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1 TEACHER SOFTWARE GUIDE

TEACHER SOFTWARE

GUIDE


Table of Contents 0. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................... 3

1. TEACHER SOFTWARE INSTALLATION .................................................................................... 4

2. START USING YOUR TEACHER SOFTWARE .......................................................................... 11

2.1 COURSES ...................................................................................................................... 11

2.2 ADD COURSE...................................................................................................................... 16

2.3 EDIT COURSE ..................................................................................................................... 18

2.4 DELETE COURSE ................................................................................................................. 19

3. STUDENTS ............................................................................................................................ 20

3.1 STUDENT INFORMATION................................................................................................... 21

3.2 ADD STUDENT.................................................................................................................... 23

3.3 EDIT STUDENT ................................................................................................................... 24

3.4 DELETE STUDENT .............................................................................................................. 25

4. MODULES: ........................................................................................................................... 26

4.1 TASKS: ................................................................................................................................. 27

4.2 ADD A TASK ....................................................................................................................... 28

4.3 EDIT & DELETE TASK .......................................................................................................... 35

5. VIRTUAL CLASSROOM ......................................................................................................... 36

6. ANALYSIS MODULE .............................................................................................................. 40

6.1 SCORING ............................................................................................................................ 45

7. SETTINGS ................................................................................................................................. 46


TEACHER SOFTWARE

0. INTRODUCTION

First, we would like to thank you very much for choosing our new SOLDAMATIC AUGMENTED

TRAINING TECHNOLOGY to help you modernize and improve your welding training processes.

AUGMENTED TRAINING has been designed and developed to introduce a competitive

technological innovation to help the welding training institutions, attending current and future

increasing government and market demands for competent welders in different sector. We

support our clients to achieve their objectives of qualifying more welding professionals, locally,

in less time safer, reducing the environmental impact, promoting women participation in a

traditionally male profession and a cost-effective way, contributing to increase countries and

companies’ competitiveness for growth and employment generation.

This guide does not intend to be a welding guide, this is a guide to understand the use of none

of the AUGMENTED TRAINING components. The Teacher Software enhances the instructor’s

labour letting him/her to do his/her best. This tool allows creating, organizing, and monitoring

a welding course including theory and practice.

If you need welding training orientation e-mail us at [email protected] and we could help

you through our partnerships with welding experts worldwide.

We have also started to build a SOLDAMATIC community so that different users worldwide can

share their experiences and take the best profit of our technology to accomplish their welding

training objectives. We can help you train more qualified welders, in less time, safely, sustainably

and reducing your welding training costs. For more information, follow us in:

mailto:[email protected]


1. TEACHER SOFTWARE INSTALLATION

Download the Teacher Software at:

http://www.soldamatic.com/update/20170609Soldamatic_TeacherSoftware_242_808.zip

Hardware requirements:

- Windows Vista, 7

- Processor 32 bits (x86) 2.2GHz 3MB

- RAM 2GB

- Graphic 512MB DirectX 9.0c compatible.

- NVidia GeForce GT440 or higher

- ATI Radeon HD5000 or higher

- HDD 250MB

Installation

Double-click on the ‘Install.exe’ file.

Select your language:

Continue with the Teacher Software Setup process:

http://www.soldamatic.com/update/20170609Soldamatic_TeacherSoftware_242_808.zip


Connections.

If you are running the StandAlone configuration:

- Switch on the supplied ROUTER WIFI.

- Switch on your Soldamatic.

If you are running the Classroom configuration:

- Connect the supplied ROUTER WIFI to the Soldamatic SERVER using the supplied Ethernet

cable.


- Switch on both the ROUTER and the SERVER.

- Switch on your SOLDAMATICs.

For both configurations, connect the computer where you are running the Teacher Software to

the SOLDAMATIC network.

Please, make sure that it is connected to the SOLDAMATIC network and not to any other

available network.

Use the quick access to open the ‘Teacher Software’. The following screen will appear:

Language Selection: It is available in the upper right side of the screen: The first time you run

the program, English language is set by default. Select your language and it will not be changed

anymore.


Login: an IP address will be required.

- StandAlone configuration: The IP address appears on the lower left corner of your

Soldamatic screen as showcased in the following picture:

Once you know the IP address, introduce it in the Teacher login screen:

-Classroom Configuration: The IP address is always the same:

Press connect.

Enter User (teacher) and password (soldamatic):


If the connection fails, the following message will be displayed:

This error may be caused by one of these two issues:

1. Error when writing the IP address. Check it and try again.

2. Please, make sure that you are connected to the SOLDAMATIC network and check that

all the steps have been properly followed and both the supplied router and the

Soldamatic simulator are connected.


2. START USING YOUR TEACHER SOFTWARE

2.1 COURSES

In the left part, you will find a list of courses added by default:

- Welding Curricula

- Open Demo

- Abicor Binzel course

All the courses you would like to add will appear there. You can add, edit, and delete courses.

IMPORTANT: all the courses included by default cannot be edited.


• Course data:

Name: Official name of the course.

Objectives: Objectives of the course.

Theory hours: Planned number of theory hours (to be studied through e-Soldamatic or in the

SOLDAMATIC simulator).

Soldamatic hours: Planned number of SOLDAMATIC simulator practice hours.

Workshop hours: Planned number of real welding booth practice hours.

Classroom: Classroom assigned to the course in the training center.

Training center: Name of the training center.

Instructor: Name of the welding instructor.

Synchronize with eSoldamatic: This option is to synchronize every single content

teacher wants to the e-Learning Platform.


Modules:

You can add or delete modules from a course previously CREATED (modules are created from

modules menu).

Select the course you want to manage modules for.

You can see all the created students in the left column, and all the students assigned to the

course in the right one.

Use the arrow to add a module to the selected course: you can make the same action by dragging

the selected module to the modules’ list of the course in question.

Use the arrow to remove modules from the selected course. You can make the same action by

dragging the selected module to the total list of modules


• Students:

You can add or delete students from a course previously CREATED (students are created from the

students’ menu).

Select the course you want to manage students for.

You can see all the created students in the left column, and all the students assigned to the

course in the right one.

Use the arrow to add a student to the selected course.

Use this arrow to remove students from the selected course


Course History

Get a course report from this option. Select “Create PDF” and you will be asked

the following:

Select the option you prefer the most to get a .pdf file like this:

Statistics

Check the progress of the entire course or of a student. You can also generate a report from the

“Create a pdf” option.


2.2 ADD COURSE

Press the “Add course” button and the following screen will be displayed:

Fill in the fields:

‘Name’ field is required. The rest of the fields are optional.


Press ‘Next’, and the following screen will be displayed. You can add or delete students for the

course. You also have the possibility of creating new students from this menu:

When you press ‘Next’, a new screen will be displayed. Here, you can add or delete modules for

the new course:

When you have finished, press “Submit” and you will go back to Course screen and our new

course will appear listed with the rest. When you have finished, press “Submit” and you will go

back to Course screen and our new course will appear listed.


2.3 EDIT COURSE

If you want to change the course data, double click on the course you want to change or select

the course and press ‘Edit course’.

Once the course is selected, this screen will be displayed:

It is like the ‘Add course’ screen except the saved data of the course will appear in the

correspondent fields, so that you may edit it as needed. ‘Reference’ cannot be changed.

When finishing your editing, press ‘Submit’ and all your changes will be saved.


Remember: Standard courses cannot be edited. They will appear in grey like the following

image:

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2.4 DELETE COURSE

Select the course you want to delete from a course list and press ‘Delete course’ (Orange

button in the bottom left area of the screen).

A check will be launched to ask if you really want to delete the selected course.


3. STUDENTS

In the left side of the screen, a list of existing students is displayed. You can select a course to see

only the students assigned to that course.


3.1 STUDENT INFORMATION

Select a student to see his/her personal profile in the right side of the screen.

Selecting a course, you can have access to the student history just pressing Course History:


This screen provides information about the student’s activities in a specific module: the exercises

that the student has already done, the activities that he/she must do and how many activities are

pending until he/she finishes the course:

This picture shows a course breakdown with its different assigned modules and its corresponding

didactic units. To see the activities that the different didactic units include, open the menu of the

unit in question.

The system indicates the activities that the student must do with the following icons:


If the student has done an activity, the system will indicate it with the following icons (depending

on the mark):

Double click on a practice to access to the Analysis Module.

3.2 ADD STUDENT

Press ‘Add student’ and the following screen will be displayed:

First name, last name, password, and e-mail are required fields. The rest is optional. ‘Right handed’

will appear by default. You can also assign a picture to a student pressing ‘Add picture’ and selecting

the image you want to add to the student data. Press ‘Submit’ when finished and the new student

will be saved.

‘Grant administrative rights?’: if you enable this option you are granting the user to access to the

Soldamatic internal menu (only used for troubleshooting). We strongly recommend to only grant

administrative rights to teachers.

The image format must be in a .PNG format and the maximum file size must be 2Mb.


3.3 EDIT STUDENT

Select the student you want to edit from the student list and press ‘Edit student’. The following

screen will be displayed:

Press “Submit” to save changes.


3.4 DELETE STUDENT

Select the student you want to delete from the student list and push ‘Delete student’. You have

two options to delete a student:

• Delete permanently: Student will be completely deleted.

• Withdraw selected student: All the information will be saved but it will not be in the courses.

If you want to see inactive students in a course you must activate the following check:

You must press ‘Activate student’ if you want him/her to be active again, appearing in the courses

and showing all the information.


4. MODULES:

In the left side of this screen existing modules will be displayed. You can add, edit, or delete

modules. In the right side of the screen you can find description and tasks.

Select an existing module to access to its information. (Name, objectives, theory hours,

Soldamatic hours and Workshop hours).


4.1 TASKS:

This screen shows all the didactic units and tasks that a module includes.

- A course is composed for one or more modules.

- Each module is composed for the required didactic units.

- The tasks (theory, exercises, and tests) will be included in the didactic units. The first step is

to select a module to add content:


You can also copy your task (theory, exercise, or test) to an existing module, to facilitate the

teacher’s labor when creating their courses. To do so, select the task you want to copy and select

the “Copy task” option.

4.2 ADD A TASK

Click on the ‘Add task’ option:

The following screen will appear.


Select the type of task you want to create. The first time you create a task, you must a create a

Didactic Uni as well:

Press ‘Submit’ to start adding the tasks.

Tasks types:

- Theory

Select ‘Theory’ in the task field:

Choose the Didactic unit you want to add the Theory task in.

Remember that the first time you create a task, you must create a didactic unit as well.

Press “Submit”.


You must fill in the “Title” field.

Press “Accept” and your task will be created.

This process may last several minutes, depending on the size of the selected file. Maximum size of

files to be uploaded is 20 Mb.

Remember that you cannot visualize the theory file in the Teacher Software.

- Exercises

To add an exercise, select the ‘Exercise’ option in the task field:

Press ‘Add exercise’. The following screen will be displayed:


Difficulty levels:

Number of attempts: the teacher can decide how many times the student can perform the welding

practice on the simulator.

Add description/WPS: the teacher has the possibility of adding a WPS (Welding Procedure

Specification), so the student can become familiar with this document.

The WPS will appear on the simulator before starting the welding practice:

Move to the following screen to start adding the welding parameters:


Welding process:

- Process (SMAW, GMAW, FCAW-S, FCAW-G and GTAW)

Work Piece:

- Joint type

- Base material

- Position

- Thickness

- Weld type

Filler metals

- Filler Classification

- Diameter

Gas type

Once configured, you can move to the last window, where you may choose the number of passes

you want to do in our exercise. Press ‘Add’.


In this scrren, you can design all the welding passes. To do so, preess the “Edit” option.

All the parameters will appear filled according to the selected welding process. The teacher can

change them all.


Once all parameters have been configured, press ‘Submit’:

You can select the scoring parameters (technique parameters, equipment settings and defects)

you want SOLDAMATIC to evaluate for the exercise and the real-time guide parameters you want

SOLDAMATIC to display during the exercise execution.

Teacher can decide the passing score for that specific practice.

- Quiz:

Press “Submit”.

Start adding your questions (25 maximum) and answers (6 maximum). The correct answer can

be just one (“Simple”) or some of them (“Multiple”).

Use this cross to delete your answers.


Choose the correct answer(s). If you do not select at least one valid answer, the

following message will be displayed:

Once you have finished, press “Apply” and then, “Accept”.

4.3 EDIT & DELETE TASK

Select the tast you want to edit or delete and select the “Edit” or “Delete” option.


5. VIRTUAL CLASSROOM

In this menu, you can monitor what is happening in the SOLDAMATIC classroom in real time.

Virtual Classroom will show FAIL/PASS score (remember that passing a practice means getting

80%+ in each manual skill or technical parameter).

First, select the course you want to monitor:

Once selected, a list of the students of that course will be displayed in the left side of the

screen. You can choose all the students to be displayed or just the connected ones:


If the check is active, both connected and disconnected students will be shown.

The name of the student will appear with an icon besides, indicating the status of the student at

that moment:

Disconnected

Connected

Connected and performing an exercise

Connected and doing a quiz

Connected and seeing theory

Connected and analyzing an exercise

The order in the students’ list will be: students with marks, students with higher marks, students

that are doing a task (from the least mark to the greatest one), analysis students, tests, theory,

connected and disconnected students.

Connected students that are doing an exercise: In this status, you can retrieve real time

information about how the student is executing the exercise, getting the scoring and if you select

the student, you will be able to see in the right side of the screen, detailed information about:

- Travel speed

- Travel angle

- Work angle

- CTWD

- Voltage

- Gas

- Wirefeed Speed

- Porosity

- Splatters


- Contamination

- Etc

When the student is executing an exercise, you will see her/him like this:

Regarding the scoring, you will see the option PASS/FAIL in the top right corner and the score you

have from that specific practice:

- PASS: every single parameter must have at least 80%. The obtained score will be the average of

all the parameters.

- FAIL: a fail score means that you have not achieved the 80% in ALL the parameters. The obtained

result will be the lower mark. For instance: imagine that you get 100% in almost all the

parameters, but you get a 50% in only one of them.

Activity log


6. REPORTS

The Teacher Software program offers the possibility of generating reports of all the information

stored in it (students’ progress, students’ list, etc.). Almost all the Teacher Software screens

includes an option called “Generate report” or “Create pdf”, just select them and the reports

will be generated like the one highlighted in the following picture.

Report Sample


6. ANALYSIS MODULE

The Teacher Software can recover a video of all the exercises of all the students from the students’

menu > Progress. Just double click on the exercise you want visualize:

Here, you will see an Overall Score: PASS/FAIL with the description of the passes the student

has completed. Teachers have the option to add an observation in case they want to comment

something to the students and to edit it.

Override score with FAIL/PASS? This option enables teacher to decide if the student has passed

or not the practice even though the system detects it as a PASS or as a FAIL using his/her own

criteria.


Override score with FAIL/PASS? This option enables teacher to decide if the student has passed

or not the practice even though the system detects it as a PASS or as a FAIL using his/her own

criteria. This option is very useful for teachers to make students focus on the part they are dealing

with according to the theory.


Technique parameters, equipment setting and defects will appear in each of the practices.


You can press each of them to activate or deactivate them as it is highlighted above:

Then, you will find a WPS summary where you can check the difficulty level of the practice, the

welding process, joint type, position, etc.


In the upper right corner, you can capture any image from this practice just pressing Image capture.

You also have the possibility of creating a report clicking Create PDF

If you want to see the execution of a quiz, please double-click on any of the executions to visualize

it:


Press ‘Create PDF’ to obtain a PDF with the result:

6.1 SCORING

The teacher can take the scoring proposed by SOLDAMATIC or to change the final mark (0%-

100%) depending on her/his own expert criteria.

Again, it is important for you to remember that Soldamatic works with 3 different levels to

facilitate the incorporation of the student in this new sector as happens, for example, in the video

games. We want the student to acquire all the welding skills little by little to make sure that, once he

or she gets the final certification, he or she is ready to face the industry demands.

- Beginner: 40% of tolerance regarding reality. In this level, all the help icons on-screen appear.

- Intermediate: 20% of tolerance regarding reality. In this level, all the help icons on-screen appear.

- Advanced: 20% tolerance regarding reality. In this level, there are NO help icons.

The students will get a PASS/FAIL score.

- PASS: every single parameter must have at least 80%. The obtained score will be the average of

all the parameters.

- FAIL: a fail score means that you have not achieved the 80% in ALL the parameters. The obtained

result will be the lower mark. For instance: imagine that you get 100% in almost all the

parameters, but you get a 50% in only one of them.


7. SETTINGS

- Synchronize: this option is used to synchronize all the contents you want with the E-Soldamatic

platform.

- Reset: it deletes all the custom content included in your Teacher Software. Please, make sure

before resetting your Teacher Software, this option will also delete all the official courses you

may have purchased and you will have to ask to the support service again to install them all

again (not to pay them again).

- Settings: use this option to change the unit system and/or the weld convention.

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