Software Update – 4.6.0 for Windows
We are excited to announce our latest, Windows Oktopus release.
Introducing Game Zones, multi-touch and multi-player games designed for touchscreens. Access over 90 educational games for Social Studies, Language Arts, Math, and Science. Create up to 4 game zones so students can work on different games simultaneously. Teacher Tools support front-of-class teaching. Available for English language only.
A new App Launcher provides quick access to collaboration, Premade Lessons (available depending on geographic location and board provider), Game Zones and Online Learning. Tutorial walkthroughs guide you through each app. Available for English language only.
Traditional Glass Mode is back and now you have an option that supports fast pen usage when a background is applied for 4K Screens. Pen performance in Glass Mode may vary depending on your system specification.
Google classes are automatically imported into Oktopus Blend. Oktopus lessons can be directly posted to your students’ stream. (Blend license is required. Available depending on your geographical location or your OKTOPUS software provider.)
Software Update – 4.5.5
A new truly-4K performance enhanced version of OKTOPUS is now available to download!
We’ve made our pen super-fast, even on 4K displays with limited spec hardware and integrated graphics. This should also make a difference to the pen speed for all our users, no matter what type of display or other hardware they are using.
In order to achieve this, we have unfortunately been required to make a major change to our software surrounding Glass Mode. For more information about how this will affect your OKTOPUS usage, please see the Glass Mode section of our user guide.
However, do not fear, we will be bringing back Glass Mode the way you have been using it with another update in the very near future.
In other really exciting news, OKTOPUS now has brand new interactive activities. Find the link for these in your toolset selector. They support dual and quad screen layout, and each section can run its own activity! And for tabletop users, there is even better news – they can be rotated for up to 4 users around your screen!
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Software Update – 4.5.3
A new version of Qwizdom OKTOPUS is now available to download!
We’ve implemented the Smart Notebook import improvements as requested by our community, we’ve made that change to the Periodic Table that was reported to us, we’ve implemented a new touch-friendly Presentation Setup screen, and we’ve also brought a whole list of other improvements and bug fixes to the table!
All the changes are in the Change Log below.
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Software Update – 4.5.1
We have released a new bug-fix release of OKTOPUS.
This update resolves two issues which affects our “OKTOPUS with Connect” version.
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Software Update – 4.5.0
We’re delighted to announce that our latest and greatest version of OKTOPUS is now available!
We’ve made some major changes to our polling support, by now making it possible to set up each slide as a specific question, with answer options and correct answer specified.
We’ve also added in nested slides, so you can add a subset of slides to any standard slide.
Based on community feedback, we’ve also added in additional shapes and set up a limit for significant figures.
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Software Update – 4.4.53
A new version of OKTOPUS is now available to download!
This is a bug-fix version for our collaboration screenshots which was introduced with 4.4.52
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Software Update – 4.4.52
OKTOPUS 4.4.52 is now available for download!
We are delighted to announce that OKTOPUS can now import Smart Notebook files directly – as requested by many of our users who are now using OKTOPUS after moving away from Notebook.
We have also added in the ability to choose your own collaboration ports (that one is for the network admins), we’ve got even more backgrounds to choose from, and we’ve implemented a brand new design for our webcam feed tool!
We’ve also made some performance improvements, tidied up our highlighter UI, fixed some undo/redo functionality, and a whole lot more. The change log has all the info.
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Software Update – 4.4.46
The latest version of Qwizdom OKTOPUS is now available!
In this release we’ve implemented lots more background options including lined paper, graphing paper, and some new colours.
We’ve also added a buzzer sound to our countdown timer, improved scrolling through the sidebar, and made the handwriting recognition available in every tool category. Check out the change log for all the updates.
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Software Update – 4.4.43
Qwizdom OKTOPUS version 4.4.43 has been released!
OKTOPUS will now use Microsoft’s handwriting capabilities (if installed on your system) for the currently selected language within OKTOPUS. Previously, OKTOPUS may have been using your system default language, which may not have been correct. This was a sticking point for our global user community. Thanks for the feedback!
We’ve made improvements when dealing with locked objects, importing audio is faster, and the selection box can deselect when dragging the opposite way.
We’ve also fixed a few bugs with the audio tool and fixed some layering issues too.
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Software Update – 4.4.42
We’ve release another update to Qwizdom OKTOPUS, ready for download right now!
This release will make two textbox improvements: formatting selected text rather than the whole textbox, and adding in improved hyperlink support.
We’ve also fixed some issues introduced with the new Clear Screen options and implemented better support for keyboard shortcuts when working with textboxes.
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