How To Use Ti Connect

Yous need two things to enable your TI-84 Plus calculator to communicate with your computer: TI Connect Software and either a USB figurer cable or a USB Argent Edition Cable. TI Connect is free, and the cable came arranged with your calculator. If you are no longer in possession of the cablevision, you tin purchase i through the Texas Instruments online shop.

Downloading TI Connect software

The following steps explicate how to download the current version of TI Connect from the Texas Instruments website, as it existed at the time this book was published:

Become to the Texas Instruments website.
Locate the Downloads drop-down carte and select Apps, Software & Updates.
Under the Engineering drop-downward carte du jour, select TI-84 Plus Family, TI-83 Plus Family.
Click the Find button, scroll downward, and select TI Connect Software.
Select the appropriate language.
Follow the directions given during the downloading process. Make a note of the directory in which you relieve the download file.

Yous can download an extensive TI Connect Assistance certificate (more 100 pages) by clicking the Aid icon in the bottom-right corner of the TI Connect Dwelling house screen.

Installing and running TI Connect

Afterward you've downloaded TI Connect, you install it by double-clicking the downloaded TI Connect file you lot saved on your reckoner. So follow the directions given by the TI Connect Installation Magician.

When you lot start the TI Connect programme, you run across the many subprograms it contains.

A USB commuter is automatically installed on your computer when you download and install TI Connect software. Now, you tin recharge the battery on the TI-84 Plus C when you use the USB computer cable to connect your computer with a calculator.

Hither is a short description of the TI Connect software tools:

TI Device Explorer: Transfer files betwixt your calculator and a computer.
TI Screen Capture: Capture screenshots from your figurer.
Backup: Dorsum upward the files stored on your estimator.
Restore: Restore estimator files that take been previously backed up.
TI Data Editor: Create or edit information variables.
TI Device Info: Discover information about continued calculators.
Explore My TI Data: Opens Windows Explorer to work with calculator files.
Transport to TI Device: Opens a dialog box y'all can use to transfer files to your calculator.

Would you like to take the most current version of TI Connect? If so, click the Options icon on the TI Connect Domicile screen and select the box that says, "Bank check for new software on every startup."