Creating a Simple Page

This video demonstrates how to create a very simple Notebook page. You could have several pages similar to this in one document.

Using the Pen Tray

The pen tray is located on the front of your SMART Board. You have a black, red, green, and blue pen, one eraser, and two buttons. In an earlier post we discussed that you can press the two buttons together to get the Orient screen. By themselves, the buttons will perform a right-click, or bring up the onscreen keyboard. For the pens and eraser, all you have to do is pick up one of these objects to use it. A light will come on in its place and the tool is ready to use. You can be using any computer application. For example the pens and eraser can be used while on the Internet, a Word document, PowerPoint, or SMART Notebook.

You can easily customize these objects by clicking the SMART icon in your desktop pen tray and choosing "Control Panel". From the Control Panel you choose "SMART Hardware Settings" and then the pens and buttons option. I like to change my green pen to a highlighter so that I have one easily accessible whenever I need it. This is easy to do by simple choosing the green pen and changing the transparency. The buttons can be customized as well to perform functions such as print screen or open Notebook.