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TI LearningCheck™ Creator
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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 .......................................................................... 7
Adding a question................................................................... 7
Adding specific question types...................................................... 8
Adding a new choices on image question............................. 8
Adding a new custom choices question ..................................... 10
Adding a new fill in the blank question.............................. 11
Creating a question with a numeric blank ................................ 13
Creating a question with a pull-down blank ...................... 13
Adding a new open response question ............................... 14
Adding a new sequencing question .................................... 15
Editing Presentation Sequence ............................................ 17
Adding 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 keywords ...................................................... 26
To add topics or keywords to a question............................. 26
Opening existing documents................................................ 26
Editing a question ................................................................. 28
Editing a document in a zipped file..................................... 28
Checking spelling for the document.................................... 29
Cutting, copying, and pasting questions or sections .......... 29
To cut a question, section or image ..................................... 29
To copy a question, section, or image ................................. 29
To paste a question or section.............................................. 30
To paste an image ................................................................. 30
To copy text from Microsoft® Word into a LearningCheck™
Creator question..................................................................... 30

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Moving a section or a question ............................................31
To move a section .................................................................. 31
To move a question within a section....................................31
To move a question to another section ...............................31
Deleting a section or a question........................................... 31
To delete a section................................................................. 31
To delete a question.............................................................. 31
Renaming a section or a question ........................................ 32
To rename a section or a question .......................................32
Deleting a document............................................................. 32
To delete a document ...........................................................32
Saving with a new name....................................................... 32
To save the current document with a new name................ 32
Creating a new folder ........................................................... 33
To create a new folder .......................................................... 33
Using Undo and Redo ........................................................... 34
To undo an action.................................................................. 34
To redo an action................................................................... 34
Printing a Report ..........................................................................34
To print a report .................................................................... 34
Preview 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 size................................................................... 46
Sending a LearningCheck document to a calculator.................. 46
To send a document to a calculator .....................................46
Sending a document to a classroom network ............................47
To send a document to a classroom network ...................... 47
Troubleshooting LearningCheck Creator .................................... 48
Legal Information
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For general information ....................................................... 56
For technical support.............................................................56
For TI-Navigator™ technical questions ................................56

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TI-Navigator™ 3.x License Agreement........................................ 57
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LearningCheck™ Creator 1
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.
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 the document.

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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 – 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.
fTo switch to the detail view, select View > Item Detail.
Preview Content

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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:
fClick File > New or click .
A new document opens, with the first section open in the Content
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 Name
• Grade Level
• Document type
• Copyright information
Item defaults
• Default topic
• Default keywords
Device Options
•DeviceName
• Memory Location (RAM or archive)
• Randomize question order
• Delete Answer file from device after collect
• Delete Assignment file from device after collect

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To change document properties
1. In the Preview panel, click .
The document properties page displays.
2. Type a name for the document in the Document 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.

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Adding a new section
To add a new section to the document
1. In the Preview pane, click .
2. Click Section.
LearningCheck™ Creator adds a new section.
3. 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.
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. You can edit
the image using the toolbar below.

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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
• Adding a new fill in the blank question
• Adding a new open response question
• Adding a new sequencing question
• Adding a new standard 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 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.

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5. 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.
6. Type the question text and complete the other fields as required.
Adding specific question types
Adding a new choices on image question
A choices on image question is one in which the student views an image
and selects 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 Topic field.
3. 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.

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4. Type a title for the question in the Title box.
5. Type the question in Text box.
6. 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.
7. To add points to the image, click on the image toolbar, and move the
cursor to 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 you
click on them.
a) To move a point (and its label) to a different place on the
image, click the point and drag it to the new place.

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Adding a new custom choices question
1. In the Preview pane, click the Insert Item dropdown, and select
Custom Choices.
2. Type the topic of the question in the Topic field.
3. 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.
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 box.
9. Repeat to create additional responses.
10. To delete a response, click at the left of the response.
11. To change the order of the responses, select the response you wish to
move and then click or to move the response up or down in
the list.

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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
1. In the Preview pane, click the Insert Item dropdown, and select
Fill in the Blank .
2. Type the topic of the question in the Topic field.
3. 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.
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 that is in the blank
(the answer)—don't type a blank.
b) Select the text that will be in the blank.
c) Click Create Blank.
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.
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d) Type the question leaving out the answer—don't type a
blank.
e) Click the place you wish to put the blank and then click
Create Blank.
f) 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.
7. To remove a blank, click the blank and then 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 to make the blank longer so that the size of the
blank does not reveal the answer, change Field Length to a larger
number.
9. If the question will include an image, insert the image into the
Image area.

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Creating a question with a numeric blank
1. Create a fill in the blank question and complete steps 1 through 4c.
2. 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.
For example, if the question 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 the
blank does not reveal the answer, change Field Length to a larger
number.
Creating a question with a pull-down blank
1. Create a fill in the blank question and complete steps 1 through 4c.
2. In the Response area, click Pull Down.

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The text you selected for the blank appears in the List of Possible
Responses.
3. 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.
4. In the List 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 question
1. In the Preview pane, click the Insert Item dropdown, and select
Open Response.