One application, two products, two editions

Previous generations of Promethean software made you choose between ActivStudio and ActivPrimary software. The good news is, this is no longer the case in ActivInspire.

ActivInspire includes both ActivInspire Studio and ActivInspire Primary

Two products

To quickly get you started with ActivInspire, you choose your preferred look and feel when you first run the application. ActivInspire tailors your tools and screen layout according to your choice. Whichever one you choose, you get the benefit of ActivInspire's powerful features.

Your choices are:

In this help file, we concentrate on showing you how to work with ActivInspire Studio and  ActivInspire Primary.

 

Switch from one ActivInspire product to the other

Switching from ActivInspire Primary to ActivInspire Studio, or the other way around, is simple:

  1. From the View Menu, select Dashboard. The ActivInspire Dashboard opens.

  2. Click Configure. Depending on which look and feel you are currently using, the Dashboard displays:

or

  1. Check the box to use the other look and feel next time you launch ActivInspire.

Two editions

ActivInspire is available in two editions: ActivInspire Personal and ActivInspire Professional Edition.

ActivInspire Personal is free. You can download it from the Promethean website. It's useful for getting started with ActivInspire and perhaps for your students to use at home. However, it includes only a subset of the features and functions that are available in ActivInspire Professional.

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When you use ActivInspire Personal, you miss out on a whole range of power, presentation and maths tools.

In ActivInspire Personal you can't use tools like the Screen Recorder, Sound Recorder, Teacher Lock, Desktop Annotate, Handwriting and Shape Recognition, and the Compass, to name but a few.

 

Another big advantage of ActivInspire Professional is that you can  customise it even further and save all your preferences in a profile for future use.

To find out more about the greater range of features available in ActivInspire Professional, see Reference > Differences between Professional and Personal Editions.

For more information about customising ActivInspire, see More about ActivInspire > Making profiles work for you.