Flipchart Basics Part 1

8/19/2019 Flipchart Basics Part 1

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1 credit class

Basics of

ActivInspire

Course Instructor:

Ashley Witman

[email protected]

Handbook by Heather Hamker

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mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Table of Contents

Topics Page #

Module 1: “Breaking it Down”

Dashboard Breakdown 4

Inspire Settings

Layout Tab 7

Commands Tab 8

User Defined Buttons 14

Settings Tab 16

Module 2: “Where Did it Go?!”

Design Mode vs. Presentation Mode 18

Menu Bar 19

Browsers

Page 22

Resource 24

Object 29

Notes 31

Properties 32

Action 38

Drag and Drop 39

Voting 40

Object Edit Box 42


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Topics Page #

Module 3: “Actions And Other Ideas”

ToolTip 44

Hide & Show 46

Grouping 48

Group & Pulley 49

Magic Ink 52

Using Colors 54

Layering Objects 56

Module 4:

Inserting Media 58

Inserting Sound 64

Inserting a Weblink 68

Course Objective: By attending this course, you will have learned the basics to

ActivInspire and be able to use the software in your classroom and be able tocreate flipcharts.

Course Requirements: In order to earn a credit for the class, you must attend

class each day and have a flipchart to show by the end of the week. Your

flipchart can be as basic or elaborate as you choose.


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Module 1: “Breaking It Down”

Dashboard

ActivStudio 3 Dashboard

ActivInspire Dashboard

Click this box if you want the dashboard to pop open on start up


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To open up Inspire in Primary, click here.

The dashboard breakdown:

Quick links to flipcharts

Immediately opens desktop flipchart

Immediately opens the ExpressPoll

Goes directly to Promethean Planet

Quick links for Profiles, device registration, and

updating software

Opens Promethean’s Web Support


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s a v e d f r o m

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p o w e r p o i n t s a r e d i s a b l e d

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l i n k .


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Settings

This is the section that used to be the Studio Settings, Toolstore, and Customize

in ActivStudio 3. All sections have been condensed into one area found under

File.

LAYOUT Tab

You may use already created toolbars or customize toolbars for different

content areas by clicking on the Profiles drop down menu.

How large do you want the icons on your toolbar?

The main toolbox can be docked at the bottom,

top, left, or right of your program. It can also befloating as in ActivStudio3.

You can easily switch between profiles by

clicking this icon on your toolbar.

What are the different Profiles created already?

“At The Board”

This profile was

created with

the basic tools

that you would

need while

using a

flipchart during

a lesson. If you

write and erase

and use a few

basic tools, this

is the profile to

use.

“Authoring”

This toolbox has

been expanded

to include the

Text tool, along

with some user

defined buttons

in the third

column. When

creating

flipcharts, this is

a quick toolbox

to use.

“Language

Arts”

The language

arts profile

includes more

writing toolslike the Text,

Handwriting

Recognition,

Tickertape, on

screen

keyboard,

and spell

check.

“Math”

The math

profile

switches to

include more

math toolssuch as the

ruler,

protractor,

calculator,

dice, and XY

origin.


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COMMANDS TAB

The Command Tab used to be called the “Toolstore.”

To create a profile, start with any created profile.

1.

2. 3.

4.

Adding tools to your toolbox:

1. Click on the tool that you want to add.

2. Click on “Add” at the bottom of the menu box.

3. IF you want to move the tool on the toolbox, click “move up” or “move

down.”

4. Don’t forget to click “Done” when you have made your changes.

Open a

profile

Save a

changed

profile

Save a

new profile

Delete a

profile

Undo

changes

** When creating a new profile, click “Save As” before changing your

toolbox and change the name of the profile. That way you won’t change

an already created toolbox when clicking “Done.”


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Some of the basic tools:

Old New Old New

Look Look Look Look

Desktop Annotate Tools

Previous Page, Next Page

Start/Stop Voting & Express Poll

Pen

Old: eraser

New: Magic Ink

Highlighter

Text Tool

Page Reset

Fill Tool

Clear Tool

Tickertape

Undo/ Redo

Page Zoom


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New Tools

Desktop Tools – You will use this wheel when working on a program other than Inspire or

if you want to take snapshots of pictures online.

New Tools:

Eraser- it actually erases!

Shapes Tool- This replaces the pen modifier (right clicking on the pen)

Connector

Insert Media from file

Page Browser (The “old” page selector and organizer combined.)

Math Tools

Go back to Inspireflipchart

ExpressPoll

Promethean Planet

Keyboard

Camera

More Tools

Screen Recorder


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USER DEFINED BUTTONS Tab

User defined buttons are programs that you use along with a flipchart (Word,

Excel, pdf file, etc). These programs will show up in the third column on your

toolbox.

To add a User defined button, go to the settings and click “User defined

buttons.” You will probably get nothing showing in Button properties, so click“Program/File” in the Type box and then click “add,” you should then be

looking at the screen below.

Step 1: Make sure the Typeselected is “Program/File”

1.

2. Step 2: Search your computer

for the file you want to select.

3.

Step 3: Label the file in “Tooltip”

In order for your User Defined File to show up in the third column, make sure the “roll

in” box for main toolbox is unchecked in the Layout tab.


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SETTINGS Tab

The setting tab is similar to the Studio Settings in AS3. What can you do in

“Settings”?

Apply settings to ActiVote or Expression questions. (Learner Response System)

Set the clock tool to analog or digital. (Clock Tool)

Set the Spotlight and Reveal tool colors. (Effects)

Set the Resource Library to display as a grid or list. (Flipchart Objects)

Change the default web browser page. (Online Settings)

Enable the spell checker (spell checker)

Set the colors for your math tools, select a calculator, or set dice speed. (Tools)

Choose to use the system keyboard or Inspire keyboard. (User Input)

Change recording settings when making flipchart recordings. (Recordings)

Set the World color and default page scale. (Flipchart)

Show or hide the sound controller. (Multimedia)

Set visible objects in Design Mode. (Design Mode)

“Profile and Resources”

will most likely be set by

the district tech office.

This area tells Inspire

where your resources

are located.


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MODULE 2: Where did it go?

Design MODE vs. Presentation MODE

Some people created flipcharts in design mode in ActivStudio. Design mode

would turn off all actions while you worked. In Inspire, you can toggle betweendesign mode and presentation mode with one click.

Presentation Mode- Blue Star

Design Mode- Red Star

If your actions are not working on the page, check the upper right hand corner

of your screen to make sure you are working in Presentation Mode.


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RESOURCE BROWSER

The “Resource Library” is no longer called a library and no longer

contains only your resources. It is now called a Resource Browser and contains

EVERYTHING!

On the next pages, we’ll go through each browser and how what it contains.

Page Browser (Page Selector &

Organizer)

Object

Browser

New Item!

Properties

Browser

Voting

Browser

New Item!

Resource

Browser

(Resource Library)

Page Notes

Browser

Actions Browser


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Page Browser

The Page Selector and Page Organizer in ActivStudio are now called the Page

Browser. In this browser you can maneuver through your flipchart or rearrangeflipchart pages.

Move the slider up to

create smaller

thumbnails or to use thebrowser as a page

organizer.

You can

shrink or

enlarge the

size of the

browser by

grabbing the

side of the

browser and

dragging.


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Within your page browser, is another drop down menu for each flipchart page.

This menu will allow you to alter the flipchart page or flipchart with ease.

If you need to

duplicate a

flipchart page,

click here.

Adding a blank page

between pages in easyby clicking on “Insert

Page”

Delete a flipchart

page.


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Resource Browser

The Resource Library from ActivStudio is now called the Resource Brower.

The view shown above is in List View. See the next page to view it in Grid View.

My

Resources

Shared

Resources

Other

Resource

Folder

Browse to

another

folder

Search


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In Grid View, you can see more of your resources. Let’s look at the items on this

browser more closely.

This button will Roll Up the

top half of the browser, so

you can view more

resources at once.

Toggles Transparency

or

In ActivStudio

this was a box at

the bottom of

the library.

Rubber Stamp

Select an image and

stamp it on your pagemultiple times.


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Here’s how to change the view mode to grid each time you open up Inspire.

First, go to File and then Settings

Then follow the steps below.

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2

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You can also change the view directly from you Resource Browser.

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OBJECT BROWSER

The Object Browser is new to Inspire. In the Object Browser you can actually seewhich objects are located on which layer of the flipchart. You can then easily

move an object to a different layer while in the Object Browser.

Here’s a screen shot of a flipchart page with the Object Browser

open.


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Here’s an up close look at the Object Browser for the previous page.

Notice that all the layers are separated in the Object Browser along with each

object on that layer. Any object that is locked on the page shows up with a

lock next to it. Any hidden objects show an eye with a red X.

These objects are

locked on the flipchart

page. To unlock, click

on the lock next to the

object. You can also

lock all objects on the

page by clicking

“Locked” once.

These objects are hidden

on the page and set to

be revealed at a later

time.


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Notes BROWSER

By clicking on the

“Format Toolbar” you

will open up the text

formatting options such

as font, size, color, and

alignment.


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Property broWser

The Property Browser can be overwhelming when it is first opened. Here’s the

breakdown of each section:

Continued….

The Identification tag contains the

name, any keywords associated

with that object, and whether it is a

question, option, or label.

The Appearance tag shows you

which layer the object is on and its

level of visibility.

The Position Tag basically

tells you where the object

is located on the flipchart

page as well as its size.

From this menu, you can

invert, angle, reflect, or

lock down the object.


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You can add labels to your

objects from this tag. Labels

allow you to name an object

and have the label be attached

to that object without grouping.

This is also where you can

create a ToolTip (see Actions).

Containers can now be

made in one window!

The Rotate Tag allows you

to set mobility preferences

to an object. You can set

the object to rotate in a

certain direction and also to

rotate around other objects.


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Action Browser

You can set an object to contain

an action by selecting an image

and clicking on the action you

want it to contain.

Once you’ve set an action toan object, don’t forget to

click “Apply Changes”

otherwise your action will not

be set.


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New! Drag and Drop Feature

You can now drag an action

out of the Drag and Drop

menu right on top of an image

and the image will contain that

action. Or just drag the action

out of the Drag and Drop

menu right onto your flipchartand the action will be there

ready to click.


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VOTING BROWSER

Switch to ActiVotes Use Expressions Toggle to anonymous voting

Device Registration

In this box you can register your voting devices and keep track of the results.

Assign students to

devices. This is also

where you can

create multiple

classes using one set

of devices.

After voting, results will show up

under this heading.

Vote Settings-

click the box if

you want the

results shown

after each

question.


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Object Edit

ActivStudio 3 Object Edit Box

Inspire Object Edit Strip

The highlighted numbers on the ActivStudio 3 object edit box correspond to

their new icons in Inspire.

1. Freely

Move

3. Object

Edit

Menu

5.

Group

7. Send

Backward

9. IncreaseObject

Size

2. Rotate

Object

4.

Transparency Slider

6.

Send

Forward

8.Duplicate

10.

Decrease

Object

3.7.6.8.10.9.

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What’s New?

The Freely Move icon is now on your object edit strip instead of on the

object itself.

The Rotate Object is also on the object edit strip instead of located on the

object.

All of the editing tools (cut, paste, copy, delete) and the properties iconare now located in the Object Edit Menu.

Documents

Flipchart Basics Part 1