Fraserb82 Posted May 18, 2018 Posted May 18, 2018 Hi, In the process of setting up a new HS, kitted out with about 70 V5 boards. Not had a huge amount of time to properly play about with settings and to work out the best set up due to time constraints. So I have a few questions, if you all don't mind. First being, for the teachers you support, what is their preferred setup for the board with Windows (we have switched to Windows 10 for this new build, and it's our first deployment of this OS across the council). Second is, and we have already done this for every PC/V5 panel but to make touch functionality work we had to switch every PC on, then the board attached and then go into PC Tablet settings so that the PC knew which screen had touch functionality. This appears to need user input in the form of touching the V5 panel so Windows knows which is which. Would there have been an easier way to set these up or will it always require us to do this? Lastly, I'd have thought that when using the promethean board when you touch the screen in an area requiring text a keyboard would open up automatically? Is there a way to make this happen? I know you can switch on a keyboard option on the ActivInspire software, but the keyboard is quite small on the screen and the Windows one is a bit better for size at least. But say they are on a web browser and press on the screen to type in a new URL no keyboard will pop up. Any advice for this? Apologies for the very long post. If you ahve experience with any of the above I would be grateful for any responses. Thanks
DangPro Posted May 21, 2018 Posted May 21, 2018 Hi Fraserb82 1) I am not sure what you mean here but I would recommend cloned/duplicate desktop. When using some of the Promethean apps they run best in duplicate/cloned mode. 2) To be able to use the full function of the panels you will need to install our ActivDriver on each of these computers. This will get around setting up each device. You can find the ActivDriver on the support site at https://support.prometheanworld.com or directly https://support.prometheanworld.com/product/activdriver 3) The on screen keyboard is usually dependent on the OS that is running and being displayed. Sometimes the type of field will bring up the keyboard. There is usually a keyboard icon at the bottom of the display that you would select to get the keyboard.
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