Release notes

December 20, 2018

• Fixed issue where the Insert Link dialog would appear clipped or cut-off when viewed at higher resolutions.

• Fixed issue where after upgrading to SMART Notebook 18.1 from a previous version of SMART Notebook resulted in missing program files used by Notebook’s Math Tools. For more information on this issue, including how to troubleshoot it, see smarttech.com/kb/171365

• Fixed issue where downgrading from SMART Notebook 18.1 to a previous version resulted in SMART Notebook not working. For more information on this issue, including how to troubleshoot it, see smarttech.com/kb/171364.

December 6, 2018

• The page sorter has the following improvements:

  • The default title for new pages is no longer a timestamp. New pages are now given a blank title by default.

  • Page thumbnails have been resized so that more thumbnails can be viewed at once in multiple columns.

• The Image Search Add-On is updated to use the newest Bing API version.

• Vietnamese language support

• Improved rendering at high display scale settings for the following areas of SMART Notebook:

  • Side tab container

  • Attachments tab

  • Insert Sound dialog

  • Insert link dialog box

  • SMART Recorder

• High resolution support for the SMART Document Camera viewer widget (pictured below) when using a SMART Document Camera 550.

  

• This release reintroduces the color picker (eyedropper) function.

• Support for macOS Mojave (10.14)

  Important 

  If you’re using SMART Notebook software on a Mac computer that has been updated to macOS Mojave, you might experience issues that result from the new privacy-protection features included in the update. Read this article to help resolve issues when installing and using SMART Notebook software on a computer with macOS Mojave. If you’re using SMART Notebook for Mac and a SMART Board 4000 or E70 interactive display, read this article.

• Cannot drag and drop annotations from the lesson page to the Attachments tab.

• Page area may stop responding when you are running SMART Notebook at 4K on lower specification systems.

• Mixed Reality is not supported in Windows 8.1.

• Multiple stability improvements

• Animation fixes

• Cannot drag and drop annotations from the lesson page to the Attachments tab.

• Page area may stop responding when you are running SMART Notebook at 4K on lower specification systems.

• Mixed Reality is not supported in Windows 8.1.

October 3, 2018

• Resolved issue where SMART Notebook would crash:

  • After selecting an object and then selecting Format > Properties from the SMART Notebook menu.
  • After changing the line or fill color of an object.

• Resolved issue where the Document Camera Viewer widget would go blank after a short period of time when using it with a SMART Document Camera 450.

• Resolved issue where files containing a large number of pages or a large number of animated GIFs resulted in virtual memory exhaustion, causing SMART Notebook to crash or being unable to display page content.

• Resolved the issue where an error message was given when results from response 2 assessments with more than 21 questions were exported. Now when you export the results of a response 2 assessment with more than 21 questions, a file containing exported results is generated.

• Share to Board sometimes indicates that the SMART Board is offline when the file has actually arrived at the display, and sometimes simply fails to send files. Check at the display to confirm whether the file has arrived. If it hasn’t, you can resolve the issue by restarting SMART Notebook.

• Mixed Reality is not supported in Windows 8.1.

June 19, 2018

• Support for SMART Board MX series and SMART Podium 624

  Learn more about the SMART Board MX series.

  Learn more about the SMART Podium 624.

• New address for collaborative activity sign in. Students now use hellosmart.com instead of classlab.com to join collaborative activities.

  

  Sign ins to classlab.com are now redirected to hellosmart.com automatically.

• The SMART Notebook Document Writer print driver has been replaced with two new print drivers Send to SMART Cloud and Send to SMART Notebook.

  These drivers appear as Printer options when you select Print from another application’s File menu.

  

  • Send to SMART Notebook opens a read-only copy of the document in SMART Notebook

  • Send to SMART Cloud sends your document to the SMART Learning Suite Online lesson library and, additionally, gives you the option to send the document to your SMART Board with iQ or to create a web link to the document that you can share with others

  For more information see Creating a link to share lesson files.

• Enhanced Properties tab

  New interface design makes the Properties tab easier to use at 4K resolutions.

  
• The .exe installer no longer prompts for a product key during installation. Users can still manage product keys when prompted by SMART Notebook, or through SMART Product Update. Administrators can continue to deploy software with a product key through installer command-line parameters or through SMART Install Manager.

• Various stability improvements

• Resolved issue with non-English characters not working in Notebook add-ons.

• Resolved issue with SMART Document Camera 550 distorting shapes.

• Resolved issue with License Status sign-in prompt occurring when the user is already signed in.

• Restored ability to drag groups of pages from one SMART Notebook instance to another.

• SMART Notebook now gives users a warning instead of shutting down unexpectedly when encountering a rendering error at 4K. This gives users time to save their work before having to restart SMART Notebook.

• The Sassoon Penpals font now renders as expected.

• Resolved printing issue where off-screen content appeared in print output.

• Resolved issue occurring in Windows 10 version 1803 (April update) where the touch on some of SMART Notebook’s toolbar ribbons stops working.

• Resolved an issue where a single document opened many times rapidly could be missing images.

• Resolved an issue where ink and selection could happen at the same time as a result of connecting a USB device to a computer with SMART Notebook running on an EPSON® projector.

• Resolved issue where the touchpad would stop working in SMART Notebook after connecting to an EPSON projector on an HP Elite Book.

• Dual Inking mode not available when using a SMART Board interactive whiteboard. To solve this, disconnect and reconnect the whiteboard to get SMART Notebook software to recognize that it is connected to a board that supports dual inking.

• YouTube videos in SMART Notebook lessons fail to replay. To solve this, change pages or restart SMART Notebook software to reset the video.

• Plugging in a USB device while SMART Notebook is connected to an Epson projector may cause finger touch to both draw and select at the same. To resolve this, either select the tool in the toolbar again or restart Notebook.

• Share to Board sometimes indicates that the SMART Board is offline when the file has actually arrived at the display, and sometimes simply fails to send files. Check at the display to confirm whether the file has arrived. If it hasn’t, you can resolve the issue by restarting SMART Notebook.

• Mixed Reality is not supported in Windows 8.1.

SMART Ink 5.3

SMART Product Drivers 12.10