Activ viewer

[seabass]

Hey,

whats the license agreement with Activ Viewer? I know that you can use it on any PC but are you allowed to use it on other manufacturers whiteboards?

My collegue has made a great quiz and it's many many pages, would take me forever to convert it.

Cheers

[Sarah Carpenter]

I'm not sure of the correct answer but by downloading the flipchart viewer I'm guessing that Promethean assume you don't have their software installed (or that's what it says in the info about the flipchart viewer) so therefore you are unlikely to have one of their boards so then you must be okay to use it on another manufacturers board. At the moment Promethean are selling AP for £49 and stating that it can be used 'on any whiteboard in the UK only' so I can't see why the flipchart viewer would be any different - but if I'm wrong someone please correct me!! :cool:

Sarah +wave+

[markrobinson]

The current PC Viewer is a static pre-viewer and a significant number of functions are not supported such as our famous interactive tools and also the software cannot save.

While the viewer will work on lesser boards and we do not prevent such use - the differentiating software features are not present.

The viewer is intended to complement exiting Save as HTML, Save via FTP and Save as FLASH, PDF, WORD & PPT features of the full software allowing a teacher to ensure their presentation content can be distributed "anytime - anywhere" in a wide variety of of web-based and local client formats.

The terms of the Activsoftware licence do mean it cannot be re-distributed by 3rd parties or included or compiled with any other software and resources without our express permission.

Users should also be subscribed to Promethean Planet in order to download the software.

As indicated - for non-Promethean users in the UK we also now offer a full Software solution based on the multi-award winning Activprimary software along with a vast library of Publisher generated content. Currently this is on a time limited special offer.

This builds on voting centric products that Promethean made available to non-Promethean users last year.

Re: My collegue has made a great quiz and it's many many pages, would take me forever to convert it.

I am not sure of the context of this question... are you saying he has made a Quiz in Promethean software and wants to play it on another board's software e.g. SMART?

If the content is WHOLLY his/hers then Powerpoint offer a suitable medium to transfer and additionally both SMART and Promethean software can read certain versions of each other's files formats. It certainly would not take forever.

BUT If it is the case that he want to take Promethean content into other software - then the terms of our full Activsoftware license are clear in that the shipped resources we provide are licensed for use only with Promethean Software - - and any "conversion" could breach the copyright of Promethean and its licensors.

Perhaps Seabass you can get your colleage to contact me... I would be keen to see why converting a quiz from Promethean would offer any benefit to him/her - given that Promethean offer integrated voting to bring quizzes to life?

Perhaps he/she would be one of those to really benefit from our special software offer and popular board swapout options rather than risk copyright theft.

[seabass]

Ok so it's like this. My collegue has a multple choice quiz that is like 60 pages long. He hasn't used activote nor has he ,ade it interactive, it's just 60 questions in different rounds with 4 multiple choice answers. I have another make of board in my room and I don't want to have to import this flipchart into Notebook because then I will have to go through and tweak it, i.e. make sure all the text is aligned and all that stuff.

The benefit is just that I want to use this quiz for it's content and I don't have activ on this board, since it isn't a promethean board and I don't want to pay 49 quid for activ primary.

I just want to use his static quiz and wondered if i could do it with the activ viewer rather than have to do any conversion. So can I do this?

[Lara]

You could cetianly see the pages through ACTIV viewer - as it's there to view flipcharts. Which should mean that the pupils can read and respond to the questions?

[davidlloyd]

Hello Seabass

I think the simplest solution would be to convert the flipchart into powerpoint which will take a few seconds. In Activstuio go to main menu go to Flipchart/Export and choose Powerpoint. It will all be done for you.

[seabass]

David, thanks for that suggestion, surely it's more simple to just open it in ACTIVviewer since it involves no conversion at all, I know that technically it will work I just want to know legally am I allowed to do it.

All I want to know is can I legally show a flipchart that has been made in ACTIVStudio on the ACTIV viewer on a different make of board? I am struggling to see why not since otherwise I can't think what the ACTIV Viewer was made for but at the same time I don't want to break any license agrrements.

[saha]

You can always export an activeflipchart to powerpoint format, if that is your goal.

None of the interactivity will show up on activiewer.

[Lara]

I would have thought that is one of the reasons to have the ACTIV viewer - to let you view on another board. You can see the pages, but do not have all the functionality - which seems ideal for what you want.

[Lara]

According to the download page,

"Software is for personal use only and not for distribution or forwarding"

Which suggests that if you personally want to use it to view a flp on another board, that would be fine. If someone else wants to, then they should downlaod the software themselves.

[Danny Nicholson]

Personally I'd export it as a powerpoint so it could then be used on any board...

[seabass]

how strange that activ viewer would be released and yet it seems, apart from lou tat everyone else thinks it can't be used on another board. What was it released fro I wonder?

[LouB]

Maybe to show people who are using other products what they are missing out on! :p

[saha]

how strange that activ viewer would be released and yet it seems, apart from lou tat everyone else thinks it can't be used on another board. What was it released fro I wonder?

Activviewer was specifically released to give users like students to view flipchart pages with the richest information possible.

Many students cant afford to buy powerpoint and hence for that target group, the free activiewer is an ideal tool to view a teachers lesson specially when they are absent for class.

You could also export to pdf format and lets students see it through the free acrobat reader...but exporting to pdf loses some richness of the flipchart.
Hope this helps.

[Lara]

how strange that activ viewer would be released and yet it seems, apart from lou tat everyone else thinks it can't be used on another board. What was it released fro I wonder? I also said I'd interpretted that you could use the viewer on another board. I agree with Lou, it certianly gives a glimpse of what the software can do, but nothing compared to the real thing! Hope you've managed to get your quiz working.

[rexboggs5]

I installed the Viewer today to see how my current flipchart (on multiplying integers) would look.

It looks ok but I can't drag objects around - they appear to be frozen in place. So my page where I gradually reveal stuff by moving a rectangle apears to be rather useless in the Viewer.

Is there no marque select tool in Activ Viewer?

BTW, I tried exporting to powerpoint, and it was even worse. The positioning and formatting of the text on that page was all over the shop.

Cheers

Rex

[davidlloyd]

David, thanks for that suggestion, surely it's more simple to just open it in ACTIVviewer since it involves no conversion at all, I know that technically it will work I just want to know legally am I allowed to do it.

All I want to know is can I legally show a flipchart that has been made in ACTIVStudio on the ACTIV viewer on a different make of board? I am struggling to see why not since otherwise I can't think what the ACTIV Viewer was made for but at the same time I don't want to break any license agrrements.

The way I read Mark's previous post is that yes you can use Activiewer on another brand of IWB to view flipcharts.