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1:
The Menu System
Only three clicks away...
Once StudentLink is set as the default start page of a
school workstation Internet browser, students can immediately click
on the appropriate grade, subject, and strand; pinpointing relevant
Internet web sites.
Follow the curriculum....
StudentLink has been released to compliment the strands and
topics contained in The Alberta Ministry of Education and Training
Curriculum Documents.
And still more...
Each grade contains sub-topics beyond the regular curriculum to help
with general research such as Search Tools, Reference Tools,
Canadiana, Themes and Features, and Current Events.
TeacherLink...
StudentLink contains a subset of over 1,000 links to resource web
sites specifically for teachers. There's unit plans, lesson plans,
hand-outs, quizzes, rubrics, and more.
Customized for you...
Client school boards receive a customized copy of
StudentLink containing prominently displayed links to the board web
site, student acceptable use policy, as well as a group of links to
local web sites (of the board's choosing) featured on the current
events pages.
2.
StudentLink Monthly
Maintenance
As the Internet is constantly in a state of
flux, it's important to keep the StudentLink menu system up
to date. To that end, all purchasers are invited to use the
Studentlink web site (www.studentlink.ca) to download a monthly
patch file to automatically update the StudentLink links. This way
the product is always "fresh out of the box". Access to the monthly
update file is free for one year with the purchase of the product.
Further updates are available at 50.00 per school per year. There is
no obligation as to who downloads the patch or how frequently it
occurs. It's up to the client.
3.
The Start - Up Handout Package and the On-line Lesson Library
Each school and board license
comes with a package of ready - to - photocopy hand-outs for each
grade. The hand-outs are in the form of a step by step
"walk-through" to get the student and teacher started using
StudentLink. Further lesson activities are available on line. Click
on "The Lesson Library".
File
Size
Despite containing over 10,000
links, the entire StudentLink system compresses down to 2 megabytes.
Installed, the menu system is just under 7 MB.
Versions and Media
It is available in both Windows and Macintosh
media.
Compatibility
Because StudentLink is Hypertext
Markup Language (HTML) based, it will function perfectly on any
operating system (Apple, Macintosh, Unix, Windows) workstation
capable of browsing the World Wide Web. StudentLink
contains no operating system files (dll's, vxd's etc.) and resides
only in its own directory. StudentLink
can be installed to workstation hard drives or shared
(with a school or board site license) from a single copy on a
network server.
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