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Clicker 6 v.1.16 and Clicker Sentences(iPad)
Exporting Clicker 6 Sentence Building Activities to the Clicker
Sentences App
Introduction
For teams whose students are using both Clicker 6 and the Clicker Sentences App on the iPad,
there is now a way to export sentence writing activities to the iPad using Dropbox.
This tutorial assumes…
You have installed the Clicker Sentences App on your iPad.
You have updated Clicker 6 to at least version 1.16.
You have a Dropbox account and you have installed the Dropbox app on your iPad
and computer.
You know how to create a Sentence Building activity in Clicker 6 using the Quick
Wizard.
Your computer and your iPad are connected to the Internet.
Learning Objectives
Completion of this tutorial will give you experience with the following:
Exporting Clicker 6 Sentence Building Activities to Dropbox.
Setting up the Clicker Sentences App to link with Dropbox.
Opening the Sentence Building activity on the iPad.
Locating the Dropbox Downloads folder of exported activities.
Case Study
Frank teaches a grade 2 class in which he is supporting 3 students who are using Clicker 6 on
the computer and 2 students who are using the iPad app, Clicker Sentences. All students are
working on writing and he daily creates a new writing theme for his students using the Clicker 6
Quick Wizard for Sentence Building. He wishes he could find a way to quickly use the same
sentence building activities that he creates in Clicker 6 with the students using the iPad.
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Linking the Clicker Sentences App to Dropbox
The steps in this tutorial rely on both
devices to be connected to the Internet
and that you have a Dropbox account.
On your iPad:
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Sign in to Dropbox (if you aren’t
already signed in.)
On your computer:
Install the appropriate Dropbox
app on your computer if you
don’t already have it.
(www.dropbox.com to sign up
for Dropbox and to install the
computer app.)
On your iPad:
Open the Clicker Sentences
App.
Click on the folder icon to
open the folder view from the
top left menu bar.
Here you will find links to:
Click the folder icon
2
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iPad
LearningGrids
Dropbox
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From the left list:
Click on Dropbox.
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Look to the bottom of this left panel. A
linking button will become active.
Click on Link to Dropbox.
This links the Clicker Sentences App to
Dropbox and allows you to see any
Clicker 6 activities you have exported to
Dropbox.
Link to Dropbox
Exporting a Clicker 6 Sentence Building Activity
On your computer, open Clicker 6.
1
If you haven’t already done so, create a
sentence building activity using the
Quick Grid Wizards, Sentence Building
Wizard. (Save the activity.)
In Clicker 6:
2
Open the activity that you wish
to export. (In this example I will
be exporting the activity, Things
We Like in Winter Sentence
Building.)
Click on Clicker Set.
Click on Clicker Set from the
top menu.
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A Clicker Set menu appears.
3
Select Export Clicker Set for
App ... Clicker
Sentences...from the list.
An Export for App Clicker Sentences
editing window appears.
If you are exporting a Sentence
Building activity created using the Quick
Wizard, your activity is ready to be
exported without changes.
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If desired, edit the activity (Notice you
can:
reduce the number of
sentences,
add sentences,
add images,
change background colour,
change the way the model
sentence appears and
change the word order.
Click on Export to begin the
export process.
Click Export.
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Opening the Activity on the iPad
To open the activity on the iPad:
Open the Clicker Sentences
app. (If it is not open.)
1
Open the folder view again (see
step 2 of Linking the Clicker
Sentences App to Dropbox for a
reminder.)
Click on the Dropbox location
link from the list.
Click Dropbox.
You will be able to see any exported
Clicker 6 activities that are in your
Dropbox in a list on the right.
2
Click the activity name to open
it from within Dropbox. In this
example, I have clicked on
Things We Like in Winter
Sentence Building. Wait a few
seconds as the app is
unpacked.
The activity will automatically
open when it is ready.
You are done!
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The Dropbox Downloads Folder
Once you open a Clicker 6 exported
activity from the Dropbox folder in
Clicker Sentences, a version of the
activity will be saved on the iPad in a
folder named, “Dropbox Downloads.”
From there, these activities can be
used even when there is not Internet
connection.
Understanding the folder structure:
Return to the folder view. The
top status bar informs you of
where you are in the app.
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In this example, the iPad
location is highlighted
(green)...that indicates that you
are viewing the contents of the
Clicker Sentences iPad folder.
The status bar indicates that a
folder Dropbox Downloads is
open. The contents of the
Dropbox Downloads folder is
listed.
To move to the top level of the
iPad folder, click on the iPad
arrow icon to the left of the
folder title.
Click on any folder title to open
that folder and view the
activities. *Note that the
Dropbox Downloads folder
appears at the top of the list.
Click on any activity title to
open the activity. (The
Examples folder has some
activities that come pre-loaded.)
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