About profiles

Here we look at profiles in more detail:

What is a profile?

ActivInspire can be adapted to suit different teaching techniques.

Whether you need lots of tools on your board, or just plenty of space – ActivInspire suits all teaching styles. When you start ActivInspire, it displays items such as tools according to a profile file.

If you have used other computer applications, you may be familiar with options and preferences. ActivInspire creates a profile based on your use of tools.

For example, when you dock or roll in the Browser, ActivInspire makes a note in the profile. Next time you launch ActivInspire, things like menus, tools and other items will look and behave just like you left them.

You can continue to work with this profile, or select Edit > Profiles to create and save one or more profiles of your own. You can create different profiles for different circumstances and save your preferences in as many profiles as you wish. You can then use your profiles on another computer. Other teachers can use their profiles on your computer, then you can change back to your own profile when they have finished.

Your personal profiles are stored in the My Profiles folder.

What can you customise in a profile?

Profiles are a great way to personalise ActivInspire and make it truly yours. You can customise almost everything in ActivInspire and save your preferences in one or more profiles. To make this easy for you, we have grouped things into four major categories. Each category is represented by its own tab in the 'Edit Profiles' Dialog Box.

This category

Allows you to...

Layout

Choose the position, visibility and behaviour of items like the Main Toolbox, Menubars and Document Tabs.

Commands

Personalise the Main Toolbox and Marquee and Sizing Handles, by adding or remove items to suit your circumstances.

User Defined Buttons

Create your own shortcuts, so that when you press one of your own buttons, ActivInspire opens a file or launches a program.

Settings

Customise the way on which you work with your Learner Response System, maths tools, multimedia and many others.

Which profiles are included in ActivInspire?

ActivInspire includes five profiles. Their names indicate their intended purpose. You can use them as provided, or customise them further to suit your needs:

At The Board

Presents an uncluttered display, where the ActivInspire window is set to Best Fit, the Browser is hidden, the Flipchart Bin is visible, the Quick Access Toolbar is hidden and the Main Toolbox includes some presentation tools for use at the board, as well as the Page Browser and Resource Browser buttons.

Authoring

Puts authoring tools at your fingertips for quick lesson development. Opens with the Page Browser open and pinned and includes the extended Colour Palette in the Main Toolbox, as well as the Quick Access Toolbar.

Languages

Presents an uncluttered display, where the ActivInspire window is set to Best Fit, the Browser is hidden, the Flipchart Bin is visible, the Quick Access Toolbar is hidden and the Main Toolbox includes additional  tools for language teaching, like the On-screen Keyboard, Text Recognition, Tickertape and Spell Checker.

Mathematics

Presents an uncluttered display, where the ActivInspire window is set to Best Fit, the Browser is hidden, the Flipchart Bin is visible, the Quick Access Toolbar is hidden and the Main Toolbox includes additional maths tools, like the Ruler, Protractor, and XY Origin.

Media

Presents an uncluttered display, where the ActivInspire window is set to Best Fit, the Browser is hidden, the Flipchart Bin is visible, the Quick Access Toolbar is hidden and the Main Toolbox includes additional media tools, like the Sound Recorder, Screen Recorder, Camera and Insert Media from File.

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