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Important information about Software Support

Tracy Robinson — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:30:17 GMT

Important information about Software Support

Promethean constantly strives to provide its customers with the best possible products to support the challenges they encounter in today’s educational arena.

A key component of this process is the withdrawal of older products that no longer meet customer requirements.

Promethean would therefore like to inform you that support for ActivPrimary, ActivStudio and ActivInspire 1.0 – 1.3 software will be discontinued as of December 31, 2011.

Because you are a high-valued and loyal user of Promethean technology, Promethean is providing users on these versions, the opportunity to upgrade to the latest version of ActivInspire for FREE. Simply upgrade your software to the latest release of ActivInspire today by visiting Promethean Planet support. Please note that you will be able to download the latest version of ActivInspire for free until September 30 2012.

ActivInspire provides users with a range of benefits not currently available within ActivStudio and ActivPrimary:

* ActivInspire is the ‘power behind the ActivClassroom and unlocks Prometheans entire range of hardware products, enabling greater pupil interaction.

* Available in 36 languages,

* Enables all existing premium and free educational content to be utilised.

* Offers the opportunity for users to utilize the vast array of Publisher Created Resource e.g. flipcharts. Within ActivInspire the number of Publisher Created Resources is significantly greater than those available with ActivStudio or ActivPrimary.

Find out more information about ActivInspire and download ActivInspire.

Why do you teach?

Adrienne Phillips — Mon, 02 May 2011 12:34:52 GMT

Describing a teacher's job to someone outside of the education circle is nearly impossible. Between the late nights grading, the weekends planning and the constant flow of changing curriculum, parent conferences, district meetings...the list goes on. Most people wonder why on earth anyone would want to teach.

Through my experience, I have noticed that there is a certain twinkle teachers get in their eye when they talk about their "kids". I still get that twinkle, and I have been out of the classroom going on 3 years. There is certainly something about teachers, the sacrifices they make and the desire to want to see students grow and achieve great things.

This Teacher Appreciation Week, I thought it might be nice to share stories of why we teach or why we became a teacher.

I will start.

I became a teacher because I believe everyone deserves someone in their corner pushing them to do their best, believing they can make it and supporting them when things don't work out the way they should. I teach not to push through a curriculum strand, but to instill a passion for wanting more, learning more and doing more. I teach because of the look students get in their eye when they realize what they can accomplish.

Why do you teach?

Primary and Secondary Back to School Tips

Adrienne Phillips — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:56:29 GMT

How do you help your students adjust and make the transition to a new school year and grade level? What types of tips and advice do you offer their parents?

By the way, if you'd like to share some items from your back to school checklist with the Community, please visit this thread:

Back to School Checklist

Lori Alcala — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:12:42 GMT

We are putting together a back to school checklist and we'd like your input! Do you have your own checklist, or a few items from it, that you'd like to share with the Community? We're looking for both general and ActivClassroom-related items from primary and secondary teachers.

Thanks for sharing!

By the way, if you have any ideas for helping parents and students transition to a new school year, please share them in this thread:

Primary and Secondary Back to School Tips

ActivInspire 1.4 Update - Please Read

Edward Kilbane — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:55:25 GMT

Hello – We have updated ActivInspire 1.4 with a patch which will resolve

- The error message 'Unable to find sound recording software' was displayed when the sound recorder was launched. This affected only some Lenovo (R400) and Dell Latitude (E5500) computers. This is now resolved.

- In Dual User mode, the student and teacher pens are again independent. Both pens can now move objects simultaneously.

- The toolbar disappeared in some projector usage scenarios. The toolbar now remains on screen when the user attaches a projector to the computer they are using.

- Rounding errors found using the ActivInspire calculator are resolved.

- Page links in flipcharts created in Studio now work as expected.

- The ActivMarker no longer gives an error message on non-English operating systems.

- ActivInspire no longer crashes when deleting flipchart page notes on the Snow Leopard OS.

- ActivInspire no longer crashes when using word seed.

- Text strings inside shapes are no longer truncated.

- In the ActivInspire dashboard, the 'Training and Support' link now directly connects to the ActivLearning area of Planet.

- Windows 7 virtual keyboard is now being picked up by ActivInspire

The complete build (including Help, Resources and supporting software) is now available for download on Promethean Planet. Just go to http://www.prometheanplanet.com/en/support/software/activinspire/”

For regular, exciting updates around ActivInspire and beyond you can now follow us on Twitter by going to https://twitter.com/activinspire and clicking ‘Follow’.

Kind regards,

Ed Kilbane

ActivInspire Product Manager

ActivInspire 1.4 Is Now Live

Mary Wallace — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:08:22 GMT

With great pleasure I can announce that ActivInspire 1.4 is now available to download. All the information can be found at: www.prometheanplanet.com/activinspire

New features include:

Pen Modifiers
Page Turn Effects
Multi-Page Select
Self-paced export to Excel
5 new languages - Thai, Malaysia, Japanese (horizontal text), Czech and Hungarian

- plus there have been a host of significant performance improvements which should mean you experience a faster and smoother ride.

If you're a new user then go to: www.prometheanplanet.com/activinspire and download from there.

If you're an existing user, you can 'Check for Updates' via your menu:

We hope you like it!

Best wishes,

The ActivInspire Team

ActivInspire New Features - Your Feedback

Mary Wallace — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:33:14 GMT

Thank you very much for all the brilliant suggestions you have been feeding through to this forum - we now have a very extensive list which should keep us going for a while!

This forum is now getting a little unwieldy, so we propose to include a form which will directly send your suggestions straight to Product Management - what do you think? We want to encourage the discussion but we also want you to know that all your ideas are coming straight through to us, and not getting 'lost' in a thread somewhere.

Let us know what you think!

P.S. Watch out soon for an invitation to the field trials for the next version of ActivInspire...