Object documentationTutorial Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Definition

An electronic self-learning unit with which the user learns how to operate the software.

The user can work with such a tutorial flexibly at his or her own workplace at any time and at his or her own pace. The ability to use the tutorial according to one’s own requirements is an important factor for optimal learning.

Interactive tutorials that have been created with SAP Tutor simulate workflows in the software to be learned. They enable the user to learn how to use the software through practical experience and, if required, to check the effectiveness of the learning. You do not have to install the software to be learned.

Structure

Tutorial Structure

A tutorial either consists of a lesson, an assessment, or a combination of lesson and assessment.

File Format

SAP Tutor uses its own file format, .sim, for recording, editing, and playing tutorials.

File Size

The following factors determine the size of the created files:

Large tutorials containing big screenshots can be several MB in size.

Integration

Evaluating Tutorials

You can install SAP Tutor Player so that data on user behavior is recorded and saved during a tutorial that has been set up accordingly. This applies to tutorials played in test, interactive, and demo mode. The statistics are stored in a database specified by the system administrator and can be evaluated using a special SAP Tutor application. For more information about evaluating tutorials, contact your system or training administrator.

Use of the Tutorial in Intranet and Internet

You can start to play SAP Tutor tutorials while the file is being read ("Streaming"). Streaming using an HTTP or HTTPS connection is invisible to you. The data is read sequentially, that is in the sequence of the steps: step 1 is the first step that is copied to the local computer, then step two is copied, and so on. If you want to call a step that has not yet been copied to the local computer, the SAP Tutor Player waits until the corresponding step is available. After the entire tutorial has been copied to the local computer, the data is stored in the browser cache.

Streaming from a browser (for example, by starting an embedded tutorial on an HTML web page) is possible with the following browsers:

All other browsers copy the entire data to the local computer before starting to play it.

Note

Individual steps can be up to 100 KB in size, depending on the size of the screenshot, which means that data transfer using a connection with narrow band-width can be slow, despite the streaming.