icurio allows you to modify your preferred way of viewing icurio in several ways. You access My Preferences from the User Menu. You can change your Academic Level, and change your Texthelp preferences. Teachers and Administrators can also change their default Standards setting.

Click on My Preferences, then choose which of your preferences you would like to change.

Example of Location of Preferences:

 Example of Edit Your Preferences:

A. Change Your Academic Level

Choose the academic level you would like as your new default level.

The original default corresponds to the academic level of the organization to which you belong. (If you are a registered user from a middle school, your default academic level is Middle.) If you wish to change this, click on the drop-down menu and select a new level.

B. and D. Change Your Texthelp Preferences

Select languages for your Translation preferences. the default language for Translations From: is English. The default language for the Translations To: is Spanish. You can change the FROM language if the web page you have accessed is in a language other than English. You can change the TO language if you want to translate the text of the web page you have accessed into a language other than Spanish. Language options include: Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, English, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Thai.

Set your Read Aloud preferences. Select a female (Ava) or male (Tom) voice as your Read Aloud preference. Select a Read Aloud speed that best meets your pace for listening.

C. Change Your Standards (for Teachers and Admins only)

icurio defaults standards to your state of residence but you can change that default. Click on the drop-down menu and select a new state for your default standards. (If you only want to see a different state’s standards temporarily, you can select it when you click on the Standards tab.)

In order for any changes to your preferences to be activated, be sure to click  when you are finished.