Customizing SoftTouch-based Books and Tests

Learning Magic, Inc. is happy to offer finished books that run in My Own Bookshelf® by SoftTouch, Inc.® and comprehension tests to run in Test Me Score Me®.   Book collections include The Magic Bookshelves, The Animal Kingdom, The Nature Series, and Natural Disasters, a CD with nine books plus nine tests that run in Test Me Score Me®.

Also available is a set of comprehension tests tied to two of the book collections (The Nature Series and The Animal Kingdom) that run in Test Me Score Me®. This CD is entitled What Do You Know About "The Nature Series" and "The Animal Kingdom.".

The textual content of both books and tests can easily be changed to meet the needs of individual students. Text style elements such as font size and color can also be changed. The best way to do this is to make copies of the tests or books, customize them, and save the revised versions under different titles, thus potentially creating a second, third or fourth version of a single book or test optimized for particular students.

This ability to copy, edit and resave varying versions of a book or test onto a single computer gives teachers across the country the opportunity to provide multiple levels of the same material to their students without having to purchase multiple copies of our proven CDs.

Terms of Use For Customized Books and Tests

Creating and Saving Copies To Customize

The first step in making a customized version of a book or test is to create and save a copy under a new title. To do this, run My Own Bookshelf to change a book, or Test Me Score Me to customize a test. Go into editing mode by choosing Book in My Own Bookshelf, or Make Test in Test Me Score Me. Next, choose Add Book or Add Test.

At this point you have a choice of creating an entirely new book or test, or copying a book or test. Choose the Copy option, so that you will have a separate copy that you can revise. The following screenshots show the dialogs used to make a copy, first from My Own Bookshelf with the "Copy Book" option, and second from Test Me Score Me with the "Copy Test" option.

When the next dialog opens, scroll through the library and choose the book or test you want to customize. When it opens, give the book or test a new name. You might want to add a small piece of clip art, such as a small student photo, to the title page, to distinguish this version from the original when you look at the thumbnails in the complete library. Make any changes you desire, and then click Finish.

Important: Be sure to add the customized book or test back into a bookshelf or file cabinet. One pssibility would be to set up a bookshelf or file cabinet for a specific student, and add all the customized books or tests that fit that student's particular requirements.