Manhattan 2.3 Teacher's Reference

Steven Narmontas

Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004 Western New England College

Revision History
Revision (See the Appendix: Changes for more detailed change information.)
Revision 2.3 21 April 2004
Updated for Manhattan 2.3
Revision 2.2 24 February 2004
Updated for Manhattan 2.2
Revision 1.1 20 October 2003
Second release - minor editing corrections
Revision 1.0 22 May 2003
First Edition
Table of Contents
History
1. Introduction and Overview
What is Manhattan?
What you'll need to use Manhattan
The Message is the Medium
Lines of Communication
One-to-many: from teacher to student
One-to-one private communication
Many-to-many public forums
One-to-many, then one-to-one private communication
Synchronous Chat: many-to-many and more
Unique Features of Manhattan
2. Basic Skills and Concepts
Logging in
Your Username and Password
The My Manhattan Page
Getting kicked off
Four hour timeout
You can only be logged in once
Selecting the modules to activate your classroom
A Classroom's Main Menu
Exit Classroom
Change Your Password
View/Edit Personal Info
Avoid using your Back and Forward buttons
Sending messages
The Topic:
The Message:
Check Spelling
Attaching Files
Sending the message
Attaching Web Sites
What's the problem?
The solution
Zip files
What might go wrong
Reading Manhattan Messages
Did you get my message?
Opening attached files
Deleting Messages
Gathering Messages
Manhattan's Copy and Paste Commands
In a nutshell
Some interesting applications
Things to note
Hiding and Unhiding Topics
Topic Manager
What's a "topic"?
Changing the order of topics
Teacher hidden and scheduled topics
An important note about unrelease times
Posting a topic as teacher-hidden
Teachers can always see teacher-hidden topics
Locking Attachments
Differences between the teachers' and students' views of Manhattan
Standalone and Template Courses
About 'normal' courses
About standalone courses
About course templates
3. Configuration
The Configuration menu
Select modules, change course title, semester, teacher information
View password file
Get course roster
Add a student
Add a teacher
Delete a student or a teacher
Reset a person's password
Change a person's name, team, or alias
Assign teams
View student login logs, class access statistics, etc.
Specify Start and End dates
Recent logins
Event Calendar
Event List
Disk Usage
Clipboard Viewer
4. Handouts/Notices and Lectures Modules
Activating the modules
Adding messages to the modules
MS Word and other word processing files
Word Macro Viruses
Version Incompatibilities and Remedies
Other Word Processors
Attaching HTML files and Web Sites
Saving a Word file as HTML
Beyond Microsoft Word
PowerPoint
Saving PowerPoint as HTML
Using WinZip to package web sites
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files
Installing Acrobat Reader
Creating and Posting PDF Files
Real Media Files
Installing RealPlayer
Posting Real Media files to Manhattan
Other file types
5. The Self-tests Module
Introducing Hot Potatoes
A Tour of "Hot Potatoes"
Posting a Hot Potatoes Quiz to Manhattan
Tracking Student Self-test Activity
Testing on your own computer
CGI-enabled Hot Potatoes within the Self-tests module.
Viewing Quiz Histories
Why they're called 'Self-tests'
Other ideas for Self-tests
6. The Internet Resources Module
Activating the module
Adding a new message
Reading an Internet Resources message
Use Window's Copy and Paste!
7. Class Discussion, Student Lounge and Anonymous Discussion
About the Class Discussion module
About the Student Lounge module
About the Anonymous Discussion module
Activating the modules
Topic Index Screen Elements
The Topic Manager controls
Hiding and Unhiding topics
Gathering messages
Reversing the order of topics
Expanding and Collapsing Topics
Reply-chains
Who opened my message?
Posting a New Topic
'Add New Message' vs. 'Reply'
Deleting Messages
8. The Team Discussion and Team/Teacher Discussion Modules
Activating the Modules
Assigning Teams
The Team Discussion module
The Team/Teacher module
What happens when you change a student's team?
9. The Assignments Module
Activating the module
The Assignment Cycle
Teacher: Posting a new assignment
Reading the Assignment you just posted
Assignments can't be deleted after students have replied
Student: Receives assignment and submits work
Teacher: Responds to student work
What can the teacher delete?
Gathering Assignments
Students can't post unless there's an assignment
When students reply using the Post Office
Online testing: using locked attachments
Teacher: Post the exam as teacher-hidden
Teacher: Lock the attachments and unhide the exam
Students: Opening the locked attachments
Teacher: Interpreting student response times
What can go wrong
Online testing: Hot Potatoes exams
Teacher: Create the exam using Hot Potatoes
Teacher : Posting the exam
Students: Taking the exam
Teacher: Viewing/Returning results
10. The Surveys Module
Activating the module
The Surveys Cycle
Private and Public Surveys
Creating a new survey
Teacher: delivers a survey
Student: answers the survey
Teacher: Collects survey data
Surveys and your server administrator
11. The Post Office Module
Activating the module
The Inbox, Outbox, and Attics
Sending a Post Office message
Reading Post Office messages
The Outbox - Who opened my message?
The Attics - Post Office messages can't be deleted
12. The Grades Module
Activating the module
The students' view
The teacher's Grades menu
Posting grades
Importing the roster into Excel
Maintaining your grades spreadsheet
Posting your grades spreadsheet to Manhattan
Missing or extra students
Excluding students from the grades module
Deleting grades
Who has opened their grades?
Viewing student grades
13. The People Module
Activating the module
The thumbnail gallery
Links are added to messages
14. The Chat Module
Activating the module
Basic Use of Chat
Chat opens in a separate window
You start in a channel dedicated to your classroom
Typing a message
Exiting Chat
Who is with me? and Who is logged in?
Turning up (or down) the volume - the page command
Style and Size
Copy and Pasting messages
Chat Transcripts
Chat Commands
General commands
/help
/whois
/finger
/me
/quit
/ver
/time
/nick
/page
/msg
/squelch
/yell
Channel Commands
/list
/join
/topic
/lock
/invite
/own
/kick
Troubleshooting Chat
A. Change Log
Revision 2.3 Changes
B. GNU Free Documentation License
PREAMBLE
APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
VERBATIM COPYING
COPYING IN QUANTITY
MODIFICATIONS
COMBINING DOCUMENTS
COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
TRANSLATION
TERMINATION
FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
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