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Professor Teaches Update (updated 8.24.10)

We now carry Professor Teaches: MS Office 2007(RR16) and Professor Teaches: MS Office 2010 (#RR07). Professor Teaches software is Windows 7 compatible.

What products available?

Do you need MS 2007 to use Professor Teaches?

No, you don't need to purchase any other software to use these tutorial programs. Having stand-alone tutorial software can help you decide if you want to upgrade to the next version of a piece of software. It also provides the flexibility to use the tutorial software on a system that may not have the application you're learning (i.e. maybe a laptop), when you have the application on another system in your home. (10.15.09)

Professor Teaches: Recording progress

The software itself doesn’t keep a record of “scoring” in any way. However, the program itself is logically designed with learning objectives for each chapter and a summary and quiz at the end of each chapter. The software will also track where the student ends each time they leave the software. It should be relatively simple for the student or teacher to record progress through the program. (10.20.08)

Professor Teaches: Web pages and Graphics item RR17

  • Your computer-whiz students complete twelve courses in one program, or just the ones they need! Over 700 self-paced lessons teach them fundamentals of web design and HTML, advanced HTML, and how to create and change all sorts of web pages and graphics using top programs from Microsoft (Publisher 2007, Expression Web, and FrontPage) and Adobe (Dreamweaver CS3 and 8, Photoshop CS2 and CS3, and Flash CS3 and 8). Real-life simulation exercises—not videos—plus chapter quizzes make learning fast and easy.
  • CD-ROM for Windows (Pentium PC or higher, Windows Vista, XP, or 2000)
  • Do you need to purchase any of the software referred to, or are the simulations are included with this program, so you don't need to add any other software to learn how to use those applications?
    • It might be somewhat fruitless to learn software you don't own, but the frustration I was having with many of the software applications I reviewed was that I didn't have the current *version* of the software that the tutorial was teaching. Thus the tutorial didn't always work exactly as it should. I think that having stand-alone tutorial software can help you decide if you want to upgrade to the next version of a piece of software. It also provides the flexibility to use the tutorial software on a system that may not have the application you're learning (i.e. maybe a laptop), when you have the application on another system in your home.
  • The length of each lesson will depend a great deal on how quickly your student moves through each lesson. Part of each lesson is audio/visual ... and part of each lesson is interactive. The length of the audio/visual portion varies with each lesson. There are a series of "sections" with a number of lessons in each section. When you open a section to see the lessons included, the program will tell you how long the entire section will take. Some take 30 minutes ... others may take 70 minutes. (added 7.31.08)
  • The program allows you to make what you've completed so you can begin where you left off. You have the option of reading the basic text for each page or listening to the "Professor" teach the lesson (a bit more engaging). (added 7.31.08)
  • There's also an index and glossary of terms available. (added 7.31.08)