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Select
File...New from the MaxAuthor main menu to bring up the Create New
Max Project dialog. Type
in a project name (less than 8 characters with no spaces or file extensions),
pick English as the written language for your first lesson, and select a
directory for the new project (MaxAuthor creates a new directory for each
project). Then
click OK to bring up the Enter New Lesson Information dialog. |
Tutorial #1: Creating your first lesson with MaxAuthorNew:
Click here to watch a Video of this Tutorial
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Type
in your name, a short lesson description, and add an audio language (American
English) that you will record later. Then
click OK to start editing your new lesson. |
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Type
in one sentence for your lesson: "The brown dog likes the
beach." MaxAuthor acts like a text editor that has several layers
(or views) of information. Initially, you will be in Word View. For
non-English text, you can click Help...Keyboard Mapping to see how to
type characters in the written language of the current document. |
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Add
a text footnote to your lesson by clicking on View...Footnote Segments
on the main menu. This switches you to Footnote View, and you will
notice that the green F button is now
depressed on the toolbar. (Tip: you
could also have just clicked on the F
button directly to switch to footnote view). |
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Then,
highlight the word “beach”, and choose Segment...New from the main
menu, and for the type of footnote, choose A text footnote. A window will
appear where you can type your text footnote: “Most towns permit dogs on the
beach”. When you are finished, click the “Close Window” Test
your lesson to see what the student will see. Make sure your new lesson is
the active window. Click on Test...Student Max on the main menu. You
will be prompted to first save your lesson, click OK. |
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The
MAX Student application then starts up using your new file. You
will see your text footnote underlined in green, and when you click on it,
your footnote text appears at the bottom of the screen. Click
on File...Exit to leave
the student view and return to MaxAuthor: Don't forget that each MAX
application (MAX Student, Dictation, etc.) has extensive help available from
the main menu. |
Mail comments to: brill@arizona.edu |
