Manuals
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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Manuals
Emerging manuals
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!
Recent manuals
OLPC Canada's 92-page Educator's Guide. (NEW, see bottom of their page). OLPC Canada grants permission to remix/translate its lessons wherever it helps other countries.
The OLPC Manual for our Release 8.2.x+ is available in several formats:
- Online manual: http://laptop.org/manual
- The Help activity available for release 8.2.x+
- 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.
- 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.
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
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.
- 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.
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
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.