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Training ManualModules 1 to 14: Basics


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1 Starting up & moving the toolbar

2 Activating the pen3 The board rubber

4 Undo

5 Typing

6 The scroll bar

7 Page sorter and pages

8 Save documents

9 Opening documents

10 Background colour

11 Arrows and lines

12 Squares

13 Locking14 Troubleshooting

Index


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1 SWITCH ON ALL WALL

SOCKETS

2 SWITCH ON COMPUTER

On most machines, you holddown the round, flat, black

button (under the screen

on the computer, to the

left) for about two

seconds

3 SWITCH ON PROJECTOR

On the wall in a small cage

there's normally a remote

control; hold down the orange

"on" button for three seconds,

you should see some light in

the projector lens

4 LOG IN as you normally would

do on a college computer


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To open smartboard notebook, click on the smartboard icon on the

right of the toolbar at the bottom of the screen

Choose the top option "Notebook..."

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The first thing to do is to decide whether you'd prefer

the toolbar to be at the top or the bottom of the page.

Click on this blue circle with arrow icon to "Move toolbar

to the top" or "move toolbar to the bottom"

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Clicking on the pen icon, (or picking up a pen,

which automatically activates this) makes the

cursor change into this pen icon, which will write

wherever you touch the board

If you have four pens, the colour will depend on

which tray you pick the pen up from

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Clicking on the downwards pointing arrow to the left of

the pen gives you options for other colours, and if you

click "customise pens and highlighters", you can

change the nib thickness as well.

NB Choosing a thick nib, and increasing the

transparency, gives you a highlighter that can be used

to highlight text.

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Clicking on the board rubber icon, (or picking

up a board rubber, which automatically

activates this) makes the cursor change into

this board rubber icon, which will rub out any

writing done with the board pen. NB it will not

rub out anything typed, or cut and pasted.

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Clicking on the downwards pointing arrow to the left of

the board rubber gives you options for the thickness of

the board rubber, thin for rubbing out detail, thick forthe quickest way to rub out)

3b


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A quick way to remove the last thing or

things you pasted, or wrote, or typed,

or deleted, is to click on the "undo"

icon, similar to the "undo last action"

icon that you have in 'Word'

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To type text on the board, just position whichever cursor you are

using (you can click on "A" below, but it isn't necessary) where you

want it to be, and then type on the computer keyboard.

Note, you can also cut and paste text from word, or the internet (left

click and drag over text to highlight it, or in some cases, triple click,

then right click on the highlighted text and choose copy, then in

smartboard right click and choose paste

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To change the size of text, click once on the

cursor (see below) then once on the text and a

blue line and three interactive icons appear

NB Click on the cursor to cancel all other

applications, such as pen, line-drawing, shapes

etc.

5b

My text


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If you left click and drag the green circle, you

can rotate the text, if you click and drag on the

white circle you can increase/decrease text size.

If you click on the interactive arrow you have a

range of options (including delete)

5c

My text


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To interact with the text (editing, changing font

etc.,) click once on the cursor (see below), then

double click quickly on the text, and the editing box

appears. Put your cursor into the text totype/delete, left click and drag the cursor over the

text to highlight it and change font

5d

ext


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You can scroll down a page to add

material using the scroll bar (left),

but there is a limit to the length of

each page. So, to add more pagesto a document, click on the "add

page" icon below.

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To see all the pages in a document,

click on the "page sorter" tab. You

can click on each page to go to it.

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There is also the "next

page/previous page" icons, butthe smartboard needs to be well

aligned to use these effectively

(see 14: 'troubleshooting')


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To save your document, click on "file" and then "save as" to

choose where you want to save the document. If you've saved

the document once in the required folder, you can click on the

"save" icon below to save as you go along

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To open a document you've already made and saved, click on

"file" and then "open" to choose a document, either from your

memory stick or "C" drive. Alternatively, you can click on the

"folder" icon below.

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One quick way to make a document easier to read is to dim tha

background colour a little. Click 'Format' and choose

'Background Colour...' and click on a light colour from the grid,such as tan.

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To make the arrows seen on this page, click on the 'Lines'

icon, then click and drag on the page. However, you may

need to change the format of the lines...

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To do this, click on the small downwards pointing arrow next

to the 'lines' icon, and choose from a variety of default, or

recently used lines. Or for further options click on 'customise

lines' at the bottom of the list to choose other colours or

styles.

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B:

To make the boxes above, which can be moved to reveal

text, or match with text, click on downwards pointing arrow to

the right of the 'shapes' icon below, and click on the square,

then click on the page...

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2A:


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However, the newly created boxes will be transparent, as

above, so click on the box to get the interactive arrow in the top

right hand corner, and choose 'properties' to give the squares a

'fill' colour.

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Properties...


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Then, to put text onto a square, double click on it (so that

the shaded line appears around the edge) and then type

into the box.

12c


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Each new box automatically appears over a new one, but

you can change this order with the interactive menu,

choosing 'Order', and 'Bring to front' to make that box thetop one.

12c

A

B

Order


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To avoid accidentally moving boxes, text boxes, text or

arrows, use the interactive menu (click once, and click on the

small arrow) and choose 'locking', then 'lock in place'.

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"a large

amount

of text"

TEXT

BOX

Locking


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If the pen and the cursor/writing etc., are not aligned, click on the

smartboard icon on the right of the toolbar at the bottom of the screen

Choose the option "Control Panel", then "orient/align the SMARTboard".

On the screen that appears, touch the pen on each flashing cross in

turn until you have clicked on all of them.

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Occasionally, when first turning on a computer that has a smartboard

attached, or when exiting a smartboard notebook file,

two things happen;

1) There is a very thin grey line running all the way round the very

edge of the screen

2) nothing else happens, i.e. the computer appears to be frozen, or

(when exiting notebook) you seem unable to do anything except

make tiny ink dots on your desktop

This is because the Smartboard software is still lying over your

desktop (but invisibly). To rectify this, simply;

RIGHT CLICK

SELECT "CLOSE WRITING LAYER"

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