Issue

Solutions

Videos or animated objects won’t play in your SMART Notebook lesson because Adobe Flash Player won’t load.

Video: Convert Flash content in SMART Notebook

What’s happening

Adobe has discontinued Flash Player and removed all support for it in 2020. HTML5 has replaced Adobe Flash Player as the preferred online platform for multimedia content, so everyone who creates online content, including SMART Technologies, has switched to HTML5 for creating and playing multimedia files, such as videos and animations.

What SMART has done

We removed support for the player in SMART Notebook 17. See a list of the Adobe Flash Player objects that SMART Notebook software no longer supports.

We’ve already replaced the most popular Adobe Flash Player activities in the SMART Notebook Gallery with HTML5 activities. See a list of the Adobe Flash Player activities that SMART Notebook software converts.

What you can do

Delete unsupported, Flash based objects and activities from your SMART Notebook lessons and create new ones using the tools available in SMART Notebook. Download a guide at smarttech.com/flashupdate.

You can create fun and engaging activities with the activity wizard . Learn more about how to use activities.