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ActiveTeach Overview Welcome to the Help file for the Edexcel GCE Biology ActiveTeach. Your ActiveTeach has been designed to give you easy access to Edexcel GCE Biology Student Books, videos, animations, learning objectives and target sheets. To get the information you need, please click on one of the links on the left hand side.
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Help Overview ● Launching ActiveTeach Quickstart Moving around the Student Book Student Book views Student Book resources More Materials Using the Glossary Technical information
Launching ActiveTeach 1.
Check that your hardware and software meet the minimum requirements to support this application.
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If your PC meets the requirements, download or install any supporting applications that you need.
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Install the application as detailed in the booklet delivered with the product.
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Locate the ActiveTeach shortcut on your Start menu as follows: Programs > Longman > Edexcel AS Biology ActiveTeach
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Click the shortcut. The product should launch.
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Help Overview Launching ActiveTeach ● Quickstart Moving around the Student Book Student Book views Student Book resources More Materials Using the Glossary Technical information
Quickstart The image below shows your ActiveTeach interface.
Find resources
Glossary
More materials
Zoom areas
Resource icons
Page turn on/off
Interactive on/off
View single/double page spreads
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Page navigation controls
Help Overview Launching ActiveTeach Quickstart ● Moving around the Student Book > Animated page turning Student Book views Student Book resources More Materials Using the Glossary Technical information
Moving around the Student Book You can use the following controls (located in the bottom menu bar) to move quickly and easily through the pages of your ActiveTeach Student Book:
Jump to page number... Type the page number you want to go to into the box and hit enter. Page browse... Click on the forwards/backwards arrows to browse one page at a time. Jump to contents page... Click on the ‘Contents’ button to return to the ActiveBook contents. Last-viewed page... Click on the ‘Previous’ button to return to the previously viewed page. Jump to end of book... Click on the far-right button to jump to the end of the book.
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Help Overview Launching ActiveTeach Quickstart ● Moving around the Student Book > Animated page turning Student Book views Student Book resources More Materials Using the Glossary Technical information
Animated page turning When you first start your ActiveTeach Student Book, it will show the action of moving from page to page by animating the page turning. This effect can be turned on or off at any time by clicking on the Page turn button.
Click once to turn off. Click once more to turn on again.
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Help Overview Launching ActiveTeach Quickstart Moving around the Student Book ● Student Book views > Interactive view > Zoom areas Student Book resources More Materials Using the Glossary Technical information
Student Book views Double-page view Every time you start a fresh ActiveTeach session, pages are displayed by default in ‘double-page view’ mode. This means that each twopage spread is displayed side by side, just as in a printed book.
Changing to single-page view It is also possible to switch the viewing mode to view each single page, one at a time. To switch to ‘single-page view’ mode, click once on:
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Help Overview Launching ActiveTeach Quickstart Moving around the Student Book ● Student Book views > Interactive view > Zoom areas Student Book resources More Materials Using the Glossary Technical information
Interactive view By default, your ActiveTeach launches in non-interactive view – which means that you have access to zoom areas, glossary items and goto links. However, no resource icons will be displayed. If you wish to view a full display of interactive features, you can do so by clicking on the ‘Interactive’ button.
Click once on the ‘Interactive’ button to turn on interactive view and click again to turn it off.
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Help Overview Launching ActiveTeach Quickstart Moving around the Student Book ● Student Book views > Interactive view > Zoom areas Student Book resources More Materials Using the Glossary Technical information
Zoom areas Just click on any area of the page to zoom in on paragraphs of text and images. This view is useful for readability or for focusing on a particular part of the page.
Once zoomed in, you have access to the zoom navigation controls:
Use these controls to move forwards or backwards to contiguous zoom areas on the same page – or to return to normal, full-page view.
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Help Overview Launching ActiveTeach Quickstart Moving around the Student Book Student Book views ● Student Book resources > Viewing animations > Viewing video clips > Glossary items > Find Resources > My Resources More Materials Using the Glossary Technical Information
ActiveTeach resources To view ActiveTeach resources, look for the resource icons ranged vertically at each page edge.
Resource icons
ActiveTeach resource icons are always positioned close to the text that they support, and are coded as follows: PowerPoint files
Interactive animation
Word documents
Video clip
Animations and videos will launch within the ActiveTeach interface. Presentations and documents launch within an external application, as detailed in the ‘Technical information’ section.
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Help Help Overview Overview Launching How do I start the ActiveTeach ActiveBook? Quickstart Which does what? Movingbit around the Student Book the Moving around Student Book views book ● Student Book ActiveBook views resources Zoom areas > Viewing Viewing ActiveBook animations > resources Viewing video clips ● Finding ActiveBook > Resources Glossary items > Find Resources Using the Glossary > My Resources Technical information More Materials Using the Glossary Technical Information
Viewing animations resources Finding ActiveBook Can’t find what you’re looking for? Use the ‘Find resources’ button to quickly When you launch an animation, it will display in a window that find ActiveBook resources by unit and topic. replaces the Student Book pages. To start finding resources, simply click on the ‘Find Resources’ button, located in the top row of buttons in the ActiveBook interface. The Find Resources panel will then appear.
Click on the folder icons to select unit and topic, and then resource type.
To control an animation, click on the buttons that appear within the window. ActiveBook resources that match your selection will appear in the panel on the right-hand side of the screen. You can choose either to open a found When you have finished viewing the animation, click on the button resource directly, or else jump straight to the ActiveBook page it is located in the top-right-hand corner to return to the Student Book pages. on, by clicking either ‘Open Resource’ or ‘Open Page’ on the resource item.
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Help Help Overview Overview Launching How do I start the ActiveTeach ActiveBook? Quickstart Which does what? Movingbit around the Student Book the Moving around Student Book views book ● Student Book ActiveBook views resources Zoom areas > Viewing Viewing ActiveBook animations > resources Viewing video clips Finding ActiveBook > Resources Glossary items > Find Resources ● Using the Glossary > My Resources Technical information More Materials Using the Glossary Technical Information
Viewing clips Using thevideo glossary When you launch an animation, it will display in a window that To access an alphabetical listing of all glossary terms, click on the ‘Glossary’ replaces the Student Book pages. button, located in the top row of buttons in the Active Teach interface.
For accessibility reasons, videos do not auto-play. To play, pause or stop a video clip, use the buttons located on the floating panel at the bottom-right of the screen. To review the video clip in a non-linear fashion, click and drag the playback can found beneath video Click on thecontrol desiredwhich letter of thebe alphabet, then scrollthe through thewindow. listing of terms. Click on any term to view its glossary entry. Each glossary entry has To accompanying close the video viewingwhich window, click on the close button in the an voiceover, can be played by clicking on the play top-right-hand corner. button.
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Help Overview Launching ActiveTeach Quickstart Moving around the Student Book Student Book views ● Student Book resources > Viewing animations > Viewing video clips > Glossary items > Find Resources > My Resources More Materials Using the Glossary Technical Information
Glossary items Terms set in bold in the text of your ActiveTeach Student Book are glossary terms. Clicking on the term gives a pop-up screen which presents the glossary definition of the term.
Click on this icon to hear the glossary term. Click on this button in the top-right-hand corner to return to the ActiveBook.
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Help Overview Launching ActiveTeach Quickstart Moving around the Student Book Student Book views ● Student Book resources > Viewing animations > Viewing video clips > Glossary items > Find Resources > My Resources More Materials Using the Glossary Technical Information
Find Resources Can’t find what you’re looking for? Use the ‘Find resources’ button to quickly find Student Book resources by Topic, Unit or Resource Type.
To start finding resources, simply click on the ‘Find Resources’ button, located in the top row of buttons in the ActiveTeach interface. The Find Resources panel will then appear.
Select the type of resource you would like to search for, then click on the folder icons to search according to your preferred criteria.
You can choose to either open a found resource directly, or else jump straight to the Student Book page it is located on, by clicking either ‘Open Resource’ or ‘Open Page’ on the resource item.
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Help Overview Launching ActiveTeach Quickstart Moving around the Student Book Student Book views ● Student Book resources > Viewing animations > Viewing video clips > Glossary items > Find Resources > My Resources More Materials Using the Glossary Technical Information
My Resources My Resources gives you access to a suite of tools for arranging ActiveTeach resources and even importing links to your own materials. For a convenient overview of My Resources, be sure to check out the My Resources Tour that can be accessed from the ActiveTeach Help page. To access My Resources, click on the button at the bottom-left corner of the ActiveTeach interface:
You will then need to choose whether to create a new resource set, or to open an existing set that you created and saved in an earlier session. If you click New, your new My Resources set will appear in a panel to the right of the screen. You are now ready to start capturing resources as described on the next screen.
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Help Help Overview Launching Overview ActiveTeach How do I start the Quickstart ActiveBook? Moving around the Which bit Book does what? Student Moving Studentaround Book the views book ● Student Book ActiveBook resources views > Viewing Zoom areas animations Viewing ActiveBook > resources Viewing video clips Finding ActiveBook > Resources Glossary items > Find Resources Using the Glossary > My Resources ● Technical information More Materials > Minimum requirements Using > Word, theExcel Glossary and PowerPoint Information Technical viewers > Technical support
Capturing My Resources Minimum requirements You can capture any resources from within the ActiveTeach and organise them as you wish for fully personalised lessons. Videos, animations, documents, presentations, zoom areas – all these resources can be captured Hardware in the My Resources area. You can mix and match resources from different The following is the minimum required to run your ActiveBook on a PC. topics and units. • IBM® compatible PC Pentium® 3 600MHz processor To •capture a resource, firstly identify or equivalent • 256 MB– RAM its drag icon represented by an • Sound card and speakers orange cross-hatched square to the • CD-ROM drive x8 bottom-right of the resource. • 1024 x 768 screen resolution. When you have identified the appropriate drag icon, simply click the drag icon Software and drag it into your My Resources area. Each resource that you capture is The following softwaretitle is the required for the PC you use to run the listed with an editable andminimum usage details. site licence edition of ActiveTeach (or ActiveBook): • Windows® 2000 Service Pack 4 OR Windows® XP (Professional or Home) Service Pack 2 or higher • Adobe Reader (7 or higher – available for free from www.adobe.com) • Flash Player Plugin (8 or higher – available for free from www.adobe.com)) • Microsoft Office® (2000 or higher) OR the free viewer applications (available for download from http://www.microsoft.com): • Word viewer (2003 Version 1) • Excel® viewer (2003 Version 1) • PowerPoint® viewer (2003 Version 6.0.2600.0). © Pearson Education Limited 2008
Help Overview Launching ActiveTeach Quickstart Moving around the Student Book Student Book views Student Book resources • My Resources More Materials Using the Glossary Technical Information
Managing My Resources Simply click on the File menu at the top-left of the My Resources panel to allow you to arrange and categorise your resources using the following options: Use the folder commands (Add, Move, Copy, Rename) to create a sorting hierarchy to allow you to easily organise your resources: choose names for these folders that reflect the way you want to use them. Use ‘Link to own resource...’ to import a link to files of your own that you would like to include in your lessons – and launch directly from ActiveTeach. Similarly, use Add a Weblink... to link directly to webpages that support your teaching. Finally, use the Save and Save As... commands to save your My Resources set to your file system – and use Open to access your resources at a later session.
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Help Overview Launching ActiveTeach Quickstart Moving around the Student Book Student Book views Student Book resources • More Materials Using the Glossary Technical Information
More Materials If you have either or both of the Implementation and Assessment Guides for Teachers and Technicians for Edexcel GCE Biology products installed, you will be able to access them by clicking on the More Materials button on the ActiveTeach interface:
Word documents and PDFs from these products can either be viewed in-situ, or dragged into your My Resources area for convenient reference.
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Help Overview Launching ActiveTeach Quickstart Moving around the Student Book Student Book views Student Book resources My Resources ● More Materials > Configuring the product range Using the Glossary Technical Information
Configuring the product range If the ActiveTeach interface does not give you access to the full product range that you have installed, you will need to configure the links between the components. To do this, click on the Help button on the ActiveTeach interface. To the right of the help panel that displays, you will see the ActiveTeach configuration area. In this area, you will see a listing of all the products in the product range. Each listing will tell you if that product is integrated with your ActiveTeach or not.
If a particular product has been installed, but ActiveTeach is unable to locate the product installation, simply click on Browse to find. You will then be asked to locate the installation in question. Once this has been done, the product will be integrated with your ActiveTeach and you will be able to access it from the More Materials tab.
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Help Help Overview Overview Launching How do I start the ActiveTeach ActiveBook? Quickstart Which does what? Movingbitaround the Student Book the Moving around book Student Book views Student Book ActiveBook views resources Zoom areas My Resources Viewing ActiveBook More Materials resources Using the Glossary Finding ActiveBook Technical Information Resources Using the Glossary ● Technical information > Minimum requirements > Word, Excel and PowerPoint viewers > Technical support
Using the glossary Word, Excel and PowerPoint viewers To access an alphabetical listing of all glossary terms, click on the ‘Glossary’ button, in the have top row of buttons in the Active Teach interface. If you dolocated not already Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint on your machine you can use the free Word, Excel and PowerPoint viewer applications, or the trial version of MS Office, all of which are downloadable from the Microsoft website: http://www.microsoft.com
Click on the desired letter of the alphabet, then scroll through the listing of terms. Click on any term to view its glossary entry. Each glossary entry has an accompanying voiceover, which can be played by clicking on the play button.
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Help Overview Launching ActiveTeach Quickstart Moving around the Student Book Student Book views Student Book resources My Resources More Materials Using the Glossary Technical Information > Minimum requirements > Word, Excel and PowerPoint viewers > Technical support
Minimum requirements Hardware The following is the minimum required to run your ActiveBook on a PC. • IBM® compatible PC • Pentium® 3 1GHz processor or equivalent • 512 MB RAM • Sound card and speakers • CD-ROM drive x8 • 1024 x 768 screen resolution.
Software The following software is the minimum required for the PC you use to run the site licence edition of ActiveTeach: • Windows® XP (Professional or Home) Service Pack 2 or higher • Adobe Reader (7 or higher – available for free from www.adobe.com ) • Flash Player Plugin (8 or higher – available for free from www.adobe.com )) • Microsoft Office® (2000 or higher) OR the free viewer applications (available for download from http://www.microsoft.com ): • Word viewer (2003 Version 1) • Excel® viewer (2003 Version 1) • PowerPoint® viewer (2003 Version 6.0.2600.0).
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Help Overview Launching ActiveTeach Quickstart Moving around the Student Book Student Book views Student Book resources My Resources More Materials Using the Glossary Technical Information > Minimum requirements > Word, Excel and PowerPoint viewers > Technical support
Word, Excel and PowerPoint viewers If you do not already have Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint on your machine you can use the free Word, Excel and PowerPoint viewer applications, or the trial version of MS Office, all of which are downloadable from the Microsoft website: http://www.microsoft.com
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Help Overview Launching ActiveTeach Quickstart Moving around the Student Book Student Book views Student Book resources My Resources More Materials Using the Glossary Technical Information > Minimum requirements > Word, Excel and PowerPoint viewers > Technical support
Technical support If students are not sure what to do or if they encounter problems, they should first consult the Help pages. If these do not provide the answer, they should ask their teacher. Teachers who encounter problems should either: • refer to the Readme file on the CD, or • visit the website (http://centraal.uk.knowledgebox.com/kbase/), or • send an email to
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