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Manual editor

On the one hand, if you start this editor to create a new exercise, the next window will appear.

In that window, you will be able to select the language of the exercise and the number of empty image-sound pairs that will be added to the new exercise.

On the other hand, if you start this editor to open an already existing exercise, the manual editor will be shown with all the information of the exercise.

Components

The following image shows the main window of the manual editor of exercises "To pair sound-image".

As it is observed in the previous image, the edition zone of the exercises contains three panels: Image-sound Pairs , Images and Sounds .

Image-sound pairs panel

At the top of this panel there is a toolbar that allows to make operations on the pairs and to change the exercise configuration parameters.

Under that toolbar, the image-sound pairs that have been added to the exercise are shown. Every row represents an image-sound pair of the exercise. This panel also contains four columns that describes the current state of every pair: Image , Sound , Correct and Complete .

• Image: It shows the image associated with every pair.

In the previous image, the left figure indicates that the pair doesn't have an associated image and the right figure shows the associate image of the pair.

• Sound: It shows the sound associated with every pair.

If the left figure appears at the Sound column of a pair, it means that the pair doesn't have an associated sound. If the one that appears is the right figure it means that the pair has an associated sound.

• Correct: A correct pair is a pair in which the image corresponds with the sound and the child should press it to succeed.

In the previous image, the figure of the left side indicates that the pair is correct and the figure of the right that it is incorrect.

• Complete: A pair is complete when has associated image and sound.

In the previous image, the figure of the left side indicates that the pair is complete and the figure of the right that it is incomplete.

Images panel

The available images are shown in this panel and can be associated with the image-sound pairs that have been added to the Image-sound pairs panel. The top part of the panel allows 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.

Sounds panel

The available sounds are shown in this panel and can be associated with the image-sound pairs that have been added to the Image-sound pairs panel. The top part of the panel allows to filter the concepts (or topics) and the language of the sound that you want to select. The lower panel will be showing the sounds that fulfill the conditions of the filters.

Lower toolbar

This bar allows to make actions on the exercise that is being edited. It has two buttons: Preview and Save. The first one is used to show a preview of the created exercise and the second one allows to store it. This is discussed later in more details.

How to use it

Exercise configuration

To configure an exercise, the following button must be pressed:

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

This panel lets you set the general settings of the exercise.

• Name: A required field that sets the name of the exercise that is being edited.
• Sentence: Sets the sentence associated with the exercise.
• Time showing image (Milliseconds): The time in milliseconds that each image will be showed while the exercise is running.
• Time between sound and image (Milliseconds): The time elapsed from when you hear the sound and the associated image appears.
• Time between image and sound (Milliseconds): The time between an image disappears and the beginning of the sound of the next pair.
• Mode: Sets the exercise mode: Evaluation or Learning.
• Random image order: If you select this option, the image-sound pairs of the exercise are shown in different order in each execution of the exercise with the Aprendo tool.
• General sounds of the exercise: This panel lets you configure the general sounds of the exercise:
  • Sentence: This sound is played when the exercise begins.
  • Correct: This sound is played when you click on an image of a correct pair.
  • Incorrect: This sound is played when you click on an image of a pair that is incorrect.
  • Farewell: The sound that plays at the end of the exercise.

The assignment of the general sound is different from the assignment of the rest of fields.

• Assigning a general sound: The first thing is to find the desired sound in the bottom of the General sounds of the exercise panel. The top part of that subpanel allows to filter the concepts (or topics) and the language of the sound that you want to select. The lower panel will be showing the sounds that fulfill the conditions of the filters. Once you have located the sound, click on it to select it, without releasing it, drag and drop it on a general sound located above on this panel to assign it.
• Removing a general sound: To remove a general sound you should click the "Remove sound" button (represented by a red cross) located near that general sound.
• Playing a general sound: To play a general sound you must click on the speaker button of the general sound.

Finally, note that the button to the right of the filter "Language" is used to display the details of the sounds that are displayed on the bottom panel.

Editing Image-sound pairs

• Add a new image-sound pair: Pressing the button below will add a new empty image-sound pair at the end of the list of pairs.

• Delete the selected image-sound pair: Pressing this button will delete the selected image-sound pair..

• Selected image-sound pair goes up: Allows that the selected pair goes up one position in the list of pairs.

• Selected image-sound pair goes down: Allows that the selected pair goes down one position in the list of pairs.

• Associate an image: To be able to associate an image to a given pair, you must search for the desired image on the panel "Images". Once you have located the image, click on it to select it and, without releasing the button, drag and drop it onto the column "Image" of the desired pair located in the image-sound pairs panel.
• Associate a sound: In order to associate a sound with a given pair, you must search for the desired sound on the panel "Sounds". Once you have located the sound, click on it to select it and, without releasing the button, drag and drop it onto the column "Sound" of the desired pair located in the image-sound pairs panel.
• Change the correct/incorrect state: If you click on the column "Correct" of a given pair, the status is changed from correct to incorrect or viceversa.
• Remove a picture: To remove an image associated with a given pair you must press on it with the right mouse button and select the option "Remove image" from the menu that will appear.
• Remove a sound: To remove a sound associated with a given pair you must press on it with the right mouse button and select the option "Remove sound" from the menu that will appear.
• Play a sound: If you click on the content of the column "Sound" of a given pair will play the sound associated with that pair.
• Get Info: To view information about a component you only have to place the mouse cursor over it.

Preview exercise

Once you have completed the edition of the exercise, you can preview it and make sure that everything is correct. You must click the Preview button to preview the exercise.

If you have not entered all the information needed to create an exercise, the exercise configuration panel will appear and you must complete all the required information if you want to preview it. If there are incomplete pairs, it will be notified and they must be completed in order to continue.

After entering all the required information, a new window will appear with the preview of the exercise that has been edited.

If you wish to restart playback at any moment, press the button "Restart". To finish the preview, you can click the "OK" button or close the preview window directly.

Save exercise

You must click the Save button in order to save the exercise that you are editing.

If you have not entered all the information needed to create an exercise, the exercise configuration panel will appear and you must complete all the required information if you want to save it. If there are incomplete pairs, it will be notified and they must be completed in order to continue.

If the process is completed successfully, it will be notified together with the name of the exercise that has been saved because it could be renamed if the exercise name already exists.

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