Xorro Workbook explained (video)
Workbook combines the easy, instant expressiveness of your whiteboard, with the reach and productivity of your computer.
Xorro Workbook is branded Alphateach for customers in the United Kingdom and some European countries.
Features & Benefits
Workbook enables you to turn your regular whiteboarding sessions into living documents. Just like your conventional whiteboard, you can use pens to write in ink… only now you’re writing in digital ink, and its being stored in your computer for review and to share with others. Workbook’s page extender and unlimited page sorter means you’ll never run out of whiteboard space. You can save, share, print, or email as PDF in an instant.
With Workbook, you’ll be placing and organising digital ink, text, shapes and images onto your whiteboard in no time at all. Adding links and sounds to anything on your document is simple. You’ll find all the usual interactive whiteboarding features: spotlight, magnifier, full screen views, screen capture, screen annotate, cropping, transparency eyedropper, format painter etc. Because Workbook is highly customisable, you’ll set up your favourite pens (they never run out of ink!) and your favourite tools. Incorporate video, audio & web feeds on your whiteboard pages; play and capture snapshots from these instantly. Build mindmaps, flowcharts and concept diagrams instantly while collaborating. Workbook includes Xorro-Q so you can even run automated quizzes and brainstorming sessions off the whiteboard. The free Resource Finder allows instant discovery and use of lesson-relevant images, videos and text. Join the free Xorro-ED Community to share and access IWB activities with others around the world. Import SMART Notebook, IWB, PDF and all media files for easy display & annotation. Workbook enables you to annotate anywhere on your computer and save or record your work.
Download Workbook
Download Workbook software for Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10). On installing this to a fresh computer you’ll get a 30 day free trial. This converts to a permanent licence on activating Workbook by entering a Customer Key. Existing customers can access the latest version to which they are entitled under their Support Plan, by entering their Customer Key on the Downloads page.
Remember to also download the Workbook Resources Pack Installer (51 MB). This is is a collection of free images, objects and backgrounds, organised by topic. Install this pack to have these collections available directly from your Workbook canvas through convenient links.
Workbook Pricing
Contact sales@xorro.com for pricing on site licences
Support Subscription
Once Workbook is activated, you’ll have free access to updates for one year (the “free support period”). At the end of the free support period, you can continue to use Workbook without having to commit to further updates. However, if you want to continue to access the updates you will need to renew your support subscription. Support is charged at 20% per year of the then-current price for the software to which you are licensed. You can take it up at any time: click the button at right and enter your Customer Key into the field on the right side of the form Then follow the instructions on the page which follows!
A license for Workbook is needed before you can activate it using a Customer key. If your organisation has already received its license, then you need to get the Customer Key from your Institution Manager. Who are the Institution Managers at my organisation?
We hope that you’ll find Workbook really easy to use. Even so, our library of short video tutorials will quickly get you up to speed, whatever it is you need to learn about Workbook.
Video Tutorials and Tips
| Get started with Workbook | Tools Talk for Workbook |
| Finding your way around Workbook | Customising Workbook to work for you |
| Learn the Workbook Basics | Doing the Magic: Whiteboarding Tips & Tricks |
The Workbook User Manual is available on the Xorro Software Updates site. You’ll find our On-Line Help useful too. Some of the most frequently asked questions about Workbook are:
FAQ
Ensuring Workbook connectivity across your network
Deploying Workbook over your network
Problems with completing Workbook / Alpha Teach Activation
The benefits of a Xorro account when using Workbook
More FAQ….
We all know the resources are out there on the web, but how can you find and filter them easily when you need to?
Workbook’s live video and web feeds let you display, annotate, record and capture from multiple web cam (or other camera) feeds right on the canvas.
