SMART Classroom Suite™ 2011 software Windows® operating systems Overview guide
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Contents Chapter 1: Welcome About this guide About SMART Classroom Suite software Chapter 2: Installation considerations A typical configuration Installing SMART Classroom Suite software Chapter 3: The teacher experience Managing the class list Teaching Assessing students Resources for teachers Monitoring students Fostering communication and collaboration Chapter 4: The student experience Managing files Completing assignments and taking notes Completing assessments Communicating and collaborating Resources
Chapter 1 Welcome About this guide About SMART Classroom Suite software SMART Notebook software SMART Notebook SE software SMART Response system SMART Sync software Other components SMART Product Drivers Gallery content SMART Notebook Math Tools Mixed Reality Tools for the SMART Document Camera SMART Classroom Suite™ interactive learning software is a suite of SMART software for teachers and students.
CHAPT ER 1 Welcome l SMART Sync™ classroom management software l SMART Notebook SE (Student Edition) software The suite also includes Gallery content for teacher and student computers. In addition to the software listed above, you can install SMART Notebook Math Tools software and try it for free for 30 days. If you have a SMART Document Camera™ 330, you can also install Mixed Reality Tools for the SMART Document Camera and try it for free for 30 days.
CHAPT ER 1 Welcome Gallery content The Gallery, which is available in both SMART Notebook software and SMART Notebook SE software, contains clip art, backgrounds, multimedia content, .notebook files and pages that teachers and students can use. The Gallery also provides access to the SMART Exchange™ website and other online resources. SMART Notebook Math Tools SMART Notebook Math Tools is an add-on for SMART Notebook software.
Chapter 2 Installation considerations A typical configuration Installing SMART Classroom Suite software Using the installation wizards Using the command line interface Using SMART Install Manager 5 7 7 7 7 This chapter is intended for your school’s system administrators. It presents a typical configuration of SMART Classroom Suite software and describes installation options.
CHAPT ER 2 Installation considerations The following is an example configuration: Network SMART Sync Class List Server Administrator SMART School File SMART Sync Administrator Tool Teacher SMART Sync Teacher Student SMART Sync Student SMART Notebook SE SMART Response SMART Product SMART Notebook SMART Product Drivers Student SMART Sync Student SMART Notebook SE SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard Student SMART Sync Student SMART Notebook SE In this example configuration: l SMART Sync C
CHAPT ER 2 Installation considerations Installing SMART Classroom Suite software Schools can install SMART Classroom Suite software on teacher and student computers using one of the following: l Installation wizards l Command line interface l SMART Install Manager (using Windows® Group Policy for deployment) SMART Technologies recommends the installation wizards for smaller installations and either the command line interface or SMART Install Manager for larger installations.
Chapter 3 The teacher experience Managing the class list Teaching Assessing students Resources for teachers Content Gallery Essentials Lesson Activity Toolkit Help and documentation Monitoring students Fostering communication and collaboration 9 10 11 13 13 13 14 14 15 15 The teacher works primarily with the SMART Notebook software, SMART Response system and SMART Sync Teacher software components of SMART Classroom Suite software.
CHAPT ER 3 The teacher experience When SMART Response software is in CE mode (using SMART Notebook SE software) and SMART Sync Teacher software is configured to use a SMART School file to administer class lists, teachers can use class list information on the network instead of manually creating class lists in SMART Response software Teacher Tools. Teachers can use Teacher Tools to make changes to the class list temporarily but those changes are written over when the system administrator updates the .
CHAPT ER 3 The teacher experience The following is an example page in which the teacher presents information on Christopher Columbus’s 1492 voyage and asks students to retrace his journey using a pen from the SMART Board interactive whiteboard pen tray: Assessing students The teacher can use SMART Response CE interactive response software to evaluate student progress or to confidentially gather student responses.
CHAPT ER 3 The teacher experience SMART Response CE software supports the following question types: Type Description Yes or no Students are presented with a question and must answer yes or no. True or false Students are presented with a statement and must determine whether it’s true or false. Multiple choice Students are presented with a question and a set of possible answers and must choose one of the answers.
CHAPT ER 3 The teacher experience Type Description Short answer Students are presented with a question and must provide a short answer (a word or phrase). Example After creating the questions in SMART Notebook software, the teacher can start the assessment and have students respond using SMART Notebook SE software. The Teacher Tools Gradebook records the results.
CHAPT ER 3 The teacher experience Gallery Essentials is organized into predefined categories (Arts, Geography, History, Mathematics, and so on) to allow for easy browsing. Alternatively, teachers can enter search terms in the Gallery tab to locate the content they want to use in their files. Lesson Activity Toolkit The SMART website (education.smarttech.com) includes thousands of SMART Notebook lesson activities and SMART Response question sets that the teacher can download and use in class.
CHAPT ER 3 The teacher experience Monitoring students SMART Sync Teacher software allows the teacher to monitor student computer activity by viewing student desktops as a set of thumbnail images: T TIP The teacher can organize the thumbnail images into groups to monitor and interact with students in groupings that reflect the structure of the class (for example, Team A, Team B and Team C, or Remedial Students, Mainstream Students and Honors Students).
CHAPT ER 3 The teacher experience l Share web pages and media l Organize students into groups to complete a collaborative assignment If SMART Sync software is configured to use a SMART School file to administer class information, teachers can connect to an administered class using either SMART Sync Teacher software or SMART Response software, and then they are connected automatically to that class in both SMART Sync software and SMART Response software.
Chapter 4 The student experience Managing files Completing assignments and taking notes Completing assessments Communicating and collaborating Resources for students Content Help and documentation 18 18 19 20 21 21 21 Students work primarily with the SMART Notebook SE software and SMART Sync Student software components of SMART Classroom Suite software.
CHAPT ER 4 The student experience Managing files SMART Notebook SE software includes a digital binder in which students can store their .notebook and other files, including Microsoft Office documents, graphics and audio and video files.
CHAPT ER 4 The student experience l N Self-learn using lesson activities from the teacher or the Gallery N OTE All .notebook files that a student creates or opens in SMART Notebook SE software are saved in a single folder on the student computer or on the network. (The school’s system administrators specify this folder during installation.
CHAPT ER 4 The student experience Before starting an assessment, students must connect to the class. Students can click the class name in the Quick Links view of the My Home tab in SMART Notebook SE software: Alternatively, students can connect to the teacher by clicking Connect in SMART Sync Student software.
CHAPT ER 4 The student experience Students can use the menu to communicate with the teacher and other students. Specifically, students can do the following: l Ask the teacher questions l Chat with the teacher and other students l Send files to the teacher l View files received from the teacher If the teacher starts a collaborative assignment in SMART Sync Teacher software, the assignment file and a sidebar appear on each student’s desktop.
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