Digital Teacher Web Application User Guide

Version 4.1, April 20, 2002 (Rev. 4.12, 08/06/02)
   How to use this guide

   Introduction
	What is the Digital Teacher web application?
	Which web browsers should my audience use?
	How do I create and publish the web lesson?
	In which file type is the web lesson generated?
	What is the web server anyway?
	On Which web server should I deploy my lesson?
	What is ASP (Active Server Pages)?
	Which web server software handles ASP?
	Should I install PWS on my PC?

   Demonstration

   Chapter 1: Understanding Web Lesson Elements
	Page Elements 
	Title and Timer
	Chapter
	Question and Answer
	Menu
	Popup Reading
	Table of Contents 
	Displaying all questions on a single window
	Setting the Style

   Chapter 2: Setting Lesson Properties
	What are the Lesson properties?
	Available properties for web lesson
	Publishing Web Lesson as Survey

   Chapter 3: Generating Web Lesson Files
	The .HTM type lesson
	The .ASP type lesson
	Files generated for each type of lesson
	For the .ASP type lesson - JS or WSD?
	Including lesson data in .WSD for the ASP type lesson

   Chapter 4: Previewing Web Lessons Locally
	Viewing the lesson
	Login
	dtLogin.htx for login to the .HTM type lesson
	dtLoginNT.htm for the .ASP type lesson
	Specifying path information for preview (ASP type only)
	Loading from Personal Web Server

   Chapter 5: Publishing Web Lessons
	Digital Teacher Web Application file list
	Publishing locations
	Path References
	Setting Path References

   Chapter 6: Deploying Web Lessons
	Validating Students using the login page
	Using Cookies to remember the login data
	Setting cookies
	Verifying Student identities (ASP only)

   Chapter 7: Viewing Online Gradebook
	Teacher Login
	Gradebook Selection List
	Online Gradebook
	Performance Report

   Chapter 8: Creating Lesson Templates
	Creating Custom Templates
	Adding Template Locations

   Chapter 9: Customizing User Interface and Style
	Displaying Messages
	Feedback Marks, Answer, Hint, and Reading links
	Formatting Page Element Blocks (Demo)
	Setting Borders (Demo)
	Changing Position and Dimension (Demo)
	Scroll Bar, Question Number, and Question Divider (Demo)
	Table of Contents (Course Style) (Demo)
	Popup Reading, Hint, and Report
	Performance Report and Grade Book (.ASP only)

   Chapter 10: Formatting text
	Using Style Sheet (Demo)
	Adding ordinary HTML tags (Demo)
	Converting Rich Text to HTML
	Rendering Precedence

   Chapter 11: Adding Multimedia and External Files
	Inserting Multimedia Tags
	Multimedia Types supported
	Displaying/Playing style
	playMedia() - a Javascript function
	Multimedia Issues to be considered
	Adding external documents to lesson

   Chapter 12: Installing Microsoft PWS amd MDAC
	Should I install?
	Obtaining Microsoft PWS
	Installing PWS
	Enabling Web Service
	Creating Web (Virtual) Directory
	Viewing ASP page
	Installing MDAC

   Chapter 13: Installing Digital Teacher server components
	Do I need to install these components?
	Database Connections (for Network Administrator)
	Setting up Database Permissions on the IIS Server

   Chapter 14: Known Issues
	Scroll Height (Netscape only)
	Using the Tab key (Netscapte only)
	Using the Browser Menu bar and Toolbar

   Chapter 15: Preventing Students from Using Browser tools
	Displaying Lessons in Full-Screen (Demo)
	How to Present Full-Screen Lesson
	Disabling the right mouse menu

   Chapter 16: Optimizing Digital Teacher Web Lesson Page
	Reduce the physical file size.
	Reduce the total number of chapters.
	Use text instead of graphics whenever possible.
	Keep the use of tables to a minimum.
	Refrain from using gadgets and gizmos.
	Take advantage of illusions.

   Appendix: Script Comments - Digital Teacher Exam Page (.ASP)

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