Bell Ringer Typing Practice
Each day when you enter class you will access http://www.typingtest.com/ and take a 3 minute typing test on the topic you choose. Once you have completed the test you will take a screen shot of the results, crop it, and submit it to me.
Follow these step-by-step instructions to take a screenshot and place it in a Word document
Step 1: Unless you’re taking a screenshot of just your desktop, make sure that the window you want to include in your screenshot is open.
Step 2: Press the ‘Print screen’ key: Prt Sc or PrtScn. This is usually on the top row of the keyboard. When you press this, you’ll be taking a screenshot of the desktop. On some laptop keyboards, if the Prt Sc text is on the top line of a button, you will need to press and hold the Shift key and then press Prt Sc.
Step 3: Immediately open a new Word document and click the ‘Paste’ icon, or hold down Ctrl on the keyboard and press V. Your screenshot will now appear as an image in your document.
Step 4: You can also take a screenshot of just the active window. To do this, hold down Alt while you press Prt Sc or PrtScn.
Step 5: You can resize your screenshot. Click on it and a frame will appear around the outside with small ‘handles’ on the corners and sides. You can change the size of the image by dragging on one or more of these handles with your mouse, making sure that the left mouse button is pressed down.
Step 6: Your screenshot can be treated the same as any other inserted image. When you click on it, two new ‘picture tools’ tabs will appear in the ‘ribbon’. These give you a number of formatting options, such as cropping and special effects. You will then save it to your Typing Test word document and submit it to me on Moodle.
- August 4 2016, 2:55 PM