Using Your Document Camera with SMART Notebook 11
Those lucky teachers who have access to both a SMART Board and a document camera (ELMO, Aver
vision, or Hovercam) are probably accustomed to picking up a SMART pen and writing on that projected
image. This works great if you have SMART Notebook 10, but there is change with Notebook 11. To use
your document camera with your SMART board follow the instructions below.
1) Open SMART Notebook 11.
2) Look for the “view screens” button on your toolbar. Click it and choose “Transparent
Background.” Your SMART Notebook software will disappear. You are then free to open Image
Mate, or another program depending on your device, and use your SMART pens on the
document.
3) While using “Transparent Background” you will be left with a small toolbar at the bottom of the
screen that looks like this. If you think that you will want to snapshot your work, click on the
arrow to expand this little toolbar which includes a camera.
4) Whether you expand your toolbar or not, click on the monitor to close the transparent
background.
Note: If this process doesn’t appeal to you, you could always use your document camera to take
pictures of your papers ahead of time. Then they can be inserted like images into a SMART
Notebook for immediate and future use.
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