Howtomake

Text file exercises

In addition to making exercises directly online, you can also prepare your exercises as text files and upload them into the system when you want. We consider this to be the quicker and more efficient way to prepare exercises - when you know how to do it.

On these pages we will show you the necessary layout of the text files. We recommend that you download and examine the exercise files on the Library disk to see some working examples.

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In the How to make sections we will use the following colour code key to show how the txt files should be made. Remember: each new item needs to be put on a new line.

Key

		1st language
		2nd language
		jpg graphic
		swf flash file
		keyword
		answer

We recommend that you download the library.zip file with example txt files for each of the exercises.

Just make your own text files in the same way.

Introduction to making OLEM exercise text files

The process is very simple. Once you have made the different kinds of exercise one or two times you will have learned how to do it.

We understand that most teachers do not have a lot of time to sit down and make the exercises with pictures and/or sound - so the majority of the exercise templates are text only. Indeed, 9 of the 17 exercises presently available are text only.

Making the text exercises for file form upload goes very quickly. You just have to write the txt file in the correct way and press the button. (The library zip file contains examples of all the exercises).

If you are doing this for the first time, we recommend that you begin with the text only exercises. Follow the menu structure and do each of the exercises in the order they are presented. We begin with the easiest and move forward from there.

Make the text file with a text editor (such as Notepad), then save it as utf8 and you are ready to upload.

Click on the Text only button below to start at the beginning.