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Social Story Settings with Help Links
Social Story Context Sensitive Help for Show Thought Text
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Social Story Settings Help
For this example, we will explore the help that is available for Social Story Settings. Once a story starts, the icon in the upper right corner of the screen changes from the Student Settings Menu profile icon to the Social Story Settings Menu gear icon. Both are illustrated above. Click the Student Settings Menu icon for the menu of the various settings that are available for customizing stories. Click the General Settings option in the menu and your screen should look similar to the illustration shown here. Notice the blue underlined Label and Help Link text? These are the labels for the individual settings, but they are also links to Speech Kingdom's Context Sensitive Help system. Let's explore this further. Context Sensitive Help
Just as its name implies, context sensitive help means that the help that is displayed will correspond to where you are in the application. In this case, the instructions explain the options that are specific to the setting label has been clicked. This illustration shows what happens if we click on the Show Thought Text: settings label. Here, we see that if Show Thought Text is set to ON, the text of the character will display as his or her inner thought is spoken out loud. If we scroll the help window, we will see what the display will look like if the Show Thought Text option is set to OFF (not illustrated here). |
Context Sensitive Help Format
Speech Kingdom's Context Sensitive Help is is presented in a consistent format.
Scroll the help window to see the complete help that is available for each option.
Speech Kingdom's Context Sensitive Help is is presented in a consistent format.
- Heading — An illustration of the option appears at the top of the help window.
- Body — The body contains text that explains the option at the top of the window.
- Illustration — If appropriate, an illustration shows you the effect of that option as the mini-story, social story, or game is played.
- Callouts — Red Callouts will offer further emphasis and explanation of the setting of option that is being described in the help window.
Scroll the help window to see the complete help that is available for each option.
Social Story Context Sensitive Help for Worksheets
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Example: Context Sensitive Help for Worksheets
The preceding illustration shows the Context Sensitive Help window for Speech Kingdom's Social Stories Downloadable PDF Worksheets. Because we have scrolled the screen in this example, the help window Heading and Body are not visible. You can see the Illustration section, which shows examples of the Beginner, Intermediate and Proficient worksheets with labels for each example. The Callouts section provides additional information regarding the use of each level of worksheet that is specific to each. |