You are thinking about purchasing a kit. Fair question to ask first: what exactly are you getting?
Here is every file in the package, what it does, and why it exists.
These files never go to participants. They stay with whoever is running the class.
The Instructor Guide
This is the most important file in the kit. It is a minute-by-minute script for the entire session, written as if an experienced teacher is standing next to you whispering exactly what to say and do.
It is not an outline. It is not a list of topics to cover. It tells you what words to use, when to pause, when to ask the room a question, and how long each part of the class should take. If you have never taught before, this is the file that makes that fact invisible to your participants.
Every slide in the presentation has a matching cue in the Guide. You always know which slide is coming next and what to say when it appears. You never have to improvise.
For instructors teaching on Zoom, a separate section at the end covers screen sharing, managing the chat, handling audio problems, and running the break online.
There is one Instructor Guide file for each session in the kit.
The Slide Deck
A fully designed PowerPoint presentation, one file per session. Large text. Clean visuals. Every slide has a title, a clear purpose, and speaker notes written in plain conversational language.
You do not need to be a PowerPoint expert to use it. A companion document in the kit walks you through exactly how to open the file, start the slideshow, advance slides, and connect to a projector, in numbered steps written for someone who has never presented a slideshow before.
The deck also works in Google Slides at no cost, which means you do not need Microsoft Office to use it.
The Survival Guide
This is the file you read the night before class.
It is short. It is direct. It is designed to take a nervous instructor and give them the confidence to walk in the door the next morning.
It covers the most common questions participants ask, plain-language corrections for the misconceptions people typically bring into the room, and exact phrases you can use when someone asks something you cannot answer. Things like: "That can vary depending on your device or situation" and "Let me make a note of that and follow up after class." You never have to bluff. You never have to pretend.
It also covers practical presentation basics: how slowly to speak, how long to wait after you ask a question, how to handle the participant who wants to take over the discussion, and what to do if you are running ahead of or behind schedule.
The Potential Questions Document
Every question a participant is likely to ask, written out the way a real person would ask it, with a direct answer and a fuller explanation for instructors who want to say more.
This covers cost concerns, safety concerns, accessibility, common myths, beginner confusion, and the skeptical participant who is not sure they trust the technology being discussed. It is the reference document you keep open during class. The Instructor Guide tells you exactly when to check it.
The Reading List
Six to ten free online resources on the session topic, each with a plain-language summary of what it covers and why it is worth your time. Plan about an hour with these before your first session.
You do not need to become an expert. You need enough background to feel grounded when a question comes up. This list gets you there without requiring you to sort through search results on your own.
The Quick Reference Card
A one-page timeline of the entire session. No talking points. No explanations. Just the structure and timing, in large print, so you can glance at it during class without losing your place in the full Instructor Guide.
It gives you the session structure at a glance without making you flip through pages to find it.
The Technology Checklist
A pre-class checklist you run through before participants arrive. Room setup, projector, slides loaded, internet tested, printed materials counted. It takes about five minutes and eliminates the scramble that happens when something is not ready at the moment class is supposed to start.
It includes a backup plan section for the three things most likely to go wrong: the projector fails, the internet goes out, or you run short on printed handouts. You will know what to do before any of those things happen.
A separate box covers the Zoom-specific setup checklist for virtual delivery.
The Class Log
A one-page form the instructor fills out during or right after each session. Date, location, how many people attended, topics covered, any technology problems, and questions that came up that could not be answered on the spot.
At the bottom of the form, there is a request to scan or photograph the completed log and email it to TheSeniorTechie. That feedback is how these kits get better over time. Every instructor who sends one back is directly improving the materials for the instructors who come after them.
Files for Participants
These are the files that get printed and handed out in class.
The Session Handout
A take-home reference document, one per session. Participants keep this. It is not a copy of the slides. It is a plain-language summary of what the session covered, rewritten as short readable paragraphs at a clear, accessible reading level.
It includes a Key Terms box with every important word from the session defined in plain language, a "What To Try At Home" section with three to five specific step-by-step actions participants can take on their own device, and a short list of reliable websites where they can learn more.
Font sizes are large. Sentences are short. A retired physician and someone who just got their first smartphone should both find it useful without either feeling talked down to or lost.
The Worksheet
A take-home self-learning guide, one per session. This is not graded. Nobody checks it. The instructions say so right at the top.
It contains three to five guided practice exercises tied directly to what was covered in class, each broken into step-by-step prompts rather than open-ended questions. At the end there is a short reflection section: what was easier than expected, what felt confusing, what they would like to know more about.
The purpose is to give participants something to do on their own after class that feels approachable rather than intimidating. The exercises are designed so that trying them and not finishing still feels like progress.
The Glossary
One glossary per kit, covering every technical term used across all sessions in alphabetical order. Definitions are written in plain language with no technical language inside the definition itself.
Where a term comes with a common wrong assumption attached to it, the glossary says so directly. The entry for a cloud-related term, for example, would note that the cloud is not actually in the sky. It just means someone else's computer. That kind of thing matters when your participants are encountering these concepts for the first time.
The Participant Survey
A one-page printed survey administered at the end of the final session. It takes about two minutes to fill out and is collected before participants leave.
It covers overall satisfaction, how useful the content was, how comfortable the pace felt, how clear the instructor was, and likelihood to recommend. There are two or three write-in questions asking what was most useful, what was confusing, and what topic they would like to see covered next.
That last question is not decorative. New kit topics come directly from what participants ask for.
A Note on What Is Not Here
Nothing in the kit is graded. Nothing is reviewed by the instructor. No participant is ever put on the spot or asked to demonstrate competence in front of the group.
Every component is designed around a single idea: the participant came to learn something useful, and the instructor's job is to make sure they leave with it.