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Lesson Type
Split a Lesson into multiple small lessons
● Navigation Tree: It displays the current keyboard layout, current course, section and lesson.
● Editing panel: This is the area, where you can edit the existing course options or the selected lesson in the Navigation Tree.
● Text analysis table: This displays the number and percentage of words, characters, spaces and specific characters in the
lesson.
● Virtual keyboard: This keyboard displays the highlighted characters of the selected lesson using the touch typing method.
5. What are some of the important features of the Rapid Typing Tutor software?
Ans. Some of the features of the Rapid Typing Tutor software are:
● It provides effective tutorial lessons.
● It shows the statistics of your performance.
● It supports various languages and keyboard layouts.
● It allows creating groups and designing lessons.
6. Differentiate between the QWERTY and DVORAK keyboard layouts.
Ans. QWERTY: It is the most efficiently designed, standard keyboard layout used in countries that use Latin-based alphabets.
This layout is followed in most of the PCs, laptops, virtual keyboards, smart TV, smartphones etc. The name ‘QWERTY’
comes from the first six alphabets on the left side of the keyboard. The earliest typewriter keyboards, with QWERTY layout
was designed by an American inventor - Christopher Latham Sholes, to reduce the jamming of the type bars and also to
speed up the typing process.
DVORAK: This layout was also designed for Latin-based alphabets and as an alternative to the QWERTY layout. It was
created by August Dvorak in the 1930’s. The main advantage of this layout is that it requires less movement of fingers, thus
reducing the typing errors which in turn will help in increasing the typing speed.
7. What are the two different ways to delete a text?
Ans. There are two different ways to delete a text:
Using Del key: Place the cursor to the left of the text to be deleted. Press Del key to remove the letter. Keep holding it down
in a pressed position, to delete in a continuous process.
Using Backspace key: Place the cursor to the right of the text to be deleted. Press the Backspace key to remove the letter.
Keep holding it down in a pressed position to delete in a continuous process.
8. What are the uses of Touch Typing technique?
Ans. The Touch Touching technique has become an essential skill for the data entry operators because:
● It speeds up the typing process as the touch typist doesn’t have to look at the keyboard.
● There are a few chances of making errors, so it increases productivity.
● It also improves the sitting body posture and reduces the neck pain as the focus is on the screen and not on the keyboard.
9. What is the use of the Shift key?
Ans. Shift key is a modifier key used to perform an alternate function, if used in combination with the keys with a dual function.
For example, if the Caps Lock key is off, then Shift+d will print capital D.
21 st #Critical Thinking
C. Competency-based/Application-based questions: Century #Information Literacy
Skills
1. An English teacher conducted an online essay competition with a time limit of half an hour. Priya participated in the
competition by typing 100 words in 10 minutes, with mistakes in 5 words. What will be her:
a. Gross and Net typing speed b. Accuracy percentage?
Ans. a. Gross and Net typing Speed
Gross speed = 100/10 = 10 wpm
Net speed = 10 wpm – (10/5)
= 10 – 2 = 8 wpm
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