SMART Board User's Guide - Psychology

Using the SMART Keyboard
Win
Mac
OS X
The SMART Board interactive whiteboard is a great tool for presenting projected information,
allowing you to both control your applications by touch and write over top of those
applications with a Pen Tray stylus.
However, many occasions can arise when a keyboard is a necessary tool. For example, if
you make changes to a file during a presentation and want to rename it, you’ll need to type a
new name in the Save As dialog box. The SMART Keyboard is a quick and easy way to type
into a dialog box (or into any application) right at the SMART Board surface, without moving
to a physical keyboard.
SMART Keyboard (Windows Operating Systems)
SMART Floating Keyboard (Mac OS X Operating System)
If you’re a Windows user who prefers not to type, you can simply write in the SMART
Keyboard’s Handwriting Recognition window with a Pen Tray stylus (or Floating Tools pen).
The on-screen keyboard will recognize and convert your normal handwriting into typewritten
text that can either be further edited before it’s committed to the application or input directly
into an active application or dialog box. You don’t need to alter your handwriting to make it
recognizable to the software or perform any special handwriting-training procedures.
NOTE: Windows users can also convert handwriting without using the SMART Keyboard:
Just press and hold on the handwritten object and select the Insert“what your wrote”here
command from the drop-down menu.
28 SMART Board User’s Guide