Appendix C: Using Multiple Smart Boards - Smart Technologies SMART BOARD User Manual

Appendix C: Using Multiple SMART Boards

Why limit yourself to one SMART Board? 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 also have the option of displaying
different application windows from the same computer on multiple Boards.
You can operate up to eight SMART Boards (or SMART Boards for Plasma Displays)
simultaneously from the same computer. None, all, or some of the multiple Boards can be
operated with projection.
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:
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displaying either a split window or different application windows from one computer
desktop on multiple Boards (option 1 below)
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displaying identical computer desktops on multiple Boards (option 2 on the next page)
Option 1: Displaying Split or Different Application Windows
from One Computer Desktop on Multiple Boards
Suppose you're reviewing a spreadsheet and want to keep notes. You could display Excel on
one Board and SMART Notebook on another (both programs resident on the same
computer), as shown on the two SMART Board for Plasma Displays below.
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