PointScribe's User Created Palette is a powerful tool for creating custom content, it's potential is limited only by your imagination.
When you open PointScribe's User Created feature, you are presented with a blank page; you become the artist and the User Created Palette is your canvas. Make your own letters, shapes, block print words, cursive letters and words, graphics, mazes, foreign characters, puzzles, games---the sky truly is the limit! PointScribe converts your creation on the screen into a "shape" for student use.
When a student is presented with your User Created shapes, all the same features, rules and actions that apply to built-in shapes apply!
To build a user created shape:
(A) Select the blue User Created button in the Build Custom Content area located on the left side of the Lesson Editor screen. The User Created Palette will appear.
(B) From the menu across the top of the palette screen, select desired line thickness, guidelines if needed, and whether or not you want a centerline between guidelines.
(C) Create your shape.
(D) At the bottom of the page, select Save (or Reset to begin again).
(E) Type in the name of the newly created shape, then click the OK button.
(D)Exit.
To use the shape you've created in a lesson:
There are two ways to use the shapes you create in a lesson: by themselves, or as part of a Sequence.
Using a shape by itself:
(F) Select User Created from the Shape Library drop down menu in the Lesson Content area located on the left side of the Lesson Editor screen.
(F) Select the shape you created from the Shape Type drop down menu located beneath the Shape Library drop down menu.
(G) Select the Start Lesson pencil on lower left to launch the lesson.
The video at right shows an educator drawing a free form beach scene complete with palm tree, ocean waves and the sun. Then, watch how the drawing looks when run as a lesson.
Click the triangle on bottom yellow bar to play video.
