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Why Promethean?

At Promethean, we understand that every school is unique and faces different challenges. One size doesn't fit all. As a global leader of interactive technology in education, Promethean develops technology that transforms learning, helps make life easier in the classroom and improves student performance.  Learn More

Visually Engaging and Impactful Lessons

Educators are challenged with preparing today’s students to excel in a fast-paced, competitive global community. Skills like collaboration, creative expression and self-assessment are essential for students’ success now and in their future careers. Teachers transform traditional, lecture-based classrooms into learning environments infused with imaginative, interactive experiences that captivate students’ attention while granting them the freedom to take ownership of their achievement.

Motivate your students to discover their potential for greatness with ActivInspire, the educational software that powers the interactive, integrated classroom. Designed to foster efficient, independent thinkers who learn by doing, ActivInspire empowers teachers to blend real-time assessment and real-world experience into the learning process.

ActivInspire integrates ActivArena’s dual-user functionality and Promethean’s award-winning learner response systems to support collaborative teamwork and ongoing assessment in the classroom. With access to premium content, including assessment templates and unlimited visual and auditory resources, ActivInspire provides you with all the building blocks you need to create differentiated lessons filled with rich, hands-on activities in a fraction of the time.

Why ActivInspire?

Increase collaboration
Multi-user input and pen and touch functionality encourage students to engage, interact and work together during lessons, resulting in communication-building teamwork.

Enhance classroom efficiency
Deliver more effective lessons with fully functional, integrated tools like Revealer, Math Tools, Clock and Magic Ink.

Simplify lesson preparation and delivery
ActivInspire’s intuitive interface allows teachers to easily create lessons, enhance collaboration and engage students through interactive tools.

Discover timesaving resources
With curriculum-based templates and an assortment of tools, images and activities, ActivInspire provides you with all the building blocks you need to create an interactive learning environment. Connect with Promethean Planet, one of the world’s largest online educator communities, to discover a wide variety of free resources for use in the classroom.

Key Features

  • Dual interface—Easily switch between Primary for young learners and Studio for older students.
  • Support for mathematical equations—Use the Equation Editor to add mathematical equations into a flipchart or into questions or response options for ActivExpression learner response devices.
  • Cross-platform—Compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux.
  • Embedded web browser—Stream content and data directly from websites into flipcharts, rather than downloading it and storing locally.
  • Advanced pen functionality—Pen tool remembers the last-used color and last-used width the next time the program is started and enables you to customize the placement of the pen tool cursor.
  • Extensive customization features—Create a profile to suit your teaching style and lesson requirements.
  • Import-friendly—Integrate files and content from a variety of other applications, such as Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Adobe® and Smart Notebook™.
  • Dual-User functionality—Two users can interact simultaneously anywhere on many ActivBoard models, promoting collaboration.
  • Easily Share — Access the Send as Email feature to attach a flipchart to email from within ActivInspire.

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Models
ActivInspire– Personal and Professional Edition

Works with
All ActivBoards, ActivEngage, ActivExpression, ActivExpression2, ActiVote, ActivSlate, ActivPanel, ActiView and other Promethean interactive tools; also works with 3rd-party interactive displays. 
Note: Does not require an interactive display to function.

Availability/Support
Find ActivInspire on Promethean Planet.

Operating Systems
Windows, Mac, Linux

View ActivInspire Specification Sheet for complete details.

I’ve heard that Microsoft Windows 7 supports touch functionality. Do I need a Windows 7 machine to be able to use ActivInspire 1.6?
No. ActivInspire 1.6 supports multi-touch capability specifically when used with the ActivBoard 500 Pro from Promethean. Using any operating system supported by ActivInspire 1.6 that is touch-enabled, such as Windows 7, you can take advantage of ActivInspire’s multi-touch capability when connected to the ActivBoard 500 Pro.

I don’t have a touch-enabled board. Can I still use ActivInspire 1.6 with my regular ActivBoard?
Yes. However, the multi-touch capability of ActivInspire only works if you have a touch-enabled ActivBoard 500 Pro connected.

Which languages are supported?
ActivInspire is available in the following languages:

Arabic, Basque, Brazilian Portuguese (BRA), Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK), English (US), Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese (yokogaki - horizontal text), Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Malaysian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (EU), Russian, Slovakian, Slovenian , Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese.

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