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SMART Board Software

SMART Board Service

The SMART Board Service is the driver component of SMART Board Software. It runs in the
background, translating SMART Board contact into mouse behavior.
As soon as you install SMART Board Software on a computer connected to a SMART Board,
the SMART Board Service goes into action to enable immediate touch control of your
projected computer application. You can activate programs, open and scroll through files,
even surf the Internet − all without doing anything more than installing SMART Board
Software on your connected and projected computer. At this point, you can also use the Pen
Tray buttons either to produce a right-mouse click (Windows only) or to activate the SMART
Keyboard. After initial software installation, each time you start up your operating system, the
SMART Board automatically becomes touch sensitive.

SMART Board Tools

The remaining program components of SMART Board Software – the SMART Board tools –
provide all the functionality of the SMART Board beyond basic touch control and Pen Tray
button use. Specifically, the SMART Board tools provide you with SMART Board annotation
and tool-configuration capabilities. The SMART Board tools are accessed by pressing on the
SMART Board icon.
It's important to note that the SMART Board tools must be running to use the Pen Tray
styluses and eraser. In other words, if you want to write on your SMART Board with a Pen
Tray stylus, make sure the SMART Board icon appears in the System Tray (Windows) or in
the menu bar (Macintosh).
In Macintosh, these tools are available as a drop-down menu of commands, accessed by
pressing once on the SMART Board icon that appears in the menu bar.
In Windows, the SMART Board tools are available as a pop-up menu that appears when the
SMART Board icon in the System Tray is pressed.
SMART Board User's Guide
Tip
Use the On-Screen
Keyboard to log in –
before SMART Board
tools are even active.
When the log-in screen
appears, press the
Keyboard button on
the Pen Tray. The On-
Screen Keyboard will
appear and you can
type your user name
and password without
moving to an actual
keyboard.
SMART Board
Icon
Mac
Win
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