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SEA RCCDSB – Jan 19/14

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Clicker Sentences - SEA Instructions

(Instructions as per App Version as of January 2014 and prior to the release of iOS 7)

With Clicker Sentences, you can quickly build a sentence

for numerous numbers of activities or reasons. With easy

editing the difficulty level on composing the model

sentence is easily modified to meet the student’s needs.

Clicker Sentences is an App that requires setup prior to the student

using it. In order to get the full benefit of the Clicker Sentences

becoming familiar with the App and its features of the App will require

spending time on it.

To get started there are about 10 example sentences that can be used.

As well there is the Learning Grids Online Resource with access to

another 70 pre-made grids.

http://www.cricksoft.com/us/products/apps/clicker-apps/clicker-sentences.aspx


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Table of Contents

Getting to Know the App ........ p.3

“LearningGrids” Online ..... Creating Online

Account .........................

Browse, Download and

Run .................................

p.11

p.11

p.12

Quick Starts ..................... From Example .......................

From “LearningGrids”..........

From Scratch .......................

p.4-6 p.4

p.5

p.6

Buttons, Bells and Whistles .... p.7

Managing Files ............. Editing .........................

Renaming .....................

Deleting ......................

Creating Folder .........

Copy and Move Files .

p.13 p.13

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p.13

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The Menu Bar .................... File Manager .........................

Favourites .............................

New Document .....................

Title .......................................

Settings ................................

o Appearance ..............

o Reading Speed ........

o Accessibility ...........

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Sentence Grid Creator/Editor .. Accessing Creator/Editor .

About Creator/Editor ........

p.9 p.9

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Sentence Grid Editor ............ New Sentence ......................

Model Sentence ...................

Word Order ..........................

Duplicate Words ..................

Created Grid Example 1 .....

Created Grid Example 2 ....

Adding Pictures ...................

Edit Sentence Sets ............

Re-order Sentences ...........

Delete Sentence .................

Apply to All ..........................

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Getting to Know the App

Locate and open App.

This is the file manager / home screen

showing. The files and folders for iPad

is selected and showing.

If this is not showing tap on

the “Folder” in the upper left

hand corner on all other

screens.

Open “Quick Start” file.

The “White” upper portion of the

screen is where the words (from the

grid) will appear. This is the Document

or Sentence Set.

The lower portion, “Sentence Grid,” is

the words needed to form the

sentences (max 12 words).

Tap on the words to form a sentence.

Then swipe through the 11 sentence

grids for explanations of the buttons.



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Quick Starts

Before starting, it is recommended looking through the Quick Start file. As well,

familiarize yourself with the “Buttons, Bells and Whistles” section of this manual.

From Examples


Navigate to File Manager and open

Examples folder.

Choose one of the 10 files listed.

The file opens and is ready for the

student to use.

Tap on the grid editor, top

right hand corner, to edit

file.

Tap on Go, top right hand

corner, to return back to

composing mode for student.



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From “LearningGrids” Online

Account needs to be set up prior to accessing online grids (see page 11).


Navigate to File Manager and select

“LearningGrids” from left hand pane.

Browse for file and select Run Now.

File opens into grid editor. Edit if

desired.

Tap “Go” from upper right hand corner

to enter student composing mode.

You are now in composing mode for the

student to build the sentence.

These dots indicate the number of grids

or sentences in this file.



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From Scratch

Creating a sentence set from scratch does require knowledge of the App and the

features and functions. Without getting to know the App by looking through the

Quick Start file and Buttons, Bells and Whistles this quick start method will be

difficult to complete.


Navigate to file manager.

From bottom of screen select Add.

Select Sentence Set.

Rename set if desired and select done.

Tap on new set to open into grid editor.

Add sentences and choose model, word

and picture options.

Select Go to go to student composing

mode.



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Buttons, Bells and Whistles...

Sentence Set, Grid and Tools

Document / Sentence Set.

Grid Tools.

Sentence Grid or QWERTY Keyboard.

One finger swipe left moves

to next Sentence Grid.

Number of sentecne grids is

indicated by the dots bottom centre of

screen (11 on this example, max 30ish).

This diagram shows the “arrows” to

change the grid (option under settings).

Delete Word – “Backspace” on any keyboard

New Line – “Enter” on any keyboard

Sound Shift – Tap to “pop up” to listen to words. Then tap on the

word to hear it. Tap twice (on word) to hear sentence, 3 times to

hear full document.

Show Grid Keyboard or Keyboard – Switch from Sentence Grid to

QWERTY Keyboard (shown below).

End of Sentence Punctuation – Sentence from that grid is read.


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The Menu Bar

Access to File

Manager

Add or Open

Favourites

Create New

Document

Title of

Document

Settings Sentence Grid

Creator and Editor

File Manager – Contains sentence sets and

grids on the iPad.

Favourites – Used to mark an unfinished

document or a frequently used sentence set.

Deleting is a quick swipe and tap on delete.

Recently used files can also be opened.

New Document – Create and name a

document.

Emailing and Printing is not setup on the

student’s iPad.

Title – Once created document or sentence

set can only be renamed from the file

manager.

Select edit (top right) and the

file to be renamed. Tap and hold on the

desired file until cursor appears.


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Settings

Appearance - The font, font size, document

background and text colour can be changed.

Speech – The voice, speed (recommend slow),

highlighting colour and speak each word or

sentence can be changed.

Accessibility – Changes the way sentence

grids are changed, swipe or arrow buttons.

Show Touches produces a yellow circle to

appear whenever the screen is touched.

Sentence Grid Creator / Editor

Accessing Sentence Grid Editor To access

the editor tap on the icon located upper right

hand corner.

Sentence Grid Editor - The Sentence Grid is

the heart of creating and or editing

sentences. Each sentence can contain up to 12

words and to a maximum of about 30

separate sentences.

Sentence Grid

New Sentence – Type in desired sentence,

maximum 12 words. Include punctuation.

Model Sentence – Select how you would like the

model sentence to appear to the student. Select

from none, On Grid, In Pop-up or Spoken.


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Word Order – The word order of the sentence

can also be modified with a simple tap. From

guided (word highlighted) to alphabetical.

Duplicate Words – If the same word is used two

or more times this option will show the word once

or as many times used.

Created Grid Example #1 – This diagram is

basically what the student will see and use. This

example models the sentence in the grid and in

alphabetical order.

Created Grid Example Example #2 – In this

grid the model sentence is in a pop-up, word

order is random and a picture has been added.

Adding Picture – A picture can be added from

taking a picture or the camera role of the iPad.

To delete the picture tap on the “X.”

Edit Sentence Sets – On the left pane you can

edit, delete and re-order sentences.

Delete Sentence - Tap on edit and swipe sentence

then delete it.

Re-Order – To re-order the sentences tap on

edit, select and hold sentence then move it to

desired order in set.

Apply to All – There is a setting, bottom left

hand side, which will apply all the settings to all

the grids.


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Learning Grids

Creating Online Account

Registering is free and only needed to be done once.

When first selecting “LearningGrids”

from File Manager screen you will be

asked to sign in or register.

An account could be created using the

student’s email address or the

...speced@rcc... address. The same

account can be used to sign into multiple

devices.

Once singed in the iPad will remain

signed in.

Fill in the information.

An email will be sent to the email

address used. The password received is

to be used to sign in.

mailto:...speced@rcc


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Learning Grids - Browse, Download and Run Grids

Once you have registered and signed in select

“LearningGrids” from left hand pane.

On the right displays the available grids. There

are presently 70 grids over 7 pages.

After browsing select Run Now to download

grid.

After downloading the grid opens to the grid

editor window.

Here you can quickly modify the model

sentence, word order, grid colour, picture etc...

Select Go from upper right hand corner.

After selecting Go you enter the composing

section that the student will use.

Select to create and title a new document.

The original document was called “Yes” and the

new document is called “My Animal Noises.”

From the file manager menu these files, the

document and the downloaded grid, are located

in a folder called LearningGrids Downloads.


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Managing Files and Folders in File Manager

Editing – To rename, copy, delete etc... tap the

Edit button located in the top right corner.

Once selected Done appears in its place.

Renaming – Select edit then the file or folder.

Tap and hold on the name of file until cursor

appears. Type in desired name.

Deleting – Select edit and the file or folder, as shown

above. From the bottom select delete and confirm

deletion. Select Done from upper right corner when

finished.

Multiple files and or folders can be selected and

deleted at the same time.

Create Folder – Select Add, Folder, change folder name

then Done. See renaming, above, to rename at later

time.

As well folders can be created within folders.

Copy and Move Files – To move files into folders they

need to be copied, pasted in the folder and then delete

the old file.

Select Edit (top right), the file then Copy (from

bottom). Select the destination folder then Paste (from

bottom).

Remember to delete original file

The file Sentence Set 1 was copied and pasted into a

folder called Folder 1.

Select iPad to return to file manager.

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