Bring learning to life

Powerful and easy-to-use, SMART Notebook software is at the core of creating and delivering interactive lessons that engage students. This collaborative learning software features an intuitive interface that makes it easy to design lessons that you can use again and again.

The software enables you to bring images, themes, videos and Flash objects instantly into your lesson, either from the SMART Notebook Gallery or your own files. And by incorporating the software's dynamic features, like Object Animation, Shape Recognition and the Magic Pen and SMART Recorder, you create extraordinary moments for your students.

SMART Notebook software features a multitude of interactive tools and a comprehensive library of learning resources to help you energize lessons and bring learning to life. And when you combine the software with a SMART Board interactive whiteboard, lessons become hands-on, interactive experiences.

Creativity unleashed

Lesson creation is easy with SMART Notebook software, so you can focus on making your lessons engaging, interactive and understandable. From the first time you use it, the simple interface lets you build interactive lessons, either from scratch with the SMART Lesson Activity Toolkit or by using a SMART Notebook lesson activity as a template. SMART Notebook brings together ideas, content and interactivity to help educators create fun and engaging classroom experiences. With lesson-creation resources available right at your fingertips, SMART Notebook helps you bring ideas together easily.

Dynamic delivery

Learning is filled with energy and interactivity when you use SMART Notebook software to teach lessons. That's because the software gives teachers a fun way to invigorate lessons with interactive content like videos, audio, images and Flash animated content.

As a result, students perform better, retain more information and learn important technology skills. And you can multiply these benefits when you use SMART Notebook with SMART Notebook SE (Student Edition), which has many of the same creative tools and features as SMART Notebook, all customized for students.

Lesson essentials

Access free, ready-to-use standards-correlated SMART Notebook lesson activities and content on the SMART Exchange online community. It makes it easy for you to quickly find, evaluate, download and share a variety of classroom-relevant content. Connect with colleagues in your district or around the globe to exchange SMART Notebook lesson activities, ideas, insights and classroom success stories. The SMART Exchange also has a vast library of standards-correlated SMART Response question sets, links to useful websites and a variety of multimedia resources - all designed to help you make teaching and learning more extraordinary.

And if you want to share your SMART Notebook files with other educators, we offer SMART Notebook Express web application (beta). As a light-weight, web-based version of SMART Notebook software, it enables anyone, anywhere to open, edit and share SMART Notebook lessons and content through the SMART Exchange.

Simplified management

SMART Notebook software is easily deployed and managed over an entire network using the network installation tool. And the software's asset manager helps your IT department keep track of how many hours the school's SMART products are in use. The software also features a multitude of other customizable tools that help make your day-to-day use and IT administration more efficient and manageable.

Works well with others

SMART Notebook software is the interactive foundation for many of our products. Once you have SMART Notebook, you can easily integrate other SMART products into your lessons. Incorporate assessment into your SMART Notebook lessons with SMART Response interactive response system, or use the SMART Document Camera to display real time images to your students - the images will appear right in your SMART Notebook file. SMART Notebook also complements other SMART software, and is one of four software applications that form SMART Classroom Suite interactive learning software.

• Create themed pages using elements such as fonts, background colors and images, and apply them to SMART Notebook pages.
• Format a SMART Notebook page with this tool, which accurately aligns objects to other objects and to the vertical and horizontal page centers.
• Organize the pages of a SMART Notebook file into groups. Drag pages into the groups, add new pages and show one group at a time in the Page Sorter.
• Select any color from your computer's color palette and use it to outline or fill objects.
• Fill shapes with two-color gradients, images or patterns.
• Fill shapes with the last color you used by selecting the Fill Tool from the SMART Notebook software toolbar.
• Insert images, video, shapes, links, Adobe Flash files, text and audio into your SMART Notebook lessons. Anything inserted becomes a SMART Notebook software object that you can manipulate.
• Insert print captures from Microsoft Office applications and the Internet directly into SMART Notebook software. Edit or interact with the items within the capture, including text and hyperlinks (Windows Vista only).
• Add superscript and subscript to your text, or add scientific symbols and notation.
• Add connectors, shapes, dotted lines, creative pen styles and more using a variety of drawing tools.
• After selecting a tool, scroll through a horizontal menu that doesn't interfere with the SMART Notebook page and that stays open until you have finished.
• Insert audio, video or Adobe Flash files into any lesson activity by placing them into your SMART Notebook file, or store them in the Gallery for easy access. You can also write into many of the Flash animations using the optimized Handwriting Recognition feature.
• Check spelling quickly with the software's spell check that automatically scans text objects and documents while in editing mode.
• Create a table from the SMART Notebook software toolbar, then insert or drag text, images and objects into any cell with ease. Add or delete individual cells to create asymmetrical tables.
• Insert SMART Response question sets directly into a SMART Notebook file. You don't need to own a SMART Response interactive response system.

Teach

• Use this three-in-one tool to spotlight, magnify or zoom in on an image, or write notes that will disappear in 10 seconds. Draw a square to magnify an object or draw a circle to add a spotlight.
• Animate any SMART Notebook software object with effects such as fading in, flying in or spinning.
• Draw a freehand shape, and SMART Notebook software recognizes it and perfects it.
• Draw a freehand circle or other shape, and access the Shape Recognition feature in the drop-down menu to quickly perfect it.
• Teach a concept in SMART Notebook software and record every step you take. In the replay, students will only see the on-screen actions.
• Record events on the screen with optional sound, and create a video file in .avi or .wmv format. Add a watermark to the recording with the time-stamp information, date and logo.
• Highlight text or objects with highlighter ink that automatically straightens.
• Prevent students from altering lessons by locking the SMART Board interactive whiteboard, SMART Slate wireless slate and SMART Podium interactive pen display.
• Record sound directly into SMART Notebook software and attach the file directly to objects. Find famous speeches, animal sounds, phonics, instruments and more in the Gallery.
• Resize, move and write over video files and streaming video in your SMART Notebook pages, and then store the files in the Gallery for easy access.
• Split your computer screen to view or work on two SMART Notebook pages simultaneously.
• Keep tools within reach for smaller students by moving the toolbars to the bottom of the screen.
• Create a bigger interactive whiteboard page area by hiding the toolbar and tabs. Navigate through your SMART Notebook pages with a small, movable toolbar.
• Conceal and reveal information point by point, dragging the Screen Shade over your SMART Notebook page.
• Write notes in digital ink, and transform them into text in one click with the Handwriting Recognition feature.

Manage

• Take advantage of the Install Manager, which lets you install SMART Notebook software on networked computers. Use the Asset Manager to monitor SMART product and projector use for maintenance and performance.
• Use the Properties Tab to change an object's line style, fill effects and animation options, all from one accessible location.
• Dive into SMART resources with the Welcome Center. The Welcome Center opens when SMART Notebook software is launched and puts SMART's lesson-creation resources, training, professional development and support at your fingertips.
• Access a resource hub for teachers directly through SMART Notebook software's Welcome Center. The Teachers' Hub contains access to hundreds of lesson activities and other resources to help teachers easily create and teach lessons.
• Set your SMART Notebook file to save work automatically, from every minute up to every 30 minutes, or every time you move to a different page.
• SMART Notebook software is available in over 40 languages: Arabic, Basque, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (US), English (UK), Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic (Scotland), Gaelic (Modern Irish), Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Maori, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (International Latin America), Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Welsh.
• Create and save SMART Notebook files with fully transparent objects and digital ink.
• Create a transparency layer over your desktop that functions like a SMART Notebook page. Capture your work and insert it into SMART Notebook software with the click of a button.
• Search through text in your SMART Notebook files using the Mac Spotlight tool.
• Use Mac page-turning effects to flip through SMART Notebook pages like a book.
• Manipulate objects that you have created, written or added in a multitude of ways. Change the properties of objects, such as color, transparency or size. Hyperlink objects to the Internet, other SMART Notebook pages or documents on your computer. Display all linked objects on a page by using the Show All Links option in the View Menu.
• View SMART Notebook pages as thumbnails using the Page Sorter. Reorder your presentation by simply dragging and dropping thumbnails. Add a page title and a time stamp quickly by double-clicking on a thumbnail.
• Access every tool within two clicks of your mouse using SMART Notebook software's refined menu navigation.
• Select the On-Screen Keyboard to type text, numbers or symbols into any application directly at the interactive whiteboard. Resize the keyboard, make it transparent or choose from several different keyboard styles to suit your needs.
• Save SMART Notebook files in various formats, including .ppt, .pdf and .html. You can also save individual SMART Notebook pages as separate image files (.jpeg, .png or .gif) for easy sharing.
• Use SMART Notebook software on the go with enhanced tablet computer support.
• Choose the tools you use most, and put them on your SMART Notebook software toolbar as handy shortcuts. Move the toolbar to the bottom of your SMART Notebook page for easy access.
• Switch between the Gallery, Page Sorter, Attachment or Properties tabs easily, with one click.

Content

• Discover easy-to-use, relevant, classroom-ready content and a growing, online community on the SMART Exchange. Quickly find, evaluate, download, and share a variety of digital content that can be effortlessly used with classroom technology.
• Choose from over 7,000 learning objects to enhance your lessons, including images, backgrounds, dynamic Flash files, video and audio content. Take advantage of music-notation sheets, a compass, a protractor, clocks, maps, sports fields, solar systems and a variety of shapes. You also have access to an extensive collection of classic artwork from the Bridgeman Art Library.
• Store SMART Notebook pages, photos, pictures and animated .gif files from other applications, and insert them directly into a SMART Notebook file. This function enables you to add objects to your own Gallery.
• Use the Team Content feature to access common Gallery content on a shared network drive. Add or delete content in the Team Content folder without needing system administration access, and add Team Content items to your lessons.
• Discover customizable tools and templates to help you create professional and engaging lessons. Find templates for word games, quizzes, sorting tables and Flash tools to add interactive drag-and-drop or hide-and-reveal elements to your lessons.
• Get the top 50 images, Flash tools, video and audio files available in the full version of SMART Notebook software's Gallery Essentials. Insert maps, images of historical figures, science diagrams and other educational visuals.

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Windows operating system

• Pentium II 450 MHz processor
• 256 MB of RAM(512 MB recommended)
• 215 MB of free hard diskspace for minimum installation (875MB for full installation with Gallery content)
• Windows XP or Windows Vista operating system
• Internet Explorer Internet browser 6.0 or later
• Adobe Flash player 8

Requirements for SMART Video Player

• Pentium II 450 MHz processor (700 MHz or faster recommended)
• Windows XP operating system or later
• Microsoft DirectX application programming interface 8.1 or later PDA 

PDA

• Windows Mobile 5 software or WindowsMobile 6 software
• ARM-based processor at 500MHz
• 3 MB free storage space for installation
• 64 MB of RAM
• 320x240 or 640x480 resolution display with 16-bit colour
• Adobe Flash player 7 for Pocket PC