Manual

What is BoneUp?

BoneUp is a study aid program designed to help you learn and retain information on any subject.. BoneUp employs smart logic that tracks the questions you are having trouble with and asks them more frequently, helping to reinforce them.

Features:

Random placement of correct answer. The correct answer and distractors are always in a different order, even after an incorrect response.
Support for up to 12 different groups of questions.
Support Multiple choice (4 choices), True/False and Flash Card Modes.
Smart logic keeps track of low score questions and asks them more frequently.
Flexible interface, use the hard buttons or tap the screen to navigate, view and answer questions.

INSTALLATION:

BoneUp was written with PocketC by Jeremy Dewey of OrbWorks.

1. Install BoneUP.prc onto your PalmOS PDA using your favorite install utility.

2. Write your questions in Memo Pad or use the Palm Desktop.

3. Import your questions into BoneUp

4. Start Quizing.

THE MENU:

The menu can be activated by: Tapping the top section of the screen or using the Palm silk screen menu button.

Program: About, Options, Help, Register, Quit - (Closes the BoneUP Program)

Quiz: Start, Stop, Stats, Flash

Questions: Import, Export, View, Edit, Delete

WRITING QUESTIONS:

Write your question using the Palm Memo pad or Palm Desktop. The format must be as follows:

The first line is the question group name (in this case "Q", you can use what ever you want as the group name, just as long as all the question s you want to import use the same name) followed by a sequence number (1, 2, 3, 4, etc.). As the questions are imported into BoneUp, it will start looking for Question #1, then #2, if there is a brake in the sequence, BoneUp will assume that, that is the end of the questions to import. Example Q1, Q2, Q4,.... BoneUp will only import Q1 and Q2 since Q3 is missing. The end of this line must be terminated by a carruage return to the next line.
The next section is the question, the question can be as long as you want it, but the complete question with distractors is limited to the 64kb limit of the note pad. The Note Pad will automatically word wrap the question if it is longer than the width of the display, this is ok. The end of the question must be terminated by a carriage return to the next line.

The next section defines the type of question BoneUp will recognize.

For multiple choice questions:

The next section will represent the correct answer, it follows the same formatting rules as the question.
The next 3 Sections represent the distractors or wrong answers, they also follow the same formatting rules as the question.

2) For True/False questions:

On the next line Enter True if the question is to be True or False if the question is to be False.
You do not need to enter the other distactor.
BoneUp will also recognize a single character T or F as the answer.

Note: The blank lines in between each section are optional, BoneUp will ignore all empty lines as it imports the questions.

DEFINING QUESTION GROUPS:

When you first start BoneUp, the default question group is "Unfiled"
Tapping on "Unfiled" will drop down the available question groups, the last item is "Edit Groups"
Tapping again on "Edit Groups" will bring up the options to Add, Delete or Rename the groups. A maximum of 12 question groups are allowed.

IMPORTING QUESTIONS:

After you write your questions, you must import them into the BoneUp program.

First select the desired question group that you want the questions imported into.
Select Import from the Questions Menu Item.

The first dialog will ask for the name of the question set to import, in this case the name is "Q". (The group name is case sensitive)
Replace Current Question Set?:

YES - will replace all the questions in the BoneUp database
NO - will append the imported questions to the end of the BoneUp database.

Delete the Memos after they're imported?:

YES - will delete the memos after they are imported.
NO - will leave the memos in the memo pad.

EXPORTING QUESTION:

Select Export from the Question Menu.
Enter a Name that will be used as the export group.
All questions from the current group will be exported to the memo pad (Unfiled Category) using the previous entered export group name and sequence number.

VIEWING QUESTIONS:

View questions by selecting VIEW from the questions menu.
While viewing questions:

Tapping the right side of the screen or pressing one of the right two hard buttons will take you to the next question.
Tapping the left side of the screen or pressing one of the left two hard buttons will take you to the previous question.

Use the Palm scroll buttons to scroll up and down for questions that are longer than one screen.

While viewing questions you can Edit or Delete the current question being viewed.
Questions can also be copied or moved to other groups by selecting a different group name while in View mode.

EDITING A QUESTION:

Editing the current question will export it to the Memo Pad under the Unfiled category with the name BoneUpEdit1.
BoneUp will then exit and open the Memo Pad for you to edit the question.
The next time you start BoneUp the edited question will automatically be imported back into BoneUp under the same group that it was exported from, the Memo Pad file will automatically deleted.

Note: Editing a question will reset that questions hit/miss statistics.

DELETING A QUESTION:

You can delete a question by selecting Delete from the Question menu while in View mode. The question is removed from the current group and can not be recovered.

STARTING A BoneUp QUIZ

Select START from the Quiz menu.
Starting a quiz takes you to the Options screen.
Select the number of questions you want to be quized on.
Selecting "Force to answer correctly?" will keep asking the current question until it's answered correctly, the number of questions to ask can be exceeded until answered correctly.
Selecting "Beep on wrong answers?" will do just that.
Select OK to start your quiz.

To answer questions you can tap on the correct answer or use the Palm hard buttons. In this example, tapping the (B) line or pressing the Date Book Button will result in the correct answer.
Use the Palm Scroll buttons to scroll questions that are longer than 1 screen long.
You can stop a quiz by selecting STOP from the quiz menu.

FLASH:

Selecting Flash from the Quiz menu will start a flash card quiz.

Select number of question to be asked from the options screen, and then OK.

The Question is first displayed.

After considering the correct response, tap the screen or one of the hard buttons to see the correct answer.

The Correct Answer is displayed, tap the screen or one of the hard buttons again.

Tap the appropriate response "GOT IT" (Left 2 Hard Buttons) or "MISSED IT" (Right 2 Hard Buttons). Your response is recorded as part of the score then the next question is displayed.

STOP:

Stops a quiz while in Testing or Flash mode, and records the current score.

Ends View mode.

Ends Stas mode.

STATS:

The statistics for the last 99 quizzes are recorded and averaged separately for each group.

Select Stop from the Quiz menu to clear the screen.

Select a new group to see its statistics.

HELP:

This File, to keep the BoneUP file small, I have not included any help files with BoneUP.

PROBLEMS:

I get a message "Stopping at xxnn, format not recognized." When trying to import questions:

Use your memo pad to examine the question number that BoneUp stopped importing at, check for extra carriage returns.
Make sure there is 1 correct answer and 3 distractors for multiple choice questions and at least TRUE or FALSE for T/F questions.
If you can't find the problem with the question, try deleting the memo and retyping the question.

REGISTRATION:

Register Using Yahoo! PayDirect

Registration is $10.00.

The unregistered version of BoneUP will only allow 1 question group and a max quiz or flash card group of 10 questions.
To register use Yahoo PayDirect, include your Palm HotSync name. A unique key will be generated based on the HotSync name.

LEGAL STUFF:

This software is provided as is, with no guarantee of fitness for any particular task. The user assumes all responsibility for its use and any damages or losses as a result of improper operation of this program.

FUTURE IMPLEMENTATION:

Compressed Question Data Bases, currently 500 questions creates about 100kb file.

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