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Marking |
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Scoring |
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When the Marking button is clicked the Learner is shown their score with the numbers of questions right, wrong and skipped. The Learner can then try again (although only their first score is recorded in the progress database), see the answers or go straight to the next Exercise. |
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Instant marking |
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With this setting, the Learner will get a response (right or wrong) immediately they answer a question. If you have written feedback, it will be shown. If you have not written feedback, a 'Yes, that is the right answer.' or 'No, that is not the right answer.' message will be shown. |
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Delayed marking |
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With this setting, no response is made to the Learner's answers until they click the Marking button. It is particularly useful for Exercises where learners might like to consider their early answers in relation to later questions - for example a Drag and Drop where they realise that their first choice must be wrong, or an Exercise where you are displaying a pattern of behaviour. Once Marking has been clicked, the Learner will see their score and can then see the correct answers. If you have written feedback, Learners can see this by clicking on the Feedback button. The Learner will only be shown feedback for questions that they got wrong. |
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Learner chooses |
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In some Exercises you will want to preset the type of marking, but in others you will want the Learner to be able to choose. The Learner chooses option enables the Learner to be able to choose between Instant and Delayed marking. |
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Test |
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| You may want to designate an Exercise as a Test, with results stored in the Results Manager. In this case, select the Test marking option. In the Learner program, the Marking button is replaced by a Submit button. The Scratch Pad, Print, Record and Hint buttons will not display. When the Learner clicks the Submit button, the score will be sent to the Results Manager and the Learner program will move on to the next Exercise. The Learner will not be able to try again or see the correct answers, and will not be told the score. |
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What can go wrong? |
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Working in the browser |
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If you are running Author Plus from a full browser window, you will be able to click on the back, next and reload buttons. You can also type a URL. All of these actions tell the browser to simply leave Author Plus and go to another website (or to restart Author Plus). In this case you will not be asked if you want to save your work and will lose it.
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If you start Author Plus from ClarityEnglish.com, it will open in a pop-up window so there is much less chance of this happening accidentally. |
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Different browsers pick up on some keys that you type. For instance, pressing Ctrl-B in Internet Explorer tends to bring up the favourites window rather than make the text that you have just selected bold, which you might be expecting.
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Use the formatting buttons in Author Plus rather than the MS Word shortcut keys. If you do bring up an external window, such as the favourites window, just close it. It should not have affected your work. |
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The Tab key can unexpectedly take you out of Author Plus and onto the URL bar. If you are then just typing and press Enter it will be like typing a new website address and you will leave Author Plus.
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It is unlikely that this will happen. However, to guard against any of the mishaps described in this section, it is advisable to save often. |
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Making backups |
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Clarity makes daily copies of all Exercises so that in the event of a system crash or other emergency we can restore your work, at least to the last working day. |
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Where is the Undo button? |
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At present there is no Undo button. This does mean that if you accidentally overwrite an entire text you cannot just get it back. If you have been saving often, you might be able to close the Exercise and NOT save the new version. We expect to add an undo button shortly. |
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My multimedia doesn't display or
play |
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Flash can only display images that are JPGs without the progressive
setting (apart from Flash 8 which can). If you add a picture and
it does not appear, check that the JPG is not progressive. Likewise,
MP3s can only be played if the standard sample rates of 22050 and
44100Hz are used. Again, if you cannot hear your MP3 (and your speakers
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Text formatting doesn't work as I expect |
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Many people are used to MS Word's functionality. Author Plus (and Flash generally) does not always work in the same way as Word. Here are some ways in which it behaves differently: |
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In some browsers you can't use Ctrl-B to make text bold: it will bring up a favorites tool bar instead. |
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Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V may not copy and paste smoothly. If this happens to you, then either slow down and make the Ctrl-C more deliberate, or use a right click of the mouse and use the copy and paste panel that this brings up. |
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If you have copied text and wish to paste it into Author Plus, first left-click at the point at which you wish to paste it, THEN right-click to bring up the formatting panel. Then select Paste. |
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If you double-click a word to select it, any punctuation at the end of the word will be selected as well. If you do not want to include this punctuation, either use the mouse to select the word, or use Shift-left arrow to deselect the punctuation. |
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