To minimize redudancy, this instructor’s primer will only describe content absent in the student primer.

The major differences between the instructor versus student version of the software is that the former has (i) the answer key to the questions in the various activities and (ii) the capacity to either edit a preexisting activity or to develop a new activity.

To access a tutorial to either create or modify a simulation, select: “creating labs” tab

then read the appropriate content,

for the tutorial for these activities.

To access build-in tutorials, select “New Users”

which goes to the below content describing various features in the program.

Appendix

Re. difference between instructor edition of Odyssey version 4 versus version 5: radio buttons.

While version 5 does not have the feature of inserting radio buttons to select different molecules, version 4 has such a feature.

As such, the below remarks apply only to version 4.

Prior to developing an activity, i.e. selecting “the “Text Edit” tab, goto Tools (in the drop-down menu)  Preferences  Expert  OK.

Prior to selecting various molecules to be associated with a radio button, produce a “molecule library” by going to Instructor (in the drop-down menu)  add sample via search or add sample via file.

If the sample can be found via the prior search feature, then there’s no need to generate the sample, but if it can’t be found via the search feature, then you’ll have to generate a file(s) with the molecule(s) of interest. To generate a file: generate / obtain the desired molecule(s) (e.g. goto a preexisting simulation with the molecule(s) of interest or use the Build (in the drop-down menu; for a mini-tutorial, goto Prelab 5) feature in the software (to build it)  then File (in the drop-down menu)  Save sample as ..  save file(s) at a known location, e.g. desktop.

Finally, to add radio buttons, select the “Text Edit” tab  Sample link (in the tool bar)  select appropriate file.

Caveat: inexplicably, occasionally, file names are generic, i.e. undescriptive, e.g. “build”, which is unhelpful in managing radio button assignment. Have not resolved issue.