SMART Board User’s Guide
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Working with Board-Aware Third-Party
Applications (Windows Only)
SMART Aware is an application that runs in the background whenever SMART Board
software is active. With SMART Aware, many popular third-party conferencing, presentation,
word processing and graphics applications can be run as board-aware programs. This
means that whatever you write or draw with the Pen Tray styluses can become a component
of the program, rather than an external annotation created over top of the program.
This feature is especially useful when you’re conferencing because other sites can view, and,
in some cases, save and print what you write with a Pen Tray stylus on any interactive
whiteboard connected to the conference. Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Paint, and Excel
programs are all supported by SMART Aware, enhancing the interactive whiteboard’s
usefulness as a medium for both information display and creation.
Since it functions solely to extend board-aware status to third-party applications, the
Aware
window will not appear by default. You’ll only need to access this window if you want to
disable Aware support for particular applications.
Board-Aware Third-Party Applications
The extension of board-aware status to a third-party application is done automatically. In
other words, you don’t need to activate anything but the third-party application itself.
In a data conference, the presenter can control the conferencing application and open
meeting files by pressing on the SMART Board surface. In addition, notes written at any
connected interactive whiteboard will also appear at all conferencing sites, providing a fully
interactive, shared workspace for all participants.
SMART Aware integrates the functionality of the interactive whiteboard with the
whiteboarding component
of the following conferencing applications:
•
Microsoft NetMeeting software
•
DataBeam
FarSite
software
•
Future Labs TALKShow software
•
Netscape CoolTalk software
•
PictureTel
LiveShare
software
•
Intel
ProShare
software
In addition, Aware supports:
•
Microsoft PowerPoint software
•
Microsoft Word software
•
Microsoft Excel software
•
Microsoft Paint software
•
Corel
Presentation
software
•
CorelDRAW
software
•
AutoCAD
and AutoCAD LT
software
Board-Aware
Board-aware describes
software that can be
permanently changed by
your actions on the
interactive whiteboard.
When you write on the
board over a projected
board-aware program,
what you write can be
saved into that program.
Note
To run SMART Aware, we
recommend you use a
Pentium 75 with 16 MB of
memory. SMART Aware
requires a 486 computer
with at least 8 MB of
memory.
Win
