For online math teaching, you need a digital whiteboard and some math tools such as a ruler,
a protector, a compass, and there are many online digital whiteboards available, I have
made a few videos about them. But the software which I'm going to show you today is not just
a digital whiteboard, it has tons of more features. And some of these features are unique
to this software, I could not find these features in any other software. And the reason behind
is that this software is developed by one of the world's leading companies for educational
technology, which is called promethium. This is the same company who has a learning management
system classflow as you can see here, and the best thing is that you can integrate this
software with classflow. This is called active inspire studio, and it is a full featured
online teaching platform. activinspire has tons of features, which cannot be covered
in this video. But in this video, I will be focusing on four things. Number one are the
match tools available and how to use them. Number two, I will cover how to draw shapes.
Number three, I will cover how to write equations, mathematical expressions inside activinspire.
And number four are some of the editing features such as changing linewidth, changing colors,
how to clear the page, how to add pages, these kind of things. But before I start, if this
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subscribe button. And now let's get started. Now to get this software, you type active
inspire. And you will see this active inspire download click on that and then download active
inspire, you select the language, then you select your operating system. Mine is window.
And then you have to put your details here. And the company will send you a download link
in your email. And you will get an email from Promethean support, open this email. And then
here is the link download activinspire you will get an executable file which you click
and then follow the prompts and the software will be installed. Once the software is installed,
and you try to run the software, it will ask for an activation key because when you purchase
any product, there will be a serial number of that product which you put on their website
and they will send you an activation key. But if you have not purchased any product,
just like me, you can ignore this activation key step just ignore it. And the software
will start now at the bottom you will see two option one is for personal use, and one
is for 60 day trial. So you can click any of these, the personal software is free, which
is good enough for you for online teaching, for using math tools, or even for creating
math videos. And this is one of the very important aspect of this active inspire because it has
certain features which are very good for creating micro learning contents for mathematics for
creating very short mathematics videos. And you will see in a minute. So then you will
see this interface. And on the right hand side, we have this pane, which you can move
anywhere you want. Math tools are available in this Tools tab. So if I click on this tools,
and math tools, these are some of the math tools available. So let us start with ruler.
When I click on ruler, I can see that a ruler has been inserted. Now the first thing you
should understand is that most of these tools, they have three different icons when you hover
over these tools, as you can see that I am in the middle of this tool, and I can see
across sign here if cross is present, it means I can click and drag this to any point inside
my page or whiteboard. So this is one icon. If I go to the edge of this ruler, I will
see this two sided semi circle arrow at the top or at the bottom. So when this iconm is
shown, then if I click now and drag, I am rotating this ruler
at one of its corners, and you must note that there is an angle shown in the middle. Now
this is the angle at which this ruler is placed in the whiteboard. And when I want to rotate
this ruler, for example at 90 degree, I must watch the angle. So I can click and drag and
when This angle is 90 degree, then I bring my cursor in the middle, so that I can see
this cross sign, and I can drag it and I can position it at any particular location. No,
let's go back to the horizontal position. And I drag it towards lower side of my whiteboard
so that I could put a protractor at top of this. Now the angle is zero degree. Now the
third icon appears when you move your cursor towards the edges. This is also a double sided
straight arrow. And now if I click and drag, it increases or decreases the length of the
ruler, this appears on both sides and you can increase or decrease the length of the
ruler. Let us put another tool here, protractor. And know First, I would like to change this
white background to a grid. So to do that, I click on this grid icon, grid designer.
And I am happy with this spacing on x and y axes, I simply make this visible, you can
change the color of the grid if you want, you can change the spacing etc. But I'm happy
with that. So I simply say close and no, I want to draw a line and then I will make an
angle. And just like ruler, there are three regions inside the body of the protector tool
might be able to see a white line here a white semicircle inside this white line, my cursor
is of cross shape. And beyond this, it is our two sided arc which I can use to rotate
this protector. If I click and rotate, I can rotate it, then towards the edge, it becomes
our two sided state arrow which I can use to make it bigger or smaller. And on the outside
of both of these tools. If I bring my cursor closer to the edge, I can see a pen which
I can use to draw a line. So let us draw a line from zero to roughly 160. And I think
it's millimeter unit. And similarly I can draw an arc. If I bring my pencil closer to
the edge of the protractor. No, I want to delete this line. And in order to move this,
I just click and drag when this x appears, and I want to place this around this 80. And
now the center cross here is at 80 millimeter mark and my red line is very close to the
edge. So we will make a 60 degree angle on this side and a 60 degree angle on this side.
To do that, the best way is that you click on these three little dots there are three
dots on the protector and then you click on either filled Ark or closed AR. So let us
see what is closed on. So when I bring my pencil at 60 degree and
then I rotate towards right an arc will be drawn which is a closed arc. Now let us see
how the fill arc looks. And no I click this filled arc.
And this time I start from this 120 degree and bring it to 180 degree and as you can
see that this is a filled out. And this looks beautiful if you are making an explanatory
video for a primary school student or even for middle school students, and you are showing
them how to use the protector. But for example, you want to make a video. So you can see that
how beautiful it looks when you draw a closed arc using this protected tool. And if you
want to close any of these tools, you again click on these three dots and click on Close.
So the tool will be closed. So in order to clear the page, you click on
this clear and then clear page. And now I can also close this tool. And now let us draw
a circle. And now we don't need great. And now I want to show you how to draw a circle.
So we use compass. And again in the compass we have similar tools, this double sided straight
arrow can be used to increase the size of the compass. When you bring your cursor on
the pencil side of leg, you see this double sided arc which you can use to rotate the
pencil. You can also see this angle here. And now if you bring your cursor towards the
left leg, you will see this cross you click and drag and you can move this to any position
to draw a circle. When I come very close to the
pencil, I see this pencil icon I can click and I can rotate this and I can draw a circle.
Again you can confirm that it is ending at zero degree and no I can move it to any other
position. So this is how you use compass. Let's clear the page once again. And in order
to close the tool, and the three doors for Compass are here at the top You click there
and you close the company. Now there is another tool, which is sometimes useful for primary
school teachers, which is dice roller. And this tool can be used, for example, to randomly
select a student who will present first if your class has up to 30 students, because
you can roll up to five dices. For example, let's say I start from three, and I roll three
dices. So now this is a number number 15. So the student with roll number 15 will present
just a use case, but there could be many use cases. And then you click on outboard to flip
chart. And one thing I forgot to tell you that this is called flip chart in activinspire.
So this is not called up page. This is called a flip chart. flip charts are really good
teaching tools. And some teachers still use flip charts because most of the students are
visual learners. So flip charts are good for visual learning. And you might have seen the
physical flip charts in many videos as well. So now I click on output to flip chart and
this a 15 number will be placed here in the center of the flip chart which I can move
to any position. So in this way, you can roll a dice there are some other features available
which I cannot covered in this video. Otherwise, video will be very long, but you can discover
yourself, you can increase the speed of roll if you want, and you can select up to five
dices and roll them and again you can output any number and you can place it here. So in
this way you can use this tool as well. Another tool is x y origin and xy origin is used to
rotate shapes about a particular point or let me clear the page once again. And this
tool can be closed from this cross sign and now there is another tool set is quiet and
you can use this tool to draw 90 degree lines are parallel lines and the features are same,
you can change the size you can rotate this to any particular position. And there are
also angles shown here. So you can draw lines and at any particular angle as well. And no
I will leave this as your assignment to use the status quo tool. And the reason is because
I want to quickly touch this shapes icon. So, let us close this tool as well. And this
is shape tool. And if I click on shape, I have a lot of shapes available and at the
end there is a little arrow you might be able to see if I click on that, I can see another
column of various elements which are available, there are some arrows some connectors, these
are very important connectors, if you are making some flow diagrams for example, so
let us draw some shapes. So I select this square shape. And now I can draw a square
shape here. Now this black is controlled by linewidth which is this slider here. If I
decrease this, can I draw the same shape again, the line width will be decreased and this
blue color is selected by these fill colors. If I select red for example, and I draw a
circle, now the color field will be red. So in this way, you can change the line thickness
and you can change the fill color. And these connectors are very useful as well. Because
if you are creating flow diagrams, then you will love this feature. Because in some applications
flow diagrams are very useful and normally flow chart makers are very expensive tools.
However, look at some of the prices and you will find out such as Vizio. So I have made
a separate video about flowchart makers, which you can watch where I have described some
free alternatives. And my favorite is a deal, which are used for creating flowcharts. And
I also have a video on D as well. Another math tool is Equation Editor. And let me clear
the page first. And that is available in insert, menu, insert and then equation and also you
can see this pie symbol on the right once you select it from here it will appear in
this area. And no if I click in the middle of my flip chart, it will take some time as
you can see there it is still working. But then you will see this equation editor and
this is very simple to use just like the word Equation Editor. Because when you
are teaching mathematics online, you sometimes have to write equations. These kind of features
are normally not available in whiteboards just like the filled Ark or closed Ark features
or this equation editor which is already in place. grated inside the whiteboard. So therefore,
the ability to have this equation editor inside this whiteboard is fantastic. And within this,
you can have matrices, you can have these Greek symbols, you can have these fractions
powers everything. And these are symbolic so that you understand what it means for primary
school students to also have these division type symbols where you want to show how to
divide something, let's say 100. Inside, you want to divide with five. And you want to
show to your students how our division works, because one of my subscribers asked this question
how to get this symbol, you can get it in other ways, but this is also available in
this equation editor inside activinspire integral and derivative signs are also available. And
no, this is normal fraction that say four divided by five, then you want to put a plus
sign so you click here, get this plus sign, and then you can write another fraction and
so on. So all these math symbols are available in equation editor very useful for teaching
math. If I close this, these equations will appear on the flip chart or let me close this
and now my equations are on my flip chart. And if I want my equation editor back, I just
click anywhere on this and the equation editor will be shown again so let us close this.
Now in order to add pages, you can see that I have only one page if I click on this arrow,
a new page will be added. So in this way you can add pages to your flip chart. To delete
this page, simply click on these three dots and click on Delete. So I think that is it.
No you should be able to use activinspire for teaching mathematics online. So I have
described math tools, how to draw shapes, how to use Equation Editor
and some of the main editing features inside activinspire. So I hope that you will find
this video useful if so please give it a thumbs up. Thanks for watching and see you next time.