Tips and tricks for designing on-line instruction with Microsoft Office products

Microsoft Office Products are generally available to educators at reasonable prices. In this page we will look at developing on-line instruction using MSWORD, MSPowerPoint, MSExcel (especially for grade reporting), and some of the exciting features of FrontPage 2000 that help an instructor provide quality instruction for students with minimal knowledge of computers or programming. 

• Microsoft Office '97 vs Microsoft Office 2000  
  • Word document 97
  • Word document 2000
  • HTML Conversion
    • 97
    • 2000
  • Convert to FrontPage file
    • 97
    • 2000
  • Direct Publishing
• Netscape vs Internet Explorer
  • Bells and whistles
  • embeded vs DYNSRC  Why not DYNSRC
  • Plug-ins VS integrated
  • DHTML
  • ASP
• MSWord
  • simple communications on-line
  • Grading papers and group development
  • macros and RTF
  • Mail Merge
• MSExcel
  • grade reporting
  • math/science/statistics illustrations
  • Save Html vs pasted tables
• Powerpoint
  • Save HTML
  • Convert outline to MSWord
  • Slide shows... with audio
• Access: ADO with ASP
• FrontPage 2000:
  • "live" publishing
  • Template usage
  • easy monitoring
  • Interactive forms

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