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Chris Karter replied on July 05, 2009 22:10 to the question "What video file formats are compatible with VizZle?" in Monarch Teaching Technologies:

Hi Pam!

the compatible extensions are .avi, mpg, and .mov

Which ones have you been trying that you have been receiving an "unsupported" message?

Chris Karter asked a question in Get Satisfaction on June 24, 2009 13:57:

Can I have my users ask questions without having an account?

I would like to make it so my users can ask a question in GS without registering for an account is this possible?

Chris Karter replied on May 15, 2009 13:41 to the question "Why are imported pictures blurry / fuzzy / impossible to read?" in Monarch Teaching Technologies:

Hi Pam!

When working with images there many things to know! One of them is that images all have a certain size to them, eg. 800x600. An image, can be small say an icon and you can import it, but VizZle will try to enlarge that image to fit into the tile of the lesson. Thus, it will become blurry or pixelated. The quality of the image is also important, ans sometimes this can be gauged by the actual file size eg. 560k.

I would recommend when looking for an image with a service like google images, to choose your image size from the drop downs, I would recommend medium at the lowest possible size. Also, I would try to find image in the filetypes of Jpg or Png, gifs can also often times be misleading and cause pixelation.

Chris Karter replied on May 15, 2009 13:29 to the question "How do I make private images public again?" in Monarch Teaching Technologies:

Hey Pam,

I Tested this out & yes you will have to reimport your images as they still maintain the private label even if you move it from a student folder back to one of your regular folders. I'll see if we can add a feature to this in the future release!

Kindly,

Chris

Chris Karter replied on April 28, 2009 20:45 to the question "Adobe Air is Damaged error message" in Monarch Teaching Technologies:

Sometimes this can come up if there is an old version of Adobe Flash player installed on someones computer or it is a bad install.

We recommend the following steps:

1.) Uninstall your current flash player:
Flash Uninstaller can be found here:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewC...

2.) Restart computer

3.) Reinstall flash
The most recent version of the Flash installer can be found here:
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

4.) Install Adobe Air
Adobe Air installer can be found here:
http://get.adobe.com/air/

5.) Now try downloading Vizzle

http://www.monarchteachtech.com

6.) If it still gives you that error after this, you can install Vizzle from here after the air is installed on your computer.
http://www.govizzle.com/install/vizzl...

Chris Karter replied on April 20, 2009 14:39 to the question "Why can’t I open Pix2go boards or Schedule boards in the Library?" in Monarch Teaching Technologies:

Hi Gata,
It can be a little confusing; the preview button is grayed out because the way the software handles those types of boards.



Essentially when you are opening them to preview, you are actually Playing them. Since you cannot play a Pix2Go board or Schedule there is no way to open it from there. We are working on changing this so please stay tuned.



If you do wish to check out some of the Pix2Go lessons in the library there is a way to do this. Simply drag and drop the lessons to any of your folders.





Then click on the file Cabinet button at the top of the page.





Then find the lesson in the folder you dragged it to. From here you can Edit/Open the lesson.

Chris Karter replied on April 17, 2009 22:42 to the question "What are Distractors?" in Monarch Teaching Technologies:

In Matching Board you can set certain wrong answers to always display with a particular pair. (Wrong Answers are usually randomly selected from other pairs).



For the pair you want to set a wrong answer for, click the Add Distractor button at the bottom of the page.







If I had a question about planets and I wanted the moon to always show up as a wrong answer, I could simply drag a picture of the moon to the distractors field.






Now every time the board is played the picture of the moon will come up as one of the wrong answers for this pair.

Chris Karter replied on April 17, 2009 22:18 to the question "How do you add images to the Matching Board?" in Monarch Teaching Technologies:

At the top of every page is a search field where you can type in the name of a particular form of media.





If I was looking for pictures of different colors, I could simply type the word colors in the search field, and press enter.




On the left hand side numerous pictures of colors will populate.




Simply drag and drop the images to any of the tiles.

Chris Karter replied on April 17, 2009 18:34 to the question "If I am creating a lesson how can I preview it without exiting creation mode?" in Monarch Teaching Technologies:

All lesson creators have an overview and print tab.







If you click on this you will see a button at the bottom of the page that says Play Lesson. If you click on this you’ll be able to preview your lesson even before you have finished it.

Chris Karter replied on April 17, 2009 18:22 to the question "What is a Lesson ID?" in Monarch Teaching Technologies:

Upon creating a lesson it is assigned a unique number. This number can be used to search for a specific file or help distinguish it from files with similar names. A larger number from one lesson ID to the other signifies a later creation date.



You can also search by lesson ID if you know the number!

Chris Karter replied on April 17, 2009 18:14 to the question "What kind of Lessons can I create?" in Monarch Teaching Technologies:

Presently, you can make 3 types of interactive lessons:

1. Matching Lessons


2. Build-a-Book Lessons


3. Game Lessons


You can also create images for print in Pix2Go.


And you can create personalized schedules using Scheduler.

Chris Karter replied on April 17, 2009 13:54 to the question "Trouble installing Vizzle, can't click button, can't see the button?" in Monarch Teaching Technologies:

Hi Gata!

Sometimes on a computer Flash can have problems when installed. I would recommend trying this:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewC...

its a flash uninstaller. You'll need to match it to your current version of OSX.

Click on the the small apple in the top left corner of your main bar, then click on, "About this Mac" to find your correct version.

After you have downloaded the correct uninstaller and used it, I would recommend restarting.

Finally I would recommend redownloading flash from
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Let me know if this helps!

Chris Karter replied on April 13, 2009 19:29 to the question "What does a search in the Library access?" in Monarch Teaching Technologies:

Hi Pam, when you search the library the only thing it allows to see are lessons that have already been approved by the moderators of Vizzle.

It does not allow you to see others lessons or lessons that have not yet been submitted ot the library.

Chris Karter replied on April 09, 2009 22:02 to the question "What are the Windows system requirements for Vizzle to work properly?" in Monarch Teaching Technologies:

PC Windows
* Intel® Pentium® III 1GHz or faster processor, 512MB of RAM * Recommended: Pentium 4 2GHZ or faster, 1GB RAM * Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise including 64 bit editions, Windows Vista SP1, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition SP3, Windows XP SP3, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows 2003 Server

Mac OS X
* Intel CoreTM Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor; PowerPC® G4 1GHz or faster processor * Mac OS X 10.4.11 or Mac OS X 10.5.4 and 10.5.5 * 512MB of RAM

Linux
* Intel® Pentium® III 1GHz or faster processor, 512MB of RAM * Recommended: Pentium 4 2GHZ or faster, 1GB RAM * Fedora 8, Ubuntu 7.10, openSUSE 10.3

Chris Karter replied on April 03, 2009 14:13 to the question "Why does heavy usage necessitate reboot?" in Monarch Teaching Technologies:

Hey,

I checked with our developers and they are testing this out. However they need info about your computer to proceed.

Please include what operating system you are running etc.

You can find this out by (in XP) right clicking on my computer and selecting properties or (or vista) right click on Computer and select properties





In XP Please supply all the info under SYSTEM and Computer








In Vista please supply all the info under Windows Edition and System

Chris Karter replied on March 23, 2009 22:45 to the problem "Recycled lessons keep reappearing" in Monarch Teaching Technologies:

Hi Spamalot!
We're looking at this! Were you trying to delete these while on a wifi or wireless cell card?

Chris Karter replied on March 23, 2009 22:42 to the problem "Scroll bars show up in Pix2Go even though all the text fits." in Monarch Teaching Technologies:

Hi Spamalot!

We are working on this please stay tuned!

Chris Karter replied on March 23, 2009 22:16 to the idea "Consider adding a "start search" or a "search now" button to the advanced search in the shared library?" in Monarch Teaching Technologies:

Hi Pam,

There is a "search" button! Sometimes depending on screen resolution it might not be readily available, a scroll bar on the bottom of the screen allows you to access it.

We're working on re-positioning.

Chris Karter replied on March 23, 2009 20:38 to the idea "Add 1/4 inch and 1/2 inch grid options in Pix2Go?" in Monarch Teaching Technologies:

This is a very good suggestion, we'll add it to our suggestion list!

Chris Karter replied on March 23, 2009 20:32 to the question "Can I create a new folder while in the library?" in Monarch Teaching Technologies:

Hi again! Unfortunately you can only create a folder in the FileCabinet. We are always looking to add new features though so please stay tuned.