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“I love Snap. It has saved me so much time. I'm definitely using it forever!”
--Carol van Wyngaarden, James A. Rhodes State College |
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“This year I tried the SNAP testing program and what can I say – it was a SNAP. [It’s] intuitive and very easy to use for myself and my students. Creating practice tests and scheduling them for student self study was as simple as 1-2-3. The flexibility in setting grade weighting on scored tests was excellent. The best part though was the Web-based delivery. No need to have it installed on the college server meant it was available to me and my students off campus and from any computer with an Internet connection.
I was able to set up sections, create and schedule tests and review and adjust test results from home. Accessing the practice tests from home was appreciated by my students. This flexibility meant they could study where and when they wanted – no need to come to the college and wait for a workstation to become available in one of our computer classrooms.
I know that there is much more that SNAP has to offer and plan to utilize its full potential in the months to come.”
--Diane Blaney, M.Ed, Capilano College
North Vancouver, British Columbia
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“...As far as Snap goes, it is an excellent product — I have been waiting for it — it really makes the teaching and testing processes much easier... I think the product is great. My students like it as well...”
--Amy Levins Smith, Black Hawk College
Moline, IL
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“After having seen a presentation at our college on Snap this semester, I've been able to use it in the classroom and see how dynamic a program Snap is. The ease of evaluating hands-on skill compentencies is fantastic.”
--Ken Howey, York Technical College |
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“Even though I'm still learning about Snap, I can see it's easy to use. I also like the way it can test application and theory, and best of all, no grading required!”
--Barbara Ross, Martin Community College |
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“SNAP is awesome! ...it has made my life so much easier! I used to spend an average of 4-6 hours grading one class' papers for an Excel or Access lab test, and now it is done automatically through SNAP and the student has instant feedback and remediation with the built-in tutorials! It's great!”
--Excel and Access Instructor, Mississippi
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“Snap makes skill testing effective and efficient. My students navigate through the web site with ease. I have tried several other skill evaluation softwares and Snap is by far the most productive for my students.”
--Jane Jones, Mountain Empire Community College,
Big Stone Gap, VA |
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“Snap is great! I have used other online testing environments and so far I have found Snap to be much easier to use. Here are some things I really like:
- Questions can be chosen by chapter or objective.
- Test questions can be read on the same screen used for selecting. No switching back and forth between windows.
- Exams can be easily modified and a new exam created on the same materials without using duplicate questions because I can see the questions I’ve already used before.
- Students can easily be rescheduled for an exam; I simply choose to reset his or her exam. This worked great!
- Reports are easy to understand and informative; there are so many options available.
- Students can be easily informed of their Snap codes should they forget them.
- Concept questions require students to think. One of my students told me that she really had to think about how she uses the software to answer. She stated that the questions weren’t hard so much as thought provoking. I like this!
- Snap accommodates the many various procedures computer users can follow to perform on the skills test questions.
- Being able to use Snap in the Word Processing class has been rewarding because I can now determine whether the student is using the software itself correctly or not. A hard copy of a document in such a class only shows the end result.”
--Jo Mariea Torrey
Hinds Community College
Raymond, MS
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“In the early-to-mid 80’s I started teaching WordPerfect and used Nita Rutkosky’s textbook. What I have always like about her books is the progression from simple to more complex and moving from step-by-step examples to an application level. Snap has enhanced my students’ experiences even more. The product was obviously ready for release when my students started using it because we have not had any difficulties. Snap is especially helpful in testing the Word skills without the hours I used to spend in paper grading. A special thanks to Nita for all her hard years of work and to your Snap development team!”
--Mar-Sue Ratzke, Rio Hondo College
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“What a relief to have so much support and so easy to use. What did we ever do without SNAP? Great for students, great for the instructor and great for the employer who receives a better trained graduate.”
Cora Newcomb
Technical College of Lowcountry |
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“…As far as the ease of use, I found it extremely easy to create a quiz…I am also happy with the Microsoft Office simulation. I think it [Snap] is a great tool.”
--Sherry Howard-Spreitzer
Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, MI |
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“…I was pleased with all of the technical support I got when I first started setting up my courses…Overall, my students and I really like Snap…”
--Paula Luft, Black Hawk College, Kewanee, IL |
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"One of my online students asked in Discussion Board how everyone was doing in the course. Well, a student wrote back, 'It's a SNAP!' I had to share this with you...I hope the rest of the class is a SNAP like Word."
--Jackie Warren, Tidewater Community College
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What are students saying about SNAP? |
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“…the SNAP program was very useful to me. It helped me with all the lessons and take the MOS [Microsoft Office Specialist] Certification test. The SNAP program was very easy to understand. The tutorials were very useful too…I loved working with it.”
-- Student, Maple Valley Jr./Sr. High School, Michigan
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“I enjoy using the SNAP program a lot. SNAP makes it easier to learn and remember the skills. The concept checks and tests also help me know how well I know the skills. SNAP was also a big help in preparing for the Word Expert test…SNAP is a good program that I hope we continue to use it.
-- Student, Maple Valley Jr./Sr. High School, Michigan
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“SNAP is an informative and detailed program. The tutorials were great in teaching the lesson and preparing us for the tests…This program makes it easy to learn advanced techniques in an easy and efficient way.”
-- Student, Maple Valley Jr./Sr. High School, Michigan
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“I feel that the SNAP tests and tutorials were a good measurement of our knowledge. It has a correct amount of information for the tutorials and exercises we did. I thought the tests were long enough also.”
-- Student, Maple Valley Jr./Sr. High School, Michigan
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“I found SNAP to be very helpful in helping me understand Word more thoroughly. The skills parts of the tutorials helped for testing purposes and it was a preview to the chapter. The tests were helpful and easy to understand…The textbook was very informative and detailed. The end of the chapter challenges will help prepare for the real world. Considering that SNAP is mostly used by colleges, it was very impressive that it was so easy to understand and use. SNAP also helped me to achieve MOS [Microsoft Office Specialist] certification at the expert level.”
-- Student, Maple Valley Jr./Sr. High School, Michigan
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“I recently took the MOS [Microsoft Office Specialist] Expert Certification test. I used the SNAP tutorials and textbook to learn how to use Microsoft Office and help to prepare for the MOS Expert Certification test…The textbook was very informative and detailed. It really helped if you have never did that activity before. The end of the chapter challenges really made me think about how I would do an activity on my own without detailed instructions leading me through each step. The chapter challenges and case study helped me prepare for when I am in the real world. The tutorials were really helpful to explain what I was going to be doing in the lesson and lead me through Microsoft Office…The good thing about the SNAP tests was that it told what I did wrong after I took the test and where I could find out how to do it correctly.”
-- Student, Maple Valley Jr./Sr. High School, Michigan
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“…I personally used SNAP and liked it a lot. I am one of the students that passed the Expert Word Test and wouldn’t have been able to if it wasn’t for SNAP. I thought that the tutorials helped to prepare me for the work I was going to do from the Word Expert 2003 book. They were also good for testing purposes…
-- Student, Maple Valley Jr./Sr. High School, Michigan
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“…I thought that the tutorials were very helpful to prepare for the test and also as an introduction to the chapter. It was really easy to understand and very detailed. I feel that I know so much more about Word.”
-- Student, Maple Valley Jr./Sr. High School, Michigan
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“Overall I liked the SNAP program. [I]t was a helpful tool in preparing for the Microsoft Office Specialist Word 2003 Expert test…”
-- Student, Maple Valley Jr./Sr. High School, Michigan
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“SNAP is a very informative and detailed [program]. The tutorials (skills) helped for testing purposes and preface to lessons…All around, SNAP is very good for testing and preparing people for what they might need to know about computers. I think it is a very good program and it has helped me out a lot.”
-- Student, Maple Valley Jr./Sr. High School, Michigan
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