Computer Club Scholars: Follow these instructions to practice typing with Mavis Beacon at home.

1. AFENYMS Computer Club:
At-Home Typing Tutorial

2. The Typing Claw!

3. The Typing Claw: Left Hand
Pointer finger = F key
Middle finger = D key
Ring finger = S key
Pinky finger = A key

4. The Typing Claw: Right Hand
Pointer finger = J key
Middle finger = K key
Ring finger = L key
Pinky finger = ; key

5. How do I pass a quiz?
You must do 3 things:
3) You must use the Typing Claw!
5) You must have 100% accuracy!
7) You must be fast enough!

6. How do I practice?

7. How do I know how I did?
A screen will pop up that tells you:
3) Your accuracy
5) Your WPM, or words per minute

8. Then what do I do?
If you pass:
Raise your hand, so Mr. Dunham
can watch you type.
If you don’t pass:
Click on “History,” then try again.
Keep practicing!
Required Scores:
Beginner Quiz #1: 15 WPM, 100% accuracy
Beginner Quiz #2: 18 WPM, 100% accuracy
Beginner Quiz #3: 22 WPM, 100% accuracy

9. The Home Row Keys
Your fingers should look like this:

10. The Home Row Keys
Your fingers should look like this:

11. Logging Onto the Computer
1) When you come into Computer
Club, your laptop stays all the way
closed until Mr. Dunham tells you
to open it.
3) Press the button on the front center
of the case and lift the laptop lid.
5) Press the oval power button in the
upper right-hand corner of the
keyboard.

12. 4) Once the computer turns on, your
screen should look like this. Wait
here:

13. 5) Next, hold down the Ctrl, Alt, and
Delete buttons all at the same time.

14. 6) The next screen should look like
this:
7) In the box next to “User name:” type
in: afbwar
8) Press the Enter key on the keyboard.

15. 9) Wait for Windows to load completely.
10) Once it has loaded. Hold down the
Fn key and the F1 key at the same time.
The bar on the screen should go to 0.

16. 11) Use the mousepad to click Start
then Programs.

17. 12) Then click Broderbund.
13) Click Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
Deluxe 17. Then select the program.

18. 14) Once the program loads
completely, click the Create New User
button.

19. 15) Click “Next.”
16) Type in your name. Don’t change any
of the settings. Click the Finish button.

20. 16) You’re in the program’s “lobby” now.
Move your mouse over the computer at
the bottom of the screen and click it.

21. 17) Click “Beginner Typist”.

22. 18) Follow the instructions on the
screen and spend the next few minutes
doing the lessons!

23. Shutting Down
1) When Mr. Dunham gives the cue,
click the X in the upper right-hand
corner of the Mavis Beacon
window. You don’t need to save.

24. 2) Click the Start button, then click
Shut Down, then click OK.

25. 3) Wait until the screen goes
completely black.