TEACHER SOFTWARE - Soldamatic : Soldamatic

1 1 TEACHER SOFTWARE GUIDE TEACHER SOFTWARE GUIDE 2 TEACHER SOFTWARE GUIDE Table of Contents 0. INTRODUCTION .. 3 1. TEACHER SOFTWARE INSTALLATION .. 4 2. START USING YOUR TEACHER SOFTWARE .. 11 COURSES .. 11 ADD 16 EDIT COURSE .. 18 DELETE COURSE .. 19 3. STUDENTS .. 20 STUDENT 21 ADD 23 EDIT STUDENT .. 24 DELETE STUDENT .. 25 4. MODULES: .. 26 TASKS: .. 27 ADD A TASK .. 28 EDIT & DELETE TASK .. 35 5. VIRTUAL CLASSROOM .. 36 6. ANALYSIS MODULE .. 40 SCORING .. 45 7. SETTINGS .. 46 3 TEACHER SOFTWARE GUIDE TEACHER SOFTWARE 0.

2 INTRODUCTION First, we would like to thank you very much for choosing our new Soldamatic AUGMENTED TRAINING TECHNOLOGY to help you modernize and improve your welding training processes. AUGMENTED TRAINING has been designed and developed to introduce a competitive technological innovation to help the welding training institutions, attending current and future increasing government and market demands for competent welders in different sector. We support our clients to achieve their objectives of qualifying more welding professionals, locally, in less time safer, reducing the environmental impact, promoting women participation in a traditionally male profession and a cost-effective way, contributing to increase countries and companies competitiveness for growth and employment generation.

3 This guide does not intend to be a welding guide, this is a guide to understand the use of none of the AUGMENTED TRAINING components. The TEACHER SOFTWARE enhances the instructor s labour letting him/her to do his/her best. This tool allows creating, organizing, and monitoring a welding course including theory and practice. If you need welding training orientation e-mail us at and we could help you through our partnerships with welding experts worldwide. We have also started to build a Soldamatic community so that different users worldwide can share their experiences and take the best profit of our technology to accomplish their welding training objectives.

4 We can help you train more qualified welders, in less time, safely, sustainably and reducing your welding training costs. For more information, follow us in: 4 TEACHER SOFTWARE GUIDE 1. TEACHER SOFTWARE INSTALLATION Download the TEACHER SOFTWARE at: Hardware requirements: - Windows Vista, 7 - Processor 32 bits (x86) 3MB - RAM 2GB - Graphic 512MB DirectX compatible. - NVidia GeForce GT440 or higher - ATI Radeon HD5000 or higher - HDD 250MB Installation Double-click on the file. Select your language: Continue with the TEACHER SOFTWARE Setup process: 5 TEACHER SOFTWARE GUIDE 6 TEACHER SOFTWARE GUIDE 7 TEACHER SOFTWARE GUIDE Connections.

5 If you are running the StandAlone configuration: - Switch on the supplied ROUTER WIFI. - Switch on your Soldamatic . If you are running the Classroom configuration: - Connect the supplied ROUTER WIFI to the Soldamatic SERVER using the supplied Ethernet cable. 8 TEACHER SOFTWARE GUIDE - Switch on both the ROUTER and the SERVER. - Switch on your SOLDAMATICs. For both configurations, connect the computer where you are running the TEACHER SOFTWARE to the Soldamatic network. Please, make sure that it is connected to the Soldamatic network and not to any other available network.

6 Use the quick access to open the TEACHER SOFTWARE . The following screen will appear: Language Selection: It is available in the upper right side of the screen: The first time you run the program, English language is set by default. Select your language and it will not be changed anymore. 9 TEACHER SOFTWARE GUIDE Login: an IP address will be required. - StandAlone configuration: The IP address appears on the lower left corner of your Soldamatic screen as showcased in the following picture: Once you know the IP address, introduce it in the TEACHER login screen: -Classroom Configuration: The IP address is always the same: Press connect.

7 Enter User ( TEACHER ) and password ( Soldamatic ): 10 TEACHER SOFTWARE GUIDE If the connection fails, the following message will be displayed: This error may be caused by one of these two issues: 1. Error when writing the IP address. Check it and try again. 2. Please, make sure that you are connected to the Soldamatic network and check that all the steps have been properly followed and both the supplied router and the Soldamatic simulator are connected. 11 TEACHER SOFTWARE GUIDE 2. START USING YOUR TEACHER SOFTWARE COURSES In the left part, you will find a list of courses added by default: - Welding Curricula - Open Demo - Abicor Binzel course All the courses you would like to add will appear there.

8 You can add, edit, and delete courses. IMPORTANT: all the courses included by default cannot be edited. 12 TEACHER SOFTWARE GUIDE Course data: Name: Official name of the course. Objectives: Objectives of the course. Theory hours: Planned number of theory hours (to be studied through e- Soldamatic or in the Soldamatic simulator). Soldamatic hours: Planned number of Soldamatic simulator practice hours. Workshop hours: Planned number of real welding booth practice hours. Classroom: Classroom assigned to the course in the training center. Training center: Name of the training center.

9 Instructor: Name of the welding instructor. Synchronize with eSoldamatic: This option is to synchronize every single content TEACHER wants to the e-Learning Platform. 13 TEACHER SOFTWARE GUIDE Modules: You can add or delete modules from a course previously CREATED (modules are created from modules menu). Select the course you want to manage modules for. You can see all the created students in the left column, and all the students assigned to the course in the right one. Use the arrow to add a module to the selected course: you can make the same action by dragging the selected module to the modules list of the course in question.

10 Use the arrow to remove modules from the selected course. You can make the same action by dragging the selected module to the total list of modules 14 TEACHER SOFTWARE GUIDE Students: You can add or delete students from a course previously CREATED (students are created from the students menu). Select the course you want to manage students for. You can see all the created students in the left column, and all the students assigned to the course in the right one. Use the arrow to add a student to the selected course.