for older individuals
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who may be getting back in the workforce who may not be
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familiar with computers or
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just trying to pick up some new skills. And we
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also have information related to reading
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and writing within the resource as well.
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We're not going to go into this very
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closely today since we're talking about exam prep.
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But I definitely want to point out we do have a school
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and scholarship search in this platform
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and we have career tools available as
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well. So a career advice, our online resume
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builder, as well as different job searching
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tools.
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So again, we're talking about spring testing today.
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So we're really going to be focused on exam
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prep as our subject. So let's take a closer
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look at that and see what features we have
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with our exam prep. So of course, the first
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one as you would expect is going to be our practice
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tests and these tests are
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timed. Your users won't
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be stopped when time runs out. Some of them
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are time to show the remaining
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time. Some of them, they just give you an estimate
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of how long it took you to take the test. So
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they won't ever be paused. But
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users will be able to see how long
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it took them to take whatever tests. And if they know how
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long they have, they can kind of fine tune
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if they sped through it or maybe try to speed up
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a little bit if they took a long time
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and this information will be saved to user accounts.
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Remember Gale Presents: Peterson's
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resources do have named user accounts.
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So once the user starts a test,
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they'll be able to go back to it whenever they want
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to. Once they're submitted, they are
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automatically graded excluding essay
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responses. Um Those won't receive
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a grade, but they'll be able to see samples
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and examples of what's
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high quality responses are going to look like
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and they'll be able to compare their response to that.
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And many of our tests have more than one
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practice option available. So they
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are unlimited use. Users can
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take the same practice test, you know, 10 times
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if they feel like they need to take it 10 times.
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But oftentimes they'll find you know, two
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different versions of practice tests for the same
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test. So they'll get those different questions
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and be able to kind of shake it up a little bit.
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In addition to those practice tests, a lot
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of our tests, you have full ebooks that are
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downloadable. So they'll download to the desktop
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for your users. So they won't need to have access
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to the internet to use those. So they'll be able to take
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them offline.
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And what's great is they come in an actual kind
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of ebook design. So they're not just
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getting this long, you know, html
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text page that they're supposed to read through. if
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there are images or graphics or graphs
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or statistics or whatever it is
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within that ebook, it's going
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to download it like that for them. So they'll still
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get engaging content and they'll have that off
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the platform whenever they need it.
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We also have great flash cards for a lot of
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our tests here as well. These are really
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nice and quick. So I love these for users
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who are coming in, you know, saying I have like an hour
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and I just want to get some quick studying in. What
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should I do
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take a look at these flash cards? Just kind of click
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through these and you can go through as many as you like.
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If you only have a short amount of time,
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we're also going to include some different supplemental
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articles you could see for,
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I've pulled forward here, tips
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and strategies for the AC T. So
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these supplemental articles are
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going to be a lot of like strategies and things like
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that, but they'll also find basic test information.
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So, if they're taking the A
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P biology test coming up and they have absolutely
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no idea what it's gonna look like, what to
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expect what they should do. They
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can take a look at these supplemental articles to kind of
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get a better understanding. So they're not as
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overwhelmed, they're kind of ready to go in that
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sense. And
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finally, we also include links to testing
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websites here as well. So, if
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this is not something they're doing through school, maybe
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they need to register on their own.
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We can link them all over to those websites for
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this. You'll see, we have the GRE testing websites,
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and they can click in as a test taker and
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kind of move forward from there. If they need more
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information than what we provide or if
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they want to register for a test, they can do
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that. Right through Peterson's, we'll direct them
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to where they need to go.
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Now, I wanna just dive right into the resource
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so we can see all of the different tests we have,
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see how it's going to function for your users.
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Before I do, I haven't seen any questions
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in the Q and A but do we have any questions
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before we dive right in?
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Ok. I don't see any. We've got a quiet crowd
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crowd today, no problem. So
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this is the home page here of Gail presents Peterson's
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test and career prep and I do just want to
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pause here.
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If you have access to Gale
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presents Peterson's test prep,
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it's going to look a little bit different than this. You won't have
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those career tools. And if
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you have access to Gale presents Peterson's
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career prep, it will look a little
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bit different as well. So we have three different resources.
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We have test and career, we have career
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and we have tests. So if you're
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following along and you notice yours is a little bit different
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than mine, that's most likely why you'll still find
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great features. It'll just function a little
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bit differently than what I'm gonna show you today.
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So first I want to log in, you'll see, I can
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kind of scroll through and see what's going
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on in this resource without signing in.
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But for users to take any tests or
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use any of the features, they are going to need to have
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their account.
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We've got a question here. Are the tests updated to look
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like the digital SAT starting in 2024.
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I can check with my product manager. I know
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we do update frequently. I know there
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is an SI T update coming. I don't know exactly
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what it is. The person that you
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asked that anonymously, if you don't mind sending
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me an email after the session, I'll get
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with my product manager and I can give you an exact
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answer. So go ahead and
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either ask this non anonymously if you don't
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mind or send me a direct email once
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the session ends and I can give the exact answer
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for you. Ok?
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So let's go ahead and hit log in
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or sign up and
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this blue button here. I've already got an account.
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So I'm going to use that. I can sign up if I need
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to. So if this is the first time your users are
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clicking in,
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I recommend having them sign up immediately.
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Don't even scroll through the platform yet. Just
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sign up first. So they don't need to kind
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of stop their learning to sign in.
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There we go. But I already have my account set up here.
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Now, there are quite a few different ways that we
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can access our test prep,
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sections here. So the first one is
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going to be using the browse menu, which is
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found either in the Spanner here or
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at the very top of our page.
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Clicking into this, you'll see here, this gives
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kind of a um
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what your goal is as the first step. So
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they're going to click in, they want to improve a test
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score since we're talking about test prep and
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then you'll see we have some different categories here.
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So for today, the two kind of major
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categories we're most likely going to be looking
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at are going to be high school where they're going to find
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things like A P testing.
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If you have someone coming in taking the GED,
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they'll find that content by clicking into high school
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and they get kind of this next step here.
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And I will mention if I have anyone on the line from
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Texas or Florida, we do have
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specific sections for
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some assessments that you take at the state level
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if you need to for your users
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to those.
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And college prep is also listed here. This
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is where you're going to find the AC T,
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the PSAT the SAT, all that good stuff,
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grad school, we have listed here as well.
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So if we have individuals coming in, planning
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on taking the MC A T, they can find their information
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here as well.
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So in addition to using that browse menu, they can also
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scroll down
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and in the middle of the page, this gives them kind
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of more of an interactive feel
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and it's really helping them have kind of actionable
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steps. So they know they need to prepare
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for an exam. That's the step they need to take, they can
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click into, prepare for an exam.
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And just like previously, they just have to narrow
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it down here. So if they want high school prep
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again, we have the same kind of bits of information.
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Maybe they want to take a look at A P testing,
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theyll be pulled forward there
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and we have one final way to access the content.
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And that's if I go back to home and
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scroll down one more time,
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We kind of have this expanded
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look of these different sections. So I like
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this because it gives a quick view of what they
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can expect in each section. So previously,
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they had to click through high school then to see
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what comes in the high school section. But here
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you'll see, I've got a high school listed and it's telling
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me quickly, I'll find some A P, I'll
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find some different stem tests that I may be taking.
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If I'm taking an equivalency exam,
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I can click in here. Same for college
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prep. It's telling me the different things we're going to find
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here. I
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will mention we also have a full Us citizenship
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test won't go into it too much, but that's found
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under international. And there is another
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big one that users are often looking for
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scrolling under that we have our vocational test
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prep pulled out separately here. So if they need
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something related to vocations, they can find that
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here as opposed to this, improve
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your test score section
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and then scrolling down. We're going to get into the career tools
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that we're not going to look at today, but you
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do have those down here at the home page as well.
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So let's go ahead and click in first. We'll take
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a look at A P. We have a lot of students
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needing some support with A P testing. So
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I'm going to click directly here into where it says
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high school.
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Now, when you do that, you see it really kind of
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opens up a huge list of what we
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can take here. So we'll have all of our different
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options listed with these little tiles that kind
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of organize them for us.
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I will also mention here, we do have GED
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test prep in Spanish. We have practice
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tests. So if you have native Spanish speakers
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coming and looking for support and they're
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looking to get their GED, we have
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that listed in this platform,
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but let's click at advanced placement here
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and let's just view all of these to see what we have
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available. As you can imagine. We have a lot
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because there are a lot of different advanced placement
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tests,
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but you'll see here when I have these
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options, it's going to first give me just
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the course that I can click into.
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But next to that I have articles here,
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this one is specifically related to the college
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board and things like that.
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And then we've got an about section here as well.
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So notice that changes based on the test
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here, sometimes you'll see books
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listed, like for a P calculus. It looks like
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we have a book related to A P calculus.
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Just depending on what we have for each of the tests,
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it does vary based on what's published for each
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test.
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But your users can go through and find whatever they need
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and you'll see, I have the option to add to my resources
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here. What this is going to do, this
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is going to save it as you would expect to the
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my resources section which is found in the
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toolbar, toolbar up top here.
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So it's kind of like a quick link to get back
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to this. So if they're going to be taking, let's say the
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advanced placement biology practice test
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frequently, you know, if they're coming back
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through the next few weeks to make sure they're ready for
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their test, they may want to hit add
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to my resources. So then they don't need to
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kind of click through and find it again. They can just go
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right to my resources
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if they don't add it to my resources that's
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fine. They'll still be able to take the test.
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It'll still save their results
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to their
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their account name.
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It just won't be under my resources. But
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let's click into a P biology here so we can
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take a look at how this is all organized for
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us.
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And I will mention this does open in a separate
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tab. You'll see a top here. It opened in a different one.
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So if they're planning on studying for
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maybe more than one assessment
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or maybe they want to have um some
[00:13:12.879]
test prep pulled up on one, maybe some different
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strategies on another or some foundational
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skills videos on another
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tab, they'll be able to do that and they'll open
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the the browser for them.
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But this is what all of the different exam
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preps are going to look like. So they get on this
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main page and the content available
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again is going to change based on the test
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for our A P exams.
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The majority of them, you're going to find flashcards
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and study materials, an introduction that gives
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just kind of the background about the exam,
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what to expect things like that.
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It does oftentimes include instructional
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videos and then we have our practice tests here
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as well.
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So we can click into any of these. Lets just look at flash
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cards here
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and you'll see on this left hand side, it's showing us
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what flash cards we have available.
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I can click into any of these here,
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we'll see if anyone remembers their biology.
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So it's just give me the word and it's
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really simple, exactly what you would expect
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for flash cards. So, again, a really
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simple way
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to kind of go through and just get
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that very brief understanding of
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A P biology.
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Once I'm done with this here, I can hit my back
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button in the top left corner and that's going
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to pull me back to this main prep page.
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Now, let's go ahead and look at a practice test. So you'll see
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this one. I've actually already started here. So I've
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got a few different topics. I've already
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completed. I know that because I saved
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it to my account.
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So I'll click back in here so we can take a look.
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Let's,
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we'll do one that I haven't touched yet. So
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you'll see, I have a check on this first multiple choice
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because I actually already ran through that and
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submitted it.
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So let's go to the second one that I haven't done yet.
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So it gives me some quick instructions.
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You have 100 and 20 minutes to complete
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the exam before you submit your quiz.
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You want to go back and check to make sure you didn't miss anything.
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This is going to auto save so they won't need to hit
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save. So if they do just do a couple
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questions and then hop off, they
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didn't lose that content it's going to automatically save
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for them.
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And then when I'm ready to go, it's going to tell
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them to hit start quiz.
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Once they finish an attempt, they're
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going to get the grade for that attempt. If they want
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to start over, they'll just hit start quiz
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again and they'll get it'll list it as another
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attempt for them. So they'll be able to take it as
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many times as they want to.
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So, let's start with the quiz here.
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So, on the left side here, they're going to see how
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many questions they're going to have to answer
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and then they're just gonna go through and check them.
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We'll see if I get any right by quick clicking.
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But you'll see sometimes here they're going to have graphs
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and things. So we're trying to keep this as close to
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the actual tests as we possibly can
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and they can answer all of them. They can answer
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none if they really want to answer none.
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it's up to them, they can answer as many as they want
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to at the top here. This is showing
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how much time has elapsed. So I've been here
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for 30 seconds.
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So again, it's not going to cut me off,
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you know, once I hit, I think 100 and 20 minutes
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is how long they have for this section. it
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won't cut me off at that time, but it's going to tell me,
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you know, if I went past that time. Then I need to figure
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out um, how I can speed it up a little
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bit because on this, the actual test, I'm gonna run
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out of time. but
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let's go. So we answered some of those. Let's just call
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it a day. Let's say this is all I want to answer.
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I can hit submit quiz here. You'll see. It's telling
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me that I've only answered eight of 60.
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That's ok. I'm just gonna sub submit
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it anyways.
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It gives me another warning. I haven't answered
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these questions. My sense is I can
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actually click right back here. So if I didn't
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know that I didn't finish question 17,
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I can click right to it from this page, but
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I'm not gonna, we're gonna say this is good.
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So again, I have to say submit quiz again. So
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we really want to try to make sure they know if
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they didn't answer all the questions, but we'll
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submit our quiz here. It's gonna take
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a quick second to process the results. Of course,
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if they did finish
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the entire quiz, it might take a little bit longer
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to finish that because they're going to have to look
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through all of those questions. Let's
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see here.
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It looks like I actually got a couple right. So you'll see it's going
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to tell them their score.
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It's going to tell them the overall grade,
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which is the highest attempt as well. So if they have
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attempted this four times. it's going
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to show them which one they did the, the
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best on. Of course, I've only taken this once
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and I got three out of 60 so I got 50%.
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It's going to show them what the correct answer is and
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what they chose
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and then it's giving them feedback here as well. So
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this, I personally think is really important
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as your users are taking these if they don't know
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why they got a question wrong or if they just
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guessed and they don't know why they got it right.
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This supplemental information is going
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to be really handy for them and it's going to pop
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up on everything. If they got it right or
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wrong, you'll see here if they got it wrong,
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they get this little X and it does show them
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the correct answer. And again, we've got
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our feedback listed here.
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They can go all the way through once they're done, they'll just
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hit done.
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And now from here they're going to see all of their attempts
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with this nice little graphic here.
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Again, I've only taken it once, but I'll
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be able to kind of pull that forward here to see all
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of those different grades.
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And when I'm ready I can click into, let's say I
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want to take a look at the free response
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again, free responses aren't going to be
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graded automatically because we don't, you
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know, have individuals who are going through and reading these
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responses, but we can hit star
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quiz here.
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No. And you see, it's gonna look the same here.
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So they'll be able to type this out
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if they're at using
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um, like a P calculus or some other math
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tests. They have some math tools available for
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them, but
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theyll be able to go through and type out their answers
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here
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and just the same, they're going to submit just like
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with those multiple choice and then they'll get
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they'll see sample responses to see
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you know how their stacks up. If they had some of
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the same responses, if they had kind of the same
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layout or formatting, they'll be able
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to, to take a look at that.
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Now, I want to jump back here because I want to show you what
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an ebook is going to look like in this resource.
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And we don't have
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any book attached to a P biology.
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So I want to jump into a different test. But
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before I do, does anyone have questions just
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about the formatting of how
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these tests work? What students
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should expect anything like that?
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Ok. I don't see any. So let's
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go ahead and jump back. I'm just gonna close out of this tab. Remember
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the test open in a different tab?
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Just wanted to pull me back here.
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If I ever want to get back to home. You'll see.
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I've got a breadcrumb trail up top here.
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Or I can just hit the Petersons testing career
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prep banner up top
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and it'll pull me forward here.
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Now, let's scroll down again and let's look
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at a college prep. So we took a look at a high school
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test. Let's look at our college prep here.
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You'll see, we have it laid out the same to
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try to make it as easy as possible for this. You'll
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find the AC tpsatsat,
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all that great stuff here.
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Let's click into AC T
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I am gonna hit my view all first because I wanna show you,
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you see for a lot of our standardized tests, we not
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only have the AC T practice test
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section, but we also have a full
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online course. So this is really starting
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them from the very beginning.
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They can click into this and it's going to look familiar
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in the layouts, but it's going to be a little
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more comprehensive here.
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You'll see it's going down, going
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through like basic and advanced grammar,
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how to write,
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how to
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the intro to math, all that good stuff. You'll see,
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there's, there's a lot for the AC T as you could imagine.
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But this is a full course that they can click
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through it. So instead of just getting those
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practice tests, they can really dig
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in and start from the, the ground level all
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the way up.
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But I do want to show you up top here. So you'll see now
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I have my books section listed
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here. And for this, I've got a Peterson's
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AC T prep guide ebook
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and they'll be able to download this ebook.
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Here we go. And of course it downloads in the browser.
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They can save it to their desktop or wherever they want
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to save it to. And again, it is a complete
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ebook here. You'll see this one's 1000 pages.
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So it's a, it's a big hefty ebook, but they
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can go through
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whatever section they need to access
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to learn about that section here.
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And again, they can choose to download it, save
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it wherever they want it to go. It's
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ready to go for them.
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We can also add these ebooks to my
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resources as well.
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Maybe just add a few things so you can see what that looks
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like. So if they know
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they want to take a look at this HCT stuff
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and they don't have time right now. Add
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to my resources, we can click in at any
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point of top here.
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I've got a few other things saved here
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as well.
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But you'll see, I've got my ac T saved
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right here. I previously
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saved a different biology prep
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exam prep
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and I can click back into any of these whenever
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I need to. You'll see, I can also save
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schools, scholarships and jobs.
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But the my resources section, that's where
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they're going to find any testing that they've saved.
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We've got about five minutes and I've not
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seen any questions come in. We've got a very
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quiet group today, but I'd love for
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you to type your questions in the Q and A for me.
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I've got some wrap up information.
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Looks like we have a quick question.
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Um, about the ebooks. Can they highlight
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sections, paragraphs, et cetera? And the ebook is there
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in any interactivity?
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Um, unfortunately, there's not, it does download
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as a PDF. So if
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they can edit PDF S, um they can certainly
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highlight it that way using like a, you
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know, their Adobe products or anything like that. But
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um we don't include like any tools you find
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in other gale resources or anything like that in the
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download because it does download as a, a standard
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PDF file.
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Lets go ahead and take a jump back here.
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So just as a wrap up, if you have more questions
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about gale persons, Peterson's test in
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queer prep, or if you maybe want to talk
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about how you can best utilize it in your learning learning
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community because of course everyone's is different.
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You all have different users. If you want
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to be a little more specific to talk about it,
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related to your learning community,
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reach out to your customer success manager.
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If you haven't talked to them yet, feel free to email
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[email protected]
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we'll forward you to the correct individual
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and then you can talk specifics about the resource
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about how you can promote it to your learning
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community, maybe how you could train your staff,
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whatever you need to talk about.
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If right now, you don't have access to this
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resource and you want to talk about that, you can reach
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out to your sales consultant. If you don't know who
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that is, you can just go to
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support.gale.com/repfinder
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We'll forward you to correct individual
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there. You'll put in your information and we'll give you that
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contacts name
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and we also have some premade training
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and support materials ready to go for you. So
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if you want to promote this to your library
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staff or maybe to your learning community
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as a whole, we've got things like flyers,
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short tutorials, bookmarks,
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tip sheets, resource guides. The
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list goes on and on. So I would suggest
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if you are planning on getting this out and you want
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to give your learning community
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some information, take a look
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at support.gale.com. We have quite
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a bit there for you
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and I do have a session survey if you have
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the time to take it, got about four minutes
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left. So hopefully you wouldn't mind taking it
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with those four minutes. Just
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let us know that we're covering everything you need.
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And if we're not, we would love to have suggestions
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to make sure these sessions
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are valuable for your time. I appreciate
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everyone for being on the line. If you have additional
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questions like Megan that you need answered.
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Feel free to send me an email after
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the session and I'll be able to answer those for you
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again. Thanks for being here everyone. Hopefully
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we'll see you all on future sessions.