Mary Parker's Crunch-It help - with screenshots
Tatiana Encheva's four-page Minitab Help. pdf | doc
This has specific instructions on how to do each of the main types of problems you will need to do.
Software Orientation Assignment | . Do this BEFORE starting to work on homework using the software!
This should only take about 10-15 minutes and will enable you to do most of what you need for Chapters 1-4 in the software.
There are two Minitab Manuals available in StatsPortal. Find them from Resources > Technology Manuals > Minitab.
I recommend the one with the links to the separate chapters. My students have used previous editions of this Manual for several years and found it useful. (Authors: Greenberg and Parker) I recommend that you download Chapters 0 through 5 to your computer so that you can have them easily available when you use Minitab. After we finish Chapter 5 in the course, then go back and download more.
The Manual that is available at the bottom of that page, which is one big file, is a generic Manual for several books and the chapters do not follow our text. (Authors: Evans and Humphries.) We used this last fall. Here is the Orientation Assignment with references to the Evans/Humphries Manual. Orientation Assignment | .
Additional brief notes:
Brief Guide to Minitab (21 pages)
Use the help menu in the Minitab program
Mary Parker, last updated September 19, 2011