SMART+Notebook

The SMART Notebook Users Guide is a comprehensive resource for using SMART Notebook software.
 * SMART Notebook software** can be used to create and display interactive lessons and presentations on your classroom SMARTBoard. A notebook file can contain a series of pages, or slides (similar to PowerPoint), and each page can include settings, properties, text, images, and objects. You can add all sorts of objects, including Flash video files, and freely edit and manipulate them. Notebook files save with a .notebook extension that can be shared and downloaded on any PC or Mac with SMART Notebook installed.

**Download SMART Notebook Now**
If you have a SMARTBoard in your school, you can download the SMART Notebook software to your home computer so that you can practice using the software and conveniently create lessons. You can download Notebook for a free 30-day trial, or complete the online form and provide the serial number of your SMARTBoard to receive a product key. Click here to choose from a list of available Notebook Downloads. I recommend that you select the latest version of Notebook 11.

**What is SMART Notebook Express?**
Notebook express is a free web application that allows anyone to open and view SMART Notebook files, although with limited capabilites. Even teachers without SMARTBoards can use Notebook Express to view and share Notebook lessons. Notebook Express can be accessed via the Internet, or downloaded for off-line use. Learn more about Notebook Express, and Click here to access Notebook Express on the web, or to download Notebok Express to your computer.

**What About SMART Notebook Version 14?**
Notebook version 14 is SMART Tech's latest and supposedly greatest version of the popular Notebook software, but it's not for everyone. Literally. While SMART Notebook has always been provided free, and freely licenced, with every SMARTBoard purchase, the newest version is no longer free except to those who purchased a new SMARTBoard after April 1, 2013. Even then, Version 14 requires a //SMART Notebook Advantage// subscription, which must be renewed annually. The new version offers some cool tools, most notably enhanced math tools called SMART Blocks, but also at least one tool--3-DSketch-up, that I found unstable and prone to crashing. At this point the AB district is not funding subscriptions to SMART Notebook Advantage. Notebook version 11 continues to be free, so that's what we will use. SMART Tech's fact sheet will tell you more about new features and access to version 14.