Intellitools Classroom Suite® is such a powerful application that you may wonder how you’ll ever learn all that it can do. The answer is, you can’t–but you really don’t need to learn everything to be a power user. One of the best ways to learn is to be a detective and dig into a finished activity that has a function you want to use to find out how it works. This workshop will equip you with the strategies you need to be an efficient detective. Bonus: A handout with 8 strategies!

Experimenting with what HyperStudio 5® can do is an integral part of using it. Saving often is the best plan, but when you’re having fun creating, you hate to break the flow of ideas. Roger Wagner gave me a quick tip on how to make a quick backup while you are working in HS5 on Mac. Bonus: A link to Roger’s Facebook page!

There is a wonderful timesaver hiding in the Edit menu of HyperStudio 5®. It’s the Group Card option under Ready Made Cards.
Image©2009 ABS Screen shot of HS5 Edit and Ready Made Cards menus showing Group Card option
Once you understand how Group Cards work and how to create them, you can make a stack much faster, come out with a much smaller file, have the layout on each card automatically match, and have a way to change settings in objects on all the cards in the stack at once. Bonus: PDF Quick Guide!

This Classroom Suite® activity has a new frame animation, a spinning boomerang, to use in creating IntelliMation® in your activities. It also explains how to save the boomerang button into your User Library so that you can grab the boomerang from the Picture Library whenever you need it.

Multi-Choice Test Templates includes Microsoft Word®, Clicker 5® and Classroom Suite® versions of templates I have developed to create the tests that become part of the activity sets here in the Attic. They are the result of much trial and error, and in their present form, they save me a great deal of time. So it’s time to make them available to you as well

Are scrollbars showing up in Clicker 5® activities you download from the Attic? Got students who cannot access them and get to all the text? Do some text boxes have text that is out of sight? Here is how to make the scrollbars go away and get all the text to show! Bonus: PDF version of this tip to download!

Digital cameras, graphic editing applications, and multimedia applications are natural partners. But with so many choices for graphics formats, resolutions, display size, and print out size, it can be very confusing! The tips in Pixels and MegaPixels, Oh My! will hopefully make it a little easier to get those graphics into a project. Bonus: Example Photos and tutorial!

This Classroom Suite® activity has a new frame animation, a green spinning frisbee, to use in creating IntelliMation® in your activities. The animation is contained in a toolbar button. Bonus:
It also explains how to save the green frisbee button into your User Library!

Classic activities in Classroom Suite have a button with a speech balloon. Clicking this button gives the student audible instructions or directions about the assignment. It would be even better to have the instructions visible as well as audible. Here’s how! Bonus: PDF you can use as a handout for presentations.

Text-To-Speech is a powerful computer option, particularly valuable for struggling readers and students with visual issues. Once and while though, you’ll hear a word pronounced incorrectly, most often if it’s a proper name or a technical term. You can correct the pronunciation of a word in Clicker 5®, IntelliTools Classroom Suite®, and My Own Bookshelf®. Detailed instructions and screenshots for all three!