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STAR Workstation Setup

The STAR Workstation Setup utility enables the user to perform  the following operations:

Install a title from a server onto a workstation

Remove a STAR title from a workstation

Hook a title to be activated from the application Help menu


Main screen layout

Screen Layout

The following picture illustrates the STAR Workstation Setup main screen:


Installation

  Installing a STAR title

This function enables you to install a STAR title from the network server to your computer.

In order to install a STAR title, click on the Install button in the main screen.

Click on the drop-down arrow to view the list of all titles that are available for installation. Select the STAR title you wish to install and click on the OK button.

When you first install a STAR title on your computer, you have to activate STAR Workstation Setup from the Program Manager's File menu. In this case you are asked to determine the STAR directory.

Further activation of STAR Workstation Setup will be done by clicking the Courseware Manager icon in the STAR group. In this case, the target directory is already known to the system and this prompt will not appear.

You now have to select the required installation type.

Complete Installation will install all files associated with the STAR title on your workstation. Use this option if you wish to use the STAR title when your computer is not connected to the network (For example, if you install the title on a laptop).

Workstation Installation will copy only a few files to your computer. The STAR title will be activated from the server. This option will save space on your workstation disk.

If you select the Complete Installation option, you are prompted for the directory to which the STAR title files will be copied.

Re-installation of a STAR title

If the title you want to install is already installed on your workstation, you will be asked whether you want to override it. If you select to override, you will be asked whether private information (i.e.,checkmarks that indicate the sections that have been completed) should be overidden as well.

You may use the Remove option at any time later on to remove your STAR from your workstation.


Remove a STAR title

  Removing a STAR title

If the STAR Workstation Setup utility is activated from the Program Manager's File menu, you are prompted for the STAR directory.

Click on the drop-down arrow to view the list of all titles that were installed on your computer. Select the STAR title you wish to remove and click on the OK button.

As long as the STAR title is installed on your network server, you can always install it again on your workstation.


Application hook

  Activating an Application Hook

Using the Application Hook Definition dialog box, you will be able to determine whether the courseware will be activated from the application Help drop-down menu.

If the STAR Workstation Setup utility is activated from the Program Manager's File menu, you will be prompted for your STAR directory.

Click on the drop-down arrow to view the list of all titles that were installed on your computer and can be configured. Select the STAR title you wish to configure and click on the OK button.

You have to select the Enable option in the Hook window to hook the courseware to the Help system. A menu item is automatically added to the Help menu of the subject application. You may now activate the STAR title directly from the application.

 Select Disable if you do not wish to use the hook feature.


STAR workstation data
The STAR directory stores on your computer information concerning the current workstation, such as customization data and recording of student activity.


Hook <definition>
Linking the title to the subject application by adding an item to the application Help drop-down menu. While the application user drops down the Help menu from the application main screen, there will be an additional item in this menu. Selecting this additional item will activate the title.


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