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| September 2009 - TaskMagic2 Update to version 2.1.6 | |||||
September
2009 (ii) |
Fixes
for the following issues: • Attempting to save the associated Text Match file from the Find It! screen in Dialogues and Mix&Gap generates a runtime error and causes the program to close. • File name limit in the Rename option of TaskMagic File Viewer too low (was 30 characters, now increased to 50). **NB. These fixes only apply to TaskMagicCreate, so there's no need to update TMPlayHome. The latest version of TMPlayHome can be downloaded from the home version page. |
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If
you have TaskMagic2 version 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.1.1 2.1.2,
2.1.3 or 2.1.5 (version info appears when you run TaskMagic) and
you would like to update to the latest version of TaskMagic2 (2.1.6),
you can update by downloading the latest versions of the executable
files and replacing your existing ones. Please read the instructions
below. |
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| TaskMagic2 Update Instructions: | |||||
| (1) Click on the download link above to begin the download of TM2Update.zip | |||||
(2)
Once this is downloaded, unzip it. This will create the 2 files:
TaskMagicCreate.exe and TaskMagicPlay.exe |
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(3)
Copy these files and paste them into your TaskMagic2 directory,
replacing the existing versions. The TaskMagic2 directory should
be C:\Program Files\TaskMagic2\ |
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| If you would prefer to be sent a new licensed TaskMagic2 CD, we will be happy to provide one at a cost of £30 + VAT. Simply email us your school details, or send a school order requesting a replacement TaskMagic2 CD. | |||||
| For information on updating TMPlayHome, the free 'home-use-only' version of TaskMagic Play, go to the 'home-use-only' page. | |||||
| September 2009 - TaskMagic2 Update to version 2.1.5 | |||||
September
2009 (i) |
TaskMagic2 is now compatible with Internet Explorer 8 for downloading files with images / sounds attached over the internet. | ||||
| Fixes
for the following issues: • Problem with text/screen resizing in Mix Single. • Clicking Help button in Next Letter 1 and Next Letter 2 generates an error and causes the program to close. • Save errors in Grid Match. |
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| September 2009 - New Primary French Units | |||||
| We've produced a downloadable unit containing hundreds of TaskMagic activities for Unit 1 of the new KS2 French Schemes of Work. The unit consists of an htm index page which links to individual games / exercises / activities in a suggested learning sequence. See the Ready-Made activities section, or click here. | |||||
| August 2009 - Reviews & Feedback Updated | |||||
| The page containing links to reviews of TaskMagic and user comments has been updated for the first time in a long time. See the reviews & feedback page. | |||||
June
2009 - AS / A2 French Vocab TextMatch Files |
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| A
total of about 2000 French to English vocab items based on the AS
/ A2 vocab lists available at www.frenchteacher.net/alevel/alevelvocab.doc You have the option to download a zip file for each topic, or one zip containing all the files. See http://www.mdlsoft.co.uk/TMActivities.htm (These files were made in a matter of minutes using the Multiple TextMatch Maker mentioned below.) |
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| June 2009 - TaskMagic2 Multiple TextMatch Maker | |||||
| A new downloadable extra program for those with licensed versions of TaskMagic2. The Multiple TextMatch Maker allows you to create a whole load of TextMatch files from a single list of hundreds of matching items, which can be copied and pasted from web pages or Word documents. See the other downloads page for more details and to download this TM2 freebie. | |||||
| May 2009 - French GCSE Vocab - 105 Text Match files in one download | |||||
| Click here to download a zip file containing 105 French GCSE Vocab Text Match files, as well as copies of the Football, TowerBlock, FlashCards and Jump! special editions, so that you can access nearly 2000 French GCSE Vocab items at once. See the Other Downloads page for more details of how to set up and use the TaskMagic Special Editions (which require the user to have a licensed version of TaskMagic2). | |||||
| May 2009 - Updates to Football, TowerBlock, FlashCards & Jump! Special Editions | |||||
| As well as being able to access all TextMatch files within a particular folder, you can now specify which files within a folder to use as the basis for your games, or alternatively which files to exclude. See the Other Downloads page for more details. | |||||
| April 2009 - Free Executable Demos of Text Match / Mix & Gap | |||||
| Free demo programs with sample content, which can be used by anyone, which demonstrate the kinds of files that can be created within Text Match and Mix & Gap in TaskMagic2. Free for all. | |||||
| The Text Match Demo contains 20 sample files which allow users to try out all of the interactive exercises and worksheets available in Text Match in TaskMagic2. See the Text Match or Other Downloads pages for more information. | |||||
| The Mix & Gap Demo contains 7 sample files which allow users to try out all of the interactive exercises and worksheets available in Mix & Gap in TaskMagic2. See the Mix & Gap or Other Downloads pages for more information. | |||||
| April 2009 - Free Zips - Football / Jump! / TowerBlock | |||||
| Free zip downloads for various subjects (e.g. French, Geography, Literacy, Numeracy, Science, German, Spanish). Each zip contains 3 exe files: Football / Jump / TowerBlock. Please see the 'Other Downloads' page for more details. Free for all. | |||||
| March 2009 - Free TowerBlock Special Edition for TaskMagic2 Users | |||||
| TaskMagicTowerBlock - special edition allowing you to practise / revise the contents of multiple TextMatch files. Please see the 'Other Downloads' page for more details. | |||||
| February 2009 - TaskMagic2 Update to version 2.1.3 | |||||
February
2009 |
Minor adjustments & improvements | ||||
| December 2008 - TaskMagic2 Update to version 2.1.2 | |||||
December 2008
December 2008 |
New
Browse facility in TaskMagicCreate: On the TaskMagicCreate
front page there is a new button which launches a TaskMagic file
browser. You can quickly see the contents of all of your TaskMagic
files, print a copy of the contents for your records, rename files,
or open the file directly so that you can edit it or try out the
games and exercises. |
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New
Blank Grid Worksheet in Grid Match: Print out a blank grid
with row and column headers, and use it for listening, reading,
writing, battleships, 3 in a row etc. |
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Grid
Match answers are no longer case-sensitive, so missing
an initial capital letter no longer scores as an incorrect answer. |
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New
Right/Wrong Answer Feature in Flashcards: For those occasions
when students are reviewing the vocabulary in order to test themselves,
there are now 'right answer' and 'wrong answer' buttons. Students
look at the first half of the pair, see if they know the answer,
then click the next button. If they got the answer right they click
on the tick button, and if they got it wrong they click on the cross
button. Wrong answers are repeated again at the end of the sequence. |
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Space
Bar / Return Key to move on in Flashcards so that you don't
have to click on the button. |
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Accent
screen stays on top once you've opened it, so you don't
have to click the Accents button each time you want to add an accent. |
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| Resolution
of the following issues in the previous version: • Pelmanism & Dominoes worksheets printed on two pages on some printers. • Drag & Match exercise not available in Text Match files with sound attached. • Screen resizing / display problems on notebook computers with 1024x600 screen resolution. • Text items not visible on Grid Match front page after resizing. |
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| December 2008 - Free Special Editions for TaskMagic2 Users | |||||
TaskMagicFlashCards,
TaskMagicFootball, TaskMagicJump - special editions allowing you
to practise / revise the contents of multiple TextMatch files. Please
see the 'Other Downloads' page
for more details. |
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| October 2008 - TaskMagic2 Update to version 2.1.1 | |||||
October 2008
October 2008 |
New
exercise type in Mix & Gap and Dialogues: Find it!
- allows the teacher to select pieces of text from the original
text to use as the basis for a "Find the French for.."
exercise (or Spanish, German, Italian or whatever!). Or you could
ask questions about the text, as long as the answer can be lifted
directly from the text. |
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New
Find it! worksheet in Mix&Gap and Dialogues. |
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If
you create a Find it! exercise, you can click on a link to automatically
create a Text Match exercise based on your prompts and selected
text items. This means that if you are working on a text
and you want to practise vocab from a text, you can do it all at
the same time. You type or paste in your text in Mix&Gap, the
program creates up to 18 exercises based on the text including the
Find it! exercise. You click the Tools button to create the Text
Match file and you have access to up to 21 more exercises practising
the vocab you have selected from the text. |
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New
Dominoes worksheet in Text Match, Picture Match and Grid Match. |
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Mix&Gap
will now accept texts of over 250 words (there is a limit
of 500, but the text can get pretty small with some of the exercise
types if you go as high as 500 words). |
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Quick Input option in TextMatch and Dialogues in
TaskMagicCreate, making it easier to type or paste in a whole list
of vocab or a whole dialogue. |
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New
voice record / playback facility for some exercises with sound.
This can be found on the TMPlay front pages for Sound Match, Pic-Sound,
Mix&Gap (when there's a sound file), Dialogues (when there's
a sound file), Multi-Choice (when there's a sound file), and also
on the Flashcards page in Sound Match and Pic-Sound. You can hold
down the rec button to record to the computer, release to stop recording,
and click the play button to play back the sound you have recorded.
This allows you to listen to a sound file, record your own voice
and compare your recorded version with the original. The sound level
depends on the audio settings on your computer. |
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In Mix&Gap Gap-fill, you can now opt not to make the list of missing words available. Particularly useful if you've included a sound file. |
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| July 2008 - New TaskMagic Yahoo Group | |||||
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Click
on the Yahoo button to join
the TaskMagic Yahoo group. Keep up-to-date with the latest developments in TaskMagic. Share ideas and resources with other TaskMagic users. If you're already a member of the TaskMagic yahoo group, visit the group homepage at http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/taskmagic |
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| July 2008 - Free Vocab Test Program for TaskMagic2 Users | |||||
| Please see the 'Other Downloads' page for more details. | |||||
| September 2007 - TaskMagic2 Update to version 2.0.1 | |||||
September
2007 |
Improved screen resizing. | ||||
| Improved text formatting for worksheets. | |||||
Resolution
of the following incompatibility issues relating to Internet Explorer
7 and Windows Vista: |
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January
2007 - Launch of TaskMagic2 |
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| January 2007
January 2007
January 2007
January 2007 |
Launch of TaskMagic2 |
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The
additions to TaskMagic2 (ie. the differences between TaskMagic2
and TaskMagic1) are listed below: |
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6
new screens in Text Match: Flashcards (allows students
to look through the matching items and test themselves); Hangman;
Doors (a simple 3D maze where students have to answer questions
correctly to open doors); Snake (students have to find the matching
data in snake form in a grid); Invaders II (students have to zap
the blocks as they fall by clicking on the correct letters); Maze
II (students have to steer around a maze avoiding monsters, zapping
the missing letters). |
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7
new screens in Picture Match: Flashcards; Hangman; Doors;
Snake; Invaders II; Maze II; Pic Reveal (game for 1 or 2 players
- students reveal parts of a picture and try to identify it) |
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6
new screens in Sound Match: Flashcards; Hangman; Doors;
Snake; Invaders II; Maze II |
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5
new screens in Pic-Sound: Maze; Invaders; Spin; Flashcards;
Doors |
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5
new screens in Mix & Gap: Click & Fill (students
can click at any point in the text and type the missing letters
- free letters and 50/50 are available); Word Guess (students guess
the words in the text - timer available as reminder); Anagrams (students
click on word in text made up of anagrams and put letters into correct
order); Snake; Invaders II |
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4
new screens in Dialogues: Space; Click & Fill; Word
Guess; Anagrams |
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New
exercise group called Grid Match: this allows teachers
to create games and exercises based on information typed into a
grid. This is ideal for verb conjugation work, and produces up to
22 different exercises: Flashcards; Drag & Match; 3 in a Row;
Against the Clock; Pelmanism 1 Player; Pelmanism 2 Players; Multi-Match;
True or False?; Maze; Invaders; Spin; Tower Block; Pool; Type; Football;
Snake; Invaders II; Maze II; Doors; 3 in a Row II (game for 2 players
/ teams based on the whole grid of up to 60 items); 5 Counters (as
3 in a Row II but each team only has 5 counters); OXO (ie. noughts
and crosses). |
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More
worksheets |
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All
game screens now automatically fill the screen at any resolution
(with a minimum of 800x600), whereas previous versions only displayed
800x600 pixels. This makes TaskMagic2 much more useable with an
interactive whiteboard. |
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More
user-friendly tools in the editing screens for the match
exercises, meaning that items can now be moved around, deleted,
columns switched etc with ease. |
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Data
Import: On the edit screens for match exercises it is now
possible to import data, so that, for example, a group of pictures
used for a particular pic-match exercise can be imported easily
to a pic-sound exercise. Likewise with soundfiles and text items. |
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Individual
game files: As well as saving the main TaskMagic file for
a particular exercise, within most exercise groups it is now possible
to save individual game files. Teachers / webmasters can then create
links to individual games rather than to the exercise front page. |
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Files
open over internet: It is now possible to save htm files
for TaskMagic exercises containing images or sounds, so that these
can be opened directly over an internet connection. (See the pic-match
links here - obviously these require
you to have installed and run a version of TaskMagic2 before they
will work properly). So you are no longer limited to making text-only
files available to download. |
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| TaskMagic1 | |||||
| TaskMagic1 Update History | |||||
TaskMagic1
is no longer being updated, but if you have a licence for TaskMagic1
and you do not have the latest version (June 2005), please see the
information below about all of the updates to TaskMagic1 prior to
June 2005 and scroll down to download the last exe files of TaskMagic1. |
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Free
upgrades are not available from TaskMagic1 to TaskMagic2. However,
holders of TaskMagic1 licences can take advantage of our upgrade
discounts for a limited period. Click
here to find out more. |
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| All of the information below refers to TaskMagic1 | |||||
June
2005 |
(1)
New front page screens for each exercise group in both TaskMagic
Create and TaskMagic Play, so that the user can click on a screen
image to access the exercise, rather than using an “Exercise”
menu. These front pages allow the user to view the exercise contents
before beginning the activities. |
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(2)
Front pages have a “Worksheets” button in TaskMagic
Create and TaskMagic Play. |
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(3)
Instructions buttons on every exercise screen, explaining how to
complete the exercise. |
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(4)
If you open an exercise from a hyperlink or by double-clicking on
the file, you go straight to that exercise's front page. When you
close this front page, TaskMagic closes (so that you don't have
to click on Exit in TaskMagic Play each time). |
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(5)
A sound file can be included in Dialogues activities. |
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(6)
All Millionaire games have been replaced by a new game: “Tower
Block”. |
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March
2005
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‘Football’
in Text Match, Pic Match, Sound Match & Pic-Sound. 2-player
/ team game. |
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‘Next
Word’ in Mix & Gap. This new exercise requires students
to reconstruct the original text word by word by selecting from
the 10 alternatives. |
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An
improved scoring system for Next Letter 1 & 2 in Mix & Gap. |
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September
2004
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‘Millionaire’
in Pic-Sound. (16th June 2005 - Millionaire
no longer available - replaced by Tower Block.) |
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‘Pool’
in Pic Match, Sound Match & Pic-Sound. |
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‘Type’
- a new exercise in Text Match, Pic Match & Sound Match, requiring
students to type in the missing words. Worksheets also available
in Text Match & Pic Match. |
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New
‘Pelmanism’ worksheets available in Text Match &
Pic Match. |
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New
centralised worksheet printing facility for Text Match, Pic Match,
Dialogues and Mix & Gap. |
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Text-only
exercises downloaded over the Web can now be opened and edited in
TaskMagic Create. |
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16
character word-length limit in Mix & Gap increased to 30 characters
following requests from Germanists! |
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February
2004
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TaskMaster
changed to TaskMagic to avoid legal issues over trademark and to
avoid confusion. |
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TaskMagic
includes one new exercise type in Text Match - “Pool”
- a multiple choice type activity based on a pool table. Definitely
one for the boys! |
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Text-only
TaskMagic exercises will now open over the internet. So you can
make hyperlinks to .mdl / .mdd / .mtx / .mdm files anywhere on the
web as long as they have no sounds or pictures attached. See examples
of how this works here. Files with sounds and pictures attached
can be opened only on a local area network (LAN) or individual machine. |
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November
2003
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TaskMaster
Create and TaskMaster Play have both been re-vamped to make them
more “whiteboard-friendly”. This includes larger (and
auto-sizing) fonts and numbered / lettered text and image boxes. |
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New
addition to Sound Match: Millionaire (16th
June 2005 - Millionaire no longer available - replaced by Tower
Block.) |
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TaskMaster
files are now executable. This means that double-clicking on any
TaskMaster file will open that file in TaskMaster Play. Simply run
the new TaskMaster Create or TaskMaster Play to enable this facility.
NB:TaskMaster Create and TaskMaster Play should be
kept in the same directory for this to operate properly (by default
they are installed in the same directory during setup anyway). |
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The
benefit of having executable files is that it is possible to set
up links to TaskMaster files from word documents or web pages, provided
that the files are located on a LAN and not a web server. You can
create topic front pages with links to existing TaskMaster files,
Word docs, Web pages, etc. |
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August
2003
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A
new addition to the Mix & Gap exercises: “Space”
requires the student to click on the text to insert spaces and punctuation. |
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A
new look to many of the other Mix & Gap exercises. |
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| July 2003 |
Addition
to Pic Match: Millionaire |
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Additions
to Mix & Gap: Next Letter 1 (type in the next missing letter),
Next Letter 2 (type in the next missing vowel), Millionaire. (16th
June 2005 - Millionaire no longer available - replaced by Tower
Block.) |
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| June 2003 |
A
version of ‘Who wants to be a millionaire?’ available
in Text Match. Ideal for individual work on PCs, or for whole-class
work using data projector / whiteboard. (16th
June 2005 - Millionaire no longer available - replaced by Tower
Block.) |
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April
2003 |
When
creating exercises, users can choose between English and Welsh as
the main output language for instructions, prompts, buttons and
feedback for their exercises. |
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March
2003 |
Difficulty
(speed) setting in the Invaders games in Text Match and Pic Match |
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January
2003 |
New
exercise format called Pic-Sound, similar to Sound Match. It enables
you to produce exercises based on matching sounds with pictures.
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Updating
TM1 |
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Updating
to the June 2005 version of TaskMagic1 |
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If
you have a version of TaskMagic1 issued before 16th June 2005 and
you would like to update to the latest version of TaskMagic1, please
read the instructions below. |
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You
can update your pre-June 2005 version of TaskMagic by downloading
the latest versions of the executable files and replacing your existing
ones. The files are contained in one zip file. The downloaded file
is: TMUpdate.zip |
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| READ THE UPDATE INFORMATION BELOW: |
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(1)
Click on the download link above to begin the download of TMUpdate.zip |
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(2)
Once this is downloaded, unzip it using winzip, winrar or similar.
This will create the 2 files: TaskMagicCreate.exe and TaskMagicPlay.exe |
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(3)
Copy these files and paste them into your TaskMagic (or TaskMaster)
directory. This should be C:\Programs\TaskMagicCreate\ (or C:\Programs\TaskMasterCreate\). |
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(4)
If you are updating from TaskMaster, you will need to amend any
shortcuts so that they point to TaskMagic rather than TaskMaster.
To do this, right-click on the shortcut, click on “properties”,
click on the “short-cut” tab, and change the file names
in the “Target” box to “TaskMagicCreate.exe”
or “TaskMagicPlay.exe” accordingly. You will have to
do this for both TaskMagicCreate and TaskMagicPlay shortcuts. |
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(5)
If you would prefer to be sent a new licensed TaskMagic1 CD, we
will be happy to provide one at a cost of £30 + VAT. Simply
email us your school details, or send a school order requesting
a replacement TaskMagic1 CD. |
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OR...
Why not upgrade to TaskMagic2? |
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See
details of our limited period upgrade discounts on our prices
and licences page. |
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