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The Memory exercises can be created by using one of the two Edition modes.

Manual

Exercise type selection and initial configuration

Once you have selected the Attentional Control, you have to select the Memory 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 Memory manual editor.

Memory 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 includes two tabs. At the beginning of a Memory exercise, the images that the pupil has to remember are displayed. These images have to be added to the Before tab. Next, the images of the Before tab will disappear and they will appear again together with new images. These new images have to be added to the After tab.

Note: The images of the Before tab should be manually added to the After tab too.

How to use it

Adding a new image to the exercise

1. Select the image from the Images panel.
2. Drag the image and drop it onto one of the boxs located at the center panel, which is the panel that contains the sheet of the exercise.

Setting if the image have to be pressed by the pupil

The pupil can only press an image when the last group of images are displayed. The procedure to set if an image is target is as follows:

1. Select the After tab.
2. Press the right button of the mouse over the image that you want to change its status (target or not).
3. Select the Target option in order to finish.

Note: The target images are highlighted with a black border.

Changing the associated image of a box

• Option 1:

1. Select an image from the Images panel.
2. Drag the image and drop it onto the box that you need to change its image.

• Option 2:

1. Press the main button of the mouse over the image you wish to move and, without releasing it, drag and drop it onto the desired box.
2. The boxes will exchange their images.

Removing an image

1. Press the right button of the mouse over the image you wish to remove.
2. Select the Remove image button 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.
• Exercise data: Specific data for the Memory editor.
  • Images order (Before).
    • Normal: The images of the Before tab will be displayed on the exact position where they where placed during the exercise edition.
    • Random: The images of the Before tab will exchange their positions in each execution of the exercise.
  • Orden de las imágenes (Después).
    • Normal: The images of the After tab will be displayed on the exact position where they where placed during the exercise edition.
    • Random: The images of the After tab will exchange their positions in each execution 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

Auto

Exercise type selection

Once you have selected the Attentional Control, you have to select the Memory exercise type at the Exercise type section.

In order to automatically create the exercise you have to select the Auto option at the bottom of the panel.

The next image shows the main panel of the Memory automatic editor.

Memory automatic editor.

Exercise Generation

In order to generate the exercises you have to set all the required parameters of every panels that appear in the image showed before. These parameters will be described in the following sections.

General parameters

Name of the exercises

All the exercises will be generated using this name. An index will be appended to the name in order to differentiate the exercises.

Sentence

All the exercises will be generated using this sentence.

Exercises language

All the exercises will be generated using the selected language.

Number of exercises

Sets the number of exercises to generate.

Mode

Select the mode of the exercises: Learning or Evaluation.

Sounds

This panel allows you to select the sounds that will be played during the exercise. All the exercises will be generated with the same sounds. The sounds fields (Sentence, Correct, Incorrect and Farewell) are managed as it is described in the following link:

• General sounds panel

Sheet

Select the sheet that will be used for the generated exercises. The sheet sets, among other things, how to distribute the images on the screen during the exercise execution.

Number of images

Allows you to select the number of images that will appear at the beginning of the exercise. The minimum and maximum number of images that can be selected depends on the selected sheet.

Images order

Sets the location order of the images during the exercise execution:

• Normal: The images will be always be displayed in the same position of the screen during the exercise execution.
• Random: The images will change their position in every exercise execution.

Topics

You can select here the topics for the exercises. Things you can do:

• Add a concept or topic: Select the desired topics from the Available topics and press the >> button.
• Remove a concept or topic: Select the topics to remove from the Selected topics list and press the << button.

The elements of the exercises have to satisfy...

• Any selected topic: The elements that satisfy one or more of the selected topics can be added to the exercises.
• All selected topics: The elements of the exercises have to satisfy all the selected concepts.

Generation

After setting all the parameters you have to press the Generate button located at the upper toolbar of PATIO. If the exercises are successfully generated, a new panel will appear including the list of the generated exercises. This panel allows you to manually edit or preview the exercises one by one.

Generated exercises

Revision

The following image shows the aspect of the generated exercises panel.

Generated exercises

The list of the generated exercises is located on the left. When you select an exercise, the exercise information is shown into a panel at the center of the window. This panel includes a few buttons that allows you to do the following operations:

• Preview: Preview the selected exercise.</li>
• Edit exercise: It opens the selected exercise with the manual editor in order to edit it.</li>
• Remove exercise: Remove the selected exercise.

Saving the exercises

To save the generated exercises you have to press the Save button located at the upper toolbar.