[Year 12 IT Apps] On-screen user documentation

[Litsa Tzelepis]

On-screen user documentationvery logical - that's what i did.
litsa

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Torsello (Mr) 
  To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 11:23 AM
  Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] On-screen user documentation


  Dear esteem colleagues 

  Perhaps I am dredging up something that have already been discussed but . 

  In the "good old days", user documentation followed this general pattern: 

    a.. How to start the application and open the file 
    b.. How to add new data and delete unwanted data 
    c.. How to change existing data 
    d.. How to print 
    e.. How to save the file (including using new filenames) 
    f.. How to exit the program 

  I am getting my students to create a single web page with an index similar to the topics listed above with links to bookmarks in this one page and using screen dumps.

  And since this user doc is on-screen, it make sense to me to put a button in the spreadsheet that links to this one web page.

  Does this sound right? 

  But if it is in the spreadsheet then step 1 (start and open file) is not necessary as you can't get to the user doc until you open the file. And if they can open the application, can I assume that the user knows how to exit too making the last step is superfluous?

  Is my reasoning logical? 
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  With thanks
  Michael Torsello
  Director of Computing
  St Margaret's School, Berwick
  Ph: (03) 9703 8111 

  I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards. -- Rudyard Kipling 


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