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Chapter 5: The On-Line Tutorial 101
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CHAPTER 5: THE ON-LINE TUTORIAL
The Tutorial is a highly interactive resource designed to teach you
about HyperPAD, give you an opportunity to practice the skills you'll
need in order to use HyperPAD, provide feedback on your progress in
mastering those skills, and serve as an on-line reference tool.
This chapter explains the Tutorial's structure and main features and
shows you how to operate the Tutorial most effectively. The major topics
covered here include:
0 Entering the Tutorial
0 Using the Tutorial
0 Exiting from the Tutorial
As you'll see, the Tutorial is set up to make it easy for you to enter,
go directly to topics of interest, browse around, and then exit whenever
you like. Therefore, you might find it helpful to explore the Tutorial's
features on-line as you read about them in this chapter.
ENTERING THE TUTORIAL
Selecting the Home pad's Learn about HyperPAD button takes you to the
Tutorial's title screen. By pressing ENTER, you leave the title screen,
and the Tutorial's welcome screen appears.
On the welcome screen, you're asked to type in your name. This isn't
merely a formality. As you'll see in the next section of the chapter,
HyperPAD automatically records how much of the Tutorial each user has
completed and saves this information under his or her name. This feature
helps you keep track of your progress in using the Tutorial. To enable
HyperPAD to call up your records, be sure to type in your name the same
way each time you use the Tutorial. (HyperPAD won't recognize you if you
switch from "Elizabeth" to "Betty" or from "Robert" to "Bob"!)
Once you type in your name and press ENTER, you're taken to the Course
Menu Map, from which you can begin using the Tutorial.
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USING THE TUTORIAL
In this section of the chapter, we'll explain how to use the Tutorial
most effectively, give you a feel for the Tutorial's content, and show
you how to navigate within each of the Tutorial's topics and use the
Tutorial's supplemental learning aids.
GETTING THE MOST OUT OF THE TUTORIAL
The Course Menu Map, shown here, displays the Tutorial's structure. As
you can see, the Tutorial is broken down into six lessons, each of which
contains two or more topics.
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We'll start by describing how to take all the lessons from start to
finish at a single sitting, which will give you an idea of how the
Tutorial operates. But the Tutorial isn't a rigid presentation whose
topics must be covered at one time, after which you never look at it
again. Instead, as you'll also see in this subsection of the chapter,
it's an extremely flexible resource that you can use in a number of
ways, not only as an aid to learning HyperPAD but as an ongoing
reference tool while you're working with HyperPAD.
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TAKING THE TUTORIAL IN ITS ENTIRETY
The lesson and topic names on the Tutorial's Course Menu Map are
HyperPAD buttons. Therefore, you can go directly to a specific lesson or
topic by using TAB, SHIFT+TAB, and the arrow keys to highlight it and
then pressing ENTER or by pointing to it with the mouse and clicking the
left mouse button.
When the Menu Map originally appears, the name of the Tutorial's first
lesson is already highlighted. To go to the first topic within that
lesson, just press ENTER.
Each time you finish a topic, you're automatically returned to the Menu
Map, where you'll see that the topic you just completed now has a check
mark in front of it and the next topic is highlighted (if you just
finished the last topic in a lesson, the title of the next lesson is
highlighted). To proceed to the next topic or lesson, all you have to do
is press ENTER. You can keep repeating this process until you reach the
end of the Tutorial.
OTHER WAYS TO USE THE TUTORIAL
Although the Tutorial can be taken in one fell swoop, it's equally
acceptable to take it one lesson at a time or even one topic at a time.
As explained above, each time you complete a topic, that topic is
checked off on the Course Menu Map. So if you do exit before finishing
the Tutorial, when you return to it the check marks on the Menu Map will
show you at a glance which portions of the Tutorial you have and haven't
taken. To pick up where you left off, just highlight the next unchecked
topic and press ENTER.
Once you've finished the Tutorial, you can use it as an on-line resource
whenever you need to refresh your memory about certain topics, practice
certain skills, or review and expand upon the entries you made in the
Tutorial's on-line Notebook (which is described in detail later in the
chapter).
The Tutorial is accessible not only from the Home pad but also from
HyperPAD's on-line Help system. As you'll see in Chapter 6, many pages
in the Help system have a Learn button, which links them directly to the
relevant portion of the Tutorial, so you can deepen your understanding
of topics explained in Help.
In short, the Tutorial is designed both to let you learn HyperPAD in the
way that suits you best and to serve as a handy reference tool while
you're using HyperPAD.
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THE TUTORIAL'S CONTENT
Since the Tutorial is designed to be self-explanatory, we won't describe
its content in detail here. Instead, we'll give you an idea of how the
Tutorial presents its content--namely, through explanation, guided
practice, and simulation.
The explanatory material consists of informational screens, which
present text and illustrations. All you have to do with these screens is
look them over and proceed to the next screen when you're ready.
Each topic also contains one or more guided practice sessions. During
these practice sessions, you'll be led through a process step by step
and receive immediate feedback whenever you do anything incorrectly.
Some topics also contain a simulation. Simulations are unguided practice
sessions, during which you're asked to perform an entire process from
start to finish without prompting. No feedback is given until the end of
the simulation. If you do well on the simulation, HyperPAD tells you so
and lets you move along to the next portion of the Tutorial. If you're
unable to complete the simulation correctly within a couple of minutes,
HyperPAD lets you choose either to take a bit more time to complete the
simulation or to repeat the presentation and then return to the
simulation.
Rather than having a standard lesson or topic format (i.e., a set
pattern of informational screens, practice sessions, and simulations),
the Tutorial employs these three types of learning techniques flexibly
within each topic, depending on the nature of its content.
NAVIGATING WITHIN A TOPIC
Earlier in the chapter, you learned how to use HyperPAD's regular
button-selecting techniques to go from the Course Menu Map to a Tutorial
topic. In this subsection of the chapter, you'll learn how to navigate
once you reach the desired topic.
Each of the Tutorial's informational screens has a PGDN button. You can
either select this button or press the keyboard's PGDN key to proceed to
the following screen. Screens within practice and simulation sessions
don't have a PGDN button because you're expected to advance through
these screens by following the instructions for performing the practice
or simulation rather than by paging down through them.
If you ever lose track of where you are as you're moving along in the
Tutorial, you can always find the topic title on the bar at the top of
the Tutorial screen's window.
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Nearly all Tutorial screens have a CTRL button. You can select this
button or press the keyboard's CTRL key to reach the Control Panel,
shown here. (The only Tutorial screens without a CTRL button are the
informational screens that actually describe the Control Panel.)
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Calling up the Control Panel is a way of interrupting the Tutorial so
you can move in another direction, use the Tutorial's supplemental
learning aids, or exit from the Tutorial. Since the options listed on
the Control Panel are numbered buttons, you can select them the same way
you would select any other HyperPAD buttons. You can also select them by
holding down the ALT key and pressing the number on the keyboard (not on
the numeric keypad) that corresponds to the button number.
The first three options on the Control Panel (Return, Go back one page,
and Show Menu Map) are navigation aids, which we'll discuss in this
subsection of the chapter. The next three Control Panel options (Print
screen, Notebook, and Cross-reference listing) involve supplemental
learning aids, which we'll discuss in the following subsection of the
chapter. We'll save the last Control Panel option (Exit) for the final
section of the chapter, "Exiting from the Tutorial."
The Control Panel's Return button simply takes you right back to the
page you were on when you selected the CTRL button. This button should
be selected when you've finished using one of the Control Panel's
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functions and want to resume the Tutorial or when you've called up the
Control Panel by mistake and want to escape from it. The Go back one
page button lets you view the preceding page in the Tutorial.
The Show Menu Map button takes you to the Course Menu Map. From there,
you can proceed directly to another topic in the Tutorial. (If you use
the Show Menu Map button to leave a topic before completing its practice
and simulation sessions, that topic won't be checked off on the Menu
Map.)
So proceeding through a topic in the Tutorial is simply a matter of
selecting the PGDN button or pressing the PGDN key to move from one
informational screen to the next, following the on-screen instructions
to move from one screen to the next within practice and simulation
sessions, and calling up the Control Panel if you want to go back a
screen or return to the Course Menu Map to select another topic.
SUPPLEMENTAL LEARNING AIDS
In the preceding subsection, you got a look at the Tutorial's Control
Panel. Among the options listed there were Print screen, Notebook, and
Cross-reference listing. These buttons provide access to supplemental
learning aids, which let you go beyond just viewing the Tutorial on-
screen.
PRINT SCREEN
As you proceed through the Tutorial, you may find that you'd like a hard
copy of certain screens. Whenever you spot material of particular
interest, you can call up the Control panel and select the Print screen
command to get a printout of the screen you were just viewing.
When you select the Print screen command, HyperPAD displays the
information it currently has about the printer you're using and the port
to which it's connected. If you haven't printed before, HyperPAD shows
the default printer settings (Generic Line Printer and LPT1 port).
After making any desired changes to the printer settings (and making
sure your printer is turned on and set to on-line), select the Start
Printing button. Once your page is printed, the Control Panel reappears.
The Return button is already highlighted, so just press ENTER to go back
to the Tutorial screen you were viewing.
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NOTEBOOK
As you use the Tutorial and work with HyperPAD, you'll probably find
yourself wanting to make some notes. If you're ready to move beyond the
time-honored approach to note taking (i.e., jotting down key
observations and reminders on various slips of paper, which you then
misplace), HyperPAD offers an on-line Notebook, which is accessible not
only from the Tutorial but also from every page in HyperPAD's Help
system.
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To reach the Notebook (a sample page from which is shown here) just call
up the Tutorial's Control Panel and select the Notebook button. By
default, you're taken to a Notebook page whose topic heading corresponds
to the topic you're currently studying in the Tutorial. Any notes you
previously took under that topic heading automatically appear so you can
modify them or expand upon them, or if you've never taken any notes on
that topic, a fresh Notebook page appears headed with the name of the
current Tutorial topic.
HyperPAD allows you to use the BACKSPACE key to delete the default topic
heading on your Notebook pages. However, unless you want to make notes
on an entirely different topic, it's a good idea to keep the default
heading so HyperPAD can automatically produce your notes on that topic
the next time you access the Notebook from that topic in the Tutorial.
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Once the topic heading on the Notebook page is filled in (with either
HyperPAD's default heading or a heading you've typed in), you can enter
your notes in the field below the heading. The field for your notes is
scrollable, which means you can type all your notes for a particular
topic right on the same page and use the keyboard or the mouse to move
the cursor around the text and scroll the text into view in the field if
your notes exceed the field's length.
You can use either the on-screen paging buttons below the scrollable
field or the keyboard's PGUP and PGDN keys to move from one page to
another within the Notebook. The New Page and Delete Page buttons let
you add fresh Notebook pages and remove outdated ones at your
convenience.
If you want to track down specific material in your notes, select the
Find button below the scrollable field. When the Find what? dialog box
appears, type the text you're trying to locate into the text box and
press ENTER. HyperPAD displays the first page in the Notebook on which
it finds that word or phrase and highlights the specified text on that
page. If that's not the material you're after, just press ENTER again,
and HyperPAD highlights the next place (either on the same page or on
another page) where it finds the specified word or phrase. Keep pressing
ENTER to skip from one instance of the specifiedinformation to the next,
until you spot the desired notes.
If you want to obtain a hard copy of your notes on a particular topic,
select the Print button below the scrollable field. HyperPAD displays
the information it currently has about your printer and the port to
which it's connected. Make any necessary changes to the printer settings
(and check to be sure your printer is turned on and set to on-line),
then select the Start Printing button. After your notes are printed,
HyperPAD returns you to the Notebook page you were working with.
When you've finished using the Notebook, select the Return button to go
back to the Control Panel. The Return button there is already
highlighted, so just press ENTER to display the page you were viewing in
the Tutorial when you accessed the Notebook.
CROSS-REFERENCE LISTING
If you need more information about any of the topics covered in the
Tutorial, select the Control Panel's Cross-reference listing button.
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HyperPAD then displays a list of Tutorial topics cross-referenced to the
relevant portions of the HyperPAD User's Guide. Once you've looked up
the information you need, use the Return button on the Cross-Reference
Listing screen to get back to the Control Panel.
EXITING FROM THE TUTORIAL
When you call up the Control Panel and select Exit, a screen entitled
End the Tutorial appears displaying two options: Quit the Tutorial and
Return.
If you selected the Exit button accidentally, you can cancel the exiting
process by selecting the Return button, which takes you back to the
Control Panel.
If you're finished using the Tutorial, select the Quit the Tutorial
button to exit. HyperPAD then presents a dialog box asking whether you
want to save your place. If you select <<Yes>>, HyperPAD marks your
place in the Tutorial by saving the check marks in front of the topics
you've completed and returns you to the Home pad. If you select <No>,
HyperPAD still returns you to the Home pad, but without saving the check
marks.
CONCLUSION
Having read this chapter, you'll not only know the mechanics of
operating HyperPAD's Tutorial (i.e., how to access it, move from one
lesson to the next, progress through each topic, and exit), but you'll
also see the Tutorial as an extremely flexible resource and know how to
get the most out of it.
When you first begin working with HyperPAD, the Tutorial can be used at
your own pace as an aid to learning the program. Once you're through
with the initial learning phase, the Tutorial and its Notebook remain
available from the Home pad or from the Help system as on-line reference
tools that can help you use HyperPAD more effectively.
