Qwizdom Oktopus

Description:

OKTOPUS is an interactive presentation and collaboration software designed for use with any interactive whiteboard, interactive projector and any interactive touch screen flat panel display. Work over ANY content or application.
Annotate – Collaborate – Present – Poll
OKTOPUS allows you to annotate and work over or alongside any software application, your existing content, or over a web browser. Available in 42 languages and compatible with Windows and Mac, OKTOPUS gives everyone – whether in education or corporate – the flexibility to use the application, content and resource of their choice.

We are proud to announce that Oktopus comes packaged with 5 Qwizdom Notes+ licenses that enhance classroom or boardroom collaboration. Instructors can instantly share content as participants follow along on their personal devices, taking notes, answering questions and sharing annotations over the top of any live lesson.

Multi-purpose.
Diverse uses include presentations for business conferences, teaching in education, and training for business.

- Annotate over ANY application or web browser.
- Share and collaborate over documents.
- Present to any audience, in corporate and learning environments.
- Poll entire audiences and collect valuable feedback instantly.

Cross Platform.
Qwizdom OKTOPUS works on Windows and Mac OS X
The Qwizdom Notes+ app is available for iOS, Android, and Windows

Available in over 40 Languages.
Including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Danish, Korean… we could go on. Ask us if OKTOPUS is available in your language.

a Platform for Collaboration.
Participants can view live lessons, respond, share, take notes, and save presentations for review, using any tablet or laptop.

Easy to use.
The simplistic design makes it accessible to users of all ages and levels of computer literacy. Use the multi-disciplined interface with over 70 interactive tools to create unique and powerful presentations. Our unique Quick Tool Palette allows for rapid presentation building.

Multi-touch.
Enhanced multi-pen and multi-touch capabilities means users can simultaneously use and manipulate tools.

OKTOPUS has over 70 individual subject specific learning tools for Drawing, Mathematics, Literacy, Geography and Science.

Standard Tools
OKTOPUS contains all the annotation tools you need including a pen (with handwriting recognition), highlighter, eraser, shapes, flashlight, window shade, magnifying tool and line tool. Enter the media gallery and choose from hundreds of images and. Glass Mode allows you to draw over documents or browser content with ease. Capture screen images, and record audio and video files. Clear the entire screen, annotations only, or reset the slide to how it was when the file was first opened. Our on-screen keyboard will also type directly into other applications such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Word & Excel.

Mathematics
Perform calculations using our drag-and-drop sum builder, use the abacus, or create number lines and grids. Measure lines, convert values, work out angles or determine the workings of a circle. Create and explore prisms, pyramids and nets, and explore various shapes and their angles. Teach statistics using the probability spinner and dice, and keep track of information in tables and visualise values by drawing a variety of graphs in both 2D and 3D. Further engage your students with 6 Maths games including Sudoku, Target 24, Memory, and Speedy Sums.

Literacy
Literacy Games turn your classroom into a vibrant and interactive learning zone. Explore the wonderful world of words with some great games like the Word Builder, Word Hunt, Mix Up, and Word Scramble. Create words and sentences in fridge-magnet style with our Word & Sentence Builder, and explore the meaning of words with the Word Roots tool. Test your students’ comprehension skills with the Word Vault. Hide words in the Vault to be dragged back into their correct places and add your own words to gauge your students’ understanding.

Geography
Select a map from our unique map tool or integrated Google Maps tool and explore countries, borders, and boundaries of any location in the world. Explain weather patterns with nearly 30 individual weather symbols and convert Celsius and Fahrenheit with the interactive thermometer.

Science
Delve into the elements with our interactive Periodic Table. Highlight groups like Solids, Metals, Nobel Gases, Radio Active and more at the tap of a button. Tap an element to reveal a visual of the atom and the outer electron shell as well as links to a wiki page. View information on reactions, compounds, state, structure, colour, melting point, boiling point, period, and group. Build your own molecules using the Molecular Structure tool, design hierarchial pyramids, and illustrate the components of an electric circuit with the Circuit Builder.

OKTOPUS, in conjunction with the free Qwizdom Notes+ App, allows users to join live presentations and collaborate in real-time. This all-in-one solution enables screen mirroring, presentation capture, and polling. Users can add media, share annotations, take notes, answer questions, and review content post session.
In addition, Notes+ can be used as a scratch pad or note taking application. Quickly organize thoughts and illustrate concepts using media capture, shape, text, and drawing tools.

5 free student licenses are included as standard when you download Qwizdom OKTOPUS. Students collaborate, record and share their findings with the class. Teams could also investigate, share and record results of a science lab, using the camera, annotation, note taking tools, and supplying instant feedback via the polling function.

An annual upgrade key can also be purchased to increase your limit to 40 collaboration connections.