What’s new

We’ve removed the 150 character limit when creating SMART response 2 questions. Use this feature to include paragraph analysis in your assessments, but keep in mind that questions under 150 characters are still a best practice.

The side panel displaying student sign-in in response 2, Shout It Out, and Monster Quiz is now dark grey.

Groups can now be created, renamed, deleted, and moved directly in the Page Sorter window.

The new Welcome screen gives you timely information, links to new Notebook features and content, file sharing, the latest subscription information, and upgrade offers. You can also access your recent SMART lab activities.

SMART Notebook 17.1 software now allows you to sign in with your Google or Microsoft account. (Sign in is required to create and play most SMART lab activities.) If you sign in with one of these accounts, you and your students will not have to sign in each time you want to use SMART response 2 or other activities that require account sign in. Learn more at Account Sign In and Limited mode.

SMART lab Super Sort now supports the use of images as sorting items so that teachers can choose the best content for their students.

You can now assign a time limit to questions by toggling the new Time limit button in the Review Content dialog box and setting the number of seconds allowed for each answer.

response 2 file conversion now allows you to choose between question groupings:

• Convert all Response assessment pages into one new response 2 assessment

• Convert each SMART Response assessment question into a separate new single question response 2 activity inserted on a new page in front of it. You will see two pages for every SMART Response page in the original SMART Response file.

Learn more at Creating assessments with SMART response 2.

• Teachers now have greater flexibility when using SMART response 2 as a formative assessment tool. In scenarios where teachers prefer to review the questions prior to students responding to the questions, there is now a Show Questions toggle which displays the questions rather than the default class progress bar.

• Teachers can mark up questions with Ink to highlight parts of a question while reviewing it with the class

• Teachers can get real-time results of class responses even before an assessment has ended

The new Share to Board feature allows you to share Notebook files from Notebook to SMART Board interactive displays with iQ technology. Learn more at Using Share.

If the files you want to share are large, you can also share them by link to a SMART Board interactive displays with iQ technology. Learn more at Using Share.