Training & Consultancy... Courses... IntelliKeys and Overlay Maker 3

IntelliKeys provides an essential alternative to the standard keyboard for learners with special needs. Together with Overlay Maker 3, it can be used to enable access to learning on the computer for anyone who is able to reach out and touch.

Colleagues attending this hands-on course will:

  • Learn how to connect the IntelliKeys to the computer and how to set up the board to meet the needs of individual learners.
  • Gain an overview of how IntelliKeys can be used with its standard overlays to support access to Windows based applications such as Microsoft Word, Internet Explorer and PowerPoint.
  • Learn how to create overlays using photographs, images and symbols from a variety of sources.
  • Learn how IntelliKeys and SwitchIt! Maker 2 can be used together to create simple teaching activities for learners with severe and complex learning difficulties.
  • Gain an overview of how IntelliKeys and Overlay Maker 3 can be used to provide access to learning for children with MDVI.

This course will be of interest to school or college based colleagues working directly with learners experiencing problems with physical access or those with severe and profound learning difficulties.

Each delegate will receive a 1Gb memory stick preloaded with extra material relevant to the course. It can also be used throughout the day to save their practical work.

10:00 Welcome and Introductions

10:10 Session 1

  • The benefits of using IntelliKeys.
  • The overlays provided with your IntelliKeys keyboard.
  • Connect up your IntelliKeys and explore the standard overlays.
  • Using the IntelliKeys control panel – explore its features.
  • How Overlay Maker 3 software can be used to edit the standard overlays.
  • Practice editing a standard overlay by simplifying the layout.

11:00 Break

11:15 Session 2

  • Now we will look at examples of overlays made using Overlay Maker 3 –including an overlay using letters from a child's name in sequence and in Qwerty order.
  • Practical activity – we will make a simple overlay using letters from a child's name in sequence, together with a photograph.
  • Now we will make a Qwerty version.
  • We will also look at how IntelliKeys can be used to operate other software, such as SwitchIt! Maker 2, Choose and Tell, etc.

12:30 Lunch

A buffet lunch is provided.

Delegates will also have the opportunity to look at other hardware and Inclusive Technology software.

13:30 Session 3

  • Using an overlay to control cause and effect software.
  • Making a single cell overlay to operate Big Bang software, and introducing tactile overlays.
  • Make a two-cell overlay to control a simple talking book made in SwitchIt! Maker 2 (the talking book is previously prepared).
  • Make a six-cell overlay to jump to pages in the talking book.

14:45 Break

15:00 Session 4

  • How IntelliKeys can be set up to send a sequence of key combinations with a single cell press.
  • Now we will make an overlay using sequences of key combinations, for controlling Media Player.
  • We will finish by exploring how IntelliKeys could be used to browse web pages, and make an overlay to do just that.

15:55 Plenary and certificates

16:00 Close

We can also run product based or general courses at your organisation, designed to meet your needs.
The team also offers consultancy.