Numbers Toolbox - First Time User Guide

First timeuser guide

Contents

Introduction

Home page

Sitemap

Resources

Resources home page

Resources topic page

Glossary

Topic pages

Page components

Activities

Interactive activity in a pop-up window

Activity pages

Multi choice activity

Input box activity

Introduction

This guideexplains how to use and navigate(move around) this Toolbox.This includes using the:

• Home page
• Global menu
• Resources section
• Topic page menu
• Activities.

Home page

Six topic selection imagesare on the home page. Select an image to navigate (go to) directly to a topic. You can use them in any order you wish. However the suggested study path is:

1. Calculations
2. Measurement
3. Angles
4. Area
5. Volume
6. Ratio.

A global menu is at the top of the home page. It provides links to these parts of the Toolbox:

• Home page
• Resource section
• Glossary page
• Sitemap page.

The global menu is available on every content page.

Sitemap

A text version of the index page provides analternative(other) method of navigating around the Toolbox.

Resources

Resources home page

When you click on Resources in the global menu, the resources home page opens in a new window.

Select a topic from thetopic menuand the first page of information for that topic will open. In the example below, the user has selected Measurement andthe first page of information is showing.

Resources topic page

• Use the left side menu to navigate to sub topics.
• Use the topic menu to navigate to other topics.
• Use the resources link at the top to go back to the resources home page.
• Close the window (or switch windows) to go back to the Toolbox.

Glossary

When you selectGlossary (word meanings) from the global menu, it opens in a new window. The glossary gives meanings for some specialist words in the Toolbox.

• Use the alphabetmenu at the top to go to words beginning with that letter.
• Use the top link to go back to the top of the page.

• Close the window (or switch windows) to go back to the Toolbox.

Topic pages

Topics have information and learning activities for that topic. Most pages build skills and knowledge as you progress(go through) through the pages. The pages may:

• contain text, images or video
• contain an activity
• link to an interactive activity (in a separate pop-up window)
• link to a text-only version of video or interactive activities.

The last page of each topic has activities so you can practise what you have. If you have difficulties with these tasks you should:

• work back through the information and activities for the topic
• look for more information in the Resources section
• ask your teacher for help.

Page components

• Use the global menu to go to other sections of the Toolbox.
• Use the topic menu to go to sub topics (other sections of the topic).
• Use thelink to the topic guidefor information about activities, assessment suggestions, related resources, mapping to units of competence and employability skills relevant to the topic.
• The content area displays the information for that sub-topic.

Activities

The Toolbox contains different types of activities.

Most activities are in the topic window and provide links or text boxes for user input.

For some other interactive activities, you select an activity link and it opens in a new pop-up window.

For these activities to work on your computer,you need a software application called Flash; use the text alternative versionlink:

• if Flash is not enabled on your browser; or
• for accessibility (screen readers and keyboard accessibility).

Interactive activity in a pop-up window

• Use the activity link to open an activity in a pop-up window (example shown below).

Instructions for the activity are in the window.

Use the text versionlink:

• if Flash is not enabled on your browser; or
• for accessibility (screen readers and keyboard accessibility).

Activity pages

There are two types of activities that can be found in the content area of pages:

• multi choice activities
• input box activities

Multi choice activity

This activity has a question with some possible answers. The user selects an answer, and then gets feedback in a popup window based on the selection.

The feedback tells you if the answer is correct or incorrect, and may give comments on the answer. Sometimes with incorrect answers, clues are provided that could help to solve a problem.

Input box activity

In this activity,the user can type an answer into an input box and then select submit for feedback.
In the example above the user has typed the number nineand then selectedsubmit to get feedback. In this case for an incorrect answer, the feedback provides clues that could help the user work out the correct answer.

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