Launch Clicker 4, log on if asked, and go to 'Make A Clicker Grid' on the start page or select 'New Grid' from under the File menu.

Select Blank from the options down the left hand side and click on the OK button.

You will notice that Clicker turns into one large, blue page. There are no grid cells and Clicker Writer (the place where your text usually builds up) is not shown either.

The large blue area is actually a grid without any cells.

If you don't like the colour then you can change it, but we'll come to this later.

Now would be a good time to start adding your cells. Decide how many tracks you'd like on the page. This will normally depend on the cognitive and visual abilities of your pupil.

Once you've decided on the number of tracks you can start inserting cells. I'm making mine for a pupil who does not have a visual impairment, and so I'm going to lay out the tracks in a pattern.

To to this go to the Grid menu, hover over the Insert submenu and select Insert Cell.

Your mouse cursor should jump to the centre of the screen where it has turned to a left/right/up/down pointer which is dragging the cell around (your pointer might not be red, as mine is).

Incidentally, the large cursors used in these screenshots are available for download on this site from my downloads page .

Move the box where you want on the grid, bearing in mind the number of cells you'll need in the end.

If you drop it somewhere accidentally or change your mind about its position, hold the left ALT key whilst dragging the cell around with your mouse.

You can also use the ALT key to resize and reshape the cell. Hold the left ALT key and position the cursor over the bottom-right corner of the cell. You'll see that it turns into a diagonal two way arrow like the one shown opposite. Hold down the mouse button and drag the cell to the size and shape you want.

When you're ready for the next cell go to the Grid menu > Insert > Insert Cell again and you'll notice that your new cell is the same shape and size as the one you just adjusted.

Drag the new cell to a new place on the page, trying not to let the cells overlap one another.

Repeat this for as many tracks as you want. When putting the cells down try and keep them in a linear order or else switch scanning will jump all over the place.

Go to the Grid menu and select 'Show Scan Order' to see in which order the cells will be scanned.

OK now we need to fill in our track titles. If you can't remember all the track names then you can open the folder that CDex saved them in to refresh your memory. If you're using Windows XP simply select My Music from the start menu (if that's where you saved them).

I've made seven cells in my grid and I'm going to put in seven out of the eight Donovan tracks that I copied with CDex earlier.

Naming the boxes is the same as with any Clicker grid, i.e., hold down SHIFT and left-click inside the box to type.

Once you've filled in the cells we need to tell them what to do when our user selects it. The method I've used may seem slightly complex but I've tried simpler techniques and they all have their disadvantages.

Each cell needs to be linked to a new grid that plays the appropriate song when it is opened. There is one cell on this grid that stops the music and jumps back to the contents.

Without separate grids, auditory scanning would continue in the background throughout the song and Clicker would have no way of stopping the music unless you added a 'stop' button.

Save your grid. I'll call mine 'Donovan - Index'.

Go to File and select New Grid. Choose blank again.

If you don't want the blue background then click on the 'Custom' button and change the background colour. I'll let you guys figure out how to do that yourselves!

OK - go to Grid > Insert > Insert Cell again and plonk it down in the middle of the page. You can have this one nice and large as they'll only be one cell on the entire page.

This button will stop the music and return your user back to the contents. Type into it something along the lines of 'choose another tune'.

Now we need to start programming this page. Go to the Grid Menu and choose Grid Properties.

In this dialog you can select a different background colour by clicking on the coloured box under the heading 'background colour'. Easy!

We can also tell Clicker to play one of our songs when this grid is opened.

Click on the 'Play Sound' tab at the top of the dialog box and then click the white circle next to 'Sound file' under Opening Sound. If you miss this out it won't work!

Next click on Browse to locate your music file.

Select any of your sound files and click the Open button. It doesn't matter what order you do these in but it'll probably be easiest if you work top-to-bottom (which in Windows is usually alphabetical order). This will not be connected to the order of your cells on the contents page.

I select 'Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man'.

Now at this point we simply need to tell the large stop button on the grid to take us back to the contents page.

Hold down SHIFT and right-click on the cell to bring up the Cell Properties dialog. Click on the 'Open Grid' tab at the top of the dialog window and then select the browse button to find your contents pages.

Locate the grid that you put together earlier. I had named mine 'Donovan - Index' so it is easy to find.

OK your way back to your grid and then click on the cell that you've just made. This will take you back to your original contents grid, but Clicker will first give you the chance to save the changes that you've made to your first track grid.

Save it with a sensible name! I'll call mine 'Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man'

Now you can either repeat the last six steps over and over, or you can cheat and copy and paste the file. To do this go to File and select 'Open Grid...'.

Now right-click on your single music-playing grid and select Copy from the menu that pops up.

Now right-click in the white space around your files and select Paste from the same menu. You can paste the file as many times as you need.

Now rename each one so that they fit in with your track listings. You can do this by clicking on the text of the file and then clicking again without moving the mouse. Or if you find this difficult you can right-click the file and select the 'Rename' command.

When you're done click CANCEL (it won't undo the work you've just done!).

OK phew! We're really getting somewhere now. We need to go to each of these new grids in turn and tell them what music to play when they open up. The button in the middle that tells it to go back to the index page will already be set up for each one.

Open each music-playing grid in turn:

ALT then F then O

and go to Grid > Grid Properties

ALT then G then G

Click on the 'Play Sound' tab.

Select the white circle next to 'Sound file'.

Click on browse and choose the song that corresponds with the grid you're working on.

Save the grid and move on to the next one and in no time at all they'll be done, especially if you use the shortcut keys!

Puff Pant! Don't worry - we're nearly there. All you need to do now is tell the original album index to which grids it should link its cells.

Open your original index grid and hold SHIFT while right-clicking each cell in turn. When the Cell Properties window pops up for each box, choose the Open Grid tab, click on the Browse button, and select the appropriate grid.

Don't forget if you have any questions you can send me an email!

There's just one, quick last thing that you'll need to do in order for the jukebox to work.

On your index page, go to the Grid menu and choose Grid Properties (you should have got the hang of this by now!). Click on the 'Play Sound' tab, click the white circle next to where it says 'Sound file' under 'Opening sound'. Click browse and locate blank.wav, which will act as a stop button.

You can download blank.wav from this website (173 Kb) , but be sure to save it in My Music or wherever you have saved your tracks.

There you go! You should now have a working switch-accessible auditory scanning jukebox!

I'm going to customise mine a little - make it a bit more attractive for the end user - um that's me!

Grid > Insert > Insert Graphic Box

You can adjust the size and position of this in the same as the cells earlier - using the ALT key.

Hold down SHIFT and left-click on the graphic box. A little toolbar will appear in the top left of the box. One of the tools is an open folder. Click on this to browse for your image.

I found my picture of Donovan at the always-useful Google Image Search.