Writing, Capturing And Erasing; Writing With Pen Tray Styluses Over Applications - Smart Technologies SMART BOARD User Manual

Writing, Capturing and Erasing

Tip
You can write and
erase on the SMART
Board with your finger.
Just pick up a stylus or
the eraser from the
Pen Tray and touch the
Board with your other
hand. Any pressure
applied to the Board
after a tool has been
lifted is interpreted by
the SMART Board
Service as the
behavior of the lifted
tool.
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You can create or erase annotation objects using the styluses and eraser in the Pen Tray,
the various tools available from Notebook, or a combination of both.
This section describes how to:
•
create annotations by writing over top of Windows applications projected on your
SMART Board using the Pen Tray tools or their software counterpart − the Floating
Tools
• configure the Pen Tray tools
•
create a user profile to save your reconfigured Pen Tray and Floating Tools settings
(Windows only)
•
capture an image of your annotations into SMART Notebook
•
erase what you've written on the SMART Board

Writing with Pen Tray Styluses over Applications

Start up an application on your projected SMART Board, select one of the four colored
styluses from the Pen Tray, and then write in the color you selected. If you're using regular
dry-erase markers, be sure to leave the caps securely on, as you're writing in virtual,
electronic ink rather than physical ink.
To write in a different color, place the stylus you first used back in its slot and select
another. Since the color recognition comes from the slots in the Pen Tray rather than the
styluses themselves, ensure that each stylus is returned to its proper slot (the slot with the
corresponding color) when you finish using it.
WARNING: If you touch the Board after writing over an application that is not Board-aware
and replacing the stylus in the Pen Tray, the annotations you just made will disappear. While
this is an easy way to clear the screen of all external annotations, it also means you must be
careful not to inadvertently delete annotations by accidentally touching the Board. However, if
you've accidentally lost annotations by touching the Board, don't panic: you can easily restore
the lost annotations.
Open the Floating Tools and press the Restore Annotations button in the Floating Tools
palette. The last cleared annotation will be restored to view.
SMART Board User's Guide
Press to restore last
cleared annotation