myTeacher - Help

Watch out the alignment of the different objects, areas of text.

Prefer schematic representations rather than long paragraphs sometimes heavy.

Do not leave empty and invisible areas of text.

Personalize the toolbar Quick access (or put in place personalized toolbars) to have access more easily to the commands of formatting (alignment, group, etc.).

To facilitate the formatting of an area of text in a slide (vertical position, horizontal position, size, format of bullets, etc.) make copies and make use of the marks of alignment.

Harmonize the illustrations (images), this is to say preserve the same design in all the modules based on the same pattern.

Think of giving explicit names to the images to facilitate the search of images.

When a schema contains vertical texts, transform it into an image to preserve the quality of the text.

See that you utilize identical colours to represent always the same thing.

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See that you utilize identical positions to represent always the same thing.

The area of text of a form without content must not be adjusted automatically (to the text) less it will appear distorted in myTeacher.

Do not group the forms and/or the images in the slides.

Do not use the Background Formatting feature in PowerPoint (neither for the main file nor for actions)

Make use of policies for the Web, that is policies without bloating. With myRenda, we advise the Verdana font.

Put no article in first position in the titles of slides.

No punctuation for titles.

Pay attention to the pedagogical path of a module; the slides must have a link between themselves.

Make maximum use of illustrations, graphics, pictures, objects.

Make use of illustrations related to the content.

Simplify phrases to the maximum.

Example : the phrase "You can henceforth click on …" must be simplified and replaced by "Click on …" (Subject – verb – object / present tense).

Do not use excessively the second person of the plural.

Example 1 : do not write "myTeacher displays for you" but "myTeacher displays".
Example 2 : do not write "in your new window", but "in the new window", because it is about what the computer does, but not about the window of the learner.

Use the second person of the plural when the user must click, otherwise use the infinitive.

The words following or here is are not necessarily followed by a list of bullets, but they can show a pattern, a picture, a corrected, etc.

Do not put ";" in the lists of bullets.

Put a capital letter to words which are reserved or official, like the Desk of Windows.

Do not create two lessons with the same name.

If the same title must be repeated in two lessons, put continued or (1/2) and (2/2) between ()

Use etc. rather than…

Start the paragraphs of bullets of level 2 always with a small letter and put no punctuation at the end.

Define the orthography for particular words. Examples of compounds:

• clic-droit
• click-right
• clic-gauche
• click-left
• double-clic
• double-click
• triple-clic 
• triple-click
• raccourci-clavier
• keyboard-shortcut

Use quotation marks the least possible. If need be, use preferably straight brackets (") rather than (« ») much heavier.

Always give a title to a slide.

Make images if one wishes absolutely to make the text appear embossed. The style of the policy "embossed" is not taken into account correctly in myTeacher.

Make a module of 5 to 6 chapters, each one with 5 to 6 lessons.

Use the colour which can be clicked only for a link.

Limit the use of capital letters.