Using the SMART Table
Toolkit
Introduction
This hands-on practice provides a structured exercise to help you familiarize yourself with opening, navigating, making changes and saving changes in the SMART Table Toolkit, and then applying the customizations to your SMART Table.
To be successful with this hands-on practice ensure that you’ve read all of the available free materials on the
SMART Table.
You’ll need to have Microsoft ® Word software and the
SMART Table Toolkit installed on your computer. For information on installing the SMART Table Toolkit, please refer to the SMART Table 230i User’s Guide . You’ll also need
• Earth.doc
• Solar System.jpg
In this Hands-on Practice you’ll do the following:
• Start the SMART Table Toolkit
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Navigate to different activity tabs
Customize activities
Save the customizations to a SMART Table
• Apply the customizations to the activities on the
SMART Table
Customizing activities in the
SMART Table Toolkit
You can use the SMART Table Toolkit to customize activities
(.tableContent) on a USB drive. You can apply the customizations to the SMART Table activities by syncing the
USB drive with the SMART Table. The first time you use the SMART Table Toolkit, refer to the document Working
with the SMART Table Toolkit for information on how to open the SMART Table Toolkit.
To customize an activity and save to a SMART Table
1. Connect the USB drive provided with your SMART Table to your computer
2. Open the SMART Table Toolkit
3. In the Home tab side panel, select the Media checkbox.
A corresponding tab and an application button appears.
4. Click the Media tab
5. Import Solar System.jpg from the desktop as the background image
6. Open Earth.doc and copy the image to the clipboard
7. Click Paste to paste the image into the Media tab
Checkbox
N
OTE
: Notice that an asterisk appears next to the Media tab label, indicating that there are unsaved changes to this activity.
8 Click the Save All button at the top of the
SMART Table Toolkit to save your customizations in a
9.
USB drive
Practice.tableContent and save it to the
Media tab
Import Background
Image button
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Using the SMART Table Toolkit
To discard changes and remove a custom activity from a
1. In the Home tab side panel, select the Paint checkbox.
A Paint tab appears.
2. Click the Paint tab
3. Change the Ink thickness to Thick.
An asterisk appears next to the Paint tab label, indicating there is an unsaved change to the activity.
4. Discard the changes to the Paint tab. The asterisk next to the Paint tab label disappears.
5. Select the Use glowing ink effect option
6. Click the Save All button. The Home tab turns green,
USB drive tab and saved.
7. Click Remove from Lesson to remove the
Paint activity entirely
8. Close the SMART Table Toolkit
Applying your customizations to the
SMART Table
Now that you have customized the Media activity in the
SMART Table Toolkit and saved your changes to a SMART Table
1. Disconnect the USB drive from your computer
2. Turn on your SMART Table by following the instructions in the SMART Table 230i User’s Guide
3. Once you see the SMART Table activities menu, connect the USB drive to your SMART Table. The table switches from the default Student mode to Teacher mode.
4. Press Activity Packs
5. Press the USB drive tab. A list of all .tableContent files on the USB drive appears.
T
IP
: Press to rotate the list 180 degrees.
6. Select Practice from the list, and then press Open
7. Press OK to confirm and disconnect the USB drive. The
8. table switches from Teacher mode to Student mode.
Start the Media activity to verify the new customizations
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