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Using your interactive product in Non-Projected mode

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

Caution

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

To use your interactive product in Non-Projected mode

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.
Enable Non-Projected mode (see Enabling Non-Projected mode).
Create or open a .notebook file.
Write on your interactive product. The ink from your marker appears on the product and your notes also appear in digital ink on the computer display.
Notes
- Interactive whiteboards’ pen tray buttons behave differently in Non-Projected mode. If you press the Keyboard pen tray button, SMART software creates a new page. If you press the Right-Click pen tray button, SMART software sends the current page to the computer’s default printer. However, you can customize these buttons (see Changing pen, eraser and button settings).
- 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 the SMART software.
- 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.