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Courseware feature
The innovative Courseware feature sets up an education ecosystem by
combining powerful PC Course Editor software with the TBS1000B-EDU
instruments and a Courseware landing page. The new feature gives
educators the ability to create lab descriptions and instructions and then
upload the material directly onto a TBS1000-EDU oscilloscope. Existing
labs can be modified with content that directly supports recent lectures or
explores new ideas discovered in class discussions. Students can perform
their lab work directly on the oscilloscope and record their progress in a
report file consisting of oscilloscope screen captures. Courseware materials
can easily be shared between different labs, professors at the same
institution or even between educators from around the world. The Tektronix
Courseware Web Page is set up to make it easy for educators to share
their own course material or get inspired by reviewing new and interesting
ideas from their peers.
PC Course Editor software
It all starts with the PC Courseware editor tool. This Windows based
application provides the framework in which the courseware is developed.
With simple Windows tools instructors can create new labs or edit existing
labs using text, images, formulas or tables. A profile signature can also be
created that identifies the professor, class or school.
The basic building block of the Courseware content is the Lab section. An
overview, equipment set-ups, theory discussions and step by step
instructions can all be included in this section. When the labs are
completed a course can be created. In general, a course is made up of
several labs with related topics, for example a basic digital course may
consist of lab topics that include; "Basic Boolean Logic", "Simple AND &
OR Gates", "Clocks", "Metastable Devices", "Memory Devices", etc.
Individual Labs can be shared among multiple courses enabling professors
to cater course material to a specific audience. Once all of the courses are
defined a package/workspace file is created which contains all of the
courses with their related labs and enables the content to be uploaded onto
a TBS1000-EDU oscilloscope.
To accommodate regional differences the Courseware PC software and the
help wizard support is available in 11 different languages.
The Courseware PC interface uses Labs to build courses. The courses are then used to
build packages which are uploaded to the oscilloscope.
The oscilloscope courseware features
When the workspace file is loaded onto an instrument, students can easily
access the content by using the dedicated "Course" button located on the
front panel. Using the oscilloscopes soft keys and the multipurpose knob,
students can access up to 8 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 a lab is chosen, the student is able to review the overview section,
perform the lab using the step-by-step procedure, collect data, check &
save the data results and generate reports that show the waveforms
created for each step in the procedure. And all of this work can be done
directly on the oscilloscope.
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