Tektronix PC Courseware Editor User Manual

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Table of Contents

PC Courseware Editor User Manual. ................................ ................................ ............. 1

Launching the PC Courseware Editor....................................................................... 2

Understanding the workspace ................................................................................ 4

Opening a ne

Opening an existing workspace .............................................................................. 7

Creating a lab experiment.................... ................................ ................................ . 7

Performing other operations with labs...................... ................................ ................ 11

Exporting a lab................................................................................................ 12

Setting up an author profile .............. .................................. ................................ .. 15

Develop

Working with packages ...................... ................................ ................................ 20

Making miscellaneous settings . . ..... . ..... . ..... . ..... . ..... . ..... . ... . . . .... . . .... . . .... . ..... . ..... . ..... 27

w workspace .................................................................................... 5

ing a course.. ................................ .................................. ...................... 17

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The PC Courseware Editor helps you create lab descriptions and instructions on a
PC and upload the material directly onto a TBS1000B-EDU oscilloscope. Your
students can
their progress in a report file consisting of oscilloscope screen captures.

then perform their lab work directly on the oscilloscope and record

Your studen
pushing the oscilloscope’s dedicated, front-panel Course button. Using the
oscilloscope’s soft keys and the multipurpose knob, they can access up to eight
courses which can have up to 30 labs each. To accommodate situations where and
instrument is used for several classes, up to 100 MB of course material can be
stored on the oscilloscope. Once the students choose a lab, they can review the
overvie
check and save the data results and generate reports that show the waveforms
created for each step in the procedure. They perform all of this work directly on
the oscilloscope.

The associat ed Tektronix Courseware Web Page lets you exchange course material
or get inspired by reviewing ideas from your peers. You can share courseware
materials between different labs, fellow professors at the your institution or
between educators from around the world.

This document describes how to:

Install the PC Courseware Editor on a PC from the CD that came with your
TBS1000B-EDU

Create lab courseware

Export, import and edit existing lab courseware

Create course and associate labs

ts can access the content on their TBS1000B-EDU oscilloscope by

w section, perform the lab using the step-by-step procedure, collect data,

reate a courseware package for viewing on a TBS1000B-EDU oscilloscope

C

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Launching the

PC Courseware Editor

To launch the PC Courseware Editor on your PC, copy the Courseware Editor
folder from Tektronix Education CD, which came with your TBS1000B-EDU
oscilloscop
www.tektronix.com/manuals. Start using the tool by double clicking on
“courseeditor.exe” file. You can launch the PC Courseware Editor without having
to run any special installation routines on your computer.

e, to your computer. You can also download a copy from

Figure 1: Start by clicking on the “courseeditor.exe” file item

The PC Courseware Editor lets you:

Create new labs

Edit labs

Export labs as PDF document

Create courses

Addlabstodifferentcourses

Create lab packages

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Put courses int

Export packages for viewing the labs on the TBS1000B-EDU oscilloscope

Import an existing package to revise it

Create and save a workspace

Create an author profile and add it to the courseware

Double clicking on “courseeditor.exe” will launch the Editor in the default
workspace.

o packages

Figure 2: Work from the PC Courseware Editor main screen

The three panes of the Editor workspace window help you to manage labs,
courses and packages.

A lab is the basic module of the courseware. It can provide an overview of the
objectives and equipment needed, as well as the step-by-step detailing of an
experiment, which students will perform in the laboratory.

A course is collection of labs that typically share a common theme. Use courses
to organize labs that support a specific class, such as EE102, Basic Electronics or
Linear Integrated Circuits. To provide fl exibility when creating a curriculum, the
PC editor tool also allows labs to be assigned to multiple courses.

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A package is col

lectionofcourses. Uptoeightcoursescanbebundledintoa
package and uploaded onto a TBS1000B-EDU oscilloscope. The combination of
the eight courses along with the associated labs cannot exceed 100 MB. To help
you keep your package within the 100 MB limit, the PC editor displays a counter
that indicates how large the package file will be. The PC Courseware Editor Tool
provides added flexibility by allowing courses to be associated with multiple
packages. W

hen completed, a package can be exported onto a USB memory drive

for uploading onto a TBS1000B-EDU oscilloscope.

Table 1:

Item Description

Package

Courses

Labs

Understanding the workspace

When creating, saving and opening files, the PC Courseware Editor Tool uses a
.xwsp or workspace format. All of the lab, course and package information is
saved in this format and is accessed using the typical Windows Save and Open
functions.

UsingthecommonMS-Windows-basedfile-menu structure, you can:

Create a new workspace

Open an existing workspace

Save the current workspace

elationship between labs, courses, and a package

The r

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Figure 3: Use the File menu to create, open, and save workspaces

Opening a new workspace

Save the curren

Exit the Editor

t workspace under another name

To create a new workspace, navigate to the File ► New option from the top
menu. The program will ask for a confirmation on closing the current workspace
and creating a new one.

Figure 4: Create a new workspace

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