What’s new

SMART Notebook 11 software introduces a new toolbar. The new toolbar organizes buttons into panels and makes some previously obscure features more visible in the user interface:

When you click one of the buttons in the Tools panel, the Contextual panel appears. The buttons in the Contextual panel enable you to create and format objects using the selected tool.

For more information, see Navigating the user interface.

Before you display a page in Full Screen view, select View > Full Screen Page Border, and then select the appropriate aspect ratio for your interactive product. A blue line appears, indicating the portion of the page that will appear in Full Screen view without scrolling.

This feature is useful when you’re creating content that you want to present in Full Screen view.

For more information, see Displaying pages in Full Screen view.

You can now insert Internet browsers in .notebook files, use them to display websites and manipulate them like any other object.

For more information, see Inserting Internet browsers.

The Activity Builder enables you to create matching activities, sorting activities, labeling activities, games and more using your own content.

Using the Activity Builder, you define one object on the page as an activity object. You then define which objects on the page will be accepted and which will be rejected when you drag the objects over the activity object.

For more information, see Creating matching lesson activities.

In previous versions of SMART Notebook software, you could clear all objects or all digital ink objects from a page. In SMART Notebook 11 software, you can also reset a page to the state it was in when it was last saved and before you made changes to it.

For more information, see Resetting pages.

SMART Notebook 11 software introduces a new pen type: Crayon. Using the Crayon pen type, you can write or draw crayon-like digital ink:

The Crayon pen type is intended for artistic work such as painting, coloring pictures and so on rather than writing.

For more information, see Writing or drawing digital ink.

In addition to filling shapes, regular polygons and irregular polygons, you can now fill areas enclosed by digital ink using the Fill tool:

For more information, see Filling digital ink drawings.

In addition to the existing seven Creative pen styles, SMART Notebook 11 software introduces an eighth style:

You can also create your own styles using pictures or objects on the currently selected page:

For more information, see Creating custom Creative pen styles.

When you write or draw digital ink using the Magic Pen tool, the digital ink fades after a few seconds. You can now set the number of seconds before the digital ink fades. In addition, you can now set digital ink you write or draw with the Pens tool to fade after a specified number of seconds.

For more information, see Using the Magic Pen to create fading objects and Writing or drawing fading digital ink.

SMART Notebook 11 software introduces a new text editor, which enables you to do the following:

• Set text to any font size, including sizes with decimal values (for example, 20.5)

• Set the spacing after lines and paragraphs

• Indent paragraphs

• Create numbered lists in addition to bulleted lists

• Strike out text

• Set individual paragraphs for languages that read left to right (for example, English and French) or right to left (for example, Arabic and Hebrew).

The new text editor also improves the legibility of text by closing the space between certain letters, which is referred to as “auto kerning.”

Before auto kerning	After auto kerning

For more information, see Creating text.

When you select a cell, row or column, a menu arrow now appears. You can press this menu arrow and then select a variety of actions, including adding rows or columns, splitting or merging cells and adding or removing cell shades.

In addition, after you click a cell shade to reveal the contents of the cell, you can now click in the cell’s top-left corner to replace the cell shade.

For more information, see Creating tables.

SMART Notebook 11 software introduces a gold star to the palette of available shapes:

For more information on creating shapes in general, see Creating shapes with the Shapes tool.

When you fill an object with a picture that’s larger than the object, the picture is cut off:

Conversely, when you fill an object with a picture that’s smaller than the object, the picture is tiled:

Now, you can resize the picture to fit the object:

For more information, see Changing objects’ properties and Troubleshooting objects.

In previous versions of SMART Notebook software, you could add sound files to objects. Now, you can also record sounds in SMART Notebook software using a computer microphone and then add those sounds to objects.

For more information, see Adding sounds to objects.

You can now group and ungroup objects using the group gesture:

For more information, see Grouping objects.