I have seen on the Tutorials on the UK side of Promethean that you can replace the name for an inserted link. Has anyone given this a try and have it work?
Gwynn
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I am having trouble with the eraser tool. The eraser works fine if I want to erase something that has been written but if I try to eraser a white square over some text so that it can reveal the text (which is something my second graders think is pretty cool) it does not work. Any suggestions? So, now I’m finally comfortable enough with Inspire to use it in my classes. I love that I no longer have to have two programs open in order to use my clickers. I am most happy with the browsers, it makes it much easier to find resources and manage clicker results. I used it to have my AP Statistics students take a practice exam, and could later go back and select correct responses without wasting class time. I also really like the desktop tools, although I’m trying to figure out if there is a way to have them come up anytime I minimize the program. Has anyone out there figured out how to do that? I haven’t played around too much with the setting, so if I figure it out I will re-post. The program does freeze up on my sometimes, which is frustrating. So, I just save often. I’ve also noticed a bit of a delay when I write sometimes, but that happens in Activstudio as well. Overall, it’s working pretty well in my class. I’m excited to be able to try out the dual pens, hopefully. OK, I have needed to switch computers on the fly with my board using ActivInspiration. I can’t remember which USB I orignally used. How do I assign the USB cable to the port without restarting the computer. I have looked at the control panel in the ActivManager, but I’m kind of lost. Gwynn Ok, I have a feeling this is right in front of my face, but I’m just not seeing it right now. I tried adding an image to a flipchart and got the icky pink/purple background. There was a transparent box that you checked in Activstudio 3 to eliminate that pink/purple background, but I can’t find it in Inspire. What is my poor overworked brain missing???? I’m having trouble with my snap to grid feature. When I make a grid, I want to be able to draw lines along the grid lines with the snap to grid feature. For some reason it doesn’t work. If I draw a line it doesn’t automatically snap to the grid, however, if I use the arrow tool to select and drag that line it will then snap to the grid. Anyone messed around with this? After my initial trial ran out, I downloaded the new version that Kevin put in the G drive, and everything is “so far, so good.” The first version was not cooperating at all with the Promethean board I had in the room. The kids claimed it wasn’t quick to follow their movements, the eraser tool was barely working at all, and they didn’t like the layout of the tools in the bar. I’m still unable to find a “power tools” option, and I’m wondering if that is in here somewhere. We used the dice feature pretty frequently in our room, and it was pretty easy to use the desktop keyboard and calculator when they were right on the toolbar. I love the options that automatically pop up when pasting pics from the Web onto flipcharts. It makes it very easy to manipulate the images quickly, and we had trouble even copying/pasting with the Expression edition. Now that I’ve got this new version, I’ll get it into the hands of the students and we’ll get some better feedback. My kids have been using the new way of registering the AtivExpressions for about a month so they have had practice and are used to the new system. What I want to show you is the amount of time I have to spend every day getting students their ActivExpressions. I have two classes so I have to be able to switch classes and do this twice a day. I end up wasting about an hour a week just registering the devices. This is related to my last post “New Software, Old Problems” so please be sure to read that before watching these videos. I’m not understanding how to use the color picker. I found it finally by right clicking on the colors (which is a logical change they have made). Once I click on it, a box of colors comes up, and everything I click on gives me a “you’re wrong” ding sound. I can’t click in the new color box, toolbar, or on the object I’m trying to match to the color. Any advice? So I just downloaded the “new” ActiveInspire software and I’m still complaining. Don’t get me wrong I love many new features that I’ll talk about eventually but I still have issues with my favorite feature, the ActivExpressions. I use ActivExpressions with 2 different classes twice a day for assessment. Since I have 2 classes I must switch between the classes and also all the names on the ActivExpressions. The only 2 ways I can do this is to have each kid enter a PIN number (which isn’t working - for some reason when the kids enter their PIN nothing happens so I haven’t been able to use that feature) and by Auto Registering the devices by sending out all the students names to each device. I like the idea behind the second option but the problem is that with 31 students it takes time to sort out all the Expressions to the correct student. Again I think an easy solution would be that each kid enters their student ID when they pick up their ActivExpression so the number always remains the same. |
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