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Module 5
The Creation of Educational Activities using JClic
Practice session
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Exercises
Exercises
Managing the JClic project library
The objective of this practice session is to learn how to organize the folders and the buttons in the JClic project library.
   
Practice

Open JClic.

Go to the menu Tools | Libraries. If you have more than one library choose Main library from the window Select project library and click on the button Edit.

From the window JClic Project library which has opened you can organise the different buttons for accessing the projects into folders.

Open the folder Main Menu by clicking on the button + which is on the left and selecting. If you have only installed what you have done during the course, the main library will be as follows. (??? corresponds to the activity you chose to install in the previous practice session):

Look at the buttons which have appeared on the right hand side of the window. These are the ones you will use to create/modify folders and icons in the library.

Once the folder Main Menu has been selected click on the button to create a new folder for the project buttons. Call it by the name of the area or subject of the activity you installed in the previous practice session.

Confirm with OK.

Now select the button for the recently installed activity and cut it using the tool .

Select the new folder you have just created and paste the button using . The button will stay inside the new folder.

Confirm OK and select again with Select. You can see how the buttons have changed in the library.

Now you are going to create a new button which will open one of the projects you have made during the course.

Return to the menu Tools | Libraries. Select the Main library and click on Edit .

Select Main Menu and click on the tool to create a new project button .

In the window New project button, look for the project module2.jclic.zip, using . Fill in the boxes Text (the name which will appear on the button) and Description just as you see in the image.

Now change the icon, i.e. the image on the button. If you open the dropdown menu, you can see the options that the programme offers. There are projects which have their own icons, consisting in graphics files (GIF, JPG or PNG) which are stored in a folder. However, you can also look for an external icon in any other folder, taking into account that it must be the correct size.

Click on the button next to the icon and look for the file m2.gif which can be found in the folder that contains the course material.

Confirm Ok and then with Select. Now you have the button which opens the project created in module 2 in the library.

   
Attention! You can organise the buttons for the projects you have on your computer or on your educational centre´s network by creating folders for the different subjects, levels or even users.
 

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