SMART Board User’s Guide
16
Getting to Know Your SMART Pen Tray
The Ready Light
When illuminated, this Light-Emitting Diode
(LED) indicates the current state of your
interactive whiteboard.
When the Ready Light flashes between red and
green, the Pen Tray is in the process of
powering up. Steady red indicates the Pen Tray
is receiving power. Steady green occurs when
SMART Board software is installed and active
on the connected computer. It indicates your
Pen Tray is fully operational: power is being
received and the hardware and installed
software are fully integrated.
Using a Pen Tray Stylus
To write over top of the computer image, just
pick up one of the four colored styluses from
the Pen Tray and write on the active board.
To write in a different color, place the stylus
back in its slot and select another. Since the
color recognition comes from the slots in the
Pen Tray rather than the styluses themselves,
you must ensure that each stylus is returned to
its proper slot (the slot with the corresponding
color) when you finish using it.
You also have the option of changing any or all
of these styluses to highlighters, assigning any
one of an array of colors to them, or altering
their width. The size of the area erased with the
Pen Tray eraser can also be easily changed.
Turn to page 18 for information on configuring
the styluses and eraser.
Using the Pen Tray Buttons
Press the top Pen Tray button to make the
SMART on-screen keyboard appear. Press
the bottom button to make the next contact
with the board a right-mouse click (Windows
operating system) or a floating mouse
(Macintosh computer).
These default behaviors can be reconfigured
(see page 18) so that either button can:
•
Send the current page to the printer
•
Create a new page (Windows operating
system) or move to the preceding or the
following page in Notebook software
•
Clear all annotations from the current page
•
Produce a floating or a middle mouse
(Windows operating system)
NOTE
: A “floating mouse” is similar in
behavior to moving your mouse on your
workstation screen
without
clicking it. You may
want to replicate this mouse state so you can
view tool tips or simply relocate the pointer
(without activating a program component)
when you touch the board.
Eraser
Black Stylus
Blue Stylus
Red Stylus Green Stylus
Pen Tray Buttons
Ready Light
Keyboard
Right-Click or
Floating Mouse
