About SMART Tool Explorer (V2) technology

For education

The SMART Tool Explorer V2 platform enables you to use pens, cubes, and stamps that are automatically recognized the moment they contact the display’s screen. The entire screen of a compatible SMART Board interactive display can recognize a Tool Explorer-enabled object automatically, so there’s no need to select a tool type before you use a tool or manipulative.

By creating tool sets for different subjects, learning needs, and abilities, teachers can also quickly provide multiple pathways through lessons. Kinesthetic and tactile learners can get the hands-on activity and fine motor experiences they need to explore, learn and retain.

System requirements and SMART software compatibility

Notes 

  • Some Tool Explorer (V2) tools work only with the iQ system’s whiteboard and not with input from a connected computer.

  • Tool Explorer (V2) tools and manipulatives are not compatible with the 6000S series Tool Explorer (V1) tools and manipulatives.

  • Support for the different pens, objects, and manipulatives varies depending on the model of display, as described in the following descriptions of each tool.

Tool

iQ system software version

SMART Notebook

SMART Product Drivers

Tool Explorer (V2) pens

4.0 or later

24.0 or later

12.23 or later

Tool Explorer (V2) 4-stamp bundle

4.0 or later

Not supported

Not supported

Tool Explorer (V2) 4-cube bundle

4.2 or later

Not supported

Not supported

SMART MultiStylus accessory kit

4.7.2 or later

26.0 or later

12.30 or later