Vocabulary editor
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Exercise type selection and initial configuration
Once you have selected the Others group, you have to select the Vocabulary 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 Vocabulary manual editor.
Panels description
Images panel
This panel is located at the west zone of the window. It contains an upper toolbar that will allow you to perform operations related with the images of the exercise. The lower section of this panel contains the list of images that have been added to the exercise. This list of images is linked with the order in which the sounds are played during the exercise execution. The image located at the top of the list will be the first one playing its sound and the last one will be the one at the bottom. Each row of the list contains one image and its associated sound. These sounds can be played by pressing the speaker icon with the main button of the mouse.
Center panel
The center section of the screen contains the selected sheet. This panel displays the images of the exercise in the position and size that they will have during the exercise execution. It is possible to play the associated sound of an image by pressing over the desired image with the main button of the mouse.
How to use it
Adding images to the exercise
- Press the + button located at the Images panel.
- Select the desired image in the new window. In order to select more than one image, you have to press the control key of the keyboard while selecting the images .
- Press the Ok button and the images will be added to the exercise.
Removing an image of the exercise
- Select the image that you want to remove from the Images panel.
- Press the - button to finish.
Making an image goes up or down in the list
- Select the image that you want to go up or down from the Images panel.
- Press the Up or Down button located at the toolbar of the same panel to finish.
Changing the sheet position of an image
- Press and hold the main button of the mouse over the image that you want to move.
- Drag the image by moving the mouse to the desired place.
- Release the main button of the mouse to finish.
Note: Changing the position of a sheet image could modify the order in which the sounds are played during the exercise execution and the order of the list of images in the Center panel. This behaviour depends on the selected sheet.
Exercise configuration
To configure the exercise you have to press the Configure button located at the upper toolbar of PATIO.
The next image shows the aspect of the 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:
The following image shows a Vocabulary exercise already edited.
Preview and save the exercise
To read more about these functions you have to follow these links:
