Contents I - Navigating is easy p. 2. III - Controls p. 7. II - Using Whiteboard Active pages: making a new page, saving, opening, printing p.

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1 Tutorial Getting started with Whiteboard Active Whiteboard Active range is simple to use. It has been designed to be used on an interactive whiteboard as a whole class resource. You can also use it on a standalone computer, so you can prepare your lessons whenever you want. See also the online training at Contents I - Navigating is easy p. 2 1 Main menu p. 2 2 Search tool p Keyword search p Objectives search p Results of a search p. 3 3 Teacher s book p. 4 II - Using Whiteboard Active pages: making a new page, saving, opening, printing p. 4 1 What is a page? p. 4 2 Resources p. 4 3 Making a new page p. 4 4 Save p To save edited or new pages p To save another version of a project p To open a saved page/project p. 6 5 Notepad p What is the notepad? p To edit the notepad p To print the notepad pages p. 6 6 Print page p. 6 III - Controls p. 7 1 Play/Pause p. 7 2 Rewind p. 7 3 Hide/Show p. 7 4 Mute/Hear p. 7 5 Control strip p. 7 6 Zoom p. 7 7 Marking the video p. 7 IV - Toolsets p. 8 1 Draw toolbar p. 8 2 Text toolbar p. 8 3 Label toolbar p. 8 4 Mask toolbar p. 8 5 Resizing or moving annotations p. 8 Want to find out more? The Whiteboard Active CD-ROM contains an electronic searchable Help and a printed version. See also the online training at If you would like additional copies of this tutorial, please contact Customer Services, quoting : Phone: (Mon to Fri 8.30am to 5.30pm) bbcactive.schools@pearson.com Post: BBC Active Customer Services, PO Box 88, Harlow, Essex CM20 2JE

2 I - Navigating is easy Launch your Whiteboard Active title to arrive at the Home page. From here you can access: 1 Main menu 2 Search tool 3 Teacher s book Homepage of a Whiteboard Active title 1 Main menu i. To access the contents/pages, click on Main menu and you will see a list of units. ii. To see pages within a unit, click on the iii. To open an individual topic or question, click on the This opens a page or content screen which you can use with pupils. i. list of units ii. list of pages within a unit iii. a page opened i. To go sequentially through the pages, click the Next or Previous buttons in the panel on the left. ii. To navigate through the pages already visited, use the Back and Forwards arrows above the panel. iii. If you want to go back to any of these areas, just click on the area you want on the list. This is called the breadcrumb trail. Tutorial Getting started with Whiteboard Active

3 2 Search tool (CD version only. Knowledge Box search available on Knowledge Box version) i. Go to the Search screen via the Home page which is split into three areas: Keyword search, Objectives search, Results. ii. You can search across the current title or any Whiteboard Active titles you have installed in the same parent folder. iii. Select the title you want to search from the Search across drop down list, or select the All titles option. 2 1 Keyword search Here you can search for complete pages, content screens or individual resources (video, image, text, photo etc ). i. To choose which resource type you want to search for, click the appropriate radio button. ii. Type a word in the Keyword field iii. Select which Whiteboard Active title you want to search in iv. To search for all resources of a particular type, for example video, select that resource type and click Search leaving blank the Keyword field. v. To see the results, click on Search. 2 2 Objectives search Here you can only search for pages, not for resources types. i. Select which curriculum you want to search. Where appropriate, select the year from the Year drop down list, or select the All Years option. If appropriate, select the term from the Term drop down list. ii. Once you have selected your options, the appropriate schemes of work will be listed. (Please note that only the units that have pages linked to them will be displayed.) iii. Click on the arrow next to the unit to see the objectives within that unit. iv. Each statement has a Search button. Clicking this will take you to the Results screen, where you will find a list of relevant pages. 2 3 Results of a search i. To see the Results screen, click the Search button. ii. To go to a page/topic, click on the page or resource in the results list. Clicking on a result from a different title will open the title and take you to that page. (NB: none of the Whiteboard Active pages are downloadable). iii. To go back to the search you ve just did, click on the Back button. i. results screen ii. a page

4 3 Teacher s book The Teacher s book is a downloadable guide to the CD-ROM. It contains a summary of all the objectives covered by the pages and details their content with ideas for activities around them. It can be used for planning away from your computer. A printed book version is contained within a Whiteboard Active CD-ROM pack (on Knowledge Box, only the downloadable PDF version). II - Using Whiteboard Active pages: making a new page, saving, opening, printing 1 - What is a page? Page is how we refer to content screens rather than menu screens. i. A page contains resources (video, animations, audio files...), text information, and tools to manipulate the content of the page. Each page has its own Resource palette. ii. You can edit existing pages, by adding annotations, or changing the text in the notepad, or you can create new pages using resources from within Whiteboard Active CD-ROM. 2 Resources The resource palette shows thumbnails of resources of the current page. A resource may be a photograph, video, animation, audio file or a PDF of a printable activity. i. To open or close the resource palette click on the Resource button. ii. Go to the next and previous pages resource palette by clicking the left and right arrows on the resource palette. iii. Each resource has an i (information) button which will display a description. iv. Any resources which can be downloaded will have a Download button. Clicking this will open a dialogue box asking you where you would like to copy the resource to. (NB. None of the Whiteboard Active pages are downloadable.) Tutorial Getting started with Whiteboard Active

5 3 Making a new page i. To create a new page, click the New page button. This opens a new, blank page, and automatically opens the resource palette. You will be able to save this new page and reopen it later. ii. To add a resource to a new page, click on the resource you want and it will appear on your new page. You can move and resize the resource. (NB: PDFs can t be used on a new page.) ii. a new page with a resource added You can give any name to the new page You can add your own notes on the notepad or/and on the page......and use the tools 4 Save 4 1 To save edited or new pages, first click the Save button i. The save dialogue box lists any edited or new pages you ve worked on. ii. New pages will have a star symbol which appears next to the page title. (NB. If you haven t given a new page a title the default text New Page will appear instead.) iii. If there are any pages you don t want to save, remove the tick next to the page title. 4 2 To save another version of a project A new version of the title is called a Whiteboard Active project. i. To open the save dialogue box, click the Save button. ii. Then click the Save As button to open a dialogue box through which you can browse for a location to save. This will save a new version of the whole Whiteboard Active title with any new or edited pages you have added or edited.

6 i. ii. 4 3 To open a saved page/project i. To open any saved pages or project, click on the Open button which appears next to the page title. ii. The Duplicate button will make a copy of the page, for example to use for a different group of children. iii. If you close the Whiteboard Active title, you will be able to reopen saved pages/projects. Whiteboard Active file extensions are.wba. iii. a saved page 5 Notepad 5 1 What is the notepad? i. The notepad contains ideas and notes for the current page. Any notepad pages containing text have yellow tabs. White ones are empty for you to use. ii. To access the notepad, click on the Notepad button. Or double click the red tab on the side of the notepad to minimise or open it. iii. Notepad pages can be accessed by clicking on their numbered tabs. iv. You can drag the Notepad to another part of the screen by clicking and dragging the red tab. 5 2 To edit the notepad i. To edit the text on the notepad pages, click the mouse onto the notepad page. The cursor will change to a flashing Text bar (caret). ii. You can then type in any text. iii. If you want to format the text, use the formatting tools in the text palette (see Toolsets section). iv. Any amends can be saved (see Save section). 5 3 To print the notepad pages Click the printer icon in the bottom corner of the Notepad: all the text within that notepad will be printed off. 6 Print page i. To print the current opened page, click the Print page button. Printing the page in Portrait will leave space at the bottom of the printout for notes. Printing in Landscape will fill the page. ii. To print the notepad pages, click the printer icon in the bottom corner of the notepad. Tutorial Getting started with Whiteboard Active

7 III - Controls 1 Play/Pause To play/pause a video, animation or audio file, click Play or Pause control button on the left. 2 Rewind The Rewind button allows you to rewind a video or audio file. 3 Hide/Show Hides or shows any video, animation or image on screen. 4 Mute/Hear Silences or resumes the sound from a video or audio file. 5 Control strip Each page contains different resources, the majority of which are videos, animations or audio files with a control strip. This control strip consists of a timeline, a Play or Pause toggle button, a drag button and numbered video markers - these markers only appear on videos. A screen showing where the video has been hidden 6 Zoom i. To magnify a video or image., click Zoom button. Click the Zoom again to return the image to its original size. ii. If there are multiple small images on screen with no Zoom buttons, click in the centre of each image to magnify it. 7 Marking the video The bookmark allows you to select a specific point in a video, animation or audio file, so you can easily go back to it, add annotations etc... i. To add a bookmark, click the Mark button at any time which you can annotate if you wish. ii. A blue bookmark appears wherever the Play/Pause toggle button is on the Time line. iii. To make annotations using the tools, you need to first pause the video iv. To remove markers, drag them away from the control bar. Preset markers are red and numbered. These refer to suggested activities detailed in the notepad pages. If you click on a red, numbered marker, the video will pause while you view any additional content for that frame. NB. any annotations on marked frames will not be visible when watching the video. They can only be seen by clicking on the marker.

8 IV - Toolsets To personalise the pages, create your own activities etc, you can draw, annotate with text, add labels and also mask areas of the page. Details of the various tools can be viewed in the Help pages in each Whiteboard Active pack. 1 Draw toolbar i. Select a page to draw on and open the draw palette by clicking on the Draw button: type of pencil, colour, straight and free lines options available ii. You can also stamp shapes with this toolset click on the shape choice to reveal the options, choose a shape, a colour, then click on the stamp and click to place your shape wherever you wish. 2 Text toolbar i. To annotate the page, open the text toolbar by clicking on the Text button. ii. Select the A button and define a text box on the page. The flashing I bar indicates where you can type in text. iii. Choose a font, size and the format and type your caption. The text is editable: change colour, font, copy, paste etc.. 3 Label toolbar i. To open the Label toolbar, click on the Label button. There are a number of bubbles along with labels and post-it notes to choose from. ii. Select the label wanted, then click on the screen/page area and the label will appear. iii. Click in the centre of the label to add text. Note: The colour chooser is set to white and all labels will have a white background and a black border. 4 Mask toolbar i. To view the selection of masks, click on the Mask button. ii. Having selected one of them, click and drag the mask across the area you wish to mask. iii. You can move or re-size it by using the pointer tool. Note: Masks are always white. 5 Resizing or moving annotations i. To resize or move any annotations made, such as lines, masks and labels, click on the item or if a palette is open, click on the pointer and then click on the item. ii. Once selected, you ll see a box around it. Click and drag any of the black anchors on this box to scale the annotation. Items can be layered, moved backwards, forwards, or deleted altogether. Tutorial Getting started with Whiteboard Active