Welcome to the IE9 tutorial which will cover some of the new innovations that have been added to enhance the web searching experience. There are only three parts to this tutorial but each in itself is important. This tutorial is based off of the directions given in Microsoft’s Getting started with Internet Explorer 9 and the learning structure presented in 23 Things.Once this tutorial is completed, links are provided for those looking for more information.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Goal & Objectives
The goal of this tutorial is to help teach learners’ new aspects of IE9 like the tools and shortcuts to encourage further learning. By the end of this tutorial, learns will be able to
1. Open a new tab and a popular website
2. Add and remove various tool bars
3. Install an “add-on” and perform a search.
Tutorial 1: How to open a new tab and a popular website
One new feature of IE9 is the tab page that is presented after opening a new webpage. The tab page opens up to a series of “popular sites” icons so that you can quickly get to the websites you visit the most. There are eight popular websites listed than can be quickly retrieved. The eight tabs of webpage icons can be changed to reflect the sites you visit the most. All of your favorite sites are right at your fingertips.
Directions on how to open a new tab and change the most popular websites
1. To open a new tab – click to the right of the currently opened tab
2. A new tab should open with eight of “Your most popular sites” icons
3. Open the first website by dragging the webpage icon to the address bar
4. Open the second website by clicking on the webpage icon
5. To change the top pages, roll over the webpage icon box until on “x” appears in the top right corner with the words “Remove this page”
6. Click the “x” and a new webpage icon will come up
Tutorial 2: How to add and remove various tool bars
After loading IE9, things are going to look different from the previous versions. For example one common question is “Where is the print button?” Therefore, it is important to be aware of your surroundings since we usually don’t thing of these things until we need them. Knowing how to pull up specific tool bars at specified times will keep the webpage less cluttered and running faster.
Directions on how to customize by adding and removing tool bars:
1. Right click next to a tab page so a drop down menu appears
2. Select Menu Bar and Command Bar so check marks appears next to them
3. Icons for Menu Bar and Command Bar should appear above webpage
4. Hide the Menu Bar by right click next to tab page (like in Step # 1) and click the check mark to unselect the Menu bar.
Tutorial 3: How to search the address bar
One of the most innovative features in Internet Explorer 9 is that that search bar and address bar have been combined. A search can be done by typing the keyword in the address bar, hitting enter, and pulling up the results page. Another interesting feature is “add-ons” which is an application that works to customize search results to a particular website through just the click of a button.
Directions for using the search / address bar
1. In the address bar type the word “coffee”
2. A results page should appear for “coffee”
3. Notice four icons inside the address bar: a magnifying glass, a downward triangle, a refresh button, and an “x”
4. Click on the downward triangle once it is highlighted blue and the label “Show address bar auto complete” comes up
5. When the drop down menu appears select “Add” in bottom right corner
How to add a search provider to your search results
1. After completed the above steps, a webpage will appear called Internet ExplorerGallery Add-Ons.
2. Click on “The New York Times Instant”
3. Once The New York Times Instant website comes up, select “Click to install”
4. Select “Add Search Provider” on the page that pops up
5. Re-click the downward triangle and see that the “T” of the Times shows up at the bottom of the results. It will be located by the logos of other search providers like Google, AOL, and Bing which were already provided.
6. To use “The New York Times Instant” as a search provider, click on the “T” at the bottom and select “Turn on Suggestions (send keystrokes to NYTimes)”
7. In the address bar type “coffee” and hit Enter
8. A results page should turn up for “The New York Times Instant” personalized results for “coffee”
How to remove Keystroke Suggestions
1. To turn off the Keystroke Suggestions to the New York Times Instant, open up a new Internet Explorer browser webpage. [Note that it must be a new browser page]
2. Click the downward triangle so that the “T” of the Times shows up at the bottom.
3. Click on the “T”
4. At the bottom of the drop down menu click on the message “Turn off Suggestions (stop sending keystrokes to NYTimes)”
5. This will remove NYTimes from the list of search providers.
Videos and More Information
For videos on IE9 please visit
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/products/ie-9/videos.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/products/ie-9/videos.
If you would like to learn more about what IE9 has to offer, visit
Recap and Conclusion
You have successfully completed all of the tutorials and have come to the end of the session. By now you should understand the benefits and how to use the new tools and shortcuts found in Internet Explorer 9. This means being able to open a tab and rearrange popular websites. Being able to add and remove tool bars will result in less clutter and more on demand use. Learning how to use the combined search and address bar will improve result retrieval time. Mastering use of “add-ons” will improve through specified search paths. All three of these tutorials present customized ways to search the World Wide Web through the use of Internet Explorer 9.
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