We are currently in the middle of a Trust-wide migration to a single Google Workspace tenant. Part of this involves phasing out legacy local servers in favor of Shared Drives and, eventually, moving teaching staff from Windows devices over to Chromebooks.
The biggest "hearts and minds" challenge we've hit is ActiveInspire.
Our teaching staff have years of legacy flipcharts built up. While we’ve suggested converting them to PDF, we’ve hit the obvious wall: interactivity. Many of these resources rely on "drag-to-reveal" elements (e.g., blocks covering answers) or specific layering that is lost in a flat conversion.
Has anyone successfully navigated this transition? Specifically:
Conversion: Has anyone found a tool or workflow that successfully migrates flipcharts into a web-native format while keeping basic interactivity (like the reveal/hide elements)?
Replacement: If the answer is "phase them out," what are you using as a replacement that provides that interactive "whiteboard" feel? We’ve looked at Google Slides, but the lack of native annotation/ink is a sticking point.
The Web Player: Has anyone had success with Promethean’s ClassFlow as a browser-based player for legacy .flipchart files, or is it too buggy for daily use?
Appreciate that "starting from scratch" might be the only true answer, but I'm looking for a bridge to help staff who are understandably anxious about losing a decade's worth of resources.
Thanks in advance!
Hey Thank you so much for these replies. I think the end goal here would be to ensure that there is no reliance on a particular manufacturer... and therefore exploring the routes suggested by dmj and Matt seem to make the most sense. Cheers, J