About This Guide - Smart Technologies SMART BOARD User Manual

About This Guide

If you decide to read beyond Getting Started, you'll be pleased to learn that the SMART
Board lets you do a lot more than control your computer via the Board's touch-sensitive
surface and write over top of projected applications in electronic ink.
A SMART Board connected to a computer and an LCD projector allows you to:
• Create and edit a wide variety of annotation objects with the Pen Tray styluses, the
Floating Tools or SMART Notebook  commands.
•
Capture an image of that annotation into SMART Notebook with the press of a toolbar
button.
•
Use SMART Recorder (Windows only) to create a video file of everything you do on a
SMART Board, no matter which application you're using. If you have a microphone,
you can also include audio in sync with the data.
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Save, print or e-mail a complete record of everything written, drawn or typed into
SMART Notebook. You can even save your Notebook file as a PDF file (Windows
only), a series of image files or HTML files that others can view via their Web browser.
•
Use an On-Screen Keyboard to enter text right at the SMART Board surface without
using a conventional, physical keyboard.
•
Use the handwriting recognition feature to convert your handwritten text into
typewritten text (Windows only).
• Import information from almost any electronic source into SMART Notebook.
•
Use touch shortcuts to breeze through your PowerPoint presentation at the SMART
Board.
The SMART Board User's Guide tells you how to accomplish all of these tasks and more.
While the SMART Board is an easy, natural tool that requires no special expertise to use, this
guide covers the complete range of SMART Board functionality so you can take full
advantage of all of the SMART Board's features.
The pages that follow are organized around the typical tasks performed before, during and
after a SMART Board presentation. You'll learn how to create both Notebook files and
annotation objects within those files, import information from other sources, and then sort
and edit file contents.
You'll also learn how to print and send Notebook files, and the most effective ways of using
your SMART Board during a presentation. Instructions for using several third-party
conferencing, presentation and graphics applications as Board-aware programs on the
SMART Board are also provided. The guide concludes with customer support information
and details on using the SMART Board without a projector.
The information in this guide also relates to the two other members of the SMART family of
interactive whiteboard products: the Rear Projection SMART Board (both cabinet and in-wall
models) and the SMART Board for Plasma Displays. For setup information, read the
installation guide shipped with your product.
NOTE: This guide assumes that you've already completed the SMART Board setup: You've
mounted the SMART Board to a wall or to a Floor Stand and installed SMART Board
Software as described in the SMART Board setup instructions.
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Preface