1. User Guide
Boardworks Shakespeare
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2. What is Boardworks Shakespeare?
Each KS3 Boardworks Shakespeare product 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.
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3. How do I install the product?
Boardworks Shakespeare is supplied on the CD-ROM as a
Windows Installer.
To install the software, you will need administrator privileges. If you
already have this, simply insert the CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive
and follow the on-screen instructions.
The installer will optionally install the Macromedia Flash Player and
Adobe Reader. If you choose not to install these with the product,
you can open the CD-ROM in Windows Explorer and run the
installers manually at a later date.
Please see the readme.txt file on the CD-ROM for further details
and for instructions deploying the product across a network.
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4. How can I get technical support?
What do I do if I don’t have the correct version of Flash?
Double-click on the Flash Player installer file included on the
Boardworks CD-ROM, and follow the instructions.
What do I do if I get a warning message when I open a
presentation?
Depending on your level of security, you may receive a message
warning you that macros are present in the product. These enable
Flash to run and it is safe to enable them when using our software.
Our technical support team are available from Monday to Friday
9am to 6pm. They can be contacted by telephone on 08703 50 55
60 or by e-mail at support@boardworks.co.uk.
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5. How do I get started?
Double-click on the shortcut icon installed on your desktop, or
click Start – Programs – Boardworks – Boardworks
Shakespeare…
Each Boardworks Shakespeare product consists of 10
PowerPoint presentations and accompanying worksheets.
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
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6. Are there any teacher’s notes?
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
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7. What about worksheets?
Many slides have accompanying worksheets, and where this is the
case you will see a pencil 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. The worksheets can be launched
from the same menu as the PowerPoint files. Worksheets are
supplied as PDF files.
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8. 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_active_x.msi on the CD-ROM.
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 most activities, the arrow icon
( ) is the reset button, and the question mark ( ) provides
help should it be needed.
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9. How do I hear the audio?
All audio 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.
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
rewind
duration of recording
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10. How do I navigate through the presentations?
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.
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11. Can I print from the presentations?
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”.
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12. Can I edit the presentations?
One of the major advantages of Boardworks Shakespeare 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. The
Copyright Licence supplied on the CD-ROM contains fuller details
and takes precedence over this document.
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13. What are the minimum system requirements?
Minimum system specification
Microsoft Windows Me, 2000 Professional, Xp Home/Professional
1GHz processor (Intel Pentium/Celeron family or AMD Athlon/Duron
family)
128MB RAM
40MB available hard disk space
16-bit colour monitor and video adapter capable of 800x600
resolution
CD-ROM drive
Windows compatible sound card
Software requirements
Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, XP (2002) or 2003
Macromedia Flash Player 8.0.22 or later (included on the CD-ROM)
PDF file reader (Adobe Reader included on the CD-ROM)
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14. Can I give you feedback?
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 English Editor
Boardworks Ltd
The Gallery
54 Marston Street
Oxford
OX4 1LF
tel: 08703 50 55 60
fax: 08703 50 55 65
e: editors@boardworks.co.uk
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