Manuals
From OLPC
The OLPC Manual is available as the Help activity for 8.2 and is also online at http://laptop.org/manual
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[edit] Emerging manuals
Check out our DRAFT "Class Acts" guide for community deployment resources. (NEW)
See other Community Documentation Projects.
[edit] Recent manuals
The OLPC Manual for our new Release 8.2.x is available in several formats:
- the online manual at http://laptop.org/manual
- the Help activity available for release 8.2.x.
- a 254-page downloadable PDF (4.7MB)
- which is purchasable in book form for $18
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.
- Sdenka Salas - The XO Laptop in the Classroom (NEW from Peru, 5.5 MB / 102 pages; in Spanish too! 6.7MB / 106 pages). 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.
[edit] Manuals for earlier releases
- Getting Started guide
- Beautiful, interactive pages that describe XO hardware and the 7.1.0 or "ship.2" release. As of November 2008, http://laptop.org/start redirects to this
- OLPC/Sugar simple user's guide at Flossmanuals
- This is 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
- History
- The OLPC Wiki's Simplified user guide
- Migration status and diff from FM?
- XO Guide
- History?
- Demo notes
[edit] Other Books
Please also see our community's many other ebooks, textbooks, picturebooks and presentations!
