Lesson 1

User guide LO: To develop skills required to create user documentation suitable for a given audience Review documents: To be able to re look at work and gain an unbiased opinion and constructive feedback you could uses the following forms – proofing, thesaurus, spell checkers

What is a user guide? Can you describe what elements need to be included in a user guide? In pairs make a list on paper LO: To develop skills required to create user documentation suitable for a given audience Review documents: To be able to re look at work and gain an unbiased opinion and constructive feedback you could uses the following forms – proofing, thesaurus, spell checkers

Research Look at the 2 examples on Kemnalict Click HereClick Here In groups of 4 or 5 create a spider diagram on the positive and negative aspects of the user guides LO: To develop skills required to create user documentation suitable for a given audience Review documents: To be able to re look at work and gain an unbiased opinion and constructive feedback you could uses the following forms – proofing, thesaurus, spell checkers Images? Placement of Texts White Space Layout – What does this consist of?

Task 1 What are the main aspects you consider to be important to a user guide? – Produce a list of rules which you can follow in the creation of your user guide. Task 2 You now need to think about audiences and how the user guides need to be different for them? – First audience is ‘PC Illiterate’ – Second audience is ‘PC Technical’ You need to create a short user guide for each audience showing them how to Open Power Point, Set Slide Design and Set Slide Transitions Then in your groups write down 5 points that are different for the 2 target audiences and feed back to the class. Review : To be able to re look at work and gain an unbiased opinion and constructive feedback you could uses the following forms – proofing, thesaurus, spell checkers LO: To develop skills required to create user documentation suitable for a given audience

These are my tips for creating a user guide Think about your audience, and their expected level of expertise and approach the user guide accordingly. Use screenshots to show how to do things Make instructions step by step For many tasks there are a number of ways to perform them; explain the most easy way. LO: To develop skills required to create user documentation suitable for a given audience Review documents: To be able to re look at work and gain an unbiased opinion and constructive feedback you could uses the following forms – proofing, thesaurus, spell checkers What are your thoughts? How is what you have learned today going to affect the user guide you create? On the post it note I have given you, write down the single most important element you will think about when you begin the assignment

Lesson 2

These are my tips for creating a user guide Think about your audience, and their expected level of expertise and approach the user guide accordingly. Use screenshots to show how to do things Make instructions step by step For many tasks there are a number of ways to perform them; explain the most easy way. LO: To develop skills required to create user documentation suitable for a given audience Review documents: To be able to re look at work and gain an unbiased opinion and constructive feedback you could uses the following forms – proofing, thesaurus, spell checkers What are your thoughts? How are you going to change your work based on the feedback from today? You discussed this in your last lesson – we will look at ways of creating the user guide to it is fit for purpose and fulfils the task marking criteria Feedback to me some of the ideas that came up in your previous lesson

LO: To develop skills required to create user documentation suitable for a given audience Review documents: To be able to re look at work and gain an unbiased opinion and constructive feedback you could uses the following forms – proofing, thesaurus, spell checkers

LO: To develop skills required to create user documentation suitable for a given audience Review documents: To be able to re look at work and gain an unbiased opinion and constructive feedback you could uses the following forms – proofing, thesaurus, spell checkers

LO: To develop skills required to create user documentation suitable for a given audience Review documents: To be able to re look at work and gain an unbiased opinion and constructive feedback you could uses the following forms – proofing, thesaurus, spell checkers

Task 4 Your boss has noted that many staff are weak at using Microsoft PowerPoint, he has asked you to create a user guide for non technical staff: The maximum number of pages is 2 sides of A4 – in order for the document to be folded into a 4 page A5 booklet. – You could Include – Master Slides – Transitions – Animations – Text/Sounds/Images – Backgrounds – Saving/opening – Inserting slides b) After completing the first draft of the document you should print it and annotate the mistakes which have been made on the document. c) Based on your annotations you should produce the final version of the booklet which contains no mistakes. P6,M2 Have you met both of these criteria? If you have can you provide and assistance to other member of the class? If you have not yet met the criteria can you use the notes from last lesson to help or user peer reviewing to help you? Think about your ICT skills – Cropping, screen shots, annotation, alignment, emphasis, Grouping, tabbing, ordering, formatting LO: To develop skills required to create user documentation suitable for a given audience

Review documents: To be able to re look at work and gain an unbiased opinion and constructive feedback you could uses the following forms – proofing, thesaurus, spell checkers Think about your ICT skills – Cropping, screen shots, annotation, alignment, emphasis, Grouping, tabbing, ordering, formatting Thinking more about Skills What new skills have you developed today How can you use them in the future both at school and work etc Looking back to the marking criteria Who has progressed towards meeting P6? Who has progressed towards meeting M2? You must explain why you have met or not met the criteria