Faculty Instructions for Skills Tutor

Skills Tutor includes instruction sets that are well documented. After logging in, you will find these documents by going to the View Guides page. If you have any questions, or if you would like a hard copy of any of the Skills Tutor instructions, contact Bob Yavits at 607.844.8222, Ext. 4357 or E-mail Bob.

The remainder of this document provides instructions for each of the following:

• Required Viewers, page 2
• Logging in to Skills Tutor , page 2
• Adding a Class , page 3
• Adding Students to a Class, page 4
• Adding Content Areas to a Class, page 5
• What Will Your Students See?, page 5

Required Viewers

There are two required viewers for Skills Tutor. If you cannot login to the system, you may be missing one of these, and you will have to set them up.

To do so, go to the Skills Tutor support page. In the sidebar on the left, click on System Requirements under Skills Tutor. Scroll down a bit to will find the following two buttons:

To set up the viewers, click on each of these buttons in turn and follow the instructions.

Note: This may also need to be done on your students' computers.

Logging into Skills Tutor

First, go to My Skills Tutor. You should already have a User Name and a Password. (If you don't yet have a User Name or Password for Skills Tutor, and you are teaching for TC3, contact Bob Yavits at 607.844.8222, Ext. 4357 or E-mail Bob)

Fill in the Site field with:
tompkins02

After logging in, you will see the following Root Menu:

• Classes
• Reports
• View Activity
• Teacher Properties
• View Tutorials
• View Guides & Worksheets
• Log Out

You will use these options to navigate to the various features of Skills Tutor. Normally you can return to the Root Menu by clicking on the Done link in the sidebar continually until you have reached the Root Menu.

Adding a Class

From the Root Menu, select Classes / Add Classes

Most classes should have a standard Class Name as an identifier. Therefore, you should begin the class name with the capital letters that correspond to your school:

• TC3: Tompkins Cortland Community College
• DRYHS: Dryden High School
• ITHHS: Ithaca High School
• OCMB: OCM BOCES
• TSTB: TST BOCES
• TSTCS: TST Community School

The remainder of the Class Name should correspond to the particular class that you are teaching. This should be preceded by a hyphen with no spaces.

Class Name Example

If you were to teach section #3 of English at Ithaca High School, you may use the following Class Name:

ITHHS-English03

After entering the Class Name, select:

• Add this Class (for a single class)
• Add this Class and Next (for multiple classes.)

At the next screen, you can select Done to return to the Root Menu.

Adding Students to a Class

From the Root Menu, go to:

• Classes — and select the class that you wish to use.
• Class Properties / Students / Enrollment

Check the list of current students for any of your students who may already have Skills Tutor accounts.

If you find any of these, select the relevant student(s) and select:

• Enroll Selected Student(s)

For any student(s) not found on this list, select:

• Add New Student(s)

Fill out the form with the appropriate information.

To be consistent, create your student User Names by using the first name followed by the last name of the student, all in lower case with no spaces. If you find that there is another student is already in the system with the same name as your student, simply include the student's middle initial in the User Name.

User Name Example

The User Name for John Steven Doe could be johndoe or johnsdoe.

You may use any strategy that you wish for assigning passwords, as long as you are sure that they are secure. Note that students will also be able to change their own passwords.

After filling out this form, to add another student, select:

• Add this Student and Next

When you are finished adding students, select:

• Add this Student

After adding your students, you can locate, view, and print your CLASS ROSTER by selecting:

• Classes / Reports / Class Roster

Next you should add the appropriate content areas for your course. If you do not do this, your students will have access to all eight content areas by default.