Tutorials targeted at specific audiences

We would like to develop some tutorials targeted at specific audiences, for example university students, teachers, small business & volunteer organisations. On this page we want to collect ideas and develop topic lists, so people can pick any topics that interest them to work on.

Please also read the Guidelines for writing tutorials.

Please feel free to add ideas below: other target audiences, specific project-oriented docs to write, etc.

Topics to cover for university students

What do students typically need to do using OOo? No doubt this varies a bit with the course they are taking. Here are some I have thought of; please add your own to this list. I've divided these by OOo component, but a better division might be by task: what people are trying to do. Tasks might involve more than one component (for example, creating a diagram in Draw and then including it in a Writer document or an Impress presentation).

Overviews

One good overview would be what's needed for a thesis and in what order things should be done and why. This could then point to separate chapters detailing how to do each of the things needed.

Writer

Write/edit essays, research papers, etc. Need to know: page styles, paragraph styles, page layout techniques, headers & footers, page numbering.

May need to know how to insert pictures, create drawings, add tables, include extracts from speadsheets.

Master docs? Why or why not? How? Gotchas? Problem-solving.

Impress (Presentations)

Creating slides, including text, pictures, tables, charts, transitions

There are a lot of tricks and ideas that are not covered in the existing Impress Guide, but could go very well in a different doc. The guide explains a lot of choices; a how-to could show some specific examples of putting those choices into action in "real life" situations.

Slide shows: transitions, dual-screen,

Handouts: tips and workarounds.

Drawings (Draw)

Not just making them, but getting them into other docs (Writer, Impress, etc)

Topics to cover for small business & volunteer organisations

• Advertising (e.g. brochures)
• Mailing lists (database, mail merge to print or email)
• Newsletters (print and/or emailed)
• Time tracking (spreadsheet)
• etc etc