Getting started with game-based activities
Create interactive learning experiences in less than five minutes that will engage and amaze your students. SMART Notebook features a game-based learning environment, real-time student collaboration tools and a suite of formative assessment tools. These activities help students memorize concepts and facts, identify objects, learn vocabulary definitions, and more.
To ensure the best possible user experience with game-based activities, see Browser, device operating system, and network recommendations.
Notes
Account Sign In is required to create and play some SMART Notebook activities. SMART Notebook 18 software allows you to sign in with your Google or Microsoft account. If you sign in with one of these accounts, you will not have to sign in each time you want to use SMART response 2, Shout It Out! or Monster Quiz. For more information see Account Sign In.
Students can be removed from an activity with the Remove Students feature.
You can use SMART Notebook’s activity wizard to create the following game-based activities:
For some examples of how you can use these activities and assessments in a lesson, see .
Browser, device operating system, and network recommendationsUse the recommended web browsers, device requirements, operating systems and network capacity to ensure the best possible experience with interactive activities and assessments on hellosmart.com. Some websites must also be white listed before activities on hellosmart.com will work correctly.
Web browser, device operating system recommendations and network recommendationsNote
When using activities on hellosmart.com, students may check their website access at https://hellosmart.com/connection/check.html.
Web browser recommendations | The latest version of:
Note Android devices must use Chrome or Firefox. Ensure JavaScript is enabled in your browser. |
Device operating system recommendations |
Important Mobile device-enabled activities are not currently supported on the first generation iPad or Samsung Galaxy Tab 3. |
Network recommendations | SMART Notebook activities on hellosmart.com are designed to keep network requirements as low as possible while still supporting rich collaboration. The network recommendation for Shout It Out! alone is 0.3 Mbps per device. A school that regularly uses other Web 2.0 tools should have enough network capacity to run SMART Notebook activities on hellosmart.com. If activities on hellosmart.com are used in conjunction with other online resources, such as streaming media, greater network capacity could be required, depending on the other resources being used. |
Website access requirementsA number of SMART products use the following URLs for software updates, collecting information, and backend services. Add these URLs to your network’s whitelist to make sure SMART products behave as expected.
https://*.mixpanel.com
https://*.google-analytics.com
https://*.smarttech-prod.com
https://*.firebaseio.com
wss://*.firebaseio.com
https://www.firebase.com/test.html
https://api.raygun.io
https://www.fabric.io/
https://updates.airsquirrels.com
https://ws.kappboard.com
https://*.hockeyapp.net
The following URLs are used for signing in to and using your SMART Account with SMART products. Add these URLs to your network’s whitelist to make sure SMART products behave as expected.
https://*.smarttech.com
https://*.smarttech.com
https://hellosmart.com
https://content.googleapis.com
https://*.smarttech-prod.com
https://*.googleusercontent.com
https://www.gstatic.com
https://*.google.com
https://login.microsoftonline.com
https://login.live.com
https://smartcommunity.force.com/
https://graph.microsoft.com
https://www.googleapis.com
The following URL is used to enable content from YouTube. If you want SMART product users to be able to insert and play YouTube videos when using SMART products, whitelist the following:
https://*.youtube.com
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