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TI LearningCheck™ Creator

Reference Guide

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Page 3: ... a new standard choices question 17 Adding a new text and image item 18 Saving a document 19 To save a new document 19 To save an existing document 20 Related Topics 20 Adding questions from the Item Bank 21 To locate a question in the Item Bank 21 Adding Selected Items to Assessment 22 To close the Item Bank 23 Adding special characters to text 24 To insert a character 24 Adding topics and keywor...

Page 4: ...ew paper version of assignment 35 Working with Images 36 Image toolbar 36 Adding an image to a question 37 Scaling and cropping an image 39 Adding a point or label 40 Changing a point label 40 Deleting a point or label 41 Editing an image 41 Sending a LearningCheck Creator item as a Quick Poll 42 Sending documents to calculators 44 Previewing a document 44 To preview a document 44 Checking AppVar ...

Page 5: ...v For product hardware service 56 TI Navigator 3 x License Agreement 57 Privacy Policy 69 ...

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Page 7: ...t 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 You can use the LearningCheck Creator or TI Connect to transfer LearningCheck files from a PC to a TI handheld device The LearningCheck App on the device then tracks the answers given and displays results for ...

Page 8: ... sections and questions allows you to select a question type and create new questions Content Area area for adding content to questions Changing the preview panel view You can view items in the default outline mode which displays only item titles or you can view the item detail which includes a thumbnail of the question and answer f To switch to the detail view select View Item Detail Preview Cont...

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Page 10: ...ontent area Specifying document properties Document properties allow you to store data with your documents that can be used to specify certain properties for use on the device Document properties can also be used as search criteria when searching for questions relating to particular topics or keywords You can specify the following properties for your LearningCheck documents Title Properties Author...

Page 11: ...ument Title box This name will display in the calculator s Assignment List 3 Select a document type Examination or Self check from the document type dropdown 4 If you want to add or change any other information about the document click the desired entry field and type the information in the box You are now ready to create sections and questions for the document ...

Page 12: ... title it is named Section You can give the same title to more than one section You can rename the sections later if you prefer 4 If you want to include a section description type it in the Text area 5 If you want to include an image click Browse in the Image area and navigate to the location of the image file Double click the image file name The image appears in the Image area of the dialog box Y...

Page 13: ...rd choices question Adding a new text and image item Adding questions from the Item Bank Adding a question 1 In the Preview pane click the Insert Item drop down button 2 Click to select the type of question you want to add The content panel for the new question displays 3 Type the topic of the question in the Topic field 4 Type any keywords that relate to the question in the Keyword field Note The...

Page 14: ...s the answer from one of the points on the image Example The student might be presented an image of the state of Texas and asked to identify which of three points on the image showed the location of the capital city Austin To add a new choices on image question to a section 1 In the Preview pane click the Insert Item dropdown and select Choices on Image 2 Type the topic of the question in the Topi...

Page 15: ...the point on the image Click to add the point 8 To add the correct answer point to the image click on the image toolbar and then click the correct location on the image 9 To create additional answer choices click and then click other locations on the image 10 To apply labels to the points click on the image toolbar and then click on each point The points are labeled A B C etc in the order in which...

Page 16: ...rchable in the item bank 4 Type a title for the question in the Title box 5 Type the question in Text box 6 If the question will include an image insert the image into the Image area The image appears in the Image area of the dialog box 7 To create answer choices click in the Response box and type the first response 8 To enter the second response click New and then type the response in the next bo...

Page 17: ...estion 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 4 Type a title for the question in the Title box 5 Type the question in Text box 6 Create the blank There are two ways to do this a Type the question including the text tha...

Page 18: ...click Remove Blank 8 Click the type of Response Text Number or Pull Down For text responses the Text button is automatically selected and the number of characters contained in the word you placed in the blank is automatically entered into Field Length and Maximum Characters For numeric responses click the Number button To create a pull down list of responses click the Pull Down button If you want ...

Page 19: ... is The value of pi is __ you might specify 3 14159265 as the correct answer with a Tolerance of 01 If the response to your question is a range of integers then using Range 25 to 27 for example might be easier 3 If more than one value is acceptable for the answer enter a Tolerance or enter Range in the Minimum Value and Maximum Value boxes If you want to make the blank longer so that the size of t...

Page 20: ... of Possible Responses click the button at the left of the correct response 5 If this question includes multiple blanks and you want to use the same list for more than one blank make the list a default list Click Default List 6 To use a previously created default list create the blank and then click Use Default List The list appears in the List of Possible Responses Adding a new open response ques...

Page 21: ...finding questions You must enter text in these fields for the question to be searchable in the item bank 4 Type a title for the question in the Title box 5 Type the question in Text box 6 If the question will include an image insert or copy the image into the Image area 7 If you want to specify a Suggested Response type it in the box Adding a new sequencing question 1 In the Preview pane click the...

Page 22: ...image insert or copy the image into the Image area 7 To create answer choices click in the Response box and type the first response 8 To enter additional responses click New and then type the response in the next box After you enter all of the responses you will indicate the correct sequence Note To remove a response click at the left of the response 9 To specify the correct sequence click the res...

Page 23: ... the Correct Sequence box also corrects it in the Presentation Sequence box when you finish making the change If you add an answer to the Correct Sequence box and then close the question without generating the presentation sequence again the number of answers in the Correct Sequence box will be different from the number of answers in the Presentation Sequence box The LearningCheck Creator will aut...

Page 24: ...on in the Title box 5 Type the question in Text box 6 If the question will include an image insert or copy the image into the Image area 7 In the Response drop down list click the response type 8 Click the button at the left of the correct response for the question Adding a new text and image item The Text and Image item does not require a response so you might use this for such things as instruct...

Page 25: ... question in the Title box 5 Type the question in Text box 6 If the item will include an image insert or copy the image into the Image area Saving a document To save a new document 1 Click File Save or click 2 If you haven t entered a title for the document LearningCheck Creator prompts you to enter a title This title will display in the handheld device s Assignment List If you do not want to see ...

Page 26: ...le LearningCheck Creator changes the document title to the same as the filename To save an existing document f Click File Save or click Related Topics You can also save a document with a new name See Saving with a new name on page 32 You can use Save As to create a new folder and save a document into it at the same time See Creating a new folder on page 33 When you edit a document from a zipped fi...

Page 27: ...ent but are copied into the new document when you select and copy them from the Item Bank To locate a question in the Item Bank 1 Click File Open Item Bank or click The Explore Item Bank dialog box displays 2 Use the Topic and Keywords dropdown menus to select terms to use to search for the question you want to find 3 If you know the type of question click to select it in the Item Type field 4 If ...

Page 28: ...et 7 Click Search The Item Bank returns a list of the items which meet the conditions you specified Note If the search does not return any results click Back to Search and modify the criteria to try the search again Adding Selected Items to Assessment 1 Scroll through the list of questions to locate the one you wish to add to your document 2 Click Add selected items to assessment The item s is add...

Page 29: ...LearningCheck Creator 23 To close the Item Bank f 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 REPLACE GRAPHIC ...

Page 30: ...t a character 1 Click to place the cursor in the text where you want to add the character s 2 Click 3 Select the Device All Common TI 83 Plus TI 84 Plus Family TI 89 Family TI 92 Plus or Voyage 200 from the drop down list 4 Select the Character Set All Math Punctuation Symbol Greek French German or Spanish from the drop down list 5 Click Show US Keyboard Characters if you want to see all of the le...

Page 31: ...e Window Close button to close the window When added to LearningCheck Creator documents characters shown in gray on the character map may not display correctly on all devices For example the square root symbol may display as _sqrt_ or a character may look slightly different Use Preview to see how the character is displayed In addition Unicode characters not in the character map can be inserted int...

Page 32: ...question 1 Double click the question title in the preview pane to open the question 2 Type the topic or keyword in the dropdown field or use the dropdown menu to select an existing topic or keyword Note To enter multiple keywords separate them with a comma 3 When the topic and keywords have been added click OK Opening existing documents The LearningCheck Creator lets you open one or more EDC docum...

Page 33: ...shows the directory If you have not set a default directory the Open dialog box shows the directory of the last document you opened 4 Click the document name s 5 Click Open The document s opens You can also open any document created by LearningCheck Creator an EDC file by double clicking on the file icon Adding a new question To add a new question or item to a section 1 Click to highlight the sect...

Page 34: ...in a zipped file 1 Click File Open or click 2 In the Open dialog box navigate to the folder that contains the file 3 Click the filename 4 Click Open The zipped file opens You can see the documents in the zipped file 5 Click the document name 6 Click Open The document opens ready for editing in LearningCheck Creator You can also select and open images from the zipped file To save a document from a ...

Page 35: ...ion Properties Hint Feedback Keywords and Copyright information click All Tabs 3 Respond to the spell check messages as necessary Cutting copying and pasting questions or sections fIf you are accustomed to cutting copying and pasting in Windows you will find the cut copy and paste functions in the LearningCheck Creator familiar You can cut copy or paste a question a section or an image In addition...

Page 36: ...e question into which you want to paste the image 2 Click Edit Paste or click You can also use the standard keyboard shortcut keys for these operations Ctrl X to cut Ctrl C to copy or Ctrl V to paste To copy text from Microsoft Word into a LearningCheck Creator question 1 In the Microsoft Word document select the text that you want to copy 2 Click Edit Copy or click 3 Go to the LearningCheck Creat...

Page 37: ...d To move more than one question at a time Shift click each question 2 Drag the question up or down to place it in the new location A positioning line shows where the question will appear Questions that are moved will automatically renumber themselves To move a question to another section 1 Click the question to be moved To move more than one question at a time Shift click each question 2 Drag the...

Page 38: ...or section Deleting a document You must delete a document using Windows Explorer The file that you are deleting must not be open To delete a document 1 Open Windows Explorer 2 Navigate to the folder that contains the file 3 Click the file 4 Click Edit Delete or click Saving with a new name You can copy a document by saving it with a new name To save the current document with a new name 1 Click Fil...

Page 39: ...dialog box each time you save an unnamed document click Do not show this again Type in a name for the document and click OK or Do not type in a name and click Cancel The Save As dialog box opens 4 Browse to the folder where you want to save the file If you do not navigate to another location the New Folder will be created in the Document Directory location shown in your User Profile General tab 5 ...

Page 40: ...he last action and Redo to reverse an Undo command With the LearningCheck Creator the actions that you can undo depend on whether you are working with text or objects The number of actions that you may undo is limited only by the memory available on your computer To undo an action f Click Edit Undo or click To redo an action f Click Edit Redo or click Printing a Report Use the Report Options dialo...

Page 41: ...print 3 Click Print Preview paper version of assignment 1 Click File Print or click 2 Select the type of report you want to preview 3 Click Print Preview to see how the report will look 4 Click to print the report or Click Close to return to the Report Options window ...

Page 42: ...cropping an image Adding a point or label Changing a point or label Deleting a point or label Editing an image Image toolbar The Image toolbar appears below the Image area in each question template The Image toolbar changes slightly depending on the type of question and the actions you need to take but all of the icons are shown in the following table Icon Name or Expand or Collapse image area ...

Page 43: ...I 83 Plus Silver Edition images 83i 8xi PIC TI 84 Plus and TI 84 Plus Silver Edition images 83i 8xi PIC TI 89 Family TI 92 TI 92 Plus and Voyage 200 images 89i 92i 9xi v2i Copy Image to Clipboard Paste Image from Clipboard Edit Image or Position Image Above Below Text or Scale Crop Image for Display on Device Add Points to Image Add Correct Points Add Incorrect Points Add Labels to Existing Points...

Page 44: ...dialog box and activates the image toolbar 4 If necessary click the image position icon to indicate whether the image should be below the text or above the text Places the image after the question text This is the default choice Places the image before the question text If you usually want the same image position you can set it on your User Profile General tab However you can always change the ima...

Page 45: ...d edit the image Scaling and cropping an image To scale and or crop an image 1 Click the appropriate icon to scale the image or to scale the image and then crop it to fit the device screen Scales down the image and any points and or labels to fit the device screen This is the default choice Scales down the image and then crops it to fit the device screen To make sure the viewable area includes the...

Page 46: ... To create additional points click and then click other locations on the image 3 To apply labels to the points click and then click on each point The points are labeled A B C and so on in the order in which you click them 4 To move a point and its label to a different place on the image click the point and drag it to the new location Changing a point label You can change a point label by editing t...

Page 47: ... are erased Editing an image The LearningCheck Creator allows you to open Microsoft Paint and edit the image in a question section or document template To open the image editor f On the image toolbar click Microsoft Paint opens with the image file ready for editing To put the edited image back into the template Saving the image in Microsoft Paint does not change the image in the template image are...

Page 48: ...ction 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 Poll The TI Navigator network must be available and the class must be started 1 Open the question you want to send as a Quick Poll 2 Click Send item as Quick Poll The question is sent to the class as a Quick Poll and the Quick Poll tool window opens...

Page 49: ... 43 3 Click the Poll Summary tab to see student responses 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 ...

Page 50: ...ocument You can use the LearningCheck Creator preview to see how a question section or document will look on a TI handheld device The Preview window display will look and behave like the TI handheld device that you select You should save your document before previewing To preview a document 1 To view the entire document click Tools Preview Preview All or click or To view selected questions or sect...

Page 51: ... click ENTER To see the rest of a question or response that is too large for the screen press or to scroll through the text To press a soft key MENU TAB NEXT BACK press the corresponding function key F2 F3 F4 and so on on your computer keyboard 3 When you finish previewing the document you can close the Preview window or if you plan to preview additional documents minimize the window ...

Page 52: ...ck Close Sending a LearningCheck document to a calculator To send the document to a TI calculator TI 83 Plus TI 84 Plus Families TI 89 Family TI 92 Plus or Voyage 200 graphing handheld you must have TI Connect installed and you must have a TI Connectivity Cable To send a document to a calculator 1 Connect one end of the TI Connectivity Cable to the appropriate port on your computer Connect a seria...

Page 53: ...Select the device you want and click OK Warning Do not disconnect a TI Connectivity cable during a transfer Sending a document to a classroom network To send the document to a classroom network your computer must be connected to the classroom network To send a document to a classroom network 1 In the LearningCheck Creator open the document that you wish to send to the class 2 Click File Send To Se...

Page 54: ...ovides problem solving information for the TI LearningCheck Creator Error messages Troubleshooting Frequently asked questions System requirements Error Messages During the normal operation of the LearningCheck Creator software you may receive an information or error message Some of the software error messages and their possible remedies are given in this section Documents and images A document mus...

Page 55: ...Appvar conversion LearningCheck Creator was unable to convert the document to an Appvar Click OK to close the message box Save the document and exit LearningCheck Creator Then re open LCC and try again Communication There was an error sending to the device Please ensure a device is present LearningCheck Creator cannot communicate with the device Click OK to close the message box Make sure the devi...

Page 56: ...gCheck Creator will not launch You will see an error message You must be running in 256 color mode or higher You can change the color depth from the Control Panel display icon To correct the problem 1 Click Start menu Settings Control Panel Display 2 On the Settings tab change to High Color 16 bit or 256 Colors 3 Click OK Problem I cannot insert a new section in my document because the Insert Sect...

Page 57: ...Check document A You cannot directly convert a StudyCards Creator question set into a LearningCheck Creator document but you can use Copy and Paste to copy the questions and answers into a LearningCheck Creator document See Cutting copying and pasting questions or sections on page 29 Q Can I use the same LearningCheck Creator document on more than one handheld device A Yes A document created in th...

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