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.
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:
- Online manual: http://laptop.org/manual
- The Help activity available for release 8.2.x
- Mac Howto Manual
- Downloadable PDF (4.7MB, 254 pages)
- which is purchasable in book form for $18
- OLPC Australia: XO Comes to Class File:XOComesToClassV1 1.pdf (7.4MB, 149 pages) (NEW)
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. 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!