Advanced Tools in SMART Notebook

Advanced Tools in SMART Notebook

Use the screen shade to hide part of your workspace. Once the screen shade is showing, you can move it from any 2 adjacent points.

Use maximize screen tool to show only the workspace. Select it again to bring it back into ‘normal’ view.

Use the dual page feature to see 2 pages at one time, if turning the pages of a book.
You can also lock one page in place with the Pin Page feature. Pinning a page will keep one page visible while still being able to navigate through the other pages.

Use the capture tool to take pictures of objects/text within your document or from another document or website.

Alignment Guides

Use the alignment guides to align objects on your workspace.

• Select View – Alignment.

Object Animation
You can add excitement, add emphasis, or reveal an object by using Object Animation.

• Select the object you would like to animate. Use the drop-down menu or the side tabs to access the
• properties menu.
• Select Object Animation. Select the animation type, direction, and speed.
• Select the timing to take place when you enter the page or when you click the object.
• Select how many times it repeats.

 

Linking

• Right click on the object you wish to add the hyperlink to.

• Go to ‘Link...’

• Select Web Page.

• Type in the web address in http:// format.

• Select Corner Icon or Object. This will be how the link appears. Choosing corner icon will give you a small world icon in the lower left hand corner to remind you there is a link there.

•  Right click on the object you wish to add the hyperlink to.

• Go to ‘Link...’

• Select Page in this File.

• Select the page you wish to link to.

• Select Corner Icon or Object- this is how the link appears. Choosing corner icon will give you a small page icon on the object to remind you there is a link there.

• Right click on the object you wish to add sound to.

• Go to ‘Sound...’

• Select Browse.

• Select the sound file page you wish to link.

• Select Corner Icon or Object- this is how the link appears. Choosing corner icon will give you a small speaker icon on the object to remind you there is a link there.

Forget where your links are?
You can view the links on a page by selecting View - Show All Links When Page Opens.

Attachments
The Attachments tab allows you to link supporting documents and webpages from your file.

The attachments tab is a good way to store documents or websites that you might want to share with othersthat you might want to share with others.

The quickest way to get a graphic from the Internet into your SMARTBoard file is to:
1. Find the picture you’re looking for
2. Copy and paste the images into your file.
3. Add to My Content if it is an image you will use over and over.

My Content
You can add objects to a folder in the gallery called My Content. You can add images, sounds, and even page layouts to the folder.

Images: To add an image to the folder, simply drag and item from the work area to the My Content folder. To rename the image (to something you will remember), find the image in your My Content folder. Select the drop down menu from the image and select rename.
Page Layouts: To add an entire page to My Content, select the drop down menu from the page in the page sorter tab. Select “Add page to gallery.” You can browse for your page by selecting My Content from the gallery. To rename the page layout (to something you will remember), find the page layout in your My Content folder. Select the drop down menu select rename.
Note: Images and page layouts added to My Content will only be available on the computer that you were working on at the time you added them.

SMART Notebook Document Writer
Use this when you want to incorporate any document/PowerPoint into a Notebook file. This will be better resolution than using the Notebook camera tool to copy an entire page.

1. In MS Word or PowerPoint (or other program with a print option), select File, then Print.
2. Choose SMART Notebook Document Writer from printer names.
3. You can insert it as:
SMART Notebook pages with images
SMART Notebook pages with editable objects (which may/may not be as you had in the original document)
4. It will send the page(s) to a new Notebook document.

 

Reference: SMART Boards 101 Christine Bangsund and Margaret Jacobson