Software Upgrades
The world's best interactive whiteboard software keeps getting better and better.
As part of our commitment to quality assurance and support, our team is constantly looking at ways to optimize the features and benefits of our products. Therefore, from time-to-time it is necessary to download updates for your Promethean software.
If you experience any problems downloading or installing an upgrade, please contact your school or district technical staff. If the problem persists, please contact a member of Promethean Support.
Sign-In To Upgrade
Please note that you will need to be a Planet member in order to download your upgrade. Membership is quick and easy and gives you access to thousands of teacher resources.
ActivInspire
Make your classroom and ActivClassroom with Promethean’s next generation of teaching and learning software designed to work across a range of interactive whiteboards.
ActivInspire is a cross-platform, single software solution, combining the functionality of award-winning ActivPrimary and ActivStudio while seamlessly integrating ActiVote and ActivExpression.
Developed by teachers for teachers, ActivInspire allows users to operate in their preferred and most familiar interface.
Featuring quick lesson development and customisation that enables multiple profiles to be saved for different teachers, subjects or grade levels, ActivInspire is fully compatible with all major operating systems, including Windows, Mac and Linux.
Other key features include a library of resources, backgrounds, images, shapes and activities that can be instantly accessed through Promethean Planet.
ActivInspire offers straightforward navigation and an innovative toolbar that updates automatically with the most frequently and last used tools. Improving on existing functionality, teachers can now integrate media players, images, and audio, as well as existing resources, even if from different interactive whiteboard software or programs such as Microsoft PowerPoint™.
Now available in 22 languages!
Activstudio V3 - Features & Benefits
Writing and Drawing Tools - Draw, annotate and highlight using vibrant colors and different widths on your flipchart, computer or directly into MS OfficeTM documents.
Powerful Presentation Tools - Capture their attention (and hold it) with snapshot, spotlight, reveal and zoom features. Interactive Teaching Tools - Get them out of their seats and into the action with the interactive protractor, ruler, compass, clock, dice and sound recorder.
Lesson Capture - Record your whole lesson, presentation or meeting as a digital video file complete with audio for distribution on CD or online.
Rich Multimedia Support - Simply drag and drop existing content into flipcharts, including OfficeTM documents and Powerpoint presentations, PDFs, images, sounds, Flash animations and web-links.
Flipchart Builder - Create lessons and presentations in record time with editable templates that allow you to combine elements from existing lessons or create dynamic, new flipcharts quickly.
Point and Click Programming - Wow your students by hiding, rotating and moving objects with one touch of the Activpen.
Network Ready - Choose a network location to instantly share your lessons and resources with colleagues.
Fully Integrated Assessment - Use the supplied question master and ad hoc voting features to build lessons that enable simple, yet insightful formative assessment elements.
Activstudio Downloads
Activstudio V3 |
Activstudio Network Edition Patch Updates |
Student Edition | |
* Existing V3 users - please check your software dashboard to see if an update is available.
Activprimary V3 - Features & Benefits
Clear, Simple Interface - You may not be an expert to start, but you’ll soon become one.
Primary Curriculum Focused Resources - Access our Resource Library, loaded with flipcharts, images, diagrams, annotations, backgrounds, sounds and tools that make lesson creation simple.
Embedded Links - Fully integrate multimedia resources such as audio, video and web content into your lessons for a multi-sensory learning experience.
Interactive Clocks - Help students learn to tell time with the analog clock or use the digital clock as a timer to signify the beginning and end of activities.
Rolling Dice - Generate random numbers during math lessons or surprise students with a new and unpredictable way to start activities.
Sound Recorder - Record and play back students’ spontaneous responses and incorporate them into the lesson to celebrate and emphasize correct answers.
Video Recorder - Create videos of students’ projects or activities and share them with the class for positive reinforcement.
Camera Snapshot - Find and capture any image online to use in your lessons.
Floating Toolbar - Moves up and down on the screen so even the smallest students can reach it.
Activprimary Downloads
Activprimary V3 |
Activprimary Network Edition Patch Update |
* Existing V3 users - please check your software dashboard to see if an update is available.
About Activexpression
Even when you can’t hear them, your students have a lot to say. Their opinions and ideas are complex and limiting them to structured yes or no responses can stifle their budding creativity. Promethean’s Activexpression is the world’s most versatile student response system with full sentence and character texting options, providing students with a range of response types as vast and dynamic as the thoughts they are waiting to convey.
Like all of Promethean’s products, Activexpression was designed by teachers for teachers, with ease of use and flexibility as top considerations. The interface floats over any computer application—web browser, CD, PowerPoint—enabling teachers to use Activexpression spontaneously, minimizing the need for preparation and making the most of classroom time.
Today’s generation of cell-phone wielding students are instantly engaged by the device’s mobile phone-like design. But, don’t worry about them getting distracted by their cool new toy - the keys are adaptable so that students can only choose options set by the teacher.
Activexpression Downloads
Activexpression 1.1New! Activexpression 1.1 - This update will install an ExamView(R) XML importer, enabling you to import questions from ExamView(R) Version 4 & 5. Examview is a registered trademark of FSCreations, INC. |
Driver Upgrades
This section provides a list of driver upgrades. However, please note it is not necessary to upgrade your driver if your current one is working correctly.
If you have any queries about your existing or upgraded driver, contact your ICT co-ordinator or a member of Promethean Support.
If you are not sure which version of Windows XP you have, please refer to our help document PDF.
Upgrades available
- Windows Activboard & Activhub driver 4.1.14.20 for Windows 2000 SP1 (or higher), Windows XP - 32 bit & Windows Vista - 32 bit
- Windows Activboard & Activhub driver 4.1.14.20 for Windows Vista 64 Bit
- Windows Activboard driver 3.0.5 for Windows 98 (all versions), Windows Millennium & Windows NT 4 SP6
- Windows 95 Activboard driver for Windows 95 only
- Windows Driver for Activpanel and Activtablet. This driver supports all Windows operating systems
- MAC OS X Activboard driver. This driver now supports Mac OS X Leopard
- MAC Driver for Activpanel and Activtablet. This driver supports OS 10.2.8 or later including OS 10.5 (Leopard) and Intel Macs
Promethean's flipchart viewers allow you to view and have interaction with flipcharts created in Activstudio and Activprimary software.
It is free to download the viewers, but its use is subject to your agreement of our terms and conditions of use.
The viewer is available in three formats:
- Windows Activstudio
- Windows Activprimary
- Macintosh Activstudio
Downloading the viewer gives non-users of Activsoftware access to thousands of submitted resources on Planet.
Try before you buy!
If you're interested in purchasing the software then the viewer enables you to have access to some of the software's award winning functions.
The viewer also enables teachers with non-Promethean whiteboards to access quality lesson materials in flipchart format.
The Flipchart Viewer can be downloaded from the Support section within the Flipchart Viewer page.
