How To Use A Tutorial

Most tutorials posted on this website are designed to be used in either a Teacher-Student setting or a Self-Teaching setting.

The teacher may be a professional or non-professional.

Teacher-Student Setting

In the teacher-student setting, the teacher may read the tutorial as written.
There will be step-by-step instructions and explanatory information about the steps.
The student will do the steps and observe the results on the computer screen.
The student may look at the computer screen as explanatory information is read.
Place a printout of the tutorial on the students desk. The teacher can refer to a picture within the tutorial. (A picture is worth a thousand words) (The printout can be taken home)
“Teacher aides” circulating in the room are helpful.

Self-Teaching Setting

In the self-teaching setting, there is no teacher. The student may:

Read the step-by-step tutorial.
Do each step.
Observe the results of each step on the computer screen.
Read the explanatory information for each step.
Beginner users will use the entire tutorial. Advanced users may skim the tutorial and skip some parts.

Download a tutorial from the website or obtain a printed copy of a tutorial in some other way.

If no printed copy of a tutorial is available and there is no printer available, go to our website and select the tutorial you want to appear on your screen. Then open a new text file. At the bottom of the screen, in the tray, the name of the tutorial and the name of the new text file can be seen. Click on the name of the tutorial to read the tutorial. (If you use tabbed browsing, click on the browser entry and then click the tab for the tutorial.) Click on the name of the text file to do the steps in the tutorial. You can click back and forth to see either the tutorial or the text file.

Edited by Sue Barron

How To Use A Tutorial 07/11/07