Do you want to keep track of your progress and record your High Scores? To do so, create an account with a Username and Password. It's important to use a real email address for your profile. It will be needed if you forget your password.
After creating a profile you can modify any part of it, except your Username, by clicking on “Modify my profile” located in the User profile pane of the upper right hand corner.
Do you want to look around and try AiPai before creating a profile? Be our Guest! As a Guest you can do everything except keep track of your progress and get your score into the High Scores list.
If you're a Kativik School Board teacher, you must tell us you are a teacher. Once you have created your account, contact us by clicking “CONTACT US” (Website footer). You will then be able to follow your students' progress by using the Admin section of AiPai Web.
After registering, you'll be able to view or edit your students’ profiles by cliking on “My Students’ Profiles” in the User Profile Pane at the top right hand corner of AiPai Web. You'll be able to see how many lessons each student has completed, what average speed they have achieved, and you'll even be able to change their password in case they lost it.
In the keyboard configuration screen of AiPai Web, choose the keyboard and layout description that matches your computer and keyboard.
On Windows computers, there are two configurations that work. With the older keyboard layout, you need to set your computer's keyboard layout to “Inuktitut-Nunavik [Unicode]”. Or if you use the newer “Inuktitut Keyboard for Nunavik” set it to “Enabled” mode. You do not need to select a keybard layout in the Control Panel.
On Mac computers, use the newer “Inuktitut Keyboard for Nunavik” and set it to “Enabled” mode. You do not need to select a keyboard layout in System Preferences.
For all computers, you will have to press the Caps Lock key before beginning to type in syllabics.
Internet Explorer 7 and 8 on Windows XP do not properly display syllabics without going to change a setting in the Internet Options. If you use Internet Explorer with Windows XP and are having problems displaying AiPai Web syllabics characters please see the page Viewing this website in Inuttitut of the Kativik School Board website.
Don't know any of the keys? Then you should do some of the lessons from Learn before trying Practice and Race. Already know some of the keys? Then you might want to try a Race right away or a 5-minute practice, just to see how good you are! Need more practice with certain keys? Pick and choose the lessons in Learn that will help.
Remember to press the Caps Lock key before beginning, and to type all the words, spaces and punctuation!
AiPai Web will let you type a mistake but if you make two or more mistakes in a row, your progress will be stopped until you type the correct syllable.
You can move between the Inuktitut, English and French interface at any time without losing your progress.
We are interested in hearing from you! Please send us any comments you might have about the program or ideas for future versions. You can also send us Inuktitut texts that we could add to the Practice or Race parts of AiPai Web.
In Learn, you can do the Lessons in any order. This is good if you already know many of the keys, but want to learn the keys you don't know.
You must complete the parts of each lesson in this order: New Keys, Words, Sentences and Paragraphs.
Remember to press the Caps Lock key before beginning, and to type all the words, spaces and punctuation! If you make two or more mistakes in a row, your progress will be stopped until you type the correct syllable.
In Learn you can save your progress in the middle of Sentences or Paragraphs and make a pause. You can also go back and redo parts of each lesson that you have already completed.
You can Practice at any level (Rookie, Pro or Master) The texts are selected at random. The practice will automatically stop after 5 minutes (the on-screen countdown shows you the remaining time). The words per minute will be used to automatically update your User Profile and the High Scores list.
You can also make a pause.
Remember to press the Caps Lock key before beginning, and to type all the words, spaces and punctuation! If you make two or more mistakes in a row, your progress will be stopped until you type the correct syllable.
You can Race at any level (Rookie, Pro or Master). Your text will be choosen at random. The race finishes when you have completed all the text. The words per minute will be used to automatically update your User Profile and the High Scores list.
You can also make a pause.
Remember to press the Caps Lock key before beginning, and to type all the words, spaces and punctuation! If you make two or more mistakes in a row, your progress will be stopped until you type the correct syllable.