Did you know that you create a personal profile with your favourite settings? This means that when you open up ActivInspire it will always show the same set of tools, the background colour of pages etc that you have decided on.
- With ActivInspire open (in the staffroom or classroom, it doesn't matter which), select Edit from the top menu and select Profiles...
- Now you can set your flipchart page colour
- Choose what tools appear on the toolbar
- And decide how many colours appear in your palette
- You can also make sure that ActivInspires shared resources - images, sounds, backgrounds etc - load and are available for you to use (on some computers in the staffroom they haven't been loading)
- To do this, click on settings and uncheck Use default 'Shared Resources' path
- Click on .... next to Shared resources file
- And this window will open. On My Computer find the T:drive > Materials > ActivInspire Resources
- Now click on the little disk with the pencil (top right-hand corner) to save your profile
- Save it wherever you want to on your computer (perhaps the T.drive is best then it will be accessable from both staffroom and classroom)
- Now when you click on Shared Resources in the Resource Browser (if you can't see this on the right of your flipchart, select View > Browsers), all the resources should be available for you to use.
- If you need to load your profile in a classroom. Again, select Edit from the top menu and select Profiles and click on the folder symbol (top right-hand corner) and find it on your computer where you saved it.
2 comments:
Thanks very much, Ann. Good to see the blog up and running again. The idea of your own profile is great - each teachers likes to have different functions in the tool box. One question: do you have to make a separate profile for every classroom you're in or is one enough?
No, once you've created and saved your profile, you can load it from any classroom.
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