ActiveBook Help Overview

This ActiveBook is an interactive version of your school textbook.

These instructions tell you more about how to use it.

Launching ActiveBook
1. Check that your hardware and software meet the minimum
requirements (see page 8) to support this application.
2. If your PC meets the requirements, download or install any
supporting applications that you may need (see page 9).
3. Insert the CD-ROM in your disk drive.
4. The ActiveBook program should start automatically.
5. If ActiveBook does not run automatically, use Windows
Explorer to navigate to your CD-ROM drive, open the folder
called ‘at’ and double-click on the file ‘wrapper.exe’.

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Quickstart
The image below shows the ActiveBook interface.

Student Book Find Resources Glossary

Page navigation
controls
View single/double Page turn on/off
page spreads

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Opening a book
ActiveBook includes one student book.

Click the tab showing the book

title to launch the book.

Moving around the student book

You can use the following controls (located in the bottom menu bar)
to move quickly and easily through the pages of the ActiveBook
student book:

Contents list Jump to page Page browse

number...

Click the Contents Type the page Click on the

button to see a number you want to forwards/backwards
list of chapters or go to into the box arrows to browse
spreads for the and hit enter. one page at a time.
current book.

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Animated page turning
By default, the ActiveBook student book will use an animation of the
page turning to illustrate moving from page to page.
This effect can be turned on or off at any time by clicking on the
‘Page turn’ button.

Click once to turn off.

Click once more to turn on again.

Student book views

Double-page view
Every time you start a fresh ActiveBook session, student book
pages are displayed by default in ‘double-page view’ mode. This
means that two pages are side by side, as in the printed book.

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Changing to single-page view
You can switch the viewing mode to view each single page, one at
a time. This will increase the magnification of the page, making it
easier to read.
To switch to ‘single-page view’ mode, click the
‘single-page’ button.

You can also use the zoom in and zoom out controls
to explore the page.
To switch back to ‘double-page view’ mode, click the ‘double-page
view’ button.

Viewing animations
When you launch an animation, it will display in a window that
replaces the student book pages.
To control an animation, click on the buttons that appear within the
window.
When you have finished viewing the animation, click on the button
marked ‘Close’ to return to the student book pages.

Viewing video clips

When you launch a video, it will display in a window that replaces
the student book pages.
For accessibility reasons, videos do not auto-play.
To play, pause or stop a video clip, use the buttons located on the
panel at the bottom-right of the screen.

To review the video clip in a non-linear fashion, click and drag the
playback control which can be found beneath the video window.
To close the video viewing window, click on the close button in the
top-right-hand corner.

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Glossary
The glossary can be used in two ways; by clicking on individual
terms, or searching the glossary as a whole.

Complete glossary
To access an alphabetical listing of all glossary terms, click on
the ‘Glossary’ button, located in the top menu in the ActiveBook
interface.

Click on the desired letter of the alphabet, then scroll through the
list of terms. Click on any term to view its glossary entry.
Each glossary entry may have an accompanying voiceover, which
can be played by clicking on the play button.

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Find Resources
Can’t find what you’re looking for? Use the ‘Find Resources’ button
to quickly browse for resources, pre-sorted into appropriate folders,
for example, by objective, unit, topic or chapter.
To start, click on the ‘Find Resources’ button, located in the top
menu bar in the ActiveBook interface.

The Find Resources panel will then appear.

Select the type of resource you are looking for, then click on the
folder icons to browse according to your preferred criteria.
ActiveBook resources that match your selection will appear in the
panel on the right-hand side of the screen.
You can choose to open a resource directly by clicking ‘Play’, or
jump straight to the student book page it is located on, by clicking
‘Open Page’.

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Minimum requirements

Hardware
The following is the minimum required to run your ActiveBook on a
PC.
IBM® compatible PC
Pentium® 4 1GHz processor or equivalent (2GHz Vista)
512 MB RAM (1GB Vista)
Sound card and speakers
CD-ROM or DVD drive
1024 x 768 screen resolution.

Software
The following software is the minimum required for the PC you use
to run the ActiveBook:
Windows® XP (Professional or Home) Service Pack 2 or higher
Adobe Reader (8 or higher – available for free from
www.adobe.com)
Flash Player Plugin (9 or higher – available for free from
www.adobe.com)
Microsoft Office® (2003 or higher) OR the free viewer applications
(available for download from http://www.microsoft.com )
Word viewer (2003 Version 1)
Excel® viewer (2003 Version 1)
PowerPoint® viewer (2003 Version 6.0.2600.0)
Internet Explorer 7 (or later version) or Firefox 3.

Word, Excel and PowerPoint viewers

If you do not already have Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint on
your machine you can use the free Word, Excel and PowerPoint
viewer applications, or the trial version of MS Office, all of which are
downloadable from the Microsoft website:
http://www.microsoft.com

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Technical support
If students are not sure what to do or if they encounter problems,
they should first consult the Help pages. If these do not provide the
answer, they should ask their teacher.
Teachers who encounter problems should either:
• refer to the Readme file on the CD
• visit the website http://www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk/
Help/SoftwareSupportCentre.aspx
• send an email to [email protected] including your
contact details
• call us on 0845 313 8888, Monday to Friday during office hours.

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