Using SMART Notebook lessons with Lumio

Lumio provides new ways for you to enhance and use your SMART Notebook lessons. All you have to do is to import your SMART Notebook lessons into Lumio.

Importing into Lumio provides a number of enhancements and benefits for your lesson:

  • Import and combine multiple files: Do you have resources from multiple file types that you want to combine with your SMART Notebook lesson? No problem. With Lumio, you can import Notebook, PDF, PowerPoint, and Google Slides or Docs and combine resources. Select an entire file or only specific pages to import and combine.

  • Add ready-made resources: Lumio gives you access to existing lesson materials (such as minute papers, exit tickets, and KWL tables) and resources from partners like PhET and Desmos, which you can add to any Notebook lesson you’ve imported. You can also add ready-made resources, such as graphic organizers and manipulatives.

  • Enable student access at home: You can easily share imported Notebook lessons with students using Lumio’s share links, which enable your students to access the entire lesson at home and complete activities as assignments.

  • Enable student participation in the entire lesson: Deliver your Notebook lesson to student devices. After you’ve imported lessons into Lumio, connected students can see and follow the whole lesson on their devices and complete the activities it contains.

  • Get insights into students’ performance: Delivering a Notebook lesson in Lumio gives you access to the activity dashboard. Use the dashboard to see data about how well the whole class or individual students are progressing through an activity.

These are just some of the highlights. Once you start working with Lumio, you can use many of its features to enhance your lesson. Learn more about Lumio.

Whether you’ve imported a whole lesson file or just a few pages, objects remain moveable and editable in Lumio.

When importing Notebook lessons into Lumio, remember that some features are not supported:

Notebook feature

In Lumio

Widgets

Widgets are displayed as gray boxes with a yellow exclamation mark and students can no longer interact with them.

GeoGebra

GeoGebra isn’t supported, but Lumio’s Desmos graphing activity calculator can be used instead.

SMART Blocks

SMART Blocks aren’t supported.

Animations

Animations like screen reveal aren’t supported.

Activity builders

Activity builders aren’t supported.

Fonts

Fonts will be substituted for Lumio-compatible fonts and may not have the same layout.

Tables

Formatting often changes and is not editable in Lumio.

Backgrounds

Backgrounds set in Notebook can’t be changed in Lumio, and images set as backgrounds in Notebook tend to lose resolution in Lumio.