Setting Up and Getting Started for Interactive English Students
The following outline will guide you through setting-up your workstation
and prepare you to use Interactive English.
Step 1: Check your materials
- Interactive English PANs (books)
- Interactive English lesson CDs
- Interactive English Client Installer CD
Step 2: Review your hardware
- Your computer must meet specific hardware and software configurations
in order to run the Interactive English software successfully. A copy of
this workstation specification can be viewed from a page of our technical
support website, http://support.academic.com.
Click on "Getting Started Guide" and select Interactive English.
- If you have questions, you can contact Technical Support at 800-681-4357,
8 AM- 8 PM, Pacific, M-F.
Step 3: Install your workstation
- Insert the Interactive English Client Installer CD into your CD drive.
- Follow the directions included with the CD. An icon for Interactive English
will be installed on your desktop.
Step 4: Access the host server
- Connect to your ISP.
- Launch the Interactive English application. If a link is not apparent
on your desktop, you can direct your browser to http://www2.academic.com.
- Select your school from the drop down list.
- Choose profile of “Student.”
- Click “Do a Lesson.” Note that access to other information
is located on this page. The Getting Started link reviews technical requirements
and installation; the Interactive English link highlights resources.
Step 5: Log into your student account
- After selecting “Do a Lesson” from Step 4 above, you will
be presented with a login screen to Interactive English. Enter your login
and password – these will be furnished by your instructor.
- Once you have logged in, you will be presented with an Overview menu.
There are four options available on this screen: Overview (current screen),
Do a Lesson, Check My Progress, Log Off.
Step 6: Complete a Lesson
- Choose Do a Lesson.
- Put on your headphones.
- Follow your course outline. Choose the specified lesson by double clicking
on the title, or click the lesson title once to highlight and click the
page-turning arrow in the lower right of the screen.
- Place the corresponding lesson CD in the CD-ROM drive.
- Complete the lesson. You may quit the program during the lesson by choosing
Quit from the File menu. Be sure to leave the CD in the drive until you
have completely exited the lesson.
Step 7: Check your progress
- Once you have completed some lesson content, you can check your progress
report. You can do this by exiting the lesson and returning to the main
menu.
- Choose Check My Progress from the main menu.
- Highlight Student Achievement report and click View.
- Your report will be presented.
