SimplySmart Smart Board Software For Mac OS X 99-00557-01 - Manual (Page 14)

8 Writing, Erasing and Capturing with SMART Board Software Macintosh Version
Writing, Erasing and Capturing with SMART Board Software
SMART interactive products make it easy to work with any computer application. You can write
on the screen with a stylus, the various tools available in the Floating Tools, or a combination
of both. After you annotate on the screen, you can erase the notes or capture and save them
using various methods.
This section of the guide describes how to:
• write on the screen using the pen tray or pen tool buttons (this page)
• modify the pen tray tools or pen tool buttons (this page)
• use the Floating Tools (page 9)
• modify the Floating Tools (page 10)
• add text with the SMART Keyboard (page 10)
• erase what you’ve written (page 11)
• capture your notes into Notebook software (page 11)
• record a movie of your actions with SMART Recorder (page 12)
Writing on the Interactive Screen
To write on your interactive screen, select one of the four colored styluses from the pen tray
(SMART Board interactive whiteboard) or press a Colored Ink button (Sympodium interactive
pen display), and then write on the screen. For interactive whiteboards, you can pick up a
stylus but write on the screen with your finger to produce the behavior of the lifted tool.
NOTE: If you’re using regular dry-erase markers, leave the caps on. You’re writing in virtual,
electronic ink rather than physical ink.
To write in a different color, pick up a different stylus or press a different Colored Ink button.
On SMART Board products that have a pen tray, you must return each stylus to the slot with
the corresponding color, because color recognition comes from the slots in the pen tray, rather
than the styluses themselves.
NOTE: You can’t annotate over applications written for Mac operating system 9.x and earlier.
Modifying the Pen Tray Tools, the Pen Tool Buttons or the Function
Buttons
You can alter the line thickness, color and transparency settings for the pen tray styluses or
the Colored Ink buttons with the SMART Board Control Panel. You can also change the
eraser size and the function of the Right Click and Keyboard buttons to suit your needs.
To change the behavior of a tool, open the SMART Board Control Panel to the Pen Tray tab
and press one of the large tool buttons on the left side. Then select the options you want for
that tool. For complete details, refer to the book entitled Using the Floating Tools (under
Setting Up an Interactive Whiteboard or Lectern) in the SMART Board tools Help.