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Edition modes

This tool has two edition modes for every exercise type: manual or auto.

Manual

Using this way of edition, you can create new exercises or to edit exercises that already exist. The exercises will be created or edited in an individual way. This edition mode allows the teacher to create more exact and specific exercises because he will has the freedom of establishing all the elements of the exercise manually.

Auto

In the automatic way, the user inputs a series of parameters that he wishes to have the exercises and they will be generated in an automatic way. Once the exercises are generated, a list of generated exercises will appear and they will be able to be manually edited if it is wished.

Create a new exercise

To create new exercises, the New button located at the main toolbar must be pressed.

The next window will appear for the selection of the exercise type that will be created.

To select a type of exercise it is necessary to select one of the types of exercises showed in the list that appears to the left of the previous image. After this, there will appear an image of example of the type of exercise together with his description. When the exercise type has been selected, the button Ok must be pressed to continue with the creation of the exercise.

Finally, a dialog for choosing the way of edition will appear.

Once chosen the way of edition in the dialog showed in the previous image, the Ok button must be pressed to show the application that allows to edit the selected exercise type using the selected edition mode.

Edit an exercise

This option allows to open previously created exercises for their edition.

To open an exercise it is necessary to press the Open button located at the main toolbar.

The window that allows the selection of the exercise type to edit will appear.

First, the exercise type that you want to edit will have to be selected from between those in the list of the left side in the previous image. Once the exercise type is selected, a new list will appear with all available exercises of this type.

Once selected the exercise to edit, the button Ok must be pressed in order to show the manual editor for the selected exercise type. This editor will appear with the selected exercise ready for his edition.

Delete exercises

You might want to delete a previously created exercise. To delete exercises it is necessary to press the Delete button located at the main toolbar.

A new window to select the exercises that have to be deleted will appear.

Next, you have to select, from the list located on the left side in the previous image, the exercise type of the exercises that will be deleted. Once the exercise type is selected, a new list will appear to the right with all the available exercises of this type.

The following thing is to select the exercise that has to be removed. If you want to delete more than one exercise, it will be necessary to keep pressing the "CTRL" key of the keyboard while selecting the exercises.

Once the exercises have been selected, you have to press the Ok button to finish the process.

Note: It is possible that some exercises could not be deleted, in this case it will be reported to the user.