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  • Page 1 TI LearningCheck™ Creator Reference Guide...

  • Page 2: Important Information

    "as-is" basis. In no event shall Texas Instruments be liable to anyone for special, collateral, incidental, or consequential damages in connection with or...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Important Information..............ii LearningCheck™ Creator LearningCheck™ Creator Main Window ........2 Changing the preview panel view ......... 2 Creating a new document ............4 Specifying document properties ........... 4 To change document properties ..........5 Adding a new section ..............6 Adding questions ................
  • Page 4 Sending a document to a classroom network ......47 To send a document to a classroom network ...... 47 Troubleshooting LearningCheck Creator ........48 Legal Information Texas Instruments Support and Service ........56 For general information ............56 For technical support............. 56 For TI-Navigator™ technical questions ........ 56...
  • Page 5 For product (hardware) service ..........56 TI-Navigator™ 3.x License Agreement........57 Privacy Policy ................69...

  • Page 7: Learningcheck™ Creator

    LearningCheck™ Creator Use LearningCheck™ Creator to create self-check opportunities or exams. You can create review questions or practice tests that provide feedback on correct and incorrect answers to allow students to test their own knowledge. You can create quizzes and exams, send them to student calculators, then upload completed material to your PC for evaluation and grading.

  • Page 8: Learningcheck™ Creator Main Window

    LearningCheck™ Creator Main Window The LearningCheck™ Creator window consists of two areas: the Preview panel and Content area. Preview Panel – ldisplays outline or thumbnail images of sections and questions; allows you to select a question type and create new questions. Content Area –...
  • Page 9 LearningCheck™ Creator...

  • Page 10: Creating A New Document

    Creating a new document When you launch LearningCheck™ Creator, a blank document opens, with the first section open in the Content area. You can add questions to this document and save it to create a new document. If you are working in a document, and want to create a new one (if, for instance you want to copy questions from the open document to a new one) do the following: Click File >...

  • Page 11: To Change Document Properties

    To change document properties In the Preview panel, click The document properties page displays. Type a name for the document in the Document Title box. This name will display in the calculator's Assignment List. Select a document type (Examination or Self-check) from the document type dropdown.

  • Page 12: Adding A New Section

    Adding a new section To add a new section to the document In the Preview pane, click Click Section. LearningCheck™ Creator adds a new section. Type a title for the new section in the Title box. (If you do not designate a title, it is named Section.) You can give the same title to more than one section.

  • Page 13: Adding Questions

    Adding questions You can include several types of questions in LearningCheck Creator documents. To see the specifics of each question type, refer to the following: • Adding a new choices on image question • Adding a new custom choices question •...

  • Page 14: Adding Specific Question Types

    Type a title for the question in the Title box. (If you do not designate a title, the default title is Item.) If you do not name questions, they are numbered sequentially in the document. You can rename the questions later if you prefer. Type the question text and complete the other fields as required.
  • Page 15 Type a title for the question in the Title box. Type the question in Text box. In the Response area, click Browse, navigate to the image and Insert it into the template. The image appears in the Image area of the dialog box. To add points to the image, click on the image toolbar, and move the cursor to the point on the image.

  • Page 16: Adding A New Custom Choices Question

    Adding a new custom choices question In the Preview pane, click the Insert Item dropdown, and select Custom Choices. Type the topic of the question in the Topic field. Type any keywords that relate to the question in the Keyword field. Note: The Topic and Keyword information is used by the Item bank to provide search criteria for finding questions.

  • Page 17: Adding A New Fill In The Blank Question

    12. In the List of Possible Responses, click the button at the left of the correct response. If this question has more than one correct response, click the Allow Multiple Responses checkbox, and then click the correct answers. Adding a new fill in the blank question In the Preview pane, click the Insert Item dropdown, and select Fill in the Blank .
  • Page 18 Type the question leaving out the answer—don't type a blank. Click the place you wish to put the blank and then click Create Blank. Type the answer in the Response Text box. The LearningCheck™ Creator places the answer in the Question Text box with a frame around it and displays the text in the List of Possible Responses.

  • Page 19: Creating A Question With A Numeric Blank

    Creating a question with a numeric blank Create a fill in the blank question and complete steps 1 through 4c. In the Response area, click Number. The lower portion of the dialog box changes to reveal boxes for Number Tolerance and Range. Tolerance and Range are very similar, but your choice between these two fields will probably be based on which one is easier to specify.

  • Page 20: Adding A New Open Response Question

    The text you selected for the blank appears in the List of Possible Responses. To add additional responses to the pull-down list, click New, and then type the response in the next box. Note: To delete a response click at the left of the response. In the List of Possible Responses, click the button at the left of the correct response.

  • Page 21: Adding A New Sequencing Question

    Type the topic of the question in the Topic field. Type any keywords that relate to the question in the Keyword field. Note: The Topic and Keyword information is used by the Item bank to provide search criteria for finding questions. You must enter text in these fields for the question to be searchable in the item bank.
  • Page 22 Type the topic of the question in the Topic field. Type any keywords that relate to the question in the Keyword field. Note: The Topic and Keyword information is used by the Item bank to provide search criteria for finding questions. You must enter text in these fields for the question to be searchable in the item bank.

  • Page 23: Editing Presentation Sequence

    11. To change the presentation sequence, click the response you wish to move and then click to move the response up or down the list. Editing Presentation Sequence When creating a sequencing question, you must click Generate Presentation Sequence to copy the answers from the Correct Sequence box into the Presentation Sequence box.

  • Page 24: Adding A New Text And Image Item

    Type the topic of the question in the Topic field. Type any keywords that relate to the question in the Keyword field. Note: The Topic and Keyword information is used by the Item bank to provide search criteria for finding questions. You must enter text in these fields for the question to be searchable in the item bank.

  • Page 25: Saving A Document

    Type the topic of the question in the Topic field. Type any keywords that relate to the question in the Keyword field. Note: The Topic and Keyword information is used by the Item bank to provide search criteria for finding questions. You must enter text in these fields for the question to be searchable in the item bank.

  • Page 26: To Save An Existing Document

    The Save As dialog box opens. Browse to the folder where you want to save the file. LearningCheck™ Creator suggests a filename the same as the document name (if you entered one). Click Save to accept the suggested filename or type in a new filename and click Save.

  • Page 27: Adding Questions From The Item Bank

    Adding questions from the Item Bank The Item Bank stores questions from the LearningCheck documents you create, so you can re-use them. The Item Bank builds a list of topics and keywords based on the topics and keywords you assign to questions when you create them.

  • Page 28: Adding Selected Items To Assessment

    Check the box next to only items with images to add that to the search criteria. Click to select whether the search should return items if some criteria are met, or only if all criteria are met. Click Search. The Item Bank returns a list of the items which meet the conditions you specified.

  • Page 29: To Close The Item Bank

    REPLACE GRAPHIC To close the Item Bank Click File > Close Item Bank or click The Item Bank closes. If more than one Item Bank is open, the Item Bank that is in front closes. LearningCheck™ Creator...

  • Page 30: Adding Special Characters To Text

    Adding special characters to text The TI Character Map allows you to insert symbols, punctuation, math symbols, special language characters, or TI-specific characters into text. You can add special characters to LearningCheck™ Creator questions, Class Analysis cells, and Transfer List application variable (AppVar) names. To insert a character Click to place the cursor in the text where you want to add the character(s).
  • Page 31 Click Insert to place the character into the text, or click Copy to copy the character to the clipboard, and then paste the character into the text. You can also select several characters and insert or copy them all at the same time.

  • Page 32: Adding Topics And Keywords

    Adding topics and keywords Topics and Keywords are used to search for questions or documents on a specific topic. You may add topics and keywords to any question or item. When you add a topic or keyword to a question, that keyword is also added to the List of Topics and Keywords for the section that includes the question and the document that includes the question.
  • Page 33 To open an existing document Click File > Open or click Select the document’s profile in the User Profile Selection dialog box. If you always use the same profile and do not want to see this dialog box each time you open a document, click Do not show this again.

  • Page 34: Editing A Question

    Editing a question To edit an existing question Double-click the question to open it. To change text, highlight the text you wish to change and type the new text over it. To delete text, highlight the text and press the Delete key on your computer keyboard.

  • Page 35: Checking Spelling For The Document

    Checking spelling for the document You can check spelling for a question, a section, or an entire document. To check spelling from the main window In the Navigation pane or the Content pane, click the question, section, or document. Click Tools > Spell Check or click Respond to the spell check messages as necessary.

  • Page 36: To Paste A Question Or Section

    Click Edit > Copy or click To select multiple consecutive items for copying, hold Shift while selecting. To select multiple items that are not consecutive, hold Ctrl while selecting. To paste a question or section Click the question or section immediately above the location to which you want to paste.

  • Page 37: Moving A Section Or A Question

    Moving a section or a question You can use drag-and-drop to move one or more sections in your LearningCheck™ Creator document. You can also move one or more questions within a section or move them to a different section. To move a section In the Navigation pane, click the section to be moved.

  • Page 38: Renaming A Section Or A Question

    Click Edit > Delete or click Renaming a section or a question You may create documents using the default section and question titles (Section 1 or Item 1), but you may find it easier to organize topics and questions if you assign section and question names that describe the topic.

  • Page 39: Creating A New Folder

    Creating a new folder You can use Save As to create a new folder (and save a document into it at the same time). To create a new folder Open the document you want to save. Click File > Save As or click .

  • Page 40: Using Undo And Redo

    Click Save to accept the suggested document filename or type in a new filename and click Save. If you do not enter a title for the document but do enter a name for the file, LearningCheck™ Creator changes the document title to the same as the filename.

  • Page 41: Preview Paper Version Of Assignment

    Select the type of report you want to print. Click Print. Preview paper version of assignment Click File > Print or click Select the type of report you want to preview. Click Print Preview to see how the report will look. Click to print the report.

  • Page 42: Working With Images

    Working with Images This section describes basic procedures you will use to insert and edit images in a document. • Image toolbar • Adding an image to a question • Scaling and cropping an image • Adding a point or label •...

  • Page 43: Adding An Image To A Question

    Icon Name Copy Image to Clipboard Paste Image from Clipboard Edit Image Position Image Above/Below Text Scale/Crop Image for Display on Device Add Points to Image Add Correct Points Add Incorrect Points Add Labels to Existing Points Erase Existing Points/Labels Clear all Points/Labels Zoom Image In/Out for Preview Adding an image to a question...
  • Page 44 Other image file types may work in some instances, but are not supported. When you browse for files (step 3 below), only supported image types appear. You can add an image into any of the LearningCheck™ Creator templates by either inserting the image file or by copying and pasting the image from another document.

  • Page 45: Scaling And Cropping An Image

    Click the image area of the question into which you want to paste the image. Click Edit > Paste or click If necessary, click the image position icon to indicate whether the image should be below the text or above the text. •...

  • Page 46: Adding A Point Or Label

    Adding a point or label You can add points to an image and label the points. The point tool lets you create points on any image. However, for a choices on image question, use the correct and incorrect point tools. To add a point to an image Open the question, section, or document that contains the image.

  • Page 47: Deleting A Point Or Label

    Deleting a point or label You can delete a single point or label from an image or delete all the points and labels at once. To delete a single point on an image On the image toolbar, click On the image, click the point that you want to delete. To delete a single label on an image On the image toolbar, click On the image, click the label that you want to delete.

  • Page 48: Sending A Learningcheck Creator Item As A Quick Poll

    Type in a name for the image file and click OK. Saving the image in Microsoft® Paint does not change the image in the image area. You must copy and paste the edited image into the question, section, or document template. Sending a LearningCheck Creator item as a Quick Poll You can send a LearningCheck Creator question to your class as a Quick...
  • Page 49 Click the tab to see student responses. Poll Summary You can save this poll, and view the results just as you would any Quick Poll item. For more information about Quick Poll items, see The Quick Poll tool window and tabs. LearningCheck™...

  • Page 50: Sending Documents To Calculators

    Sending documents to calculators This section describes basic procedures you will use to send a document to a calculator. You can send a document to a single device or you can send a document to all the devices in a classroom network. •...
  • Page 51 Use the PC keyboard and your mouse to simulate viewing the document on the device. • To select from a list or menu, press to highlight the option you want, then click ENTER. • To see the rest of a question or response that is too large for the screen, press to scroll through the text.

  • Page 52: Checking Appvar Size

    Checking AppVar size You can check the size of the application variable (AppVar) that will be created from the document before you send it to a TI calculator or classroom network. To check AppVar size Click Tools>AppVar Size or click Click the device name (TI-83 Plus Family, TI-84 Plus Family, TI-89 Family, TI-92 Plus, Voyage™...

  • Page 53: Sending A Document To A Classroom Network

    Select whether the document should be sent to the RAM or archive memory of the device, and select the document type. Click Send. The Select TI Device dialog opens, showing a list of the ports and the devices that are connected. Select the device you want and click OK.

  • Page 54: Troubleshooting Learningcheck Creator

    Select the document type. Select Randomize Question Order if you want students in the class to receive the questions in a different order from one another. Click Send. The file is sent to the class. Troubleshooting LearningCheck Creator This section provides problem-solving information for the TI LearningCheck™...
  • Page 55 Click OK to close the message box. Insert a new section in the document, then delete the section you wish to remove. File not found. – LearningCheck™ Creator cannot find the file you wish to open. Click OK to close the message box. Make sure the file name is spelled correctly and that the correct directory is selected.
  • Page 56 Cannot send to device because TI Connect™ application is not installed. Please reinstall TI Connect™. – You selected Send to Device, but TI Connect™ was not installed or was incorrectly installed. Click OK to close the message box. Install TI Connect™. TI-Navigator™...
  • Page 57 To save all of your documents to your desktop, set your user profile to show the Desktop as the Working Directory: Open your user profile and go to the General tab. In the Working Directory section, click beside the Document Directory field.
  • Page 58 LearningCheck™ Creator...

  • Page 59: Legal Information

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