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Getting Started


Boardworks KS4 ICT is an educational package designed for whole-class teaching on interactive

whiteboards and projectors.

This PowerPoint presentation is a teacher’s guide to getting started with the product, and covers common questions and technical advice. If you haven’t used a Boardworks product before, it is recommended that

you start here.

What is Boardworks KS4 ICT?


Boardworks KS4 ICT consists of 13 units with 72 full presentations, which have been split into smaller presentations.

The product covers the new 2010 GCSE specifications.

For the full contents, please view the contents documents. Full mapping documents are also available.

What is in the product?


How do I begin using the product?

To begin using the product, just open the folder that contains the presentation you wish to open and double-click to open it.

Each presentation will open in Slide Sorter view. To view the presentation as a Slide Show, click on View, Slide Show, or click on

the slide show icon at the bottom left-hand corner of your screen.

Slide Show View


This product does not contain hard-copy teacher’s notes. Where a slide contains notes that are intended for the teacher, you will see

an icon in the top right-hand corner, as above. These notes typically include guidance on completing an activity, extra information or

ideas for differentiating an activity.

When you see the WWW icon, as above, the notes include a relevant web address. While all care is taken to ensure web links

contain useful information, Boardworks does not take responsibility for the content or accuracy of external web sites. To view the notes,

end the slide show if you are in Slide Show view, and then go to View, Normal, and you should see the notes field at the bottom of

the page. Another way of moving back to Normal View is to click on the icon at the bottom-left of your screen, as below.

Normal View

Are there any teacher’s notes?


What about worksheets?

Most presentations have accompanying worksheets, and where this is the case you will see a computer and folder icon in the

top-right hand corner of relevant slides, as above. Details of the accompanying worksheet are supplied in the notes section for that PowerPoint slide and the worksheets themselves can be

found in the same folder as the PowerPoint file. Worksheets are supplied as editable Word documents.

Many presentations are also accompanied by extension worksheets to support higher ability students.


Any slide which contains Flash will have the Flash icon in the top right-hand corner, as above. The Flash activities are not editable, although they can be copied and pasted into other presentations,

like other objects in PowerPoint. All Flash activities should be easy-to-use and self explanatory. In all activities the arrow icon ( ) is the reset button, and the question mark ( ) provides

help should it be needed.

Depending on the level of PowerPoint security, you may receive a message warning you that macros are present in the product. These macros enable the Flash to run and it is safe to enable them when

using our products.

What about the Flash interactivity?

This product contains many interactive exercises designed in Flash, a multimedia technology. In order to view the Flash, you will need to

have the most recent version of Macromedia Shockwave player installed. You may already have this on your machine; to ensure

you have the correct version, double-click on the file install_flash_player_10_active_x.msi on the CD-ROM.


Audio and video

All audio and video is embedded within Flash. Where audio is included on a slide you will see a speaker icon in the top right hand corner, as above. Where a video is included on a slide

you will see a film icon, as above.

The audio can be heard by using the sound player. Press play to start the recording, pause to stop at any point,

and rewind to return to the beginning.

play/pause

reset

duration of recording

draggable progress bar


Just like any other PowerPoint presentation, you can click on any empty area of the screen to bring on-screen the next object or move

forward to the next slide.

You can click on the back arrow at the bottom-left of each screen to go back through the slides. The coloured forward arrow at the

bottom-right of the screen only appears when all objects on a slide have been revealed, so you won’t miss any content.

You can see how many slides there are in the presentation by looking in the bottom left-hand corner.

How do I move to the next slide?


You can print all the slides in a presentation by simply clicking on the printer icon; alternatively, you can print single slides by

navigating to that slide, clicking on File, Print, and checking the “Current slide” option.

If you want to print the notes page that accompanies a slide, change the “Print what” option to “Notes Page”.

Can I print from the presentations?


One of the major advantages of Boardworks KS4 ICT is that it has been created in PowerPoint which means it is editable. You are free to

use the standard PowerPoint functionality to edit the presentations, including reordering, adding or deleting slides, adding or removing text, or inserting your own activities or images. The only items that aren’t editable are the Flash activities, and these can still be copied

and pasted between slides and presentations.

Many schools save the original version of the product on the network, with teachers saving their own versions locally.

Unless copyright is stated on the slide or in the notes field, you can use any media in your own presentations for educational use within the school that has bought the product. You must remove any media from your own presentations if you move to another school. However,

we cannot grant copyright for items that we have licensed from another party; these can be identified by the copyright line on the

slide. The Copyright Licence supplied on the CD-ROM contains fuller details and takes precedence over this document.

Can I edit the presentations?


Minimum system requirements

Minimum system specification

Microsoft Windows Me, 2000, XP Home/Professional, Vista1GHz processor (Intel Pentium/Celeron family or AMD Athlon/Duron family)

128MB RAM 270MB available hard disk space

16-bit colour monitor and video adapter capable of 800x600 resolutionCD-ROM drive

Windows compatible sound card (where sound playback is required)

Software requirements

Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, XP (2002), 2003 or 2007Macromedia Flash Player 10 or later (included on CD-ROM)

PDF file reader (Adobe Reader included on CD-ROM)


At Boardworks we are constantly striving to improve our products and all feedback is very gratefully received. If you wish to comment

on any of the content in the product please do get in touch:

The KS4 ICT Editor

Boardworks

The Gallery

54 Marston Street

Oxford

OX4 1LF

tel: 08703 50 55 60

fax: 08703 50 55 65

e: [email protected]

Can I give you feedback?

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