Teachers know one of the most challenging times is returning from an extended break.  It’s a time of reminding students of your classroom expectations and procedures, or even starting some new ones. While this is a challenging time, unique ways of presenting your lessons can do wonders for getting back into the swing of teaching and learning. Promethean offers tools to help get this new year off to a great start with the ActivPanel Classroom Essential apps and innovative software solutions like ActivInspire.  

The Promethean ActivPanel Classroom Essential apps offer many fun and unique ways to bring interaction and excitement to your everyday lessons. The Annotate app is easy to use and allows powerful options to help you mark up anything displayed on your ActivPanel screen. Using the Spinner and Timer apps provide an effortless way to bring some gamification to any lesson. These applications are offered as Promethean Web apps for use with the Chromebox or OPS devices. Using the Promethean Whiteboard app to create interactivity is easy—just capture your worksheets using the Screen Capture app to create reusable whiteboard lessons. You can open any .jpg or .png file on the whiteboard and share the saved .pwb files with colleagues using the cloud connect option or through a connected USB drive. 

ActivInspire is Promethean’s award-winning software for creating and delivering engaging and interactive lessons. Quickly create interactivity using Rub and Reveal or Drag a Copy actions, or upload files to add to any lesson. Visit the Promethean Resource Library to find pre-created ActivInspire flipcharts to quickly save, download, and present.  

Explain Everything

Explain Everything Advanced is Promethean’s most innovative software solution. This comprehensive platform makes it easier than ever to create captivating lessons that immerse students in a world of vibrant multimedia, real-time collaboration, and imaginative instruction.

Tired of juggling multiple browser windows and apps? Explain Everything puts it all in one convenient place so you can get what you want quickly and easily. You’ll have access to state-of-the-art whiteboarding tools along with popular Promethean apps like Timer, Spinner, and Polling.

Designed for in-person, remote, and hybrid learning, Explain Everything Advanced can be used to record, edit, and share unlimited lessons within the software using our patented tool, so your students can view them anytime. For maximum flexibility, it also integrates with OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Classroom, and more.

Grab-and-go resources and ideas

Add music to your teaching

• School-appropriate songs – bring some pep or relaxation into your classroom with these ideas from We Are Teachers.
• Scratch Garden – a playlist full of songs for teaching Phonics, Science, English, Math, Art, and more.
• 6 Smart Ways to Bring Music into the Classroom – Edutopia reveals ideas you can implement right away.
• 50 Ways to Teach Using Music in Your Classroom – brain breaks, games, and books to use in your lessons by Waterford.org.

Play games with your students

• Teachhub: Fun Review Activities and Classroom Games to Do Now
• Teaching Expertise: 23 Review Activities For High School
• Edutopia: How to Use Gameplay to Enhance Classroom Learning

Enhance your curriculum

• Ditch That Textbook: 25 virtual field trips for your classroom
• Discovery Education: Interactive Virtual Field Trips
• We Are Teachers: History Facts That Will Shock and Amaze Your Students
• We Are Teachers. 50 STEM Activities to Help Kids Think Outside the Box
• Berkeley.edu: Alternatives to Traditional Tests
• We Are Teachers: More ideas for Alternatives to Tests

Digging deeper

Use Promethean solutions to jump start your lessons by checking out the wide variety of self-paced online courses available on Learn Promethean.