SMART Board Basics

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PDF Version: SMART Notebook Basics

Interface

  1. Begin by clicking the SMART Notebook software icon on your desktop.
    SMART Board Shortcut
  2. When the SMART Notebook interface appears, you will notice:
    • The page area
    • The menu
    • The toolbar
    • The tabs
    Toolbar
    Tabs
  3. You can move the tabs to the left side by clicking the moving side bar icon. Move side bar icon

Toolbar

  1. Clicking on the Pens button will open additional options in the tool bar which allow you to select: the pen type, the line type, the line colour, the line style, and transparency.
  2. Clicking on the Text button will open additional options in the tool bar which allow you to select: the font type and size, the font styles (bold, italic, underline), the alignment, text colour, and transparency.
  3. Clicking on the Line button will open additional options in the tool bar which allow you to select: arrows, line type, line colour, line style, and transparency.

    On the right side of the tool bar, there are additional options for:
  4. Selecting Select icon
  5. Erasing Erasing icon
  6. Fill colour Fill icon
  7. Creating shapes Shapes icon

    On the left side of the tool bar, you can find options such as:
  8. Switching between pages Switching pages icon
  9. Undo & redo Undo/redo icon
  10. Adding or deleting a page Add/delete icon
  11. Saving a file or opening a file Save/open icon
  12. View screens View screens icon

    In the middle of the tool bar, you can find the following options:
  13. Paste & Delete Paste and delete icon
  14. Screen Capture Screen capture icon
  15. Show/Hide Screen Shade Shade icon
  16. SMART Document Camera Document camera icon
  17. SMART Exchange Smart Exchange icon
  18. Inserting a table Table icon
  19. Insertng a measurement tool (ruler, protractor, geodreieck, compass Measurement icon

Tabs

Tab description
  1. The page sorter tab – shows a thumbnail image of each page in the SMART Notebook file. You can navigate to a different page, create page groups, and reorder the pages.
  2. The gallery tab – access custom pages, clip art, animations, audio clips and video clips.
  3. The attachments tab – add hyperlinks to, or attachments from, other software applications.
  4. The properties/format tab – format shapes, objects, and text.
  5. The add-ons tab – any software add-ons will appear here, such as Activity Builder and Extreme Collaboration.