STEP #1 - SIGNING UP FOR SHARK BRIDGE
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STEP #2 ~ SHARK BRIDGE
Download Shark Bridge
For those who already have an account, open your Shark Bridge App!
- Click On "My Profile" and set up a Shark Bridge Account.
- Click on "Home" ~ Should Default to Home
- Click on "Classroom Hands" in the middle of the screen.
- Click on "Select Classroom" on the right side of the screen.
- Click on + to add a classroom.
- Type in Donna Compton as instructor.
- Type in https://playbetterbridge.sharefile.com as Classroom Site
- Click Save Classroom ~ If you save classroom, then you only must go through Classroom set up once.
- When you click on her Classroom, you will be prompted to sign into Sharefile.
- Sign into Sharefile with your Personal Login information. If you placed an order for a PPB video lesson and do NOT have a Welcome email, please contact Taylor@PlayBetterBridge.com. The PBB Team will set up your Sharefile Account and send you a Welcome email.
- All your lesson folders will appear. Click on the lesson you wish to practice. In addition to the “How to” PDF, you should see 3 files: PDF Handout, MP4 Video and PBN hands. Click on the PBN Hand with the “? Logo” and click “Download”.
- Select a hand and click “Play” if you want to bid the hand. Click “Replay” if you want the auction and lead loaded, and you begin to play/defend right away. You are given an option of which chair to sit in and the hand will appear. Enjoy!
Before you start playing, set up the your bidding system and signaling agreement. This setting will be remembered, so you don't have to do it every time you start Shark Bridge.
- In Shark Bridge, go to Settings. Go over the NS/EW Bidding System and Signaling. Talk to your teacher if you need to make any adjustments for the provided faults.
- Close the settings screen. The robots now know how to do what they did in class when you replay the hands.
- Go to Personal Deal Library or Classroom hands section of Shark and replay the hands found in your Sharefile account.
Note: Once you download the set of hands once, then the Lesson folder of hands will appear in your “Personal Deal Library” for later review.