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Using the Teacher Setup

Teacher Setup provides extensive control over a variety of features and display options in Early Essentials. It contains seven tabs with options for the individual applications, shared options and an About tab with Save and Reset buttons.

The Shared tab controls the settings that all of the Early Essentials applications share:
  • Colours: You can select up to 20 colours which will appear in the palettes for Write and Paint.
  • Sound: You can disable just Speech, or all Sound (including Speech).
  • Other Options: You can control whether both the Exit and Undo buttons are visible. This is especially useful when working with younger children.
  • Templates/Files Directory: If you are installing Early Essentials over a network, you may want to change the location of the Templates and Files directories. The last two options on the Shared tab allow you to do exactly that. Simply use the File icon to browse to the correct location and press OK to confirm.
 
The Write tab contains options that are specific to the Write application. Anything you change in here will not affect any of the other applications.
  • Set Options Available: this allows you to control the display of the icons in the Write menu. This is useful when you want to stop younger children printing or saving work.
  • Read Back Text allows you to turn off the speaker icons next to the text boxes.
  • Mark Sizes: the four spin controls show the size of each tool in pixels. This allows you to easily set the software to match each child's abilities.
  • Set the Default Template: this is the template that appears when you open the application. Click on the drop-down arrow to choose a different template.
  • Default Fonts: here you can choose the three font and fontsize combinations you can cycle through by clicking on the text box.
  • Wordbank: this is the default wordbank that appears when you right click a text area. If you untick the box here, then the Wordbank feature is disabled.
 
The Paint Tab contains options that are specific to the Paint application. Anything you change here will not affect any of the other applications.
  • Options Available: this allows you to control the display of the icons in the Paint menu. This is useful when you want to stop younger children printing or saving their work.
  • Mark Sizes: the four spin controls show the size of each tool in pixels. This allows you to easily set the software to match each child's abilities.
  • Default Template: this is the template that appears when you open the application. Click on the drop-down arrow to choose a different template.
  • Font: this is the font used by the Text Tool. Click on the drop-down arrows to change the font.
 

The Turtle tab contains options that are specific to the Turtle application. Anything you change in here will not affect any of the other applications.

  • Options Available: this allows you to control the display of the icons in the Turtle menu. This is useful when you want to stop younger children printing or saving their work.
  • Buttons: displays the three buttons; home, grid and level, on the right hand side of the screen. Untick the box if you do not wish to have the corresponding button on the screen.
  • Default Level: you can set the starting level to either 1, 2 or 3, or you can define your own combination. Clicking the Custom option makes three extra options available, so you can pick the level options for Forward, Turn and History individually. You can then also choose to have rotating or static arrows.
  • Level 1 Options: only available when you have selected Level 1 as the Default Level. Choose the number of grid cells the turtle will move by per click. You can also choose the turn angle of the left and right arrows.
  • Other Options: Nib size displays the size of the pen in pixels. Delay sets the delay (in milliseconds) between the mouse-click and the Turtle movement.
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    The Chart tab contains options that are specific to the Chart application. Anything you change in here will not affect any of the other applications.
    • Options Available: this allows you to control the display of the icons in the Turtle menu. This is useful when you want to stop younger children printing or saving their work.
    • Grid: allows you to show or hide the Grid button.
    • Maximum Items: limits the maximum number of items per category. The software maximum is 50.
    • Default Template: this is the template that appears when you open the application. Click on the drop-down arrow to choose a different template.
    • Set Title Font: this lets you pick the font for the Chart title.
     

    The Graph tab contains options that are specific to the Graph application. Anything you change in here will not affect any of the other applications.

    • Options Available: this allows you to control the display of the icons in the Turtle menu. This is useful when you want to stop younger children printing or saving their work.
    • Graphs Available: you can choose to display only some of the graph options; but if you untick all of them no graph will be displayed.
    • Grid Cells: lets you choose the maximum number of items in your list - the maximum is 15.
    • Default Template: this is the template that appears when you open the application. Click on the drop-down arrow to choose a different template.
    • Title Font: this lets you pick the font for the Graph title.
     
    The About tab:

    Whatever changes you make to any of the other tabs will only be applied when you click the Save Changes and Exit button. If you would prefer the settings to remain unchanged, choose Cancel and Exit.

    If you have been experimenting with settings and would like to revert to the Early Essentials' original settings, choose the Restore Default Choices button on the About tab.

     
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    Using the Teacher Setup

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