Welcome to Classware!

Welcome to Classware, presentational software for the classroom from Cambridge

University Press. With Classware you can present material in a lively and interactive
way, keeping your students’ heads up and their attention with you. All of the
components you might need in your lesson are available through one simple interface,
with teaching material such as book pages, audio or even video at your fingertips and
instantly accessible with the click of a button. You can use Classware with an
interactive whiteboard, portable interactive whiteboard technology or even simply
with a laptop and a projector.

Creating and selecting a user profile

First of all you need to create a user profile. Your user profile will contain any
Classware material which is unique to you, such as saved sessions (see ‘Saving
sessions’ further on in this guide).
When you start the Classware software you will be prompted to create a profile or
select an existing profile.

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Click ‘Create new profile’ and follow the instructions to make a new profile. Your
profile will be stored on the hard drive of your computer.

If you already have a profile on the hard drive of your computer, you will see it listed.
Click on that profile to select it.
Once you have selected a profile, the Classware library will open.

The library

The library is used for storing and organizing books and sessions. You can select the
book or session you want to work with and launch it from the library into the
classroom teaching interface.

Choosing your display mode

You can view the library content in two different ways. Click to select a

thumbnail view. Click to select a list view.

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Working with books
To see all books available in the library, select ‘Books’ from the menu in the top left-
hand corner of the screen. This button also indicates how many books are currently
stored in the library. Books are available to all users. They are stored on the hard drive
of the computer and are not part of your profile. Each Classware disc contains
Cambridge University Press teaching material optimized for use with the Classware,
such as pages from a student’s book or an activity book, class audio and video. When
you install Classware, it will not only install the Classware software but it will also
install new Classware teaching material into the library on your computer.

To launch a book, click on the book you want to use. Click the ‘Launch’ button to
start working with the book in the classroom teaching interface.

To remove a book from the library, click on the book and then click on the ‘X’ button.
This will remove the book for all Classware users. Do not worry if you remove the
book by accident, you can simply reinstall it with the original Classware disc.

Working with sessions

When you use the classroom teaching interface, you can save what you have done for
later (see ‘Saving sessions’ below). Any sessions you save are stored in your profile.
You can view your sessions in the library, and launch them again later. To see all of
your currently stored sessions, select ‘Sessions’ from the top left-hand corner of the
screen. This button also shows you how many sessions you currently have stored.

Unlike books, only you can see and work with your sessions. In order to be able to
use a session, the book on which it is based must be installed into the library on the
computer you are using. If that book is not in the library, you can see your session but
you cannot open it.

To launch a session, click on the session you want to use. Click the ‘Launch’ button to
start working with the book in the classroom teaching interface.

To remove a session from the library, click on the session and then click on the ‘X’
button. WARNING – This will permanently delete the session from your profile, and
once deleted, that session cannot be retrieved.

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The classroom teaching interface

The classroom teaching interface displays the pages of the book or session you have
selected and provides a variety of useful tools for annotating the material and working
with the content. You can also save any work you do to your profile as a session, and
use it again later.

Getting ready to work with the interface

You will see the cover page of the book you have selected or the book on which your
selected session is based. Tools and functions available to you will be grouped
together on one side of the interface. The default position is to the left.

First of, all you may want to move the buttons for all tools and functions to the other
side of the interface. There are several reasons why you might want to do this. You
could be left- or right-handed, or perhaps one side of the board has limited access due
to your classroom setup. Maybe you just prefer to be on one side of the whiteboard or
the other. To flip the tool and function buttons from one side of the interface to

another click .

Note that the main toolbar can be hidden from view. To hide or reveal the toolbar,
click the ‘Tools’ tab.

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You can also switch between displaying one page at a time or two. To toggle between

these two view options click .

Selecting pages
Navigating around the pages of a book or session is simple.

Click to move forwards one page. Click to move back one page.

To jump quickly from one part of the book or session to another, use the contents
panel.

The contents panel

Click to open the contents panel.

There are three different tabs at the top of the contents panel – ‘Contents’, ‘Audio’
and ‘Video’. Click each to see a list of the pages, audio clips or video clips available
in that book or session. Please note that not all books will have audio or video. If there
is none available, the tab is disabled.

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The ‘Contents’ tab shows all pages available. As with the library you can view the
pages either as a list or by thumbnails. To go to a page, click on the relevant title or
thumbnail.

The ‘Audio’ and ‘Video’ tabs show all audio or video available. Click on a title to
open the relevant audio or video clip. See ‘Working with audio’ and ‘Working with
video’ below for more information.

Click again to close the contents panel.

The arrow tool

Click to use the arrow tool. This acts as a generic pointer, and also doubles as
your digital hand. Click and hold a page with the arrow tool to drag it around. This is
particularly useful when you are zoomed in on a page. You can also change pages
using the arrow tool. Click and hold on a page, and then quickly ‘flick’ the page to the
left or right and release the page to move forwards or backwards one page.

You can also use the arrow tool to move text boxes and attached files to different
locations (see ‘The text box tool’ and ‘Attaching files’ below).

The text box tool

Click to activate the text box tool. Click anywhere on the page to create a text
box. Use the keyboard to type into the text box. The text box will resize automatically
as you type. You can minimize the text box tool using the small black arrow in the top
left hand corner of the text box. Click the ‘X’ button to delete a text box.

The hide/show tool

Click or to hide or show parts of a page.

Click the small gray triangle in the bottom right hand corner of one button to reveal
the other.

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To hide part of a page, select the hide tool and then draw a line around the part of the
page you want to conceal. When you stop drawing a gray mask will fill the area of the
shape you created. You can create multiple hidden areas on a page.

To focus attention on part of a page, use the show tool. Draw a line around the part of
the page you want to focus on. When you have finished drawing, a gray mask will
conceal everything outside of the shape you created. You can create more focus points
by continuing to use the ‘show’ tool to cut holes in the gray mask.

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You can remove these gray masks with the eraser tool. Click once on a gray mask to
make it disappear instantly, or click and drag the eraser to manually erase the hidden
area.

Note - After creating a hidden or shown area, you can keep the shape but toggle
between the two modes by selecting the opposite button. A simple way of creating
multiple shown areas is to hide the areas you want to focus on first, and then toggle to
‘show’.

The pen tool

Click to select the pen tool. You can use this pen to write and draw on the
page.

There are several different options available with the pen tool. Click the small gray
triangle in the corner of the main pen tool button to open the menu of options.

You can select your pen color and the width of the pen tip. When you have made a
selection you will see the main icon change to show the pen color and the tip width
selected.

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Note - The white pen is used for concealing small areas of the screen with a white
color. These white pen lines can be removed with the eraser tool.

The highlighter tool

Click to show select the highlighter tool. Draw over parts of the page to
highlight it. The tool is particularly useful for highlighting text, but you can use it to
mark other parts of the page too.

The eraser tool

Click to select the eraser tool. Click and drag the tool across pen lines or
hidden or shown areas to erase them. You can also use this tool to remove hidden or
shown areas and attached files with a single click.

Click the gray triangle in the main button to expand the eraser tool menu and reveal
the ‘erase all annotations’ tool. With this tool you can remove all of the pen lines and
hidden/shown areas from the page at once with a single click.

The zoom tool

Click to open the zoom tool. You can use this tool to zoom into and out of the
page.

To create a zoom area, click and drag the zoom tool to create a box.

In the corner of the zoom tool button is a gray triangle. Click this to reveal the ‘fit to
screen’ tool.

Click to zoom back out to view the whole page or double page spread once
again.

Note – when you are zoomed in, you can easily move around the page using the arrow
tool. Click and hold anywhere on the page and move your pen or mouse to move the
page around. If you grab and hold the page and then ‘flick’ the pen or mouse in a
direction before letting go you can kinetically slide the page around.

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Working with audio
Most Classware titles will include the class audio. You can access the audio through
the contents panel and through links on pages.

Click a link to open the audio in the audio player.

The player includes standard controls for playing, pausing, and stopping and resetting
the audio clip, as well as a volume control and progress slider. You can select a
position in the audio by manually controlling the progresss slider. Click and drag the
slider button to move it. You can also choose to display the script for the audio.
Words and phrases are highlighted in yellow as they are spoken. Click on a word or
phrase to hear it. Change the size of the script box with the small gray triangle in the
bottom right-hand corner. Click the ‘X’ button to close the script box.

Click and drag the top of the audio player or script box to move them around the
screen.

Working with video

Some Classware titles will include video. You can access video through the contents
panel or by clicking on the video hotspots on pages. Click on a video title to open the
video player.

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The player includes standard controls for playing, pausing, and stopping and resetting
the video clip, as well as a volume control and progress slider. You can select a
position in the video by manually controlling the progress slider. Click and drag the
slider button to move it.

View subtitles for the video with the button.

Hide the picture with the button.

See the video in full screen mode with the button.

Click and drag the top of the video player to move it around the screen.

Attaching files
You can attach your own files such as images, audio files or video clips to pages and
then open them with a single click.

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Click to reveal a drop down menu.

Then click .

Position the pointer (a paperclip icon) on the part of the page where you want to
attach a file and click the page. A file browser window will open – browse to the
relevant file and select it to attach it to the page. When you have done so, you will see
an icon on the page.

Click this icon to open your attachment in a web browser. You can also move your
attach file to different locations on a page by clicking and dragging it with the arrow
tool.

Click on an attachment with the eraser tool to remove it. Note that attachments are not
removed with the ‘erase all annotations’ tool.

Attaching blank pages

You can attach blank pages to a page. Click to reveal a drop down menu.

Then click .

Position the pointer (a paperclip icon) on the part of the page where you want to
attach a blank page and click the page. You will then see an icon on the page.

Click on this icon to open the blank page. You can annotate that blank page, add text
boxes and hidden or shown areas, and attach files. Click ‘X’ to close the blank page –
any work you have done with that blank page will be saved, and you can open that
page again to continue working with it. You can also remove all annotations from
your blank page with the ‘erase all annotations’ tool.

Click on a blank page icon with the eraser tool to remove it. Note that blank pages are
not removed from book pages with the ‘erase all annotations’ tool.

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Saving sessions
You can save all of your work (annotations, text boxes, hidden or shown areas and
attached files by creating a session.

Click to reveal a drop down menu.

Then click .

Enter a name for your session and click ‘Save’. Sessions are stored in your profile and
can be used again later on. When you go back to the library, you will see that your
profile has been updated and your new session has been stored.

You can save a session after a class so that you can return to it again next time, or you
can prepare your pages before a class and then use that session with your students.
Also, you can update previously saved sessions by saving them again, either with the
same file name or a different one.

Using the dictionary

Please note that you must be connected to the Internet for this feature to work.

Click to activate the dictionary.

Returning to the library

When you have finished working with the classroom teaching interface click
to return to the library. Remember that you can save any work you have done as a
session. If you return to the library without saving a session, then any annotations you
have made, text boxes attached, etc. will be lost permanently.

Acknowledgements
All efforts have been made to contact the copyright holders of material reproduced in this product which belongs
to third parties, and citations are given for the sources. We welcome approaches from any copyright holders whom
we have not been able to trace but who find that their material has been reproduced herein.

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