User Manual for Spelling Champion

Spelling Champion Version 1.2.2.1 User Manual

Welcome to Spelling Champion. I hope it will help you or your children as it helped my daughter. After you successfully installed Spelling Champion, you will see an app with the logo like one of them.

1. Starting

When you launch the app, you will see a splash screen shown below. If this is the firsts time you lunch the app, you will stay at splash longer as it needs to create database. As a start, the app build a few sample modules for you, you can download ( purchase) additional modules or create your own modules at later time.

Splash Screen

2. Modules Page

After Splash screen, you will be presented with a page with all modules you have in the app. 

Modules ( Starting Page)

On this page, you can:

1) Touch on ( click on) the lesson shown on the screen to go to Lesson Page to start spelling practices. 

2)Touch  on (click on) the module title shown on the top of the page to go to the Module Detail Page

2) Swipe from bottom ( right click) to show the bottom app bar buttons. On this page there are 3 bottom app bar buttons. One is for creating new module and the other is for downloading modules from the server. The last let you directly upgrade from trial to official version with full functionality. If you are running the official version of the app, that button will be disabled.    

3. Module Detail Page

Let's say you touch on the module title on the Modules Page, you will be presented Module Detail Page. On Module Detail Page, on the left you will see a list of words that are included in this module, besides you will see a host of lessons in the module.  For each lesson, you can see what are the words in the lesson.

Module

On Module Detail Page, you can :

1) Touch on a specific lesson to start your spelling practice, or 

2) Edit Module under bottom app bar or,

3) Add new Lesson from bottom app bar.
4) Pin/Unpin current module to/from "Start Screen"

4. Edit Module Page

Either select Add New Module on Modules Page or you select Edit Module on Module page, you will come to Edit Module Page. On this page, you can work on module title, module description and words in the module.  there are 2 favorite switches. One is for the module,  when it is switched on, the module will be listed ahead of modules that does not have it switched on.. this is the way to ensue a specific module show up on Modules page.  The Other switch is for words, when a specific word has this switch on, the word will be listed ahead of words that do not have it switched on in Module and in all lessons.

For each word, there is a sample sentence, if the word is not used in the sample sentence, it will be considered as invalid. The word in the list will get red background color, otherwise, the background is green. 

you only can save the module when the  title and description are both provided and at lest there is one word in the module, and there is no invalid word in the word list. You can touch on the speaker icon to listen the pronunciation of the word and the sample sentence. It is important you ensue the word and the word in the sample sentence are of the same form. example of mismatch could be : "fish" and "fishes"; "take" and "taking"; "come" and "came"
On Edit Module Page, you also can delete a word from the module, add a word to the module and you also can delete the module in its entirety. However, it is important to know that once a module is deleted there no way to recovery it back, that's why I hide the delete button to Edit Module Page. Besides delete module case, when you are done, please touch on <Done> button to commit your changes and go back to where you came from.
on the bottom of the window, on the right there is a search box, you can use it to local the words in the module quickly. on the left, there is a speaker icon after <Add word> button, you can click on this speaker to ask the app to read all words and respective sample sentence in the module for you.

5. Lesson Page

whether you touch on the lesson on Modules Page or you touch on the lesson in Module Detail Page, you come to Lesson Page, where you do your spelling practice.

when the lesson got started, you will hear word and the sample sentence of the word. you then type your answer and touch on <Submit> button. if your answer is right, the app will read the next word for you. if your answer is not right, the app will ask you  "Do you want to try again?". if you missed the reading of the word or the sample sentence, you can touch on <Listen> button to listen again. if you really do not know how to spell the work, you can touch on <Show Hint> button to get the correct spelling of the word. if you decide to skip the word, you can touch on <Skip> button to move on to the next word.  at any point of time, you can restart the lesson by touch on <Start Over> button.

Besides, spelling practice, you also can go to Edit Lesson page through bottom app bar button. Unless you are in Modules Page, you always can go to previous page by touch the left arrow button on the top left of the page.

6. Edit Lesson Page

you can come to Edit Lesson Page either from Module Detail Page by Add New Lesson, or from Lesson Page by Edit Lesson. When you are in Edit Lesson Page, you can:

Add words to the lesson, all available words are listed on the right, all selected words are listed on the left. You can add word, Remove Word by either select the word and click on the respective button or just drag-drop the word between two word group. You also can add all word or remove all words by click on respective buttons. When Lesson is invalid, the <Done> button is disabled. to protect the data from been deleted by mistake, the delete button is hidden here. in order to delete a lesson, you need to edit lesson and then click on the delete button here.

Edit Lesson

7. Download Page

On Modules Page, one of the bottom app bar buttons is <Download>. by touch on <Download> button, you will come to Download Page. on this page, you will be able to see the Modules installed on you device, and the modules available for downloading.

At this release, there are 10 modules around 3000 words available for free download. You can select the available modules to download. when you have downloaded all available modules, you will be led to Modules Page.

8. Preference Setting page

At any page of the app, you can go to preference page by showing charm and touch on <Settings> and then <Preference Setting>    

Under preference setting, you can

select  voice for learning language
select voice for native language
select lesson size when downing modules
specific number of lesson per module on Modules Page
specific whether the app offers encourage message when you spell a word correctly.

There are 2 other switches for technical support purpose. you will only make changes under advice of technical support. do not touch them by your own.

9. At any page of the app, you can go to preference page by showing charm and touch on <Settings> and then <About Spelling Champion>.

On About page, you can click or touch on the link for Privacy Policy information on the web and check for the current app version number.

10. Rating and Comment

On the Starting Page, you can provide your rating on the app by showing charm and touch on <Settings> and then <Rate And Review>. once you do that you will get to the rating screen similar to the following:

   
when you are on the screen, you can provide your rate on the app and your comments on the app and then click / touch on Submit button to submit your rating and comment on the app.