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:
The Items Pane is in the form of a film strip along the bottom edge of the display. It shows thumbnails of the resources in the selected subfolder and their filenames. When no subfolder has been selected, this pane is blank.
The 'Resource Locations' Popup Box shows the folders in the chosen resource area.
Use the 'Resource Locations' Popup Box 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:
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. |
The picture below shows the Items Pane as it appears when you open the Resource Browser. The list identifies each numbered component. |
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Items Pane. |
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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. |
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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. | |
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. |
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Thumbnails of some resources in the 'Animals' folder. |
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Options to:
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Forwards and Backwards buttons. | |
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Tool Pod:
Quickly insert multiple copies of a resource into your flipchart. | |
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You need ActivInspire Professional to use the Rubberstamp. |