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Getting started with your SMART Podium interactive pen display

Using your SMART Podium interactive pen display, you can write, draw and erase digital ink, and manipulate objects.

Writing, drawing and erasing digital ink

Using the interactive pen display tethered pen, you can write or draw digital ink over SMART Notebook software and other programs.

Note 

How the digital ink you write or draw over a program is included in that program depends on whether the program is Ink Aware or not. For more information, see Working with Ink Aware programs and Working with non-Aware programs.

To write or draw digital ink

  1. Press a Digital Ink pen tool button.

  2. Write or draw on the screen using the tethered pen.

To erase digital ink

  1. Press the Eraser pen tool button.

  2. Press the tethered pen on the interactive screen.

Manipulating objects

Objects include icons, buttons, links and other components of programs that appear on your screen. You can manipulate these objects using your interactive pen display as described below.

To select or clear the selection of an object

  1. Press the Select pen tool button.

  2. Press the interactive screen with the tethered pen.

    Notes 

    • This gesture performs a standard mouse click.

    • This gesture starts programs if your operating system is set to start applications on a single click.

To double-click an object

  1. Press the Select pen tool button.

  2. Press the screen with the tethered pen twice in the same spot.

    Note 

    This gesture starts programs if your operating system is set to start applications on a double-click.

To right-click an object

  1. Press the Right-Click pen tool button.

  2. Press the interactive screen with the tethered pen.

To move an object

  1. Press the Select pen tool button.

  2. Press and hold the object on the screen with the tethered pen.

  3. Move the pen.

  4. When you reach the position you want to move the object to, release the pen.

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