Curious about scoping but not ready to commit to a full training program? Internet Scoping School offers two ways to explore the profession: the free 7-Day Scoping Discovery Guide and Scoping Fundamentals™, an introductory course designed for beginners.
If you’ve heard about scoping and wondered whether it could be a good fit for you, you don’t have to make a big commitment to find out.
Internet Scoping School gives you two ways to explore the profession, depending on how much you’re ready to learn.
🌟 Start Free: The 7-Day Scoping Discovery Guide
If you’re brand new to scoping—or still asking, “What exactly does a scopist do?”—this is the easiest place to begin.
Start the FREE 7-Day Scoping Discovery Guide →
introduces you to the world of scoping without requiring you to enroll in a course.
It’s a simple, no-pressure way to learn more about the profession and decide whether you’d like to explore it further.
📘 Ready to Get Your Feet Wet? Scoping Fundamentals™
If scoping already has your attention and you want to experience more of what learning the profession is actually like, take the next step with Scoping Fundamentals™: An Introduction to Scoping.
Scoping Fundamentals™ was designed specifically for new students with no prior scoping experience. Its purpose is to let you “get your feet wet” and see whether scoping might be the new career for you.
The introductory course includes eight units providing an essential overview of court reporting, with special emphasis on the role of the scopist.
You’ll begin learning about:
- ⚖️ The roles of court reporters and scopists and how they work together
- ⌨️ The foundations of steno language
- 📄 How a transcript becomes a finished transcript
- 🔄 The process of a job from notice through production
- 🏛️ Depositions, EUOs, hearings, trials, interpreted proceedings, and other transcript types
- 🔍 The many types of errors that can occur in transcripts
- ✏️ Transcript-specific capitalization and punctuation
- 📚 Commonly misused and misspelled words and phrases
- 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 American and British spelling differences
- 🧠 Word skills through quizzes and a 100-question industry-standard Word Skills Test
You’ll also begin working with concepts such as the anatomy of a transcript and the formatting used in different types of legal proceedings.
This isn’t just reading about what scopists do. It gives you a chance to start learning the skills and terminology used in the profession.
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💛 Which One Should You Choose?
Start the FREE 7-Day Scoping Discovery Guide →
If you already know you’re interested and want a more substantial introduction before committing to full training, Scoping Fundamentals™ is designed for exactly that purpose.
You don’t have to decide on an entirely new career today.
You just have to choose your next step.