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[http://wiki.laptop.org/go/File:FixedWriteActivityManual.pdf PaleXO Write Activity Manual]
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[http://translate.flossmanuals.net/XO_ar/Introduction Floss Manuals] Translated by a volunteer from Morocco!
[http://translate.flossmanuals.net/XO_ar/Introduction Floss Manuals] Translated by a volunteer from Morocco!



===Manuals in Spanish===
===Manuals in Spanish===

Revision as of 19:29, 1 September 2010

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

Mailing List

Discussions about the OLPC/Sugar Manuals take place on the Library Mailing list. If you would like to join the conversation, sign up: here.

Manuals

Emerging manuals

Getting Started (10.2) A revised "Getting Started" interactive HTML manual for release 10.2.

One Laptop per Rwandese Child (NEW 16-page PDF guide)

Jim Simmons' Make Your Own Sugar Activities! (PDF, $18 in book form NEW)

Check out our DRAFT "Class Acts" guide for community deployment resources. (NEW)

See other Community Documentation Projects.

Recent manuals

The OLPC Manual for our new Release 8.2.x is available in several formats:

It was created by volunteers from a combination of two manuals for 8.2.0 developed at FLOSSManuals:

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.
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.

Manuals in Arabic

XO Starter Manual

UNRWA Starter Manual

PaleXO Browse Activity Manual

PaleXO Chat Activity Manual

PaleXO Write Activity Manual

Floss Manuals Translated by a volunteer from Morocco!

Manuals in Spanish

A growing list of resources from deployments across Latin America.

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.

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

Other Books

Please also see our community's many other ebooks, textbooks, picturebooks and presentations!