The short description of the sound should be one or two words used to group sounds together. For example, a sound description might be “dog”. Then, within this sound description you could add multiple prompts, hints, answers, and pictures. You can type a new sound description in or select an existing one from the drop down list.

‘prompt’ refers to the sound that is heard immediately after the question. This is the sound that the game-player is trying to match with its corresponding answer. For example, would be a prompt heard after “What animal makes this sound?” At least one prompt is required for each sound description!

‘answer’ is a sound that will be in the answer choice list if the corresponding prompt is being used. If no answer is specified, the default answer will be the sound description. The most common use for answer will be for phonetic reasons – if you realize the computer is mispronouncing the sound, you can type it in phonetically here. For example, “croissant” is incorrectly pronounced and could be typed “crasont”.

‘hint’ is the clue that will be provided to the game-player when they click the down arrow. For example, a hint for the dog sound description could be “This furry pet might like to play fetch.” Adding a hint is optional.

‘picture’ is the image that will be displayed if its corresponding prompt is being used. Adding a picture is optional.

If you choose to add a file, you will click the browse button and search through the folders for the desired file. (.txt, .wav, .mid for sounds; .jpg, .gif, .png for pictures)

If you choose to enter text, simply type the text into the text box provided. This option will not be available if adding a picture.

Click ‘add’ to add your sound, text or picture, and you will see it appear in the box to the right.

If you decide to remove an item, you can select it in the list on the right (by clicking on the item) and then click ‘delete’.

If you click ‘preview’ the selected item will be heard (pictures cannot be previewed).