Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Platinum 20 |  | From: Encore Software
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 155
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Platinum
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 1.3 x 7.6 x 5.3
MPN: 15060
Model: 15060
UPC: 705381150602
EAN: 0705381150602
ASIN: B0012VI1ES
Release Date: February 14, 2008
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Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Learn essential keyboarding skills or improve overall typing efficiency | | • | 430 Personalized lessons, exercises and tests | | • | Detailed progress reports assist in identifying strengths and weaknesses | | • | 16 arcade-style typing games | | • | Bilingual instruction (English & Spanish) |
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Product Description
Maximize your productivity with Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing® Platinum 20! The most comprehensive typing instruction system now includes updated learning tools, an improved user interface and even more features to guarantee typing improvements in just 2 weeks! Whether you want to learn essential keyboarding skills or improve overall typing efficiency, Mavis Beacon will guide you step-by-step on your road to success! Improve speed and accuracy with detailed assessments, customized lessons and skill-building games. In addition to Mavis Beacon's personal typing instruction, detailed reports illustrate overall progress and assist in identifying specific strengths and weaknesses. Powerful learning tools, along with this detailed reporting will help typists excel at their own pace. Hard work is rewarded with "recess time" and certificates of completion. Cool tools such as "import your own MP3 files" and fun arcade-style games enrich the learning experience. Redesigned with
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Maximize your productivity with Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Platinum 20! The most comprehensive typing instruction system now includes updated learning tools, an improved user interface and even more features to guarantee typing improvements in just 2 weeks.  In addition to Mavis Beacon's personal typing instruction, detailed reports illustrate overall progress and assist in identifying specific strengths and weaknesses. |  16 Arcade-style typing games, including multi-level games. |  430 Personalized lessons, exercises and tests. |  Offers typists of all skill levels and ages a brand new learning experience with greater benefits and increased efficiency. | Whether you want to learn essential keyboarding skills or improve overall typing efficiency, Mavis Beacon will guide you step-by step on your road to success! Improve speed and accuracy with detailed assessments, customized lessons and skill-building games. In addition to Mavis Beacon's personal typing instruction, detailed reports illustrate overall progress and assist in identifying specific strengths and weaknesses. Powerful learning tools, along with this detailed reporting will help typists excel at their own pace. Hard work is rewarded with "recess time" and certificates of completion. Cool tools such as "import your own MP3 files" and fun arcade-style games enrich the learning experience. Redesigned with advanced technology and updated with even more features--Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Platinum 20 offers typists of all skill levels and ages a brand new learning experience with greater benefits and increased efficiency. - 430 Personalized lessons, exercises and tests
- 16 Arcade-style games, including multi-level games
- Detailed tracking and progress reporting
- New content--type jokes, riddles, recipes, song lyrics and more
- Type in English, Spanish & French
- Choose from new music options or import your own MP3 files and type to your own tunes
- New Certificates of Completion
- Hybrid--Works with Microsoft Vista & Mac OSX Universal certified
Platinum Exclusives
- Unique Custom Lesson Designer
- Learn to type in English, Spanish & French
- New multi-level arcade-style games
- Import your own text as Word.doc formats--be productive while practicing your typing skills
- Choose to type from hundreds of interesting articles, stories and emoticons
Learn with Mavis Beacon and achieve noticeable results quicker than any other typing program--guaranteed.
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| Customer Reviews:
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 HUGELY buggy software October 13, 2009
Sarah M. Weinberger (Santa Monica, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
How could Broderbund, a company that has been in business for quite some time, release a hugely buggy software without testing? I am not talking about some hard to find bug. I am talking that if you start learning the lesson as a beginning user, you can only go as far as learning the 'e' and 'i' keys. What is that? After that, the sequence of lessons gets totally messed up. Broderbund's support website acknowledges the problem but offered no patch. Their workaround fails too. There is also another bug. It says that the next lesson will be so and so, but the next lesson winds up being something else.
I contacted Broderbund yesterday (2009.10.11) and so far no response. True, their support email does state to allow 48 business hours for a response. Let us translate that into human speak. 48 business hours means well over a week, 6 business days. I would expect even better response time from a single person software company just starting off, not a well known software company, whose software sells in real stores.
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2009.10.21 Update: I finally received a response after about nine days to my original complaint. Here is the reposne that I received from Broderbund Software:
"Thank you for contacting Broderbund Software, brought to you by Encore.
We apologize for the delay in responding to your email. We are experiencing a higher than usual number of emails. Because your email exceeds 2 business days, we are closing your email case. If you have not received a suffient response and still require our assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us."
Nice people. He? What does 'Because your email exceeds 2 business days' mean anyways? Are they saying that because they did not respond to my original email in over nine days, that they will close my email ticket.
What a cool concept. They get money, have a non-working product, provide no support of any kind, and collect money. Furthermore, they ship buggy software to stores for other people to buy.
Score: Pathetic, truly pathetic.
 This is a GREAT!!! product. September 4, 2009
Scott E. Doerr
My wife, children, and I all love this program. It is fun for all of us.
Like the program-It really taught me how to type. June 16, 2009
Violet Penumbra (Wrentham, MA United States)
Bought this for someone else, who actually USED this and learned to type. Said it works well, looks forward to using rest of enclosed software.
Very disappointed February 20, 2009
C. Smith (Long Beach, CA.)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had an earlier version of Mavis Teaches Typing which was misplaced. Then I purchased the newer Platinum 20. I like the new format but the lessons are out of sequence. I wrote the company about this but never received an answer. This is a lousy product for a beginner since it is obvious the product was never checked by anyone competent. DO NOT BUY THIS VERSION!!!
 Save Your Money and DON'T Buy Mavis Beacon! January 22, 2009
S. Smith (San Diego, CA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This Mavis Beacon program is a perfect example of FALSE ADVERTISING. I bought this program because it said on the product that I could learn to type in Spanish and that it had games with multiple levels of play, which I wanted to keep my kids(12,12, and 14) engaged in learning to type. The instructions for Spanish is only in English, so a Spanish-only speaker would be totally lost. There are NO MULTIPLE level games - not one.
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