Training
Nobody learns an app
from its settings screen.
A communication device usually arrives with a person who has never set one up before — a teacher on a Monday morning, a therapist with a forty-minute slot, a parent at the kitchen table. Super Training is for them. Twenty modules that go from a boxed device to a working board, each one a short narrated video of the real app, a script you can read aloud to a room, and four questions to check it landed.
- Twenty modules
- One per section of the SuperAAC manual, in the order somebody actually meets them: setup first, then boards, then the access method, then the things that only matter once the device is in daily use.
- Forty-one minutes
- Videos run from just under two minutes to a little over two, and the whole course is 41 minutes end to end. It is built to be taken a module at a time between other things, not in one sitting.
- The real app, narrated
- Every video is the app itself being driven, not a slide deck about it. All twenty carry WebVTT captions, so the course is usable with the sound off or by somebody who cannot hear it.
- A script to read aloud
- Each module carries a teaching script written to be spoken to a group, with a Teacher mode that puts it on screen beside the video. The same scripts ship as Markdown, for printing or pasting into your own handout.
- Eighty questions
- Four per module, written against the situations that actually come up — what to tell a parent who asks whether an account is needed, not what a menu is called. Four learning outcomes per module say plainly what you should be able to do afterwards.
- The same account as the app
- Sign in with the Super account already used on the device. There is no second registration and no second password, and your progress follows you between devices.
The course
Twenty modules, in the order
you meet the problems.
The course follows the manual section by section, which means it also follows the life of a device: what you do on the first afternoon, what you change once a child has used it for a term, and what an administrator needs when a second person starts supporting the same user.
- Getting Started: Setup on a New Device
- The Main Screen: Boards, Folders, Pages
- Creating, Importing and Sharing Boards
- Editing a Board: Grids, Pages and Cells
- What a Button Can Do: Cell Functions
- Pictures and Symbols
- Speech Output: Voices and Recorded Audio
- Touch Access: Holds, Repeats and Vibration
- Switch Scanning
- Eye Gaze and Dwell
- Vibration and Haptics
- Rewards and Motivation
- Contingency Maps and Visual Supports
- The Writing Area and Prediction
- The AAC Passport: Identity and AI
- The Remnant Book
- Books and School: Notebooks and AI Books
- The New App Catalogue
- The Communication Report
- Accounts and Administration
The course is published in 16 languages; in Estonian the videos keep their English narration, with Estonian subtitles. The app it teaches runs in 17 languages, and the interface shown in each video is the English one.
Who it is for
The people around the device,
not the people who build it.
Super Training is written for the people who set a device up and keep it working: teachers and teaching assistants, speech and language therapists, and families. It assumes no previous AAC software and no technical background. Where a module has to name a menu, it names the one that is actually there — the course is generated from the same manual the app ships with, so it cannot drift into describing a version of the app that does not exist.
SuperVOCA
Not yet.
The course covers SuperAAC. There is no SuperVOCA training published yet, and we would rather say so here than let you find out after signing in. SuperVOCA is the simpler of the two and most people set one up without help, but that is a reason to write a short course rather than no course, and it is on the list.