Manuals
From OLPC
The OLPC Manual is available as a Help Activity (1, 2) for XO-1 and XO-1.5, and also online at http://laptop.org/manual
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[edit] Mailing List
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[edit] Manuals
[edit] Emerging manuals
Sugar Labs effort organized by S. Daniel Francis
Getting Started (for recent 2010/2011 software especially!) Interactive HTML guide overhauls the famous original from 2007/2008.
OLPC Australia Manual (NEW)
One Laptop per Rwandese Child (NEW 16-page PDF guide)
Jim Simmons' Make Your Own Sugar Activities! (PDF, $12 in book form NEW)
Check out our DRAFT "Class Acts" guide for community deployment resources.
OLPC Software Release 11.3.1 should be released well before our doc sprint expected Apr 6-10, 2012 in Cambridge, Massachusetts!
[edit] Recent manuals
OLPC Australia published Lesson Ideas and Guides in May 2013: http://academy.one-education.org
OLPC Canada's 92-page Educator's Guide (NEW, see bottom of their page). With lesson plans created by Canadian teachers that work in First Nations communities. OLPC Canada grants permission to remix/translate its lessons wherever it helps other countries.
The OLPC Manual is available in several formats:
- The Help Activity available (updated by Gonzalo Odiard in 2013!)
- Online manual: http://laptop.org/manual (VERY DATED)
- Downloadable PDF (4.7MB, 254 pages) {this link doesn't work}
- which is purchasable in book form for $15
- OLPC Australia: XO Comes to Class File:XOComesToClassV1 1.pdf (7.4MB, 149 pages)
It was created by volunteers from a combination of two manuals for 8.2.0 developed at FLOSSManuals:
- http://en.flossmanuals.net/XO (single-page "print" version)
- http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar (single-page "print" version
- Support FAQ
- Frequently Asked Questions answered by OLPC's Community Support Volunteers!
- Deployment Guide
- A generalized guide to a large-scale deployment of one laptop per child.
Conveniently right here online on this wiki, overhauled in 2011 by Daniel Drake especially.
- Sdenka Salas - The XO Laptop in the Classroom (NEW from Peru, 5.5 MB / 102 pages; in Spanish too! 6.7MB / 106 pages, In French here 15 MB / 102 pages and in Arabic thanks to Dr. Rashid Ismael [1]). The English version has an old image of Sugar.
- The lesson ideas in this book show many ways the XO and Sugar interface can be put to work in classrooms.
- "Manual Basico XO" (2da edicion) (2.5MB / 48 pages)
- Uruguay's colorful starter guide!
- NEW Spanish Starter Guide (15MB / 31 pages)
- Colorful: get-to-know your XO Laptop and the Sugar Learning Platform.
- Activity Handbook (594KB / 59 pages)
- A software developer's guide for creating software for Sugar.
- Sugar Almanac
- A detailed guide for developers to the APIs in Sugar.
- Laptop overview
- A short overview of the XO laptop's hardware and software features.
- Teacher's Guide to the XO and Deployment version 1.0
- A guide for teacher's new to the XO with a suggested deployment model, lesson plans, teacher reflections and more as written for Australian teachers. Version 2.0 is currently in development.
[edit] Manuals in Arabic
Floss Manuals download Arabic Help activity Translated by a volunteer from Morocco!
Second version of XO Arabic manual by UNRWA team
Arabic version of Sdenka Salas - The XO Laptop in the Classroom, thanks to Dr. Rashid Ismael
[edit] Manuals in Spanish
A growing list of resources from deployments across Latin America.
[edit] Manuals for earlier releases
- Getting Started guide
- Beautiful, interactive pages that describe XO hardware and the 7.1.0 or "ship.2" release.
- OLPC/Sugar simple user's guide at Flossmanuals
- This was the manual for the 7.1.0 or "ship.2" release (builds 650-653) that most G1G1 2007 users received on their XO laptops.
[edit] Inactive manuals
- Nortel LearnIT Using the XO Laptop
- Old and incomplete
- The OLPC Wiki's Simplified user guide
- What is the Migration status and difference from FlossManuals?
- XO Guide
- shows some interactive brief HTML pages about the XO software from 2007 that would have been part of the OLPC Library home page for the Browse activity.
- Demo notes from 2007
[edit] Other books
Please also see our community's many other ebooks, textbooks, picturebooks, presentations, and other content!
The Sugar Labs wiki has a guide to exploring the Sugar UI.
