dentje
08-08-2007, 06:59 PM
Hello all,
I work in an English language school where we have activboards installed (with both AP and AS), and we are currently investigating/piloting student-created projects .
An important facet of these projects would be to allow the students to view their projects at home and show them to their parents.To this end, it is very important that the student has access to a flipchart viewer (more so, that exporting the flipchart, as interactivity is heavily reduced if not removed when exported).
However, the Activprimary & Activstudio Viewer Single User End User License Agreements state: "You are not permitted to redistribute the software."
We would like to be able to redistribute the software to our students. I know that some might say that they can download it from the website, but the problem relates to it being necessary for students (as young as 6 years old) to enter details on the prometheanworld site before they can download. We think this will present a number of problems, including language (the students and parents are Brazilian with varying degrees of English) and confidentiality (we do not believe it is appropriate for children to have to enter details of this nature).
I wonder how schools in the UK deal with this issue. Perhaps you don't give students copies of their own flipcharts to view. Or if they do, do all the students, including primary school students, have to enter the site and go through the downloading process?
Dennis
p.s. I have requested permission through support, but I'd like to know the experience of UK schools.
I work in an English language school where we have activboards installed (with both AP and AS), and we are currently investigating/piloting student-created projects .
An important facet of these projects would be to allow the students to view their projects at home and show them to their parents.To this end, it is very important that the student has access to a flipchart viewer (more so, that exporting the flipchart, as interactivity is heavily reduced if not removed when exported).
However, the Activprimary & Activstudio Viewer Single User End User License Agreements state: "You are not permitted to redistribute the software."
We would like to be able to redistribute the software to our students. I know that some might say that they can download it from the website, but the problem relates to it being necessary for students (as young as 6 years old) to enter details on the prometheanworld site before they can download. We think this will present a number of problems, including language (the students and parents are Brazilian with varying degrees of English) and confidentiality (we do not believe it is appropriate for children to have to enter details of this nature).
I wonder how schools in the UK deal with this issue. Perhaps you don't give students copies of their own flipcharts to view. Or if they do, do all the students, including primary school students, have to enter the site and go through the downloading process?
Dennis
p.s. I have requested permission through support, but I'd like to know the experience of UK schools.