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PodTutor audio revision resources, your own online mp3 player.
Podtutor

Put a tutor in your pocket, and revise wherever and whenever you want, without the need to carry text books around with you all the time. PodTutor gives students the technological edge as they prepare for their exams, by providing you with revision support that you can access anywhere, through your iPod, mobile phone, or mp3 player.

Podtutor podcasts enhanced audio revision tracks direct to your computer using iTunes, the leading music and podcast download software developed by Apple. iTunes is free, and is pre-installed on many computers, or can be downloaded for free from the apple.com web site. You may already be familiar with using iTunes to download music online, if not you can find out how to download the latest version of iTunes onto your computer by simply following the link below, to Apples own web site.


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If you have iTunes already installed on your mac / pc just click the link below. This will open iTunes on your mac / pc, and take you straight to our PodTutor Podcast listing on iTunes. Just click subscribe on the PodTutor Listing in iTunes to download the sample PodTutor Podcasts.


Sample Podtutor Podcast


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Click the subscribe button below to access the sample Podtutor podcast. Please note that the term 'subscribe' is used in podcasting to refer to the process of signing up to a podcast feed, and Does Not involve making a payment.

 

When you login to examstutor all your Podtutor podcasts will be listed on your home page, allowing you to download them at the click of a button.

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When downloading your actual Podtutor podcasts you will be asked by iTunes to enter your individual examstutor login details. If you are accessing examstutor through a school / colleges subscription you will need to be provided with or create an individual examstutorPlus account, as the multi-user login will not work.


Your Podtutor Podcast will initially appear as just one entry in iTunes, this is the title of the Podtutor Podcast, click the arrow head to the left of this title to see all the Podtutor Episodes you can then download, as shown in the images below :

Subscribing to the PodTutor Podcast using iTunes.

Click the arrow head, and... see all the Podtutor tracks you can then GET.

Subscribing to the PodTutor Podcast using iTunes.

It is really that easy, and once subscribed, everytime you open iTunes on your pc or mac, iTunes will automatically check PodTutor to see if any new PodTutor revision tracks are available, and will then download these onto iTunes automatically for you to use straight away.



iTunes is extremely user-friendly, and you will be able to listen to your PodTutor tracks through iTunes, almost instantly, and transfer them to your iPod, mobile phone or mp3 player with ease. If you have any problems using iTunes simply click the iTunes Help option in the main menu of iTunes.

As well as being able to listen to PodTutor tracks in iTunes, you can also view relevant diagrams and supporting text notes.

PodTutor audio revision resources, your own online mp3 player.

Subscribing to the PodTutor Podcast using iTunes.  Viewing diagrams for PodTutor tracks

Many PodTutor tracks include diagrams which can be viewed in iTunes, through the song artwork window.

Subscribing to the PodTutor Podcast using iTunes.
  • If the song artwork window is not visible, click on the Show or hide song artwork button circled here.
  • Click on the left and right arrow buttons in the song artwork window to view all the diagrams for a particular PodTutor track.
  • Click on a diagram in the song artwork window to see a full scale version of the diagram, while the PodTutor track is playing.
     Subscribing to the PodTutor Podcast using iTunes.  Viewing text notes for PodTutor tracks

All PodTutor tracks include supporting text notes, which can be viewed in iTunes, by clicking on the information icon in the Description for the PodTutor track being played.

Subscribing to the PodTutor Podcast using iTunes.


PodTutor will work with any mp3 player, including mobile phones with mp3 capabilities. Here we focus on its use with the leading mp3 player the iPod.

You can listen to PodTutor tracks on the iPod shuffle and other mp3 players / mobile phones, however using PodTutor on an iPod nano / iPod allows you to access supporting diagrams and text notes, which can also be viewed in iTunes.

Getting your PodTutor tracks onto your iPod is simplicity itself. The moment you connect your iPod to your Mac or PC, iTunes Auto-Sync updates every new PodTutor article that's been sent to your iTunes since your last sync, including diagrams and text notes, and any additions we have made to previous articles. Each week new PodTutor articles will be published, which will be automatically podcast to your iTunes.

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Select Podcasts from your iPod Menu to view a list of all the PodTutor Subjects you subscribe to, and simply select the subject you wish to revise.     All PodTutor Study Articles in your chosen subject will then be listed for you to select the topic you wish to study first.

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Listen

Once you have selected the topic you wish to study, the PodTutor track will commence playing on your iPod. You can pause and replay all or part of the article as you wish.
  
See

Click the centre select button twice to view the Summary Diagram for the article. Providing illustrations of the main elements of the topic. In iTunes further Diagrams are viewable for each PodTutor article.
  
Read

Click the centre select button three times and you can read detailed text notes for the PodTutor article. Including summaries of the key facts of each PodTutor article.


If the above does not work, or you want to do it the long way..

  • Open iTunes on your PC or Mac
    If you have not already downloaded iTunes, you can do so by following the link to Apples website, provided above, even if you already have iTunes, it may be worth downloading the latest version, by following the link above.
PodTutor audio revision resources, your own online mp3 player.

Subscribing to the PodTutor Podcast using iTunes.

  • In iTunes Select Podcasts from the Source Menu, as shown below.
  • Select Advanced from the main menu.
  • Select Subscribe to Podcast from the drop-down menu.

Subscribing to the PodTutor Podcast using iTunes.


  • In the Subscribe to Podcast box, type the following URL

    http://www.examstutor.com/podtutor/sample/sample.xml

    You can copy and paste the url from this page instead of typing, if you wish.

  • and then click OK

Subscribing to the PodTutor Podcast using iTunes.

The above URL is only used for our sample PodTutor track, when you subscribe to examstutor online we will provide you with a unique URL to receive your actual PodTutor tracks.

If you are connected to the internet, iTunes will now start to download your PodTutor resources.

iTunes will now continue to download the PodTutor sample podcast, and that's it, you are ready to start using PodTutor.

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