Keyboarding Assessment Rubric

You have now been keyboarding for several weeks. You are familiar with the key elements to increasing your keyboarding speed and accuracy:

• Home row
• Proper keyboarding ergonomics or body position
• Proper keyboarding technique
• Touch typing

Your speed and accuracy goal for this course as you complete your Keyboarding Online lessons is 25 WPM. If you reach this speed by high school, you should be able to skip an introductory high school keyboarding course and enroll in a higher computer applications course.

After you complete the 24 keyboarding lessons, you will take the final Keyboarding Assessment.

The first half of the Keyboarding Assessment tests your knowledge of proper keyboarding ergonomics and technique. The second half of the assessment is a skill demonstration, where you will demonstrate that you understand and use correct keyboarding body position and technique.

There are 20 questions. The grading rubric is as follows:
A = 18 - 20 correct
B = 16 - 17 correct
C = 14 - 15 correct

Don't worry...you'll do a great job!

Time to Type

Let's review what you learned about Keyboarding yesterday.

What is the most important thing for you to remember?

That's right...the Home Keys.

What are the home keys?

Left Hand

a s d f

Right Hand

j k l ;

What are the other special keys?

Right Thumb

space bar

Pinky Fingers

Shift Keys (for making capital letters)

Open "Intro to Keyboarding", we'll finish up the introductory lesson and then we'll practice typing!

Let's Make a Name Tent

Who's ready to do a fun activity?

Follow the steps below to make your name tent:

1. Look at the "Class Resources" section on the right
   
2. Click on Name Tent
   
3. This will download the name tent to your desktop
   
4. Click and hold the "Applications" folder at the bottom of your screen
   
5. Go to "Microsoft Office" and move across to click on "Microsoft Word"
   
6. Click "Open Other"
   
7. Click on "Desktop"
   
8. Click on "NameTent.rtf"
   
9. Click "Open"
   
10. This will open the name tent document
    
11. Double click on the words "My Name"
    
12. Type your name in the box
    
13. Click "OK"
    
14. Double click on the other "My Name" (this one is upside-down)
    
15. Type your name in the box
    
16. Click "OK"
    
17. Click on "File" at the top of the screen
    
18. Click on "Save" at the top of the screen
    
19. Click on "File" at the top of the screen
    
20. Drop down to "Print" and let go
    
21. Click on "Print"
    
22. Fold your paper in half lengthwise
    
23. Fold the edges of your paper inside
    
24. Place your name tent on top of your computer
    
25. Quit "Microsoft Word"
    
26. Drag the "NameTent.rtf" file into the trash

Great job!