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New Features
SMART Sync™ 2010
SMART Sync™ classroom management software allows teachers to monitor and
control their students’ computers while facilitating chat, file sharing and group
collaboration. SMART Sync 2010 introduces several new features to the software.
Wireless Support
Improved Performance in Wireless Environments
SMART Sync 2010 offers improved support for wireless environments. Teachers
and students in wireless environments will notice improved performance and
fewer disconnections.
Optimization Preferences
When you observe, control or broadcast a student’s desktop, SMART Sync now
displays the student’s desktop on your screen at a specific image quality and
frame rate for optimal network performance. You can adjust the image quality and frame
rate for your network or display the student’s desktop at the highest possible image
quality and frame rate.
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Connecting with Students
Expanded Support for Teacher Discovery
Each time a student starts SMART Sync Student, he or she can select a teacher
to connect to from a drop-down list of teachers currently logged on to SMART
Sync Teacher. This feature is referred to as “teacher discovery.” In previous versions,
teacher discovery was available only if multicasting was enabled on your school’s
network. In SMART Sync 2010, you can use SMART Sync Class List Server to allow
students to use teacher discovery if multicasting isn’t enabled.
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Using SMART Sync Class List Server to allow teacher discovery doesn’t require
you to create SMART School files.
Recovery from Disconnections
If a student’s computer disconnects from a teacher’s computer while the teacher
is observing, controlling or locking the student’s desktop, SMART Sync 2010
automatically resumes observing, controlling or locking the student’s desktop after his or
her computer reconnects with the teacher’s computer. In addition, if the student’s
computer disconnects while the teacher is transferring a file, SMART Sync 2010
automatically sends the file to the student after his or her computer reconnects.
SMART Notebook™ SE Support
SMART Notebook SE is a version of SMART Notebook for students that’s part
of SMART Classroom Suite™ interactive learning software. Most schools install
SMART Notebook SE on their students’ computers but not on their teachers’ computers.
Therefore, in previous versions of SMART Sync, you might not have been able to start or
close SMART Notebook SE from SMART Sync Teacher or to include SMART Notebook
SE in application blocking rules.
In SMART Sync 2010, you can start and close SMART Notebook SE from SMART
Sync Teacher and include it in application blocking rules even if you don’t have SMART
Notebook SE installed on your computer. In addition, SMART Sync 2010 introduces a
default application blocking rule that allows you to block all applications on students’
computers except SMART Notebook SE.
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Help
Like the Help for SMART Notebook collaborative learning software and SMART
Response™ interactive response system, the Help for SMART Sync is now
online. This allows SMART to make periodic updates and improvements to the Help.
In addition, the SMART Sync 2010 Help introduces SMART’s new Help format. This
format includes improved search and navigation as well as new features such as
favorites and search results filtering.
Other Changes
Customer Experience Program
SMART Sync 2010 includes support for the SMART Customer Experience
program. If you choose to participate in this program, SMART Sync sends
information to SMART that helps us improve the software for future releases.
Integration with the SMART Language Setup Utility
You can set the language for SMART Sync Teacher using the SMART Language
Setup utility. This creates greater consistency between SMART Sync and other
SMART programs while allowing you to set the language for all SMART programs on
your computer at a single time.
Customizing SMART Sync Student During Installation
System administrators can customize the following properties when deploying
the SMART Sync Student installation package (MSI file):
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If the software starts automatically when the student logs on
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How the student connects to the teacher
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What the student can do with SMART Sync (ask questions, chat, submit files,
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The student’s ID
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The location where shared files will be stored
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The SMART Sync Student Configuration Tool is still available if you want to customize
these properties after installation or create a SyncClient.ini file to deploy to other
student installations.
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