Exploring tools

ActivInspire includes many tools to help you create engaging lessons to captivate your audience and to add interest while working at the board.

The Main Toolbox contains the most popular tools and more tools are available from the Tools Menu.

Here, we describe just a few of the fun tools for you to explore:

Sound Recorder

This tool allows you to capture sound to a file for inclusion in your flipchart. For example, you can create sound clips and link them to words, to help your students pronunciation, or capture sound while making a screen recording with the Screen Recorder .

Screen Recorder

This tool allows you to capture whatever happens on screen to a video file (.AVI), which you can keep in your flipchart, or save to a resources folder and replay as often as required.

Tickertape

A presentation tool that allows you to create a message that scrolls like a tickertape across the top of the board. You can stop, start and change it at any time.

Clock

 

A clock for use during a lesson, for example, to teach your learners the time, or to use as a stop watch or count down for timed activities.

Camera

 

This tool allows you to take an instant snapshot of what's on the screen and place it in your flipchart, the clipboard, or into the My Resources or Shared Resources folder. A range of options allow you to tailor the size and shape of the snapshot to your needs.

Open Flipchart

 

A shortcut to the 'Open flipchart' Dialog Box, which you can use to navigate to and open flipcharts.

Revealer

 

A fun tool for hiding and revealing areas of the flipchart page! Great for guessing games and for rekindling flagging interest.

Dual User

 

A tool for collaborative working at the board. It enables a second toolbox which can be used by a learner to write, draw, select, fill and connect objects on the board.

Tools remember their settings. When you switch tools, each one remembers your last choice. For example, the Pen and Highlighter remember their colour and width settings.