NOTE: The Maps application is no longer supported and is replaced by MapQuest. The two main differences from the video are: 1. The Search function was renamed to Find Places 2. Changing back and forth from satellite to map view is done through more robust Layers interface – see the text below for details. Most of…
Now that you have gained some experience with your tablet, let’s identify the actions that will allow you to navigate on your tablet. This lesson will teach you the basic gestures and actions that you will perform on your tablet’s screen. First, watch the video to review the basics. Then read about the topics and…
Quick Start to Your Tablet We hope you have been able to read the printed Fire Tablet Quick Start Guide. This guide is intended to give you a quick start with some basic skills. If you haven’t read the guide, no problem. We’ll cover and even expand on the same topics in the video and…
Your tablet will respond to you when you call her Alexa. So instead of tapping or typing, you can actually ask questions and give her commands. We are going to cover this in more detail later in our course but today we want to get you started with two useful commends. Imaging your tablet is…
What are the major things that contribute to the flexibility of the website: Categories and Tags allow us to group Posts in flexible ways. Posts are assigned a category when they are created, the Category they are assigned to becomes one of the nodes in the Posts address (URL). Changing the Category should be discouraged…
This is a list of Administrator tools used to test and manage the TFS website. A couple of “quick start” comments.
Hostinger Logs It is useful to check the information collected by the Hostinger system. Here we see the Overview screen where we can see the the website is safe and how much of our Hosintger resources we are using. There are also some tips on things we can improve. Running the speed test can be…
Redirection When entering through the Student App, the “Leaning Community” Post is called. Before entering the Learning Community Post, the Redirection plugin is used to check if the student has previously logged in as part of a learning community by inspecting the value of the tfs_group cookie. If so, they are redirected to the appropriate…
Pingback Notifications When a post or page is saved which references another URL (both internal and external to the TechForSeniors environment), a ping is sent to any posts/pages linked to the saved post and an email alert is automatically sent to the site administrator. During periods of higher activity (such as system test and maintenance),…
This table lists all the current GFS/TFS website. We tried to explain how and why to the best of our time and ability (always time constrained it seems). This is very much a work in progress.