Release notes

November 23, 2021

21.1.3046.0

21.1.872.0

• Hardware support for SMART Board MX V3 and 6000S V3 series displays

• Using SMART Notebook basic version no longer requires you to sign in to your SMART Account.

• Enhanced SMART European Service Region support to prepare for upcoming account data migration. To learn more about SMART’s service regions, see smarttech.com/kb/171776.

• When adding videos, you can now enter the URL for the video you want to add.

• You can now choose to run SMART Notebook basic version by default when installing the software.

• Support for Windows 11

• 4K Presenter now supports:

  • Creating shapes, lines, circles, and ellipses

  • Ability to create and edit game-based activities and assessments

  • Add-ons including Image Web Search, Video Search, GeoGebra, and SMART Blocks

  • Adding attachments

  • Printing

  • Importing and exporting gallery items

  • Copying, pasting, grouping, and dragging-and-dropping pages in the page sorter

  • Using the Text pen to write and edit text

• Support for macOS Monterey (12.0)

• SMART Notebook and SMART Ink are now available as Universal apps, supporting native speed on Apple M1 devices.

  Note 

  SMART Product Drivers software is only compiled for Intel processors. Rosetta 2 is still required for this release. This will be improved in a future release.

• Fixed the issue where In some cases, SMART Notebook was unable to display the image from a SMART Document Camera 650, sometimes resulting in Notebook appearing frozen. This occurred in some hardware configurations and most notably when using SMART Notebook on a Windows 11 computer.

• Fixed the issue where when using the scroll bar to move the Notebook page, the page did not scroll immediately.

• Fixed the issue where using the computer’s track pad to zoom in or zoom out would cause interactive widgets such as dice, timers, and spinners, to stop working.

• The SMART Document Camera viewer doesn’t work for SDC-450 on Apple M1 devices.

• SMART Notebook currently does not support use of the SMART Document Camera viewer and interaction with 3D Objects while running natively on M1 processors. To access these features, use Finder to set SMART Notebook to open using Rosetta.

Release notes

May 26, 2021

21.0.2987.0

21.0.2062.0

• Hardware support for SMART Board GX series displays

• New features in game-based activities:

  • Add a question title to Shout It Out! activities to prompt students.

  • Add images to question and answer sets in Game Show and Speedup activities.

  • Use Bing Image Search to find royalty-free images when creating activities that support images.

  • Create a custom theme for Shout It Out!, Fill in the Blank, and Flip Out activities.

• 4K Presenter now supports:

  • More pen tools, including Magic Pen, Text Pen, and Creative Pen

  • Presenting files that contain rulers, protractors, divided shapes, GeoGebra, SMART Blocks, SMART Document Camera viewer, and more

• Improved web browser within Notebook, on both Intel and M1 devices

• Improved support for video on M1 devices

• Version numbers of the Notebook.app bundle and its installer package unified for simpler management with MDM tools

• The SMART Document Camera viewer now works for SDC-650 Document Cameras on Apple M1 devices

• Resolved an issue in which exporting a .notebook file in the CFF format caused SMART Notebook to close unexpectedly

• Fixed an issue with opening right-side tabs when running SMART Notebook on macOS Big Sur

• The SMART Document Camera viewer doesn’t work for SDC-450 and 550 Document Cameras on Apple M1 devices. If you’re using a SMART Document Camera 550, you can download the software available here to use your camera with an Apple M1 device.

Release notes