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of information on documents and graduation is
subject to change only with password of the uni-
versity department.
Scrolling down onto the bottom of the database,
the Database for Architecture can be set with a
single click as start page in the internet browser;
and there is the possibility to jump onto a down-
load page of free software for the most commonly
used file types (extensions .pdf, .doc, .ppt, .xls).

film can be run by the students parallel to the
CAD-software; it can be stopped and re-started,
etc. These films are never-stopping educational
supports to learn step-by-step the examples.
The students can thereby more efficiently learn
the special knowledge than earlier. When using
ArchiCAD, preparation of technical drawings is
similar to a certain extent to the classical and tra-
ditional drawing on tracing-paper with china-ink
but spatial modelling requires a specific way of
ArchiCAD-Thinking, therefore greater emphasis
has been laid opon this (see: Figure 5).
In our days, numerous architect offices prepare
own homepages, and even accept orders not only
for architectural planning but web design-type
works, thereby turning visual art abilities to busi-
ness. In accordance with the challenges of our
time, in the above mentioned lecture note on CAD
there is a short summary given about publishing
of vision schemes on an internet webpage, with
interactive web design-examples (when modify-
ing the software lines written in HTML in the
practical examples, different results as reactions
can be displayed).

HAvE A tAStE from tHE
currIcuLAr ScHooL-WorkS
of tHE knoWLEdgE BASE

In case of certain subjects - for example, build-
ing construction, building execution, history
of architecture - curricular school-works were
published on a CD good ten years ago. Owing
their format HTML they could easily be inserted
functionally into the internet knowledge base,
too; their menu system should have undergone
a modernization process. Through the recently
used side bar menu and read-windows the notes
became easier to overview, and their use is also
more convenient. Other school-works can be ac-
cessed not in HTML but the also most popular PDF
format (e.g. Organization of Building Activities,
Planning of Buildings).
Our newest (and also on CD accessible)
school-work is “Computer-Based Architectural
Modelling” in order to support ArchiCAD teach-
ing. Important roles are here given - besides the
texts and pictorial information - to educational
videos and interactive practicing examples . This
material was prepared in 2006 within the frame-
work of HEFOP-program, and its realization was
also supported by the company Hyperionics with
its “HyperSnap” screen capture software and
“HyperCam” screen recorder software.
In the videos, example solutions can exactly
be documented, the oral explanation of the lec-
turer can be heard, and the places of mouse clicks
are also marked with colours. This educational

mAIntEnAncE of tHE
knoWLEdgE BASE; furtHEr
dEvELoPmEntS

Construction and editing of the internet
knowledge base is based in general on html-
knowledge, but is accompanied with numerous
Java Script applications (animations, interac-
tive VR-panorama, on-line dictionary request,
etc.). Both editing and automated looking for
link-failure are realized with free softwares.
During steady maintenance and actualization,
ideas, proposals and opinions of the users are
taken into account. Our students give reports
on the great help this knowledge base provides
them in learning and being informed, and the
visitor-statistics give also high access figures
as feedback (see: Figure 6).