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Business Communications COMM-1107: User Manual

This document provides instructions for students to write part of a user manual explaining how to use one of the Hot Potatoes software programs. It assigns each group a specific Hot Potatoes component to cover, such as creating a short-answer quiz, jumbled sentence exercise, or fill-in-the-blanks exercise. The user manual should have the appearance of a product instruction booklet and include sections like a title page, table of contents, introduction, step-by-step instructions, and example quiz. It should be aimed at an audience familiar with creating testing materials but unfamiliar with the software.

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Business Communications COMM-1107: User Manual

This document provides instructions for students to write part of a user manual explaining how to use one of the Hot Potatoes software programs. It assigns each group a specific Hot Potatoes component to cover, such as creating a short-answer quiz, jumbled sentence exercise, or fill-in-the-blanks exercise. The user manual should have the appearance of a product instruction booklet and include sections like a title page, table of contents, introduction, step-by-step instructions, and example quiz. It should be aimed at an audience familiar with creating testing materials but unfamiliar with the software.

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Business Communications COMM-1107 User Manual Task

This assignment calls for your team to write part of a user manual. The topics are broad in scope and will require the project to be broken up into a number of smaller tasks. Taking a large project and breaking it up into a number of tasks approximates the type of task that happens in the real world and facilitates teamwork. Much of the work will be done during class time. The topic options appear below. Your manual is to be directed at a specific audience, showing readers how to accomplish specific tasks using a specific piece of software. Hot Potatoes Prepare a user manual that will explain to college instructors how to use one of the Hot Potatoes subprograms. Hot Potatoes contain five programs designed to create a variety of quizzes.

Preparation
1. From the Hot Potatoes website http://hotpot.uvic.ca/:

Download the latest version of the software.

Instruction Manual_Winter08

2. Register your copy after youve installed the software. (Its free for educational purposes and will not put spyware onto your computer.)

3. You will need to apply for a registration key, which can be used to unlock all the features of the programs. Complete the form as directed.

4. When you receive your key by email, start one of the Potatoes, then click Register on the Help menu, and enter your user name and key.

Teams will each explain a separate component.


Group Number 1 2 3 4 5 Hot Potatoes Components Creating a short-answer quiz with JQuiz Creating a jumbled sentence exercise with JMix Creating a crossword puzzle with JCross Creating a matching exercise with JMatch Creating a fill-in-the-blanks exercise with JCloze

Requirements for Instructions


Your submission should have the appearance of a self-contained booklet that would accompany a product. Appearance is important, so pay attention to graphics and layout. This assignment is not meant to be a generic instruction manual aimed at a general audience. It is designed towards an audience that knows how to put testing material together, but may have limited computer skills.

All assignments will include the following:


A title page A table of contents An introduction that explains the purpose of the instructions, describes your target audience, and states what readers will be able to accomplish once theyve learned the procedure(s) A step-by-step set of instructions with accompanying text plus graphics discussing and illustrating the procedures

Other sections which may be necessary include:


Warnings/Cautions Equipment requirements Set-up instructions Error messages and correction procedures An appendix showing the source of your original material, using APA guidelines for formatting business and related documents.

Requirements
Each team must explain the following components: Instruct users how to change the toolbar so only the most common icons appear. These icons are: Create a new test; Open a previously saved test; Save the current test; Create a test in a web page; Exit the program; Undo; Cut; Copy; Paste; Insert a picture from your hard drive Insert a link to a web page Go to the configuration screen. Provide a screen shot of the revised toolbar with a label of each icon. Explain how these buttons work and all the alternate ways the same functionality can be invoked. This explanation should appear in the list of user instructions. How the interface to create the test (below the toolbar) operates. All components must be explained. Adding reading data to a test.
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Explain how to change the appearance of the quizzes with the Configuration file (Titles/Instructions, Prompts/Feedback, Buttons, Appearance, Timer) Explain how to create the test in a standard web page. Explain how the tests work (all options) in the web page.

In addition to the requirements listed above you must also include a file containing a short quiz that was prepared with the module you explained. Quizzes must have from 6-10 questions based on the User Manuals topics. The assignment is marked out of 112.

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