Appendix C: Using Multiple Interactive Whiteboards - Smart Technologies Smart Board User Manual

Appendix C: Using Multiple Interactive
Whiteboards
With multiple interactive whiteboards, you'll enjoy a number of advantages:
•
Multiple boards that show a single, split desktop provide a greatly enlarged canvas,
dramatically enhancing a presentation made to a large audience.
•
Several boards that show copies of the same desktop can be very useful when
strategically situated throughout a large auditorium.
• You can display different application windows from the same computer on multiple
boards.
You can operate up to eight interactive whiteboards (or PDP overlays) simultaneously from
the same computer. None, all, or some of the multiple boards can be operated with
projection.
NOTE: This feature is currently only available to users running Windows or Mac OS 8.5 − 9.x
Mac
Win
operating systems.
When you're using more than one board, you can easily move objects from one board to the
next: With one hand, press on an object on one board. Now press a finger of your other hand
on the adjacent board. Release your finger from the first board, and that object will disappear
from the first board and reappear beneath your finger on the second board.
You have the option of:
•
displaying either a split window or different application windows from one computer
desktop on multiple boards (option 1 below)
• displaying identical computer desktops on multiple boards (option 2 on the next page)
You'll find detailed instructions for setting up multiple boards in the SMART Board tools
online Help. If you require further assistance in setting up a multiple board scenario, call
SMART Technical Support at 1.866.518.6791 or outside North America at +1.403.228.5940.
Option 1: Displaying Split or Different Application Windows
from One Computer Desktop on Multiple Interactive
Whiteboards
Suppose you're reviewing a spreadsheet and want to keep notes. You could display
Microsoft Excel software on one board and SMART Notebook software on another (both
programs resident on the same computer), as shown on the two SMART Board for Plasma
Display interactive whiteboards on the next page.
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