Prospero

Created by artists,
for artists.

 

Fulfil your own, or your company’s digital and learning ambitions, and connect with students and educators globally.

Prospero is a web-based system designed especially for artists and arts organisations to effortlessly create all kinds of learning resources, and share them with (or sell them to) schools, colleges and other learning environments.

It doesn’t matter what you make – lessons, workshops, stories, drama, training, video games – Prospero gives you the power to share your work, your ideas and your teaching with the world.

We call the resources created in Prospero ‘smartscripts’, and the people and companies who create them, ‘Producers’.

What can you create?

  • Interactive drama workshops

    Prospero makes blended learning easy, fusing participation and technology.

  • Digital resource packs

    No more text-based PDFs! Spark creativity in practical, accessible ways.

  • Drama games

    Prospero mirrors all you know about theatre by helping you make digital versions of the games you love for everyone.

  • Interactive walks

    Prospero uses the GPS functions in smartphones to take your arts practice to the streets!

How Does Prospero Work?

  • Creating a smartscript in Prospero is designed to feel as natural as planning and structuring an in-person learning session.

    First you’ll create a series of ‘scenes’. Scenes can be any content that will stimulate learning, thinking and creativity. You can incorporate your existing digital content - videos, music, photographs or text, and mix-and-match it with live content from anywhere on the internet.

    News websites, Google Maps, Images, Wikipedia or Youtube can all be incorporated, meaning your Smartscripts can be ever-changing and always up to date.

  • You’ll then layer each ‘scene’ with instructions, tasks and guidance that learners will need to explore and engage with the materials. Within a Smartscript you can ask questions, provoke conversations, and get learners up on their feet interacting with tasks and activities.

    Want to give learners a fixed time to complete an activity? Include a timed section. Or give control to the session facilitator and learners, and let them progress through the Smartscript at their own pace.

    Perhaps you want to carefully structure your Smartscript with a beginning, middle and end, and a specific order for activities to be completed. You can do that in Prospero. Or maybe you prefer to let groups choose their own pathway: you can do that too, with Prospero’s interactive ‘choose your own adventure’ style options. Create characters, pose dilemmas, set challenges to solve.

    Have fun gamifying your Smartscripts in infinite ways, to make them playful and engaging.

  • You can even create multiple versions of your smartscripts, aimed at different levels, abilities or interests, or developed for specific schools or groups. And unlike a traditional downloadable resource pack, you can tweak and develop smartscripts over time, as you learn more about how they are being used in the real world.

  • When you become a Prospero Producer, you’ll get your own customisable Prospero channel in the Prospero Library. Here you can share all of your smartscripts, and choose whether they are available publicly or shared privately with your contacts. Make them available for free, or choose to monetise your smartscripts seamlessly, using our inbuilt payment system

  • Prospero is designed to work seamlessly on (almost) any device, using a simple browser extension. This means that both Producers and educators can access and use the system on the computers and tablets they already have in their classrooms and organisations, bypassing any IT headaches and getting straight on with the creative learning.

Take your smartscripts to the next level with optional tools

  • Multiple devices

    Incorporate tablets and phones to create group tasks on multiple screens simultaneously, to personalise learning.

  • GPS

    To help you make interactive guides to sites, venues or environments, or take audiences and learners on creative adventures set in the real world.

  • Virtual reality

    Seamlessly integrate immersive 360 video into your work, easily accessible to anyone with a smartphone or even on a big screen!

  • Augmented Reality

    Bring creativity to life with eye popping AR! The world around you becomes an interactive playground

Everything in Prospero has been designed to enable you to create beautifully engaging, intuitive sessions where the learning is active not passive. 

Data & Evaluation

As an Arts Council England NPO ourselves, we know how vital it is for funded artists and arts organisations to evidence the impact of their work. As a Prospero Producer, you get access to detailed analytics about how your smartscripts are being used, and by whom.  

You can also build both qualitative and quantitative research right into your Smartscripts, and get real-time feedback as they are being used. Ask questions, gauge attitudes, understanding and enjoyment, and effortlessly visualise your data for reporting and developing your practice.

Data is important but it’s not why you became an artist. Prospero does it for you.

Full Training Included

Many Prospero Producers jump straight in and start creating smartscripts - but when you sign up for a license we’ll also give you up to a full day of one-to-one training on how to get started and get the best out of the system. Plus our Prospero Academy is packed with how-to guides to help you along the way.

Become a Prospero Producer today

Starting at £995 per year our Prospero Pro subscription gives you full access to build and share your own smartscripts.

Want more support?

If you’d prefer to work more closely with a Prospero expert to create your Smartscripts, we can pair you up with an experienced Prospero Associate. Whether you want someone to help create written, video or interactive content, or to build whole Smartscripts for your project, we can help*. Book a demo below or drop us a line to talk through your requirements.

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