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l ActiveTeach Welcome to the Help file for the Edexcel GCE Biology ActiveTeach.
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Your ActiveTeach has been designed to give you easy access to
Launching Edexcel GCE Biology Student Books, videos, animations, learning
objectives and target sheets.
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Quickstart To get the information you need, please click on one of the links on
the left hand side.
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Student Book
Student Book views
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resources
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Launching ActiveTeach
Overview 1. Check that your hardware and software meet the minimum
requirements to support this application.
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ActiveTeach 2. If your PC meets the requirements, download or install any
supporting applications that you need.
Quickstart
3. Install the application as detailed in the booklet delivered with
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the product.
Student Book
4. Locate the ActiveTeach shortcut on your Start menu as
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follows:
Student Book
Programs >
resources
Longman >
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Edexcel AS Biology
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5. Click the shortcut. The product should launch.
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Quickstart
Overview The image below shows your ActiveTeach interface.
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Find resources Glossary
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More
Student Book materials Zoom
areas
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Student Book Resource
icons
resources
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Page turn
Interactive Page navigation
on/off
View single/double
on/off controls
page spreads
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Moving around the Student Book
You can use the following controls (located in the bottom menu bar) to move
Overview quickly and easily through the pages of your ActiveTeach Student Book:
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Quickstart Jump to page number...
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Type the page number you want to go to into the box and hit enter.
the Student Book
Page browse...
> Animated
page turning Click on the forwards/backwards arrows to browse one page at a time.
Student Book views Jump to contents page...
Student Book
Click on the ‘Contents’ button to return to the ActiveBook contents.
resources
Last-viewed page...
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Click on the ‘Previous’ button to return to the previously viewed page.
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Jump to end of book...
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Click on the far-right button to jump to the end of the book.
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Animated page turning
Overview When you first start your ActiveTeach Student Book, it will show the action of
moving from page to page by animating the page turning.
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This effect can be turned on or off at any time by clicking on the Page turn
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button.
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the Student Book
Click once to turn off.
> Animated
page turning Click once more to turn on again.
Student Book views
Student Book
resources
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Student Book views
Overview Double-page view
Every time you start a fresh ActiveTeach session, pages are
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displayed by default in ‘double-page view’ mode. This means that each two-
ActiveTeach page spread is displayed side by side, just as in a printed book.
Quickstart
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Student Book
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Student Book
views
> Interactive view
> Zoom areas
Student Book
resources
Changing to single-page view
More Materials It is also possible to switch the viewing mode to view each single page, one
at a time.
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To switch to ‘single-page view’ mode, click once on:
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Interactive view
Overview By default, your ActiveTeach launches in non-interactive view – which means
that you have access to zoom areas, glossary items and goto links. However,
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no resource icons will be displayed.
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If you wish to view a full display of interactive features, you can do so by
Quickstart clicking on the ‘Interactive’ button.
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Student Book
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Student Book Click once on the ‘Interactive’ button to turn on interactive view and click
again to turn it off.
views
> Interactive view
> Zoom areas
Student Book
resources
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Zoom areas
Overview 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
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of the page.
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Student Book
views
> Interactive view
> Zoom areas
Once zoomed in, you have access to the zoom navigation controls:
Student Book
resources
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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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ActiveTeach resources
To view ActiveTeach resources, look for the resource icons ranged vertically
Overview at each page edge.
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ActiveTeach
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Resource
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icons
Student Book
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Student Book
resources
> Viewing ActiveTeach resource icons are always positioned close to the text that they
support, and are coded as follows:
animations
PowerPoint files Interactive animation
> Viewing video
clips Word documents Video clip
> Glossary items
> Find Resources Animations and videos will launch within the ActiveTeach interface.
Presentations and documents launch within an external application,
> My Resources
as detailed in the ‘Technical information’ section.
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Viewing animations
Finding ActiveBook resources
Can’t find what you’re looking for? Use the ‘Find resources’ button to quickly
Overview When you launch an animation, it will display in a window that
Overview find ActiveBook resources by unit and topic.
replaces the Student Book pages.
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How do I start the
ActiveTeach
ActiveBook?
To start finding resources, simply click on the ‘Find Resources’ button,
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located in the top row of buttons in the ActiveBook interface. The Find
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Resources panel will then appear.
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resources
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Click on the folder icons to select unit and topic, and then resource type.
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clips
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> Glossary items
Resources
To control an anim ation, click on the buttons that appear within the
> Find Resources
window.
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ActiveBook resources that match your selection will appear in the panel on
> My Resources
the right-hand side of the screen. You can choose either to open a found
Technical information When you have finished viewing the animation, click on the button
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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.
Using the Glossary on, by clicking either ‘Open Resource’ or ‘Open Page’ on the resource item.
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