Promethean ActiVote Installation guide

Training Manual (Activprimary)

ACTIVOTE

TP-1600-UK Activote Training manual (Activprimary)

Version 1

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An introduction to Activote 1

Tutorial One - Registering your devices 2-1

Tutorial Two - Ad hoc voting 2-7

Tutorial Three - Pre-prepared questions 2-13

Tutorial Four - The user database 2-21

Tutorial Five - Named voting 2-31

Tutorial Six - Question master 2-39

Contents

What is Activote?

Activote is an on-the-spot assessment system. Teachers ask questions; learners give

their answer on their Activote handset. Responses are analysed and can be displayed

on an interactive whiteboard in spreadsheets or charts. In this way, the teacher gets

instant insight into every student’s understanding of a topic.

Activote can be used with any interactive whiteboard. It can be used with either

Activprimary or Activstudio software.

Activote is sold in a range of packages:

Each Activote package includes:

16 or 32 voting handsets

A carry case

Torx screwdriver

Activote Quick Start Guide

You can also choose from:

Activprimary or Activstudio software

A hub, called Activhub, so that your Activote will work with any interactive whiteboard

or any computer

Ready-to-use primary or secondary curriculum question sets, called ActivprimaryMV

or ActivstudioMV

What is this manual?

This manual is designed to introduce you to Activote with Activprimary software. In six

tutorials we aim to take you through some of the most important features of Activote.

For this manual we assume you have a working knowledge of Activprimary.

Accessing more help

To access Activote’s help les:

1. Click on the Teacher Tools Menu button

2. Select the Menu button.

3. Select Activote>Activote Help…

An introduction

to ACtivote

INTRODUCTION Activote

Using Activote

To vote using Activote devices, and to complete the tutorials in this

manual, you need the following:

Hardware:

Voting handsets

Activboard or Activhub

Software:

Activstudio or Activprimary

Set up

This manual shows you how to use Activote devices with Activprimary

software. We assume, therefore, that your hardware and software

have been set up and are ready to use.

Before you start these tutorials, therefore, check the following:

Either

Your Activboard has been calibrated and is ready to use.

Your Activhub is plugged in.

Please refer to the Activote Quick Start Guide, which was supplied

with your voting set, to check that your hardware is ready to use.

Terminology

Activboard

Voting handsets work with Promethean’s interactive whiteboards,

known as Activboards.

Activhub

If you are not working at an Activboard, you can use Activote on any

computer or interactive whiteboard using an Activhub.

Activprimary

Activprimary is a teaching software designed for use with younger

children.

Activstudio

Activote can also be used with Activstudio teaching software.

Note: If you have an

Activboard, you don’t need to

use an Activhub to be able to

use Activote.

Activote INTRODUCTION

Before you begin

Open Activprimary.

Before we begin these tutorials, we will reset your Activprimary

settings:

1. Click on the Teacher Tools Menu button.

2. Click on the Menu button.

3. Select Settings. The Activprimary Settings box will open.

4. Click on the button Reset All Settings.

5. Conrm that you want to do this.

6. Click on OK to close the Activprimary Settings box.

Before voting devices can be used, the computer needs to know they exist.

In this tutorial we will show how to use the Device Registration program to

4. Select Devices.

Tutorial One

Registering your devices

This will open a Device Registration box, which is used to tell the

computer that your devices exist.

Note: As you begin these tutorials, we assume that no devices are registered. If

some devices are listed under the Registered Devices heading,

click Remove All and conrm that you want to remove them.

Check with whoever registered them before doing this!

1. The Device Registration program

Open Activprimary.

The Activote programs are listed in one submenu. To nd this:

1. Click on the Teacher Tools Menu button.

2. Select the Menu button.

3. Click Activote.

TUTORIAL ONE Registering your devices

2. Setting the channel

Before we register the devices, we must set the country of use.

In the Device Registration box, click on the drop-down menu headed

‘Select the country in which you are to use Activote’. Choose United

Kingdom, if it isn’t already selected.

Note: If there is another Activote system operating within 20 metres of your

board, make sure you don’t register devices at the same time.

3. Numbering your voting devices

Before continuing, check that your voting devices have been

numbered.

If they haven’t been numbered, you can number the back of the

devices using any ballpoint pen.

Doing this allows us keep track of which student uses which voting

device.

For these tutorials we will use devices numbered 1-8, so it would help

to have these lined up on your desk, ready to use.

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