This Browser helps you to quickly view, navigate and use the resources provided with ActivInspire to enrich your flipcharts. The Resource Library contains a huge range of games and activities, annotations, assessments, backgrounds, concept maps, images, shapes, sounds and other items too numerous to list.
You can easily extend the library with your own and other people's resources and add resource packs from the Promethean Planet website on www.prometheanplanet.com, or from our partners.
By default, the Resource Browser opens the Shared Resources folder. All resources provided with ActivInspire are arranged by category and stored in clearly named folders.
The Resource Browser has two panes, each has its own Popup Menu and tools:
The Folders Pane in the top half of the Browser shows the folders in the chosen resource area.
The Items Pane in the bottom half shows thumbnails of the resources in the selected subfolder and their filenames. When no subfolder has been selected, this pane is blank.
Use the Folders Pane to:
Quickly navigate to and view all the resources in a particular folder, for example My Resources, Shared Resources or other locations on disk or on the network.
Index your resources for faster searching.
Search for resources by file name or keyword.
Search all types of resources or search only particular types of resources.
Search for resources on Promethean Planet.
Use the Items Pane to:
See at a glance how many files a folder contains.
Display thumbnails and filenames of selected resources in the Browser.
Change the view mode and thumbnail size of the resources in the selected folder.
Drag and drop resources such as page templates, activity pages and question pages from the browser into your flipchart.
Make the background colour of an image resource transparent at the time you drag it onto the page.
Rubberstamp multiple copies of a resource into a flipchart.
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To add your own items to the Resource Library, you can drag them from a flipchart page and drop them onto either of the two parts of the Resource Browser. |
Use either of the two panes to drag and drop your own creations from a flipchart page into a folder in the Resource Library.
The picture below shows the Resource Browser. The list identifies each numbered component.
In this example:
The Folders Pane shows Shared Resources with the Animals subfolder selected.
The Items Pane shows two graphics files in the Animals subfolder. The musical note symbol on the second file indicates that it has a sound effect.
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Number of files in the selected folder. |
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'Search Term' entry field | |
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Open:
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Location of currently selected folder. | |
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Browse to another folder. | |
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Folders Popup Menu Options:
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'Import' and 'Index' functions are only available when a top level folder is selected. | |
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Options to change:
Quickly insert multiple copies of a resource into your flipchart. | |
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You need ActivInspire Professional to use the Rubberstamp. |