Health Quest

Health Quest

For a healthy alternative to textbooks, try ODYSSEYWARE Health Quest for students in grades 4-7. This Internet-based, age-appropriate learning environment is designed to encourage middle school students to take responsibility for their own health and their own learning. Instruction includes lessons on personal hygiene, fitness, proper exercise techniques, personal stewardship, and human anatomy. Engaging multimedia activities keep students’ attention and help them develop a healthy skill set for learning in the 21st century.

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Healthy lifestyles take shape when students in grades 4-7 explore their own well-being with ODYSSEYWARE Health Quest. This age-appropriate, media-infused class engages students with audio and video clips to illustrate key concepts and reinforce retention. Topics in this semester-long course include the human body, growth and development, mental and emotional health, basic food groups, ecology, emergency planning, and substance abuse. While students interact with the dynamic content, they also develop the skills such as critical thinking, self-directed learning, and digital proficiency to prepare them for 21st century education.

Convenient and completely web-based, this course provides cutting-edge administrative tools for teachers and administrators to streamline teaching, identify learning gaps, and report grades. A practical message center allows students to ask questions and get answers both in and outside of the course. Automatic grading and lesson planning reduce time spent by teachers on office tasks and allow more time for teaching. Created for the digital generation, everyone wins with ODYSSEYWARE curriculum.

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"I greatly appreciate the wide variety of courses offered and the frequency that new courses are added. ODYSSEYWARE is a complete online curriculum solution for schools, and it's geared to meet the needs of all students."

-Quint Pease, SD

"With ODYSSEYWARE, students are motivated. It's designed for kids in the 21st century. They're not expected to watch some antiquated video. Instead, they are able to participate in their own instruction through the text and the multimedia elements. That—combined with the fact that they can work at their own pace—helps them stay motivated."

-Scott Davis, TX

"I had a chance to build a course for my eighth graders. I love it. I didn't have to go in and edit each individual student! It saved me tons of time. Thanks!!"

-Jimmie Baker, TX

Workstation

Topic Recommendation Specific Setting

Browser

Mozilla Firefox®

Microsoft Internet Explorer®

Version 3.x

Version 7 or higher

Multimedia Rendering

Adobe® Flash®

Version 9.x or higher

PDF Reader

Adobe® Acrobat®

Version 9.x

Caching

Turn off or otherwise modify local caching at the workstation level.

Set caching to zero or lowest possible setting and purge the browser history files.

Firefox:
Tools > Options > Advanced > Network tab > and change Offline Storage to 0MB.

Internet Explorer:
Tools > Internet Options > Browsing History “Settings” select “Every time I visit the webpage” and change disc space to use at 8MB.

Popup

Set popup blockers to allow popup windows from the ODYSSEYWARE application site.

Firefox:
Tools > Options > Content > Exceptions for Block pop-up windows and allow for both owotw.com and owotw11.com

Internet Explorer:
Tools > Internet Options > Privacy > Settings and allow for both owotw.com and owotw11.com

Cookies

Browsers must be configured to both accept cookies and to not interfere with cookies.

ODYSSEYWARE application sites should be placed on the “allow cookies” list of the web browser.

Firefox:
Tools > Options > Privacy > Advanced > Make sure accepting cookies from sites and third-party cookies, also change “Keep until” to “I close Firefox.”

Internet Explorer:
Tools > Internet Options > Privacy > Advanced > Check “Override automatic cookie handling.” You need to “Accept” First and Third party Cookies.

Passwords

Firefox:
Tools > Options > Security > Passwords > Uncheck “Remember passwords for sites.”

Internet Explorer:
Tools > Internet Options > Content > AutoComplete Settings > Uncheck Web Addresses, Forms, User names and passwords on forms and prompt me to save passwords.

AutoComplete

Firefox:
Tools > Options > Privacy > Uncheck “Remember search and form history”

Internet Explorer:
See password instructions.

Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware Software

If using AVG you must disable “link scanning.”

Network and Appliances

Topic Recommendation Specific Setting

Filtering

Put the ODYSSEYWARE domains on whitelist and/or exception list of any filtering software that may be in use.

Add the following domains:

http://*.owotw.com
http://*.owotw11.com

Proxy Servers (Caching)

Put the ODYSSEYWARE domains on whitelist and/or exception list of any proxy servers.

Add the following domains:

http://*.owotw.com
http://*.owotw11.com

If there is caching on the network, users could see issues with logging in and sending answers to ODYSSEYWARE because they are not accessing our servers but stored copy of website.

Wireless Connections

If using a wireless network, we recommend the use of 802.11g or 802.11n.

Bandwidth

The amount of bandwidth required depends on how many users are requesting data, ODYSSEYWARE recommends 25kbps for each user.

Use a bandwidth log or speedtest to determine the amount of free bandwidth your location has to download the text, graphics, audio and video files that make up the ODYSSEYWARE curriculum and upload any work.