Inside-Outside editor

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Current revision as of 09:07, 29 April 2013

Exercise type selection and initial configuration

Once you have selected the Others group, you have to select the Inside-Outside exercise type at the Exercise type section.

In order to manually create the exercise you have to select the Manual option at the bottom of the panel. Next, the Initial options panel will appear in order to select the initial options for the new exercise:

• Exercise language.
• Sheet: Allows you to select the sheet for the new exercise. The sheet sets, among other things, how to distribute the images on the screen during the exercise execution.

The next image shows the main panel of the Inside-Outside manual editor.

Inside-Outside editor.

Panels description

Images panel

The available images are shown in this panel and they can be added to the exercise. The top part of this panel allows you to filter the concepts (or topics) and the language of the image that you want to select. The lower panel will be showing the images that fulfill the conditions of the filters. If you press the "View details" button, additional information of the images will be shown.

Center panel

The Center panel is located at the right of the Images panel. This panel contains the sheet of the exercise and it is here where the images of the exercise have to placed.

How to use it

Set the container image

The pupil has to drop the images inside the container image during the exercise execution. You have two option for setting the container image:

Note: The container image displays a wider border than the rest of the images.

• Option 1:

1. Press the right button of the mouse over the container image.
2. Select the Set background image option.
3. Select the image to finish.

• Option 2:

1. Select an image from the Images panel.
2. Drag and drop the image over the container image.

Select the release zone for the objects

You have to select the section of the container image where the pupil has to drop the images. In order to do that:

1. Press the right button of the mouse over the container image.
2. Select the Set image release area option and a new window will appear.
3. Select the release area by pressing the main button of the mouse over any location of the image and, without releasing it, move it to the right or to the bottom in order to cover the desired release area. Release the button and press Ok to finish.

Release zone.

Adding a new image or object to the exercise

1. Select the image from the Image panel.
2. Drag and drop the image over a box of the sheet at the Center panel. If there are any free boxes, the image has to be pressed over the highlighted one.

Highlighted box.

Changing the inside/outside state of an image

The images that the pupil has to drop inside the container image have to be marked as inside and the other ones as outside

1. Press the right button of the mouse over the image you want to change its state.
2. Select the change inside/outside state option to finish.

Note: The inside images display a green border.

Swapping the position of two images

Press the left button of the mouse over the image you wish to move and, without releasing it, drag and drop it onto the desired place. The drop target have to have an associated image.

Removing an image

1. Press the right button of the mouse over the image you wish to remove
2. Select the Remove image option in order to finish.

Note: Removing an image could modify the position of the others images.

Removing all the images

1. Press the right button of the mouse over any image.
2. Select the Remove all images option and confirm to finish.

Exercise configuration

To configure the exercise you have to press the Configure button located at the upper toolbar of PATIO.

Configure button.

The next image shows the aspect of the exercise configuration panel.

Exercise configuration panel.

This panel allows you to set the exercise general settings.

• Main data: Common data for all APRENDO exercises.
  • Exercise name: A required field that sets the name of the exercise that is being edited.
  • Sentence: Sets the sentence associated with the exercise.
  • Mode: Sets the exercise mode: Evaluation or Learning.
  • Sentence: This sound is played at the beginning of the exercise.
  • Correct: This sound is played when the pupil clicks a correct pair.
  • Incorrect: This sound is played when the pupil clicks an incorrect pair.
  • Farewell: This sound is played at the end of the exercise.

The general sounds (Sentence, Correct, Incorrect and Farewell, are managed as it is described in the following link:

• General sounds panel

Preview and save the exercise

To read more about these functions you have to follow these links:

• Preview
• Save