Upfront Series

Maths

Word Skills

Reading Success

Quick and Easy | Educational Content | Features | System Requirements | License Options

Minimal preparation time, brilliant results!

Effortlessly harness the breadth and depth of EdAlive’s vast bank of educational content to orchestrate learning. With just a few simple mouse clicks you can select whole teaching sequences or individual activities, complete with answer screens.

• Save time by using the pre-ordered sequences or mix and match to create an endless variety of tailor-made teaching resources.
• Each Upfront CD is a self-contained presentation system that works by itself or expands as other CDs are added.
• Upfront is based on EdAlive’s multi-award winning BRAINtastic! Content

Awards

Upfront has won the following awards:

2009 EDDIE and BESSIE Awards

• Early Learning - Language Arts: Upfront Reading Success
• Early Elementary - Maths - Upfront Maths
• Upper Elementary - Language Arts: Upfront Word Skills

With Upfront you can quickly and easily:

• Present question lists as flexible teaching sequences using an interactive whiteboard, digital projector, touch screen or display panel
• Access carefully-sequenced content directly from the modules
• Build your own customised question lists by selecting and ordering activities from the installed content modules
• Use the Worksheet Wizard to generate and print photocopiable worksheets with questions or answers
• Save your question lists for later use or continuation of your lesson
• Teach or test by displaying question screens only, answer screens only, or question and answer screens.
• Target specific outcomes and differentiate learning through flexible content selection

Upfront educational content

• The full series contains 16,800 individual questions with answer screens covering Maths, Word Skills and Reading. More...

Upfront features allow you to:

• Create, load and save question lists
• Present content as questions followed by answers, questions only or answers only
• Print question lists as worksheets with questions or answers
• Preview questions before selecting for question lists
• Mark presented questions for later revision or lesson resumption even after saving and reloading
• Drill down within a Content Module to select content by Module, Level, Category or Question
• Search Content Modules by keyword to locate appropriate questions
• Drag and drop questions to build, order and reorder question lists.
• Automatically advance questions using an adjustable timer
• Advance question by question or jump from question to question within a list
• Randomise question order
• Create, present and correct tests
• Mix questions together using different modules, levels, and categories
• Add notes to a question list to record useful information.
• Access the extensive help document
• On-line video based introduction and tutorial
• View direct correlations to specific curriculum outcomes

View the manual to see more about how it works

License and Purchasing options

Single User: Install your Upfront CD on one computer at a time
Whole School Site Licence: Install the CDs for which you have purchased a site license on any computers in the school and on the laptops and home computers of your school’s permanently employed teaching staff
Bundles: Make great savings by purchasing whole Bundles of Maths, Word Skills and Reading Success CDs or the Upfront Mega Bundle covering the entire 16,800 questions. Bundles are available with and without Whole School Site Licenses.

System Requirements

Windows

Windows 2000, XP, Vista or later; 500MHz or faster; 256MB RAM

Mac

Mac OS X v. 10.4/10.5 or later; 500MHz or faster; 256MB RAM

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