From any screen you can click the Preview button. This will save your work and will start Author Plus Learner so that you can see how the material looks to the Learner. If you preview while editing an Exercise, you will go straight to that Exercise. If you preview from the menu screen, you will go to the main menu.

On the Settings screen, you can choose an image category. The Exercise will then be created with a picture chosen randomly from this category. In Author Plus you can choose to have no picture or to use your own picture.

On the Settings screen, you can click to choose "Default instructions". Learners will hear an instruction on how to complete the Exercise. This is in the language that they have currently chosen on the screen.

On the menu screen, select the Unit or Exercise that you want to move. Drag it up or down within the box.

On the menu screen, select the Exercise that you want to move. Then drag it over to the Unit that you want to move it into. Let go when the new Unit name is selected. The Exercise will be moved to the bottom of the new Unit. You can then click on and drag the new Unit to change the order of Exercises if you need to.

The interface for both Teacher and Learner side of the program is available in a variety of languages. The default language is English. If you wish to change the language in the Teacher program, click on the dropdown language list at the top of each screen, and choose your language. If your language is not there and you would like us to add it, please send an email to Clarity.

A number of formatting tools are available on the Content screen. You can colour text black, blue or dark blue. You can also make text bold. Note that these formatting options can generally be used in the questions, hints and feedback. They cannot, however, be used on the words that you have made into gaps or the options in a multiple choice. This is because varying the colour of these items would upset the marking scheme.

Go to the Settings screen. Click on the Add weblink button. You can type in up to three URLs. You can designate one of the weblinks as a button by checking the box next to the URL textbox. This will then be uploaded and will be used in the Exercise.

There is a preset dictionary link to the Cambridge Dictionaries Online. To look up a word on the Learner side, hold down the Ctrl key and click on it. This will open a browser, and will send you to the correct place in the online dictionary.

The Learner side of Author Plus includes a sound recording device. Learners can click on this and record and play back their voices. The first time you use Author Plus, the Learner program will have a button with a picture of a microphone on it. To set up the recording device, click on this and follow the instructions. Thereafter, provided the Clarity Recorder is running on your computer, the microphone button will be replaced by a red recording button. If the microphone button is visible, go to your Start menu and start up the Clarity Recorder.

The Learner program includes a Scratch Pad, or electronic notepad that Learners can use to make notes, jot down questions that they want to ask you, or do extended writing activities. The contents of the Scratch Pad are automatically saved for each learner under their login name.

There is no printing in the Teacher side of the program. To print out your Exercise, click on the Preview button and then on the Print button on the Learner side.

Each time an Exercise is marked, various data are saved. These include the time the Exercise was started, how long the Learner spent on it, and the score achieved, as well as the name and location of the Exercise itself. Learners can view this information, which is saved across sessions, by clicking on the Progress button on the Menu screen.