Press-to-Test on the TI-Nspire Much of the following can be found on pg10 of Winter 2008-09 issue of “Nspiring Times – The newsletter by and for TI-Nspire.

Press-to-Test on the TI-Nspire

Much of the following can be found on pg10 of Winter 2008-09 issue of “Nspiring Times – The newsletter by and for TI-Nspire users” subscribe electronically at

http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/homePage/nspire-newsletter.html

Or from the Press-to-Test guide found at http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/homePage/nspire-press-to-test.html



TI-Nspire Operating System 1.3

Getting Ready for an Exam? Just Press, Then Test!• The TI-Nspire enhanced Press-to-Test feature is

designed to allow educators to quickly prepare the TI-Nspire handheld for exams.

• How does it work? First of all, it disables user files so they are inaccessible during the exam. After the exam, the teacher can easily and quickly restore the student documents for classroom use.

• Setting up the calculator & exiting Press-to-Test are both as easy (and able to be monitored) as 1,2,3.


Graphs and Geometry

Activation• Step 1

With TI-Nspire OFF,

TI-Nspire & TI-Nspire CAS Device

Press-to-Test


Graphs and Geometry


Turn TI-Nspire OFF

• Step 2

Press and hold the d and c keys


Press-to-Test



Turn TI-Nspire OFF

• Step 2

Press and hold the d and c keys

• Step 3

Make selections and confirm• Degree, Radian or Gradian

(Can be changed afterwards) • Optional restricted Geometry features

(Selected by default).• Disable function grab and move, e.g. line, quadratic

(Selected by default).


Press-to-TestOn the TI-Nspire or TI-Nspire CAS Touchpad an LED will flash when the device is in PTT mode.


• Notice the flashing LED at the top end of the TI-Nspire handheld. It will be green if you checked “Limit geometry functions” and it will be amber/yellow if you unchecked that box.

• During the rebooting process, there is also a red light combined with the green or amber light. Once reboot is complete, the red light goes away and the green/yellow continues to flash.

TI-Nspire Device

SECURITY:• The flashing LED is hardware-secure and cannot be impacted by coded software.• The student cannot get out of this mode by removing the batteries or by resetting

the device.• The student cannot change the keypad while in the Press-to-Test Mode, or they will

get a dialog box to change the keypad back to the one where Press-to-Test was invoked.


Red Displays during the boot entering and exiting Press-to-Test

Yellow Yellow Neither "Limit geometry functions" nor "Disable functiongrab and move" are selected.

Green Both "Limit geometry functions" and "Disable functiongrab and move" are selected.

Yellow-Green Either "Limit geometry functions" or "Disable functiongrab and move" is selected, but not both.

Pattern of all This state exists for 15 seconds while you exit three colors Press-to-Test mode. All lights then turn off.

Video of the flashing LED


Graphs and Geometry


Press-to-Test Mode on screen indications

LOCK symbol in upper corner Document Browser/Page Viewer

ON/OFF dialog window

~ Menu



Press-to-Test Mode~ Menu

1st connect two devices

Exit

Exiting – easy as 1,2,3 and able to be easily monitored

2nd with both units ON…

3rd Doc, 9Exit Press-to-Test

ExitExit


To easily get the entire class to exit Press-to-Test with the TI-Nspire Navigator or Connect-to-Class software use the Transfer Tool

With the TI-Nspire Navigator or Connect-to-Class, use Transfer Tool (end class if needed) to send "Exit Test Mode.tns" (this can be a blank tns that is called Exit Test Mode) to the Press-to-Test folder.

1. Click ‘Add to Transfer List’ and find Exit Test Mode.tns

2. Click that file, then click the ‘Edit destination Folder’ field

3. Click the ‘Change’ button and then ‘Start Transfer’

The next time you do this it is really fast and easy. Choose Transfer Tool, ‘Add to Transfer List’ and you are looking in the same folder that you were in last time. The Exit Test Mode file should be right there. Click the drop down option and select Press-to-Test among the other recent transfer folders. Click the ‘Change’ button and then ‘Start Transfer.’


Frequently Asked Questions

• Does it lock out students abilities to get into other saved documents so they can’t, for example, have work previously saved or crib notes in a notes page?

Yes ‘My Documents’ are locked, there is no access to library programs, and they get a fresh Scratchpad. (The screen above shows the ‘My Documents’ when a handheld is in Press-to-Test.)

• Is there a way I can set up a document I want the students to use, and have only that document unlocked on the calculator?

Not on version 2.0. With TI-Nspire Navigator or using TI-Connect-to-Class you can quickly send files that you want them to have access to.


• Is there a way to lock out certain features of the calculator. For instance, on a TI-Nspire CAS, can I turn off CAS? Does this allow you to lock out features that you don’t want a student to use?

You can limit the geometry features (Coordinate and Equations, Measurement, Construction, and Transformation)

However, you cannot turn CAS off on a TI-Nspire.

Frequently Asked Questions

Press-to-Test on the TI-Nspire Much of the following can be found on pg10 of Winter 2008-09 issue of “Nspiring Times – The newsletter by and for TI-Nspire.

Documents

turn tinspire

tinspire handheld

tinspire users

tinspire enhanced press

tinspire device security

tinspire cas touchpad

test slide

test mode