If you are in the Talking Pictures View (the interface that the person-served uses:

Press and hold the MeMinder logo for 3 seconds to unlock the settings icon, then click the settings icon.

If you are in the caregiver’s view, press the settings icon at the top of the page and be sure to re-enable Talking Pictures View in the settings for the person you serve when you are finished configuring MeMinder.

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With Avatalk, you can use the messaging app Telegram to send accessible messages to the people you support.

A diverse roster of digital avatar assistants can serve the message to the recipient so that they can reply as easily as tapping a button on their tablet device screen.

To start using Avatalk you will need:

1. A CreateAbility BEAM account from BEAM.CARE
   
2. A Telegram account for the support professional, and
   
3. An Android tablet device with a copy of Avatalk installed for the person-served

Let’s Get Started:

Login or Create a BEAM.CARE Account

Avatalk integrates with CreateAbility’s cloud platform BEAM.CARE.

If you have a BEAM account:

• Log in, and
  
• Select the system of the person you want to connect to Avatalk

If you don’t have an account yet

• You can create one for free here.
  
• Once you’ve created an account, select Create New Virtual System

• Press Click Here to Rename System, choose an appropriate name for the system, like the nickname of the person you’re supporting, and confirm.
  
• BEAM will automatically take you to your new system page.

Get Avatalk for Android

Avatalk is currently is not currently available in app stores. You can acquire a demo unit or install Avatalk to any android tablet by contacting us at:

317-728-6670 or info@createabilityinc.com

• If you have an APK file, go here for installation instructions.
  
• If you received a device from us, its configured to work out-of-the-box and you can start using Telegram with Avatalk.

Start the Avatalk App

• Open the Avatalk app from your home screen or app drawer
  
• Avatalk will requesta Login ID when the app starts

Copy the System Login Code From the BEAM URL Into the Avatalk App

• When you’ve navigated to the BEAM system you want to be associated with Avatalk, enter 15 character login ID from the URL into the Login ID prompt in the Avatalk App.

• The app will confirm that Avatalk is ready to use for the person you serve by saying “Thank you for using Avatalk”.

Setup Telegram

Avatalk takes advantage of the Telegram open-source messaging platform to bring support professionals one of the best modern chat experiences while providing us the tools that make Avatalk uniquely functional.

Do not install Telegram on the device of the person-served. Download Telegram to any device for free with any of the following links:

• App Store
  
• Google Play Store
  
• Telegram.org
  

Install telegram on your preferred device and follow the onboarding instructions.

Connect with the Avatalk Bot on Telegram

• Once you’ve completed setting up Telegram, press the global search text input field.
  
• Enter @AvatalkBot

• Select the bot and hit Start

• The Avatalk bot will guide you through adding the person you serve to the telegram chat with the /connectuser command
  
• Type /connectuser <avatalkuserid> into the chat text field of AvatalkBot

• Replace <avatalkuserid> with the Login ID of the person you serve from the BEAM.CARE URL

AvatalkBot will let you know if you added the person successfully.

Using Avatalk

• In Telegram, compose a message you’d like to send, along with the answers you want the person you serve to choose from.
  
• You can do this by preceding each answer with a vertical bar symbol on your keyboard (usually above the enter button on standard keyboards).
  
• The format should look like this:
  Hi Matthew, How are you feeling today? |Great |Good |Fine |Bad

• The person will receive the message on the tablet and can press any of the responses. When the person responds, it will show up in your chat window!

• If you don’t enter any answers for the person to choose, Avatalk will default to Yes and No options being presented to the person you serve.
• The person-served can see who is sending a message on their Avatalk interface.

Creating a Circle of Care

• You can create a group chat to act as a Circle of Care for the person you’re supporting by using the Group Chat Feature in Telegram.
  
• People in the Circle of Care must have Telegram (This does NOT include the person-served).
  
• In Telegram, go to the menu and press New Group.

• Add other Telegram members to your Circle of Care.

• Give the Circle of Care chat group an appropriate name. Telegram will notify all members that they’ve been added to the group.

• Everyone in the Circle of Care can now communicate with each other.
  • All communications will be visible to all members of the group

Changing Avatars or Users

You can change the avatar or Login ID any time by pressing the gear icon at the top-right of the screen when the picture slideshow is running in the Avatalk app.

Additional Accessibility

Button Choices in the Avatalk app can be read aloud by the Avatar by selecting the checkbox Speak Button Choices When Tapped

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Restoring Plans in Flourish

With Flourish and it’s cloud component BEAM.CARE, you can back-up the person-centered plans you create so that you can access and edit them from anywhere you have a mobile device and the Flourish app.

To restore or back-up a plan:

• Open Flourish on the device of the person you’re supporting
  
• Press the app settings link at the bottom of the splash screen with the Flourish logo.
  

• In the field labeled User Code, enter the unique code issued to you CreateAbility Inc. or your organization.
  
• Next, Press Restore.
  
• And finally, press Save. Flourish will restart with the restored plan data.
  
• If you want to perform a back-up or restore from the plan section of Flourish, you can access the settings page by pressing and holding the header in any of the plan sections and pressing APP SETTINGS in the appearing popover widget at the bottom of the page.

You can also edit your plan panels by pressing the EDIT button directly above app settings.

Remotely editing a Flourish Person-Centered Plan on a client’s device.

• Navigate to GIRDER.BEAM.CARE
  
• Log in with your Girder credentials.
  
• Select the system of the person you support.

• Press Configure Plan in the dark menu area.

• Scroll to the bottom of the Configure Plan page and press the Flourish Versions button

• You can press each entry of this page to view and edit current plans, or view or restore previous plans. Next time the Flourish user starts the app, they will be notified of new data.

Creating printable Flourish plans

Press Generate Flourish PDF in the menu area of GIRDER.BEAM.CARE

A download will automatically start, or you browser may open the PDF at which point you can save it to your device or share it with others.

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You can download CreateAbility apps on your Android device from the Google Play Store here: CreateAbility in the Google Play Store

Apple’s App Store

For iOS and iPadOS users: You can download CreateAbility apps from the App Store here: CreateAbility in Apple’s App Store

Amazon’s App Store

For Kindle Users or Android users with the Amazon App Store, you can download MeMinder through Amazon’s App Store with this link:
Amazon’s App Store

Sideloading (Android & Kindle Users)

CreateAbility’s apps can be installed via a process often referred to as “sideloading”. Sideloading Android apps bypasses a device’s default app store, where applications are traditionally downloaded and installed from.
While slightly more complicated to perform, sideloading our apps affords more flexibility for deploying our technologies on a more accessible range of devices. 

• To start, locate the APK file for your CreateAbility product.
  • An APK is an Android Package, a file that contains everything needed to install and run an Android app.
  • An APK will be provided to you via e-mail from a CreateAbility team member.
  • If you’re unable to locate your APK, contact us and we’ll send you one ASAP.
• Turn on your Android device
• Connect your Android device into a Windows PC or Mac via the provided USB to Micro USB ConnectorMac Users: Your Android device will appear on the desktop. You will need to install Android File Transfer, a free application, to complete the USB transfer. To download Android File Transfer, go to https://www.android.com/filetransfer.
• On the home screen of your Android device, drag your finger down from the top edge of the screen to access your notification tray
• Find and select the system notification that says “Tap for other USB options”
• Press “Transfer Files”
• On your computer, open your file explorer by pressing Windows Key + E or Command + Shift + C for Mac Users
• Click on the Android device’s directory, double-click “Internal Storage” then open the “Download” folder.
• Drag and drop the APK into the Android device’s “Download” folder
• Once the APK is transferred to the download folder, disconnect the cable from your Android device.
• On your Android device, open ‘Docs’ or ‘Files’ app from the home screen and select the ‘LOCAL STORAGE’ tab
• You will see that the APK has appeared in the download folder of your Android device.
• Press on the APK to launch the APK installer
• You may see a prompt that says “For security, your tablet is set to block the installation of apps obtained from unknown sources.”
• On the prompt, press the SETTINGS button, which will take you to Security & Privacy settings page.
• Press the entry that says “Apps from Unknown Sources” so that the toggle switch is on, and press “OK” on the proceeding warning dialogue.
• Press the back button in the top left to return to “Docs” or “Files”
• Press on the APK again
• Press “Install”
• Once install has completed, press “OPEN”

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A key part of managing MeMinder is adding and configuring list items for the person you support

To add new items:

• On any browser, log in to BEAM.CARE with your MeMinder login credentials
• Choose or create the system you wish to add tasks to
• Click “Select Items” on the left-hand side of the page
• Click the checkboxes for any premade tasks you’d like to use from the “PERSONAL CARE”, “VOCATIONAL” or “EDUCATIONAL” tabs, or create your own tasks in the “CUSTOM ITEMS” tab.

Items you select are added to the “Configure Plan” section of BEAM, and will not appear in MeMinder until you add them to the Personal List from the “Configure Plan” section of BEAM

• Press “Configure Plan” on the menu panel to set-up notifications, and configure days of the week you would like the tasks to appear in MeMinder.
  When you’re satisfied, click “Add” under the “Add to PL” column.
• Once you’ve clicked the blue “Add”, that item will appear in the Personal List, and consequently on the MeMinder app.

Ordering items in the MeMinder App

Once you’ve added tasks to the personal list, you’ll want to order those tasks on your tablet in MeMinder.

• First, press and hold the MeMinder logo for 3 seconds to unlock the settings icon, then click the settings icon.

• In the settings, uncheck “Show Talking Pictures View” and press the green check mark in the uppermost right hand corner to enter the caregiver’s list view.

• Determine what order you’d like the tasks to appear, and swipe left on the task you would like to appear first. Press the edit icon.

• To make the task appear first, select the leftmost color group, green.

Note: “PRE” tasks will hide all subsequent tasks from your student until they mark the PRE tasks as completed. “POST” tasks will remain hidden until all preceding tasks are marked as completed.

• If there are related tasks that you want to appear directly after your first task, mark those the same color, in the order you want them to appear.
• To make the next task or group of tasks appear after the green tasks, mark them as blue, then orange, etc.
•  To reorder tasks of the same color group, re-designate them the same color in the order you want them to appear.

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