Using SMART Notebook in Non-Projected Mode

If you don't have a projector for your SMART Board interactive whiteboard, you can use your SMART product in Non-Projected mode. You can write on the interactive whiteboard in Non-Projected mode with dry-erase markers and save your notes in a .notebook file.

CAUTION: Check your SMART product's installation guide for more information before writing on it with dry-erase markers. For example, don't write on an interactive screen if it has an OptiPro surface. OptiPro surfaces are optimized for use with Projected mode.

To use SMART Notebook in Non-Projected mode

  1. Purchase a set of high-quality, dry-erase markers in black, blue, red and green, and then place each pen in the matching colored slot.

  2. Enable Non-Projected mode.

  3. Create or open a .notebook file.

  4. Write on your interactive whiteboard. The ink from your marker appears on the whiteboard and your notes also appear in digital ink on the page.

NOTES

The interactive whiteboard's pen tray buttons behave differently in Non-Projected mode. If you press the Keyboard pen tray button, SMART Notebook creates a new page. If you press the Right-Click pen tray button, SMART Notebook sends the current page to the computer's default printer. However, you can customize these buttons.

When you're in Non-Projected mode and all pens are in their pen tray slots, any contact with the interactive whiteboard is interpreted as erasing. Wherever you press the interactive whiteboard, you erase digital ink in the area you press in SMART Notebook.

If you don't want to save your notes in a file, erase them on the interactive whiteboard. This also erases the digital ink on the page.

If you want to save your notes, press the Keyboard pen tray button before erasing your notes on the interactive whiteboard. This inserts a new page in the .notebook file and enables you to view and save your notes.