Technology check — Transformational Bible Institute

Nothing here decides what you may study. Every program at TBI is open to you whatever this said. It tells the office how to get your materials into your hands, and that is the whole of it.

Go to the application Back to the home page

TBI taught for twenty years before it had a website, and it still teaches that way for anyone who needs it. This is not an entrance exam, there is no pass mark, and no answer you give here will keep you out of a program or a classroom.

What it does is settle one practical question: when your coursework is ready, should it come to you in the mail, or by email, or in the student portal? Answer honestly and the office gets that right the first time. Answer generously and you will spend your first term waiting on materials you cannot open.

If one of the four tasks below defeats you, leave it and carry on. That is a useful answer too, and a truer one than a guess.

1 Who you are

So the result reaches the right record. If you have already applied, use the same email address you put on the application.

Your full name *

Email *

2 What you are working with

Not what you could borrow. What you will actually have on a Tuesday evening when an assignment is due.

What will you do your coursework on? *

Internet where you live *

Can you print something out? *

Is there someone who can help if the computer misbehaves? *

Do you check your own email? *

3 Five ordinary things

There is no right answer to any of these. “I have never done it” is an ordinary thing to say about a thing you have never done.

4 Copy this sentence

Type it into the box underneath. Do not paste it — this is about the keyboard. Take as long as you like; nothing is timing you out.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Your typing

5 Open a file and read it

Your course materials arrive as files like this one. Open it, find the word printed in red, come back here and type it in.

Open the file

The word printed in the PDF

6 Find a file on your device

When you hand in coursework, this is the step. Press the button and choose any file at all — a photograph, a document, anything. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is sent. The page only notices that you managed it.

Choose a file

7 Read to the end of a box

Scroll down inside the grey box until you reach the bottom, then type the very last word into the field underneath.

A word about why the Institute asks any of this.

Transformational Bible Institute has never believed that a person’s calling and a person’s comfort with a computer have anything to do with one another. Some of the best students this school has graduated could not have found a web browser, and some who arrived fluent in every device lost interest by the second term.

What has changed is only the delivery. Coursework can now reach a student in Ahoskie the same evening it is written, which matters a great deal to somebody working two jobs. It reaches nobody at all if it arrives in a form they cannot open.

So the office asks first, places accordingly, and sends paper to whoever needs paper. No student has ever been turned away from this Institute for want of a laptop, and none ever will be.

The last word of this box, which is the word to type into the box below, is diligence.

The last word in the box

8 Anything you would like help with

Optional, and read by a person. If there is something that always trips you up, say so here and the office will have an answer ready.

In your own words

You will get a copy by email. If anything here went wrong, telephone the office on (252) 599-5272 and a person will do it with you.

The technology check

1 Who you are

2 What you are working with

3 Five ordinary things

4 Copy this sentence

5 Open a file and read it

6 Find a file on your device

7 Read to the end of a box

8 Anything you would like help with