How does your interactive whiteboard work?

Your interactive whiteboard functions as an input device for your computer, enabling you to work in any application on your connected computer. You need two additional components to use your interactive whiteboard: a computer and a digital projector. These components work together as follows:

  • Your computer runs an application and sends the image to your projector.

  • Your projector casts the image onto your interactive whiteboard.

  • Your interactive whiteboard detects contact with its screen and sends each contact point, along with Pen tool information, to the connected computer.

SMART Product Drivers translates the information into mouse clicks and digital ink.

When you touch your interactive whiteboard’s surface, the touch of your finger becomes a mouse click and you can control your computer from your interactive whiteboard. When you use a pen tool, SMART Product Drivers changes the pointer to a colored pen, which enables you to write over your desktop or any open application with digital ink.

When you install SMART Product Drivers, a SMART Ink’s dynamic (floating) toolbar appears on your desktop. You can change pen settings such as the transparency, color and width of the ink. You can then save your notes to a file in SMART Notebook software. You can also customize other tools, such as the width of the eraser tool you use to erase your notes.

SMART Notebook collaborative learning software includes SMART Ink and SMART Product Drivers. SMART Ink works with SMART Product Drivers to enable you to write on your screen in digital ink using your interactive product’s pen or your finger.

Note 

SMART Notebook software doesn’t display the SMART Ink toolbar because it includes its own ink tools that you can use to write directly in your file.

You can press SMART Ink to select ink properties and to perform common tasks such as capturing your notes.

SMART Ink includes SMART Ink Notes which enable you to write in digital ink anywhere on your desktop. When you write outside of the open windows on your computer, a SMART Ink Note appears and you can write inside the note.

SMART Ink also includes the SMART Ink Document Viewer, which enables you to view your PDF files and to write over them in digital ink.

For more information on using SMART Ink, see the SMART Ink user’s guide (docs.smarttech.com/kb/170191).

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