Installing and maintaining Gallery content on Windows

Windows operating systems only

Gallery content includes the following:

  • Gallery Essentials, which is a collection of educational photos, images, and audio files compatible files.

  • Lesson Activity Toolkit, which contains objects teachers can use to create their own lesson activities.

You can access Gallery content from the Gallery tab in SMART Notebook software.

If you’re customizing the software using SMART Install Manager, complete the procedure in this section to configure Gallery content.

To configure Gallery content using SMART Install Manager

  1. Open the software installation package in SMART Install Manager.

  2. Click Product Selection.

    The Product Selection page appears.

  3. Select SMART Notebook (and any other products you want to install).

  4. Click Gallery Content.

    The Gallery Content page appears.

  5. Select the Gallery content to be installed on each computer.
    Gallery Essentials
    Lesson Activity Toolkit

  6. Publish your changes, and then deploy the files.

    If you loaded the ESI .EXE with Install Manager, publish will produce a .xml file.

    If you loaded the ESI .MSI with Install Manager, publish will produce a .mst file.

  7. Make sure the .xml or .mst file is saved into the same folder as the ESI installation package to be deployed.

After installing the software, you can do the following:

  • Starting the software in Administration mode.

  • Change the location of the My Content folder.

  • Create or connect to a Team Content folder.

  • Connect to an RSS feed.

Before you can maintain content folders, you must start the software in Administration mode.

To start SMART Notebook software in Administration mode

  1. Open a Command Prompt window.

  2. Type the following command:

    Copy
    "[Path]\Notebook.exe" /admin

    Where [Path] is the path to the SMART Notebook software program folder.

  3. Click ENTER.

    SMART Notebook software starts in Administration mode.

The My Content folder is a location where teachers and students can store content for their individual use.

You can specify the location of the My Content folder during installation or afterward.

To change the location of the My Content folder after installation

  1. Start the software in Administration mode.

  2. Click the Gallery tab.

  3. Click the Click here for more Gallery options icon , and then select Administration: Content Locations.

    The Administration: Content Locations dialog box appears.

  4. Click Browse.

  5. Browse to and select the new My Content folder, and then click OK.

  6. Click Close.

  7. Close the software.

All users can create new content and save it in their My Content folders. To allow users to share content, you must create or connect to a Team Content folder.

Tip 

If you create a Team Content folder on a computer’s hard disk, the folder is available only to users of that computer. However, if you create a Team Content folder on a server, the folder is available to all users on the school’s network with read and write access to the folder.

To create a new Team Content folder

  1. Start the software in Administration mode.

  2. Click the Gallery tab.

  3. Click the Click here for more Gallery options icon, and then select Administration: Content Locations.

    The Administration: Content Locations dialog box appears.

  4. Click Connect to Team Content.

  5. Browse to and select the folder you want to designate as a Team Content folder, and the click OK.

    Note 

    The software adds an imsmanifest.xml file to the Team Content folder after you click OK.

    This file identifies the folder as a Team Content folder.

  6. Click Close.

  7. Close the software.

To connect to an existing Team Content folder

  1. Start the software in Administration mode.

  2. Click the Gallery tab.

  3. Click the Click here for more Gallery options icon, and select Administration: Content Location.

    The Administration: Content Location dialog box appears.

  4. Click Add Existing.

    Note 

    The Team Content folder should appear in the list of content folders under the Gallery tab.

  5. Browse to and select the Team Content folder, and then click OK.

  6. Click Close.

  7. Close the software.

To disconnect a Team Content folder

  1. Start the software in Administration mode.

  2. Click the Gallery tab.

  3. Click the Click here for more Gallery option icon, and then select Administration: Content Locations.

    The Administration: Content Locations dialog box appears.

  4. Select the folder in the Team Content list, and then click Remove.

    Important 

    If you installed the Gallery Essentials and Lesson Activity Toolkit collections, folders for those collections appear in the Team Content list. Do not remove these folders from the list, or users will not be able to access these collections.

  5. Click Close.

  6. Close the software.

You can connect to a public or private RSS feed to send information to your school’s SMART Notebook software through the Gallery tab.

RSS is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related websites, blogs and other publishers broadcast their content as RSS feeds.

To connect to an RSS feed

  1. Start the software in Administration mode.

  2. Click the Gallery tab.

  3. Click the Click here for more Gallery options icon , and then select Administration: Content Locations.

    The Administration: Content Locations dialog box appears.

  4. Type the URL of the RSS feed in the Online Resources box.

  5. Click Close.

  6. Close the software.

Keywords

  • gallery content
  • install
  • maintain
  • configure
  • SMART Install Manager
  • Windows

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