New Thumbnail and Icon Dashboard

The new thumbnail functionality provides a visual interface that allows for easy linear or non-linear access to lesson assets.

• Thumbnails are now integrated into a new dashboard, search results, detail pages and playlists.
• Packaged content now supports thumbnails, including video chapters.
• SAFARI Montage CreationStation® supports automatic generation of thumbnails.
  • User-selectable thumbnails include a snapshot created from the media for supported formats, a title slate based on the item's title or a standard thumbnail per media type.

NOTE: The new dashboard requires content drives purchased in the last two years to support the addition of thumbnails.

Enhanced Core Platform

• Improved fault tolerance and recovery
• Improved stability and security based on a full update of core OS components

New User Types

• School Admin (school-specific administration in district environments)
• Principal (school-level administration and reporting access)
• Curriculum Admin (curriculum-specific administrative reporting and content approval)

Expanded Interactive Whiteboard File Support for CreationStation™ Module

In addition to Promethean® Flipchart and SMART Notebook® files, SAFARI Montage now supports the upload and distribution throughout the district of the following additional interactive whiteboard files:

• eInstruction® Workspace™
• Hitachi® Starboard®
• Search Results Expanded
• • Web links
  • ebooks
  • Thumbnails
  • Coming Soon: Physical objects

Support for Over 35 New Projector Models via Pathways SM™ Module, Including the Following New Models:

• BenQ MX711
• Epson Powerlite 95+
• Hitachi CP-A220N
• Hitachi CP-WX4021N
• Hitachi CP-X2010N
• Hitachi iPJ-AW250N
• LG 50PQ30C
• LG 42PA30C
• Promethean PRM-20AV1
• SMART UF-65
• SMART UX-60
• TEQ-Z780M
• Viewsonic® Pro8500

New Apple® iPad®/iPod®/iPhone® Support

Accessing room device controls and video content from a SAFARI Montage server via a mobile device has never been easier.

• Access SAFARI Montage and Pathways SM device control via Apple® iOS devices
• iPad and iPhone apps are available in the App Store of iTunes. Search for SAFARI Montage.
• Requires H.264 Managed Home Access Content Drive for Packaged Video Playback
• Virtual Student Response System support in DCP module
• NOTE: Subject to native playback limitations of iPad/iPod.

Dashboard

• Network logos pre-packaged to support Digital TV
• Custom logo support
• School News (Live & Recorded) and Internet links restored on dashboard

Enhanced SAFARI Montage Media Player

• Native support for 64-bit MAC OS® X
• Administrators can set and manage default and maximum resolution by building, user type, location (home) or device type (mobile devices)
• Addition of scrolling lesson asset thumbnails in the SAFARI Montage Media Player (SMMP) in DCP module
• V.5.2 Spanish language audio support from home on 300K video content via Managed Home Access

Network DVR (N-DVR)

• Live Classroom capture into SAFARI Montage CreationStation™
• Digital TV recording

Coming Soon: Channel Guide

New Content Package Support

• Ambrose Video, including BBC Shakespeare — true-to-text adaptations of Shakespeare’s 24 most commonly read plays, including Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
• K-8 Core Content Package (2011) — 2311 titles that include 560+ new programs such as Schoolhouse Rock!, The Science of Disney Imagineering, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, WordWorld, Ken Burns: The National Parks, We Shall Remain and more.
• 9-12 Expansion Content Package (2011) — 1,118 titles that include 340+ new programs such as The Eyes of Nye, Core Biology, Turning Points in U.S. History, Daily Planet, NOVA scienceNOW, Ken Burns: The National Parks, We Shall Remain and more.
• Cyber-Science Interactive 3D Model Package — over 80 detailed interactive 3D models, including all the major human anatomical systems as well as a frog, fetal pig, cat, plant cell, volcano and more.
• 2TB Drive contains both 800K and 300K on one drive
• V.5.2 2TB Drive containing 1.6 Mbps (hi-res) content

Highlights

• Updated standards correlations
• Spanish language audio support for 300K video content

Upgrade to v.5.1 so you can benefit from our landmark new module:
Digital Curriculum Presenter™

• Get It!™ feature for Virtual Student Response System with smart phones and iPad mobile devices.
• IMS Common Cartridge v1.1 Conformant
• Playlist import feature & auto thumbnail
• New SAFARI Montage Media Player for scrolling DCP thumbnails
• Doc Cam link

Coming Soon!

• SAFARI Montage Live! invitations added to Dashboard
• Expanded search results, including physical objects
• Multiple Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) file support for users who need access to more than one type of IWB
• Multi-bitrate playback option for low, medium and high resolution video (requires drive for 1.6 Mbps files)
• New video tutorial coming for version 5.x at the end of August.
• Coming Soon! Moodle® v.1.9 integration