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Help Contents

Setting up the Application in Win95/Win3x

Starting and Using the Application

Toolbar

Curriculum

Glossary

Quiz

Technical Support

System Requirements


Setting up the Application in Win95/Win3x

Setting up the application in Windows 95

To setup the application in Windows 95 insert the CD into the CD drive and close the door.

If you have autorun enabled in Windows 95 the operating system will automatically detect the CD-ROM and start with the application Setup. Otherwise you can click on the start button and select Run…

In the Open box type D:\SETUP.EXE where D: is your CD-ROM drive.

Click on OK button.

When the Setup program starts select the directory where you want the setup program to install the files required to run the application. The default directory is C:\AIMA.

Click on OK button.

The Setup installs the required files on your hard drive and creates the required program group icons.

Setting up the application in Windows 3.1

To setup the application in Windows 3.x insert the CD into the CD drive and close the door.

Click on the File Menu and then select Run… option.

In the Command Line box type D:\SETUP.EXE where D: is your CD-ROM drive.

Click on OK button.

When the Setup program starts select the directory where you want the setup program to install the files required to run the application. The default directory is C:\AIMA.

Click on OK button.

The Setup installs the required files on your hard drive and creates the required program group icons.


Starting and using the application

In the program group EDI Courseware select the icon EDI Courseware and click on it (double click on it if you are using Windows 3.x).

Inside the application

When you start the application the opening sequence is displayed. You may stop this by clicking anywhere on the sequence. Once the opening sequence finishes or is stopped you come to the contents page. On this page you have five options. These options are Curriculum, Glossary, Quiz, About and Exit.


Toolbar

The application provides a toolbar for simplifying the topic and information access.

The first part of the toolbar is the section indicator. When you are in curriculum it displays the current chapter. In the glossary section it gives you the glossary section and in the quiz section it gives the quiz section.

The second option on the toolbar is the Contents drop down menu. When you take the mouse over the drop down the indicator () the menu options for the Contents appear. This looks like:

The third option on the toolbar is the History. When you select this you get upto last 40 topics you have visited.

The fourth option on the toolbar is the Find option. You may select this option if you want to lookup in the index to find any topic in the curriculum. The find feature also allows you to search for any text or a phrase within the application.

The fifth option on the toolbar is the Help button. On clicking  you get this help.

The sixth option on the toolbar is the Exit button. You may use  option when you want to exit the application.


Curriculum

In this section you have the chapters on EDI Courseware. By default you come to the first chapter.

You may browse to next and previous chapters by clicking on the [image] buttons.

You may select the next chapter from the drop down menu in top left where the name of the chapter appears. The drop down menu looks like this:

The sub-options within these chapters would appear as you take your mouse over these options.

The curriculum section topics are divided into three parts. The outline, the text and the picture. The outline gives you the outline of the chapter that you are viewing. This chapter might contain sub-chapter which are indicated by the bold text in the outline. All the pictures within the sub-chapter are indicated by a  and the videos by

.

The second part of the curriculum section is the text area. If you double click on the text then the presentation engine would do a full text search for that text in the curriculum section and show the results in a window.

The third part of the curriculum section is the picture area. Here you view the pictures for the topic that you are reading. You may double click the picture to view the zoomed view of the picture. If the zoomed picture does not fit in the resolution you are using then you can pan the picture by moving the mouse to the right or the bottom edge of the picture. Click on the close button to close the zoomed picture. You can also print the picture from the drop down menu on the picture window.


Glossary

In this section you have words for Glossary. The words are displayed on the left side with the explanation on the right. Clicking on any alphabet on the top bar, shows the words with that particular alphabet.


Quiz

Clicking on the Quiz button takes the user to the Contents page of Quiz which is a selection screen with five options. Clicking on any one, takes the user to the Quiz screen. This screen provides a question from that block randomly picked up with five choices. The user can go to a next or a previous question through the browse buttons.


Technical Support

If you need technical support, please contact Ms Shubhra Aurita Roy at aurita_roy@yahoo.com or contact the AIMA web site www.aima-ind.org or www.aimauniv.net


System Requirements

Multimedia PC with 486 or higher processor, 16 MB RAM, CD-ROM drive, audio board,  headphones or speakers, VGA 256-colour display (24-bit recommended), atleast 7 MB of free hard disk space.

Microsoft Windows95 or Windows 3.1 (or later) with 256-colour display or higher.