SmartBoard+Tips+and+Tricks

Tips and Tricks

 * Smart **** Board Notebook Tips and Tricks: **

Click on the Auto hide box to hide the tabs when using Notebook.
 * Tool bar: **

Click on the blue circle at the end of the tool bar to change the location of the toolbar (top/bottom)  **If you move your curser over these buttons, they will tell you what they are.
 * 1. Page Back || 2. Page Forward || 3. Add a Page || 4. Open a File ||
 * 5. Save || 6. Paste || 7. Undo || 8. Red0 ||
 * 9. Delete || 10. Screen Shade || 11. Full Screen || 12. Capture Camera ||
 * 13. Pointer || 14. Pen || 15. Special Pens/Highlighters || 16. Eraser ||
 * 17. Insert Line || 18. Insert Shapes || 19. Font || 20. Lines and Fill Colors ||
 * 21. Line Properties || 22. Move Toolbar to Bottom ||||  ||

 You will now be able to open this document and edit it to your preferences.
 * **Download an already prepared SmartNotebook file from the internet: **Go to [|http://exchange.smarttech.com/#tab=0] or any other site that has SmartNotebook files. Preview the file. If you wish to keep it and use it, click FIILE, SAVE, be sure to watch where you are saving it to. Note: you are looking for **.notebook** files (these are files that are used by the Smart Board
 * UNLOCK: **After you have downloaded a file you may need to unlock certain pictures to move them. If you click on the picture and a littleLOCK appears at the top right, click on the lock and choose “unlock”.


 * **Search For pictures in the Gallery: **Click the gallery tab on the side of the notebook. Type a search word in the window at the top.To add clip art to your notebook, just click and drag it to the notebook area.


 * **Add pictures to Gallery: **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">You can add clip art to the “My gallery”. To add, right click and copy the picture. Right click over the MyGallery folder and paste.


 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Rotating an object: **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Click one time on the object. Left click the green circle and drag to the new position and release the click.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Click Format, Background color. Click on color choice. Click on more colors for more options
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Change the color of the background: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Right click on the picture. Choose “set picture transparency”. Point the ink dropper at the areas that you want to disappear and click.Click OK.
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Remove white border around pictures: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">To attach a **copy** of a file: click the **Attachments** tab at the bottom of the side sorter. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> The attachments view will appear. Select **Insert > copy of file.** The **Insert copy of file** dialog box will appear. Browse or navigate to the desired directory using the **Look In** box, select your file, then click the **Open** button. Your file will now appear as an attachment in theAttachments view.
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Attachments: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">To attach an Internet hyperlink: click the **Attachments** tab at the bottom of the side sorter. The attachments view will appear. Select**Insert hyperlink**. Paste hyperlink in the top window and type the name of the site in the nextwindow. The hyperlink will now be in the attachments window.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">PowerPoint, word document, or excel sheets as attachments. Click attachment tab. Click on insert. Click on Insert Copy of file.Navigate to the file, select and click OK.
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Inserting Documents into SMART Notebook **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">You can access these attachments two ways. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> 1. By clicking on the attachment tab, you will see the list of the attachments in this document. Double click the one you want and it will launch. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> 2. By linking them in the notebook from clipart icon, or word. To do this, right click on the clipart, choose link. Choose “ current attachment”. I like to choose launch by object. This will make it launch anywhere you touch the picture. The default is a corner icon that looks like a little bubble.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Click file, import, then navigate to where you have the PP saved. Click on it and click <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Open. The slide show will be imported into notebook. You will be able to write on the slide just like in notebook. However, the slide transitions, effects, etc will not import. If you want these play the PP as usually. You can still write on it. Be careful though, if you do not want the writing on the slides permanently DO NOT save it in that form.
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Import previously prepared Power Point slide shows: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Write on the SB. Put stylus down. Touch the writing one time. Touch the down arrow. Choose from the **recognize ….**
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Change Handwriting to Text: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">You can leave your attachment in the attachment window. To launch then you will open the tab and double select them. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> opens the notebook file that has the attachment in it. Paste a clip art picture or key word. Left click this one time. Click the downarrow. Select **Link**. On the left side choose current attachment, decide if you want it to launch from a corner icon or if you want it to launch from the entire picture. Click **OK .**
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Launching Attachments: **
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">OR __**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">You can create a link from a picture or words pasted into the notebook. To do this

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The benefit of capturing into Notebook is an interactive page where annotations won't be lost.
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Screen Capture tool- the camera: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Click on the screen capture/camera icon. This tool will float on top of any other page you open. If you want to capture a picture from the internet click on the first button that looks like a square. Use the cross bar to select the area. The picture will automatically be sent to your notebook. The next button will capture and area, the third button will capture a screen and the last button will allow you to free handdraw around the object you want to capture. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> This is the most basic way to capture. Start out by opening Notebook. Then open your desired document or the Internet. Go to File thenPrint. In the Print window, click the drop down arrow at the end of the printer name line. Select SMART Notebook Print Capture then OK.Now you should be able to toggle back to Notebook and use the document or Internet page interactively with Notebook. Use these same steps for <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> capturing almost any document - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet pages, pdf files, etc.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The benefit to capturing is Notebook's interactivity. Once a document is captured into Notebook, you can use the stylus to annotate. InNotebook, you don't have to worrying about the one wrong tap that deletes your annotations, as you do in Word or on the Internet.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Infinite Cloner gives you the ability to make multiple copies of a single object or groups of objects. I use this for my calendar time to pull off pictures for patterns and money.
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Infinite Cloner: **

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">To infinitely clone an object, insert the desired object into Notebook. Click once on the object to select it, click the drop down arrow to access the object's menu, and select infinite cloner. Now when you click and drag the object, it will make a cloned image of your original.To undo this feature, select the infinitely cloned object. You will see an infinity symbol in the upper right hand corner. Click that symbol and uncheck Infinite <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Cloner

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Go to View, Zoom, Dual Page Display. Now two pages are seen. You can annotate on either page or drop and drag clipart, phrases or other pictures between the two pages as <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> well.
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Split Screen View: **

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">By making a shape, filling it with a color, and making it transparent, you could have your own highlighting tape, counters for <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">hundreds charts, <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> or other objects for labeling and identifying numbers, parts of speech, sight/vocabulary words, etc. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Make a shape or clip art transparent by clicking it one time to select. Click the down <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> arrow, select properties, and choose the degree of transparency.
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Transparency Tool **

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">When you make a shape using the shape tools and then fill it with color, the shape is much easier for you and your students <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">to manipulate <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">on your SMART Board! Now you <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> very easily can tap and drag anywhere inside the shape to move it. And, if you don't want the shape to be colored, try filling it with white.If you do not fill a shape with color you will need to touch the outer edges to move it. It can be difficult for children on the Smart Board.
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Filling Shapes with Color **

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">If you have prepared a slide and you do not want the kids to accidentally move a picture or part of it use the lock option. Click the <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">picture or <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">object one time to select it. Click the down arrow in the upper right corner of the object. Select locking and slide over to lock in place.Now the object will not move. To unlock it go through the same process and select unlock.
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Locking: **

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Use the line tool for making tables, grids, T-charts, separating shapes, or even your own custom made shapes. You can set the <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">line thickness <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">for very thick or very thin lines. You can also change the color of the lines to draw attention to a particular side of a shape, portion of the table, a category of a Venn Diagram, etc.
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Line Tool Ideas **

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Grouping is used when you want to combine lines or shapes into one object. Select the shapes you want to combine, such as your <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">custom-made <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">shapes (the shapes you make with the line tool) or even the two/three/four circles for Venn Diagrams. Go to "Draw" "Group" to group all the shapes/lines into one object. OR Left click and select all <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> objects that you want to group. Click the down arrow on one and choose group.
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Grouping Lines, Shapes and Objects Together **

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Changing the transparency of shapes or objects will allow what is underneath to be seen. Select the object to be formatted, go to "Format","Transparency", and then select <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> a transparency setting. This is a great idea for Venn Diagrams, your shapes, grids, or <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> other tables. (You can not change the transparency of words.)
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Changing Object Transparency (The White box around the picture) **

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">You have several printing options ranging from one to six Notebook slides per page <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> when printing. Open Notebook, go to "file", then "print" to open the Print Window. About three-fourths of the way down the Print Window,you have an option of what to print. If you click the drop down arrow next to the "Print what" line, you can identify if you want to print one,two, four, or six Notebook slides per page. This is great for catching up absent students with the prior day's class notes from Notebook
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Printing Options in Notebook **

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The full screen view can be found by going to View, Full Screen. The screen shade can be found by going to View, Screen Shade. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Or look for these two buttons on your tool bar. <span style="background-color: initial; color: #c21d0c; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Full Screen View and Screen Shade **

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Add a graphic to the Smart Notebook page. Click the graphic one time. Click the down arrow. Choose sound. Navigate to a sound file.It must be mp3. For mp3 files to <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> download check out []
 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Adding sound to a presentation: **


 * **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Ways to reveal information: **

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> arrow. Choose order and click once. Choose send to the back. Your answer should now show up when you slide <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">the shape <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">over it. (which is really under it)
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">1. **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Click on text box. Type in the answer to your question. Change the font color to match the background. Click <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">on shape <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">button choose a shape that covers your answer. Click the shape once. Click the down
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">2. **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Click the text button and type your text. Click the shape button and draw a shape around your text. Left click <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">the down <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">arrow beside the pen button. Choose customize pens and highlighters. Choose the color that matches <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">your background. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Choose a fatter pen size. Click ok. Color over your text until it is masked inside the box. To <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">reveal choose the <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> eraser button and rub it over the answer box.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">3. **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Cover the text with a shape box. Move the box to reveal the answer.