More ways to inspire success across the curriculum

Powered by the proven strategies of visual learning, Inspiration^® 8 helps students think and learn.

Support for multiple learning styles

Create mind maps

The new mind mapping environment allows students to visually represent concepts with branches of associated thoughts. This combined with the Diagram and Outline Views give multiple ways to represent thoughts and information visually.

More ways to engage and learn visually

• Keyword search for symbols

  Quickly find symbols to better express ideas and represent concepts by searching with keywords. Inspiration provides access to more than 1 million symbols.

• Video and sound integration

  Use multimedia to create more engaging and informative projects. Students insert and play video and sound such as QuickTime® movies and MP3 files right in Inspiration.
   

Jumpstart assignments, gather research easily and streamline projects

• Inspiring templates

  Start projects quickly with templates that offer frameworks for gathering information and organising ideas. Choose from 60+ enhanced templates that cover English, science, humanities, thinking skills and planning topics.

• Drag-and-drop

  Gather research and enhance projects with familiar drag-and-drop actions. Enhanced capabilities make it easy for students to automatically hyperlink to URLs plus quickly add text, images and multimedia files from other sources to Inspiration projects.

• Enhanced export and transfer

  Turn Inspiration documents into robust final projects with new export and transfer capabilities. New options in the Site Skeleton^® export let students incorporate symbols, video and sound in web pages. With added transfer options, students can choose just the information they need to finalise assignments in their favorite word processor.
   

 Write with more clarity and accuracy

• Word Guide

  Write with clarity and build vocabulary using the Word Guide, an innovative dictionary and thesaurus. Information—including parts of speech, definitions and synonyms—is displayed in a familiar way to help students quickly find and choose words with precision.

• Auto spell checker

  Improve spelling skills and streamline the writing and revision process with a contextual spell checker. Misspelled words are automatically identified in mind maps, Diagram and Outline Views so students can quickly correct errors.
   

Additional ease-of-use

• Inspiration Starter screen

  Quickly begin projects or access training and teaching resources from the Inspiration Starter screen.

• AutoArrange

  Organise ideas effortlessly with AutoArrange. Students add content and develop their projects more efficiently, using AutoArrange to automatically format their diagrams as they work.

• Brainstorming

  Capture ideas quickly with the enhanced RapidFire^® tool. Students choose to add ideas that link automatically to a symbol or to add unconnected ideas that they can later associate and link.

• Custom symbol libraries

  Help students focus on learning by providing symbols specific to their assignments. Using Inspiration's Template Wizard, custom symbol libraries can be saved and shared with template files or teachers can limit student access to symbol libraries.