Teaching MATE User Guide

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TeachingMATE

User Guide

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Before Getting Started…

Thank you for using Daulsoft TeachingMATE Authoring Tool Daulsoft holds all the authorities of this manual This manual has been written for beginners to advanced users

Information on this manual can be altered without notice for TeachingMATE improvement

TeachingMATE that is specified in this manual must be used within the limit of Daulsoft authority Use of unauthorized copies or production and transmission of it by other methods are prohibited Daulsoft will not be held responsible for any unexpected risks

<List of Contents>

Chapter 1 Keep In Mind 7

1 Product Package Composition 7

2 Customer Registration & Support 7

3 Recommendation for Using TeachingMATE 7

Chapter 2 Introduction 8

1 What is TeachingMATE? 8

2 Main Features of TeachingMATE 8

Chapter3 Menu Composition 9

1 Screen Composition 9

2 File 10

3 Edit 12

4 View 13

5 Tool 15

6 Folder Management 16

7 Configuration 17

Chapter4 How To Use TeachingMATE 21

1 Multiple Choices Question 21

2 Short Answer Question 23

3 Essay Question 26

4 Multimedia Question 28

5 Passage Question 29

6 Passage 30

7 Summary 31

8 Test Paper 32

9 Teaching Material 34

10 Automatic Question Extract 36

11 Full Search 39

12 View In Different Ways 40

Chapter4 Editors 42

1 Draw Picture 42

2 Special Characters 43

3 Table 44

4 Graph 45

5 Numerical Formula 46

6 Draw Picture 47

Chapter 1 Keep In Mind

When TeachingMATE has been purchased and is being used, the following lists issues that you should keep in mind in order to receive customer support service and various benefits

1 Product Package Composition

Inside the TeachingMATE package includes : 1 CD-ROM, 1 user guide, serial key sticker and contract for the use of the software

2 Customer Registration & Support

1) Customer Registration : Customers can be registered through e-mail (webmaster@daulsoft.com) or go to http://www.daulsoft.com and be registered through product registration page In the case of a change in personal information after registration, you may contact webmaster@daulsoft.com and confirm modification

2) Support : When customers purchase TeachingMATE and have completed customer registration, customer support, service as well as various benefits can be received as follows :

① TeachingMATE latest engine update

② Homepage Q&A, phone call exclusively for customers, counseling service through e-mail

③ Information on the product & latest file download through homepage

④ Information of & invitation to various events sponsored by Daulsoft

3 Recommendation for Using TeachingMATE

1) Windows 2000, XP Recommended: For content authoring, Windows 2000, XP is recommended as operating system

2) Validate through the online within 30days after initial install For getting validation, input product CD-Key on the validation dialog box As select [Help] – [Online Validation] on the main menu

as well as offline learning

2 Main Features of TeachingMATE

A Easy authoring

TeachingMATE has similar user interface with other word processor and supports powerful functions like drawing pictures, tables, numerical formulas and inserting special characters and graph with its own editors

B Simple database making

Various teaching materials and test papers are made by just composing authored summaries and automatic question extraction

C Sharing teaching materials

Teachers can share their teaching materials composed with TeachingMATE

Chapter3 Menu Composition

1 Screen Composition

① Menu bar is displayed

② Tool bar is displayed

③ List of folders and classification code are displayed

④ Selected folder or lists of contents corresponding to a selected classification system are displayed

⑤ Preview for viewing selected content in advance is displayed

2 File

When TeachingMATE is executed, 5 types of main menus will be shown at the top : File (F),

Edit (E), View (V), Tool (T) and Help (H) First, let us look into File (f)

01 New Folder

New folder is created under the selected folder within the list When “New Folder” is

clicked, a pop up will appear for entering in the name of the folder

02 New Question

This menu is used for authoring questions Question authoring screen will appear

when the type of question is selected

03 New Group Question

This menu is used for authoring group questions Group question authoring screen

will appear when the type of question is selected

04 New Summary

This menu is the main point (content) that are provided for the students to read It can be inserted between questions so that the students can read and answer questions following the summaries

05 New Test Paper Composition

This menu is used for composing test papers that consist of different questions Test paper composition screen will appear when this menu is selected

06 New Format

New Format is used to prepare header, footer, instruction and passage for test

papers

07 Import

Import is used to bring in another form of data that is not TeachingMATE It is saved

as *.nef file – *.nef files are created and opened using TeachingMATE authoring

tool This is original TeachingMATE file format

08 Export

Export is used to save TeachingMATE data as another form It is saved as *.nef file

09 Empty Recycle Bin

After deleting a saved content, empty recycle bin for a complete deletion of the content

10 Property

Information on the program user or basic composition of content that will be prepared can be set up in advance for easy content authoring based on the fixed property without needing to perform various set up tasks

11 Exit

Exit is used for ending TeachingMATE

4 View

6 Folder Management

01 In order to manage prepared contents efficiently in TeachingMATE, [Folder] needs to be made When TeachingMATE is installed, [TeachingMATE] – [My Computer] folder will automatically be created and provided However, users will not be able to delete or change the name of these two folders since they are system folders Therefore, subfolders under [My Computer] must be made when necessary

02 [Sub folders under [My Computer] can be created and managed by titles [Question], [Summary], [Test Paper/Teaching Material], [Teaching Material] and [Passage], or by [Header/Footer, [Insert Description] and etc Therefore it is more convenient when authoring contents since content composition elements can be found easily

03 When a sub folder such as “1st

Grade” is created and managed under [My Computer], convenience is provided since authored contents can easily be printed

or serviced online

7 Configuration

With TeachingMATE, users can do set ups in advance that are mandatory when

performing each different tasks during the use of the program Generally, settings are already applied to the contents that being authored and users can use this program very conveniently without having to do set ups every time they create content However, what users can do is, they can modify the settings according to their needs

01 Basic Set Up of Multiple Choice Question (①)

When authoring multiple choice question, set property grid according to the assigned value in the Configuration.(④)

You may use after setting question values of generally used types Numbers of choice of answers are automatically formed according to the assigned quantity when authoring multiple choice questions

02 Paper Size and Margin Set Up

When creating test paper (teaching material), set paper that is in default to a desired format (⑤)

The preview will be the size that has been set in the window above.(⑥)

However, in the case of test papers or assessments, they will be shown in the size that was set up in the typesetting

Margin of a paper is users assigned settings that are shown in test papers typesetting property grid As the size selected by users, it is used as default

value of top, bottom, right and left margin.(⑦)

03 Basic Display Setup (③)

Item for display are selected when creating a new test paper composition Settings can be modified in the property grid of test paper composition.(⑧)

Chapter4 How To Use TeachingMATE

1 Multiple Choices Question

From the toolbar, click on ( ▼ ) of [Question] and select on [Multiple Choices Question]

01 On the Home tab, in the [Paper & Column] group, assign paper size and column to be used when question to be authored is printed

02 Click (1.) and the cursor will be activated to start entering in questions

03 Place your mouse right to the symbol of choice of answers (①) Click to activate the cursor and start preparing in the choice of answers

04 When the mouse if placed next to (①) answer sheet management button will appear on the left side ( ) button deletes answers, ( ) button adds answers and ( / ) controls the ordering of the answers

05 Put a check next to the correct answer by clicking on the symbols of choice

of answers

06 Enter [Hint] and [Comment]

07 Select on the desired answer choices arrangement, on the menu [Arrangement of Answer Choice] from the upper side

08 From [Property] on the right side, various set ups can be assigned such as search word, difficulty level, symbols of choice of answers and etc that are required when authoring questions

09 Click the TeachingMATE Button ( ), and then click Save or click save button ( ) from the quick menu bar and save the currently authored question under the desired location

2 Short Answer Question

From the toolbar, click on ( ▼ ) of [Question] and select on [Short Answer Type Question]

01 On the [Home] tab, in the [Paper & Column] group, assign paper size and column to be used when question to be authored is printed

02 Give a click next to (1.) and the cursor will be activated to start entering in questions

03 When the statement “Please click and input the correct answer” is clicked, another window for entering in the correct answer will appear Write in the correct answer, click on [Add], [OK] and it will be saved In the case of several correct answers, continue entering in the answers that will be considered correct by clicking on [Add]

04 When the mouse is placed on ( ), answer sheet management button will appear on the left side ( ) button deletes answer, ( ) button adds answer and ( / ) controls the ordering of the answer

05 By clicking on ( ) button, additional correct answer can be entered in

06 [Hint] and [Comment] is entered in

07 On the [Home] tab, in the [Paper & Column] group, assign paper size and column to be used when question to be authored is printed

08 From the [Property] on the right side, users can decide on the spacing of correct answers, ordering of answers and etc

09 Click the TeachingMATE Button ( ), and then click Save or click save button ( ) from the quick menu bar and save the currently authored question under the desired location

3 Essay Question

From the toolbar, click on ( ▼ ) of [Question] and select on [Essay Question]

01 On the [Home] tab, in the [Paper & Column] group, assign paper size and column to be used when question to be authored is printed

02 Give a click next to (1.) and the cursor will be activated to start entering in questions

03 Write down the correct answer in the “Answer Key” Enter in the “Grading Standard” as well for graders to refer to

04 Enter in [Hint] and [Comment]

05 From the [Property] on the right side, various set ups such as search word, distribution of marks, difficulty level and etc can be assigned

06 Click the TeachingMATE Button ( ), and then click Save or click save button ( ) from the quick menu bar and save the currently authored question under the desired location

4 Multimedia Question

From the question authoring window, Sound( ), Video( ) and Flash( ) files can be inserted into the question or answer

01 Audio files can be inserted anytime during question authoring when

necessary From where the file needs to be inserted, click on the audio icon ( )from the menu and select the desired audio file (wav, mp3)

02 Select on the desired file, click on [OK] and it will be inserted into the question authoring window

03 Video file and Flash file can be inserted or copied into a question from many different sources Click the Video icon( ) or Flash icon ( ) and attach files as

these kinds of format: mv, avi, mpg

04 When multimedia included questions or test papers/teaching materials are provided online, learners can first listen to the audio or view video/flash and select

the correct answer

5 Passage Question

From the toolbar, click on ( ▼ ) of [Passage] and select on the desired question type A dialogue box titled “Select Passage” will appear Select the desired passage from the folder where it is saved under

When a passage is selected, question authoring window will appear The selected

passage will be shown and authoring can be done in the same way as when question is

authored When making identical type of questions continuously, users can add/delete

questions or adjust orderings of questions using the buttons shown on the left side of (1.)

02 Contents of passage can be modified while authoring related questions

6 Passage

From the menu, click on ( ▼ ) of [Passage] and select [Passage]

01 When passage authoring window appears, click inside the text box shown and activate the cursor Then begin entering in the passage

02 From the property on the right side, various set ups required when authoring passage such as search word, author, title and etc can be assigned

03 Click the save button ( ) and save the currently authored question under the desired location

8 Test Paper

When [Test Paper] icon is clicked, a composing window for test papers and teaching materials will appear Test papers are composed with questions that have been authored

01 If ① is clicked, then the cursor will be activated to enter and edit header in test papers According to the necessity, tables can also be used At the bottom, footer can also be entered and edited in the same way

02 Click on ③ which is [Add Content], search for and select desired questions

or summaries To select data from another folder, click on [Add Content] and add them into test papers or teaching materials

When contents have been added to test papers, content lists and actual contents arrangement are shown at the top and at the bottom consecutively To rearrange the contents, either selects on the content from the list and moves it to the desired place using the mouse, or right clicks on the mouse and rearranges the contents to the desired location

03 If editing to the arranged contents is necessary, double click on the

corresponding content and editing window will open Contents then can be modified

04 From the [Property] on the right side, set ups such as paper size, margin and etc can be selected for printing as well as various options such as “Show Correct Answers”, “Show Hint” and etc

05 Test papers that have been set up are managed as [Typesetting] If a new typesetting is required, click on the typesetting button and create a new one Typesetting will manage the arranged contents in various forms

06 Click the save button ( ) and save the currently authored question under the desired location