Learning App Instructions

Step-by-step guidance for teachers, families, support professionals, and learners. Begin with the Quick Start for an app, then use the detailed sections only when needed.

Guided Math Practice

Quick Start

Open the app. Choose an Operation , Number size , and regrouping option where available. Enter the number of problems, from 1 to 100. Under Online practice , choose All problems together , Watch and learn — one problem at a time , or Try each step — hints and checking . Select Generate new problems .

Detailed Instructions — Guided Math Practice
  1. Open the app. Choose an Operation, Number size, and regrouping option where available. Enter the number of problems, from 1 to 100.
  2. Under Online practice, choose All problems together, Watch and learn — one problem at a time, or Try each step — hints and checking. Select Generate new problems.
  3. In Try each step, enter an answer and select Check step. Use Hint or Show me for help, then Next step. Select Next problem when ready.
  4. In Watch and learn, select Next step to reveal each stage. Use the reading button to hear the explanation. In the all-problems view, type your answers and select Check answers.
  5. For paper practice, choose a Printed worksheet style and whether to include a worked example. Use Preview worksheets & key, then Print worksheet, Print answer key, or Print both.

Choose Student text size or Use student view for a simpler display. Multiplication uses a one-digit multiplier; long division uses a one-digit divisor with no remainders. For printing, use Letter paper, portrait, 100% scale, and turn off browser headers and footers.

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Word Search

Quick Start

Open the app. Replace the sample words in Words with your own list, separated by commas or new lines. Choose a Grid size from 8 × 8 to 15 × 15 and select the allowed Directions . Start with Horizontal & Vertical for an easier puzzle. Use words that fit the chosen grid.

Detailed Instructions — Word Search
  1. Open the app. Replace the sample words in Words with your own list, separated by commas or new lines.
  2. Choose a Grid size from 8 × 8 to 15 × 15 and select the allowed Directions. Start with Horizontal & Vertical for an easier puzzle. Use words that fit the chosen grid.
  3. Select Generate Puzzle. Check the Words to find list below the grid for the words placed in your puzzle.
  4. Drag from the first letter to the last letter of a word with your mouse or finger, then release. Found words are marked. Select hint beside a word to see its starting letter, or press and hold the word in the list to peek at its location.
  5. For paper practice, choose a Printed hint: no shaded letters, the first letter, or the first two letters. Choose whether to print an Answer sheet, then select Print Puzzle.

Select Generate Puzzle again for a new arrangement. Printed hints are separate from the hints used during on-screen play.

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Math Practice

Quick Start

Enter the number of problems, choose at least one operation and one digit size, and select Generate Problems .

Detailed Instructions — Math Practice

Creates online or printable addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems. It can mix operations and number sizes in one activity.

Quick Start: Enter the number of problems, choose at least one operation and one digit size, and select Generate Problems.

Set Up the Activity

  1. Enter a number from 1 through 100 in Number of Problems.
  2. Select one or more operations: Add, Subtract, Multiply, or Divide.
  3. Select one or more number sizes from one-digit through four-digit numbers.
  4. If a printed answer page is needed, select Include answer key.

Use Online Practice

  1. Select Generate Problems.
  2. The student enters an answer in each answer box.
  3. Select Check Answers to mark the responses.
  4. Use Try Again to correct the same problems or New Problems to create another set.

Print a Worksheet

  1. Choose the problem count, operations, number sizes, and answer-key option.
  2. Select Print Worksheet.
  3. Review the browser’s print preview.
  4. Select the correct printer and print settings, then print.
Teaching suggestion: Start with one operation and one-digit numbers. Add more operations or digits only after the learner is comfortable with the layout.
If nothing appears: Confirm that at least one operation and one digit range are selected and that the problem count is between 1 and 100.
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Writing Practice

Quick Start

Choose Print Worksheet or Online Practice , choose an activity, enter one word or phrase per line, and select Refresh .

Detailed Instructions — Writing Practice

Creates handwriting, tracing, spelling, sentence, name, word-family, independent-writing, and bubble-word activities. It can be printed or completed directly on a touchscreen or computer.

Quick Start: Choose Print Worksheet or Online Practice, choose an activity, enter one word or phrase per line, and select Refresh.

1. Choose How the Worksheet Will Be Used

  • Print Worksheet: prepares paper activities.
  • Online Practice: lets a student write with an Apple Pencil, stylus, finger, or mouse.

2. Choose an Activity

  • Trace & Write: shows a model and tracing/writing practice.
  • Trace → Copy → Memory: gradually reduces support.
  • Find & Circle: asks the learner to locate target words.
  • Sentence Practice: places words in automatic or custom sentences.
  • Name Practice: repeats a student’s entered name.
  • Word Families: practices words sharing an ending such as “at.”
  • Independent Writing: provides writing space with reduced tracing support.
  • Bubble Words / Color Words: creates outlined words for coloring and optional tracing or writing.

3. Enter Words

  1. Place one word or short phrase on each line in the word box.
  2. Use Randomize when a different order is helpful.
  3. Use Remember List to keep a list in that browser.
  4. Choose whether to use all words or only 5, 10, 15, 20, or 25.

4. Adjust the Page

  • Choose portrait or landscape orientation.
  • Choose the maximum items per page and compact, standard, or spacious spacing.
  • Choose whether the model appears above or beside the writing area.
  • Choose one through six writing repetitions.
  • Choose print or cursive, letter case, worksheet title, custom directions, and an optional teacher note.
  • Adjust tracing line style and tracing size.

Bubble-Word Options

Choose a rounded, chunky, tall, playful, double-outline, or mixed bubble style. Adjust outline type, size, thickness, number of words per row, and whether the page includes extra tracing or writing.

Online Writing Tools

  1. Select Online Practice.
  2. Choose Pen or Eraser.
  3. Select a pen color and thickness.
  4. Use Undo, Clear Page, or Clear All Writing as needed.
Important: Changing worksheet settings rebuilds the worksheet and clears writing already added online.

Refresh, Clear, and Print

  • Refresh rebuilds the worksheet using the current settings.
  • Clear Words removes the entered word list.
  • Print opens the browser print window.
Teaching suggestion: For a learner who is easily overwhelmed, begin with five words, spacious spacing, a large tracing size, and one activity type.
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Clock Practice

Quick Start

Enter the student’s name, choose the worksheet type, grid size, time interval, and answer method, then select Generate Worksheet .

Detailed Instructions — Clock Practice

Provides analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog time activities for online use or printing.

Quick Start: Enter the student’s name, choose the worksheet type, grid size, time interval, and answer method, then select Generate Worksheet.

Choose the Worksheet

  • Analog → Digital: the student reads clock hands and gives the time.
  • Digital → Analog: the student sets or draws the clock hands to match a digital time.

Choose the Amount and Difficulty

  1. Select a grid from 2×2 through 6×6. Larger grids create more questions.
  2. Select a time interval: one minute, five minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, or whole hours.
  3. For analog-to-digital practice, choose Multiple Choice, Type HH:MM, or Hours Only.
  4. Select Generate Worksheet.

Complete and Check

The learner selects or types answers online. Select Check All Answers when finished. The Show Answers option can display or hide correct responses.

Print

  1. Generate the desired worksheet.
  2. Select Print Worksheet.
  3. Review the browser preview before printing.
Teaching suggestion: Begin with a 2×2 grid and whole hours. Move to half-hours, quarter-hours, five-minute intervals, and one-minute intervals gradually.
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Accessible Checkers

Quick Start

Open Game Settings , choose Player vs Computer or Two Players, select the help level, and choose Start Game .

Detailed Instructions — Accessible Checkers

A simplified checkers game with adjustable help, large controls, voice assistance, hints, and computer or two-player play.

Quick Start: Open Game Settings, choose Player vs Computer or Two Players, select the help level, and choose Start Game.

Game Settings

  • Game Type: Player vs Computer or Two Players.
  • Difficulty: Easy, Moderate, or Difficult.
  • Your Color: Red, Black, or Random.
  • Move Help: Full, Standard, or Minimal.
  • Board Style: Classic or High Contrast.
  • Voice Help: speaks guidance when enabled.
  • Animations, Large Controls, and Simple Screen: adjust movement and visual complexity.

Play

  1. Select one of the current player’s checkers.
  2. Available diagonal destination squares are indicated according to the selected help level.
  3. Select a legal destination square.
  4. If another jump is available, continue with the same checker.

Help Buttons

  • Hint: suggests a move.
  • Why this move?: explains a suggested move when available.
  • Repeat Instruction: repeats the current guidance.
  • Undo Turn: takes back the most recent turn when possible.
  • How to Play: opens the game rules.
  • New Game: starts over with a new game.
Teaching suggestion: Use Full Move Help, Voice Help, Large Controls, and Simple Screen for a beginning player. Reduce help gradually as confidence increases.
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Accessible Chess

Quick Start

Choose the game type, difficulty, player color, and Move Help level in Game Settings. Then select a piece and a legal destination.

Detailed Instructions — Accessible Chess

A complete learning chess game with optional move assistance, voice help, hints, piece lessons, and adjustable board presentation.

Quick Start: Choose the game type, difficulty, player color, and Move Help level in Game Settings. Then select a piece and a legal destination.

Game Settings

  • Game Type: Player vs Computer, Practice, or Two Players.
  • Difficulty: Easy, Moderate, or Difficult.
  • Player Color: White, Black, or Random.
  • Move Help: Full, Standard, or Minimal.
  • Voice Help and Learning Tips: provide optional instruction.
  • Board Coordinates: shows square names.
  • Large Controls, High Contrast Board, and Simple Screen: adjust accessibility and visual complexity.

Play a Move

  1. Select one of the current player’s pieces.
  2. Review the legal destinations shown by the application.
  3. Select a destination square.
  4. The computer moves automatically in Player vs Computer mode.

Learning and Assistance

  • Hint: suggests a legal move.
  • Repeat: repeats spoken assistance.
  • Undo Turn: reverses the recent turn when allowed.
  • Flip Board: changes the viewing direction.
  • Learn Pieces: explains how pieces move and provides approximate piece values.
  • How to Play: presents basic chess rules.
  • Move History: records moves already played.

Special Situations

When a pawn reaches the opposite side, choose Queen, Rook, Bishop, or Knight. Queen is the most common choice. The game also reports check, checkmate, or other completed-game conditions.

Teaching suggestion: Begin in Practice mode with Full Move Help, Learning Tips, Board Coordinates, and Large Controls. Use Learn Pieces before expecting a complete game.
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Maze Activities

Quick Start

Choose a difficulty, select Play Online , and move the blue marker with the large arrow buttons or keyboard arrow keys until it reaches FINISH.

Detailed Instructions — Maze Activities

Creates mazes for online play or printing with adjustable difficulty, hints, solution guidance, voice directions, print previews, answer keys, and saving options.

Quick Start: Choose a difficulty, select Play Online, and move the blue marker with the large arrow buttons or keyboard arrow keys until it reaches FINISH.

Create or Reset a Maze

  • Choose Very Easy, Easy, Standard, Medium, Hard, or Custom.
  • For Custom, adjust the width and height sliders and select Regenerate Maze.
  • Reset Current Maze returns the player to START without changing the maze.
  • Creating a new maze may ask for confirmation when progress would be lost.

Play Online

  1. Select Play Online.
  2. Move with the large arrow buttons, keyboard arrow keys, or by clicking or dragging through adjacent open spaces.
  3. Use Show Hint Arrow for the next direction. Hints can be unlimited, limited to five, or turned off.
  4. Use Show Path to display the correct route. The route can stay visible or disappear after five seconds.
  5. Reach FINISH to complete the maze. The timer begins with the first successful move.

Sound and Voice Guidance

  • Completion Sound: plays a success sound at FINISH.
  • Movement Sounds: provides optional movement and blocked-path tones.
  • Spoken Completion Message: announces successful completion.
  • Spoken Directions: can be Off, manual, after every successful move, or after a selected period without movement.
  • Direction Wording: chooses short or encouraging instructions.
  • Speak Direction gives the current correct direction; Repeat Direction repeats it.

Prepare and Print a Worksheet

  1. Select Print Worksheet.
  2. Choose Letter or A4 paper and portrait or landscape.
  3. Choose No Hints, Arrow Hints, or Solution Guide Line.
  4. Select Add separate answer key page if desired.
  5. Check the live preview on the right.
  6. Select Print Maze and complete the browser print window.

Save and Restore

  • Save Maze to a File creates a small maze-data file that can be loaded later.
  • Load Maze from a File restores a saved maze file.
  • Save in This Browser stores a quick save on the same browser and computer.
  • Restore from This Browser restores that quick save.
Teaching suggestion: Begin with a Very Easy or Easy maze, manual voice hints, and unlimited hints. Add complexity only after the learner understands START, FINISH, and the four directions.
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Picture Match

Quick Start

Choose a Learning Area, Matching Style, and Board Size. Select Start Game , then choose two cards to find a match.

Detailed Instructions — Picture Match

Match pictures or related learning concepts with accessible cards, online line matching, or printable worksheets.

Quick Start: Choose a Learning Area, Matching Style, and Board Size. Select Start Game, then choose two cards to find a match.

Set Up a Card Game

  1. Choose a Learning Area, such as pictures, alphabet, numbers, math, punctuation, shapes and colors, reading, money, time, or everyday life and safety.
  2. Choose a Matching style for that area. For pictures, choose a theme if desired.
  3. Select a board size. 4 cards or 6 cards gives learners especially large targets. Larger boards range from 5 × 5 to 8 × 8.
  4. Choose Easier (5-second preview), Standard (3-second preview), or Challenge (no preview).
  5. Set Voice, Sounds, Picture Names, Learning Mode, Calm Mode, High Contrast, and Hint Button as needed. Choose one or two players.
  6. Select Start Game. Turn over two cards. Matching cards stay visible; different cards turn back over. Continue until all pairs are found.

Help During Play

Use Repeat Voice, Help, Show a Hint, or Pause as needed. New Game returns to the setup choices after confirmation.

Online Line Matching

  1. On the setup screen, choose a Learning Area and Matching Style.
  2. Under Online Line Matching, select 2–6 pairs and choose immediate feedback or checking at the end.
  3. Select Start Online Line Matching. Tap an item on the left and its match on the right, or drag from a dot to connect them.
  4. Use Check Answers when applicable, Clear Lines, or New Activity.

Print Matching Worksheets

  1. Choose 4, 5, 6, or 8 pairs under Printable Matching Worksheets.
  2. Choose Black & White or Color, and whether to include an answer key.
  3. Select Preview Worksheet or Print Worksheet.

Create Your Own Matching Set

Select Create My Own Match to enter pairs of words, symbols, emoji, or photographs. You can save sets in the browser or import and export them as files.

Teaching suggestion: Begin with four cards, an easier preview, voice guidance, and picture names. Add more cards or switch to line matching as the learner progresses.
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Thinking & Sequencing

Quick Start

Choose an activity, select a Level and number of Problems, then select Start Activity .

Detailed Instructions — Thinking & Sequencing

Practice patterns, reasoning, order, and everyday routines using four accessible activities.

Quick Start: Choose an activity, select a Level and number of Problems, then select Start Activity.

Choose an Activity

  • What Comes Next? Complete letter, number, shape, or other patterns.
  • Put It in Order: Arrange steps in the correct sequence.
  • Which One Doesn't Belong? Find the item that is different and explain why.
  • Everyday Sequences: Practice real-life routines such as washing hands, getting ready, and shopping.

Set Up Practice

  1. Choose Level 1 (Learn), Level 2 (Practice), or Level 3 (Think).
  2. Select 4, 6, 8, or 10 problems.
  3. Under Special Practice, choose Mixed, Before / After, or Cause & Effect.
  4. Select Start Activity and follow the on-screen directions.

Teacher Options

Select Teacher Options to adjust voice support, picture labels, immediate feedback, graduated hints, the Watch → With Me → Yourself teaching progression, practice for missed items, Student Mode, and whether pictures and/or words appear.

Create an Everyday Sequence

  1. Select Teacher-Created Sequence.
  2. Enter a sequence name and 3–8 short steps in the correct order.
  3. Select Use This Sequence, then Start Activity. The custom sequence remains available while the page stays open.

Help and Results

During practice, select Repeat to hear the instruction or Help for a hint. Select Finish / Back to return to setup. At completion, review independent successes, help used, and items still being practiced; choose Practice Again or Main Menu.

Teaching suggestion: Begin at Level 1 with voice support and the Watch → With Me → Yourself progression. Use everyday routines the learner already recognizes.
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Creative Art Studio

Quick Start

Open the app, choose Easy Art, select a color and brush size, and draw using touch or a mouse.

Detailed Instructions — Creative Art Studio
  1. Choose Easy Art for a large drawing area with a few simple controls.
  2. Choose a color and brush size, then draw using touch or a mouse.
  3. Choose Simple or Expanded mode for more tools and activities.
  4. Use Teacher Setup to adjust available choices for the learner.
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