Resource Browser

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.

The Resource Browser has two parts, each part has its own Popup Menu and tools:

Use the 'Resource Locations' Popup Box to:

Use the Items Pane to:

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.

Example

The picture below shows the Items Pane as it appears when you open the Resource Browser. The list identifies each numbered component.

Items Pane.

 Open the 'Resource Locations' Popup Box.

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 picture below shows the 'Resource Locations' Popup Box with the 'Animals' subfolder selected. The list identifies each numbered component.

'Search Term' entry field

Open:

 My Resources

 Shared Resources

 Another resource folder

Location of currently selected folder.

Browse to another folder.

 Start searching the current folder (enabled when you enter a search term)

 Set search options

 Search for resources on Promethean Planet

Folders Popup Menu

Options:

  • Export to Resource Pack

  • Import Resource Pack Here...

  • Index this Folder for Searching

  • Create New Folder

'Import' and 'Index' functions are only available when a top level folder is selected.

The picture below on the left shows two graphics files in the Animals subfolder as they appear in the Items Pane. The musical note symbol on the second file indicates that it has a sound effect. The list on the right identifies each numbered component.

Thumbnails of some resources in the 'Animals' folder.

 Popup Menu

Options to:

  • Insert into Flipchart

  • Rename Resource File

  • Delete from Library

 

Forwards and Backwards buttons.

Tool Pod:

 Open the 'Resource Locations' Popup Box.

 Toggle Transparency lets you make the background colour of an image resource transparent at the time you drag it onto the page.

 Rubberstamp On/Off

Quickly insert multiple copies of a resource into your flipchart.

You need ActivInspire Professional to use the Rubberstamp.

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