How to navigate the site
This page gives a simple guide to help you find your way around the site to locate any page you want or to find any page that contains a particular word, part word or phrase using the search facility. Once you grasp the three different ways of navigating you will be able to explore the site fully to see for yourself the wealth of information, ideas and resources it contains.
Navigating the site
There are essentially three main ways to navigate your way around the site which contains hundred of pages. Once you have the basics of these three ways then simply explore the site yourself to see the quality of exactly what it does contain.
1. Using the main headings
Normally you can go straight to a main heading from the drop down headings on the home page.
If you put the cursor on any one of these that has a right arrow (indicating that it has children) and hover it will open up to show you the all the headings underneath, e.g. Delivering the programme and then further headings e.g. Teaching each topic & sub-topic will bring up the sub-headings associated with each sub-topic.
If you then click on one of these, e.g. R3 What are the mechanisms of chemical change? it will bring up the page itself.
This particular page contains an introduction to the R3 strand which includes proton transfer reactions, electron transfer reactions and electron and electron-pair sharing reactions. On the left you can see a breakdown of all the sub-headings under Delivering the programme and the headings under the chosen sub-heading Teaching each topic and sub-topic. You can see in bold the page that is open and the children pages attached to it. These fourteen children pages are the separate sub-topics under R3 What are the mechanisms of chemical change?. Clicking on any one of them will open the page, e.g. R3.3 Electron sharing reactions.
Each sub-topic page under this main heading contains the same layout with the time for teaching the sub-topic, Guiding question, Pause for thought, Nature of Science, Learning outcomes, Teaching tips, Questions, Vocabulary, Practical work, Teaching slides and Other resources.etc. etc.
You can again see on the left that there are three children associated with this page. In fact all the sub-topics in the syllabus have the same three children attached to them (some have more):
- a practice quiz
- ten-question multiple choice test
- a collection of short-answer questions
The practice quiz is is immediately available to students. You have control over the access to the multiple choice test and the short-answer questions depending upon whether you wish to set is as an assignment or not.
You will notice a list of icons on the right of each page. If you open these up by moving the cursor onto the list you will see that they can be used for a variety of different functions.2. Using the sitemap
The sitemap can be accessed from the drop down headings from the top heading Home on the home page.
The sitemap shows every page on the site and you can click directly on any page you want e.g.
Note that the pages are colour-coded to show which pages are teacher only, which pages can be shared with students (mainly the quizzes, short-answer questions and multiple choice tests) and which pages students always have direct access to.
3. Using search
Just click on the search facility at the top left hand side of any page.
It will bring up a panel underneath and you can type in any word or phrase.
Press enter and it will bring up all the pages containing that word or phrase. For example, 'appendix' appears on five website pages. There are also 8 pages where the comments made by me or by subscribers include 'appendix'. You can even search your own name to find any comments you may have made in the past.
