Using these materials directly from the CD-ROM
If you prefer, you may launch the program files directly from the CD-ROM. You must have the CD-ROM in your computer's CD drive, but your results will be saved to your hard drive.
Using these materials on your computer hard drive
You may use these materials without the CD-ROM in your computer's drive if you simply copy the "CBforCzech" folder to your hard drive and launch the program files from there.
Using these materials on the accompanying website
The Case Book for Czech INTERACTIVE materials will be made available and updated at the following websites:
http://languages.uchicago.edu/casebooks/
http://www.seelrc.org/projects/casebooks/
Highlights of the PDF version
The CD-ROM accompanying the textbook contains a PDF version of the book chapters with male and female native speaker recordings of all the sentence-length examples used in the book. You may also search the files for English and Czech words with Adobe Reader's search capabilities. The PDF files are print-protected and you will not be able to print copies of the chapters from these files.
Opening the PDF files
If you are usingThe Case Book for Czech INTERACTIVE materials directly from the CD or copied to a location on your hard drive, you can also link to the PDF book files from the browser menus. However, depending on how your browser handles PDF files, you may still need to open these files directly in Adobe Reader in order to fully access the text search capabilities and the embedded audio. The PDF files are conveniently located in the "book" folder on the CD-ROM.
Full-text search
The PDF files can be searched in Adobe Reader for any English or Czech words contained in them. This is an easy reference feature that will enhance your study of the Czech cases and make it easier to reference particular words when working through the exercises.
Playing the embedded audio
All sentence-length examples in the book chapters are accompanied by "M" and "F" buttons that you can click on to play the accompanying native-speaker recordings of these sentences.
Format
The exercises are presented in three frames. You may choose the level and the specific exercise from the menu along the left side of the screen. The main frame on the top right presents the login information, the progress report screen, and the individual exercises whenever you choose one from the menu in the left-hand frame. The narrow frame on the bottom will launch the Quicktime player controls for the male/female native speaker audio (Note: In some browsers, the audio will play in a separate window).
Choice of browser and platform
The Case Book for Czech INTERACTIVE has been tested in various browsers for Macintosh and Windows platforms.
Macintosh
These exercises look best when used with Apple's Safari browser obtainable from www.apple.com. The exercises have also been tested on Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox and Internet Explorer.
Windows
These exercises have been tested on Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox and Internet Explorer.
User Name
Whenever you use the exercises, you will be prompted to enter a user name. The user name is used to store your scores and progress as a cookie on the machine you are using. You will not be able to retrieve your scores from another computer. Likewise, anyone using the computer that you use for the Case Book for Czech INTERACTIVE can login with your user name as there are no passwords in the current version of this website. Take care when logging in to type your user name the same or you will open a separate account with that new name.
Saving Scores
At the end of each exercise, you may click on the "Save your score." button to enter your score in the menu along the left-hand side of the screen. However, you must also click the "Save Scores" button in that left-hand menu in order to save your scores to the cookie on your computer.
Progress Reports
In the left-hand menu, click the "Display Exercise Progress Report" link to show your progress report form in the main frame.
Printing your Scores
From the left-hand menu, click "Print Scores" to display the score progress report and print out the frame containing it. In some browsers
[note the specific browsers], this button will not work to print out the appropriate frame. If you are using
[note the specific browsers], you may print the progress report by doing this... Audio Chapters ddd Return to Main Menu
Completing the Exercises
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Updates
Updates to The Case Book for Czech INTERACTIVE will be made periodically at the websites. Please check these sites for announcements of future projects and updates.
Troubleshooting and Bugs
Please report any problems, bugs, errors, or mistakes along with any positive feedback or ideas for improvement of these materials to Steven Clancy <sclancy@uchicago.edu> . You may also write to this address if you have any questions about using these materials.