StarBoard Software Guide

Toolbox

Normal Pen

Select Tool

Inteli-Pen

•Automatically converts freehand shapes into geometric objects • Converts handwriting into text • Search text in Google, Wikipedia, search engines

Pointer Pen • Works the same as a laser pointer • With each annotation, the previous annotation will disappear • Click once to make an arrow

Text-Pen Convert hand written to TEXT.

Text Box

Fill-In Color shapes and closed ended drawings

Shapes

Pc-Mode

PC Mode

Mouse icon must be selected for computer operations and annotations with two options for controlling the computer:

White on Desktop

Write on Captured Desktop

Calibrate

Sidebar Shortcuts

Adjust Hitachi Toolbar Remove button from toolbar

1) Click and hold down icon on toolbar

2) Drag and drop icon onto page

3) Select “Remove button from toolbar”

Add button to Toolbar

1) Drag and drop

Profiles

Create Profile 1) Go to Settings > Profile > Save Profile As

2) Save on USB to use with any computer

Load Profile 1) Go to Settings > Profile > Load Profile

2) Select file, click “Open”

Techniques To Add Interactivity

Erase and reveal

1- Type your question and answer.

2- Use a Normal pen to cover the answer with same color as background color. For

example, if the page Background is white, then the normal pen which you are going

to use should also be white.

3- Make a line on the hidden word as a space for answer (figure Ex:1)

4- Select the Eraser tool, and erase the normal pen which is covering the answer. The

Eraser tool will only erase objects created with normal. Anything typed with your

keyboard cannot be erased with the Eraser tool.

TIP: You may want to add instructions that let the class or other teachers know that all

they need to do is to use the eraser.

(figure1)

Split Text:

If you already have a prepared document and want to make an

assessment.

1- Copy the paragraph and paste it on the Workspace

2- Use the select tool and click on the pasted paragraph.

3- Click at the menu button and choose the split text option, then split by

word.

4- Now you will have the paragraph divided by words separately.

You got many options to do with separate words:

Use the erase and reveal technique.

Grape some selected words and put them on the top, and ask students

to put the words in their right places.

Put a box to hide some selected words to make an assessment and

reveal it for answer.

If you separate the paragraph by lines, you could make a match

assessment or reorder

Background Revealing:

1. Write a sentence which you are going to make the assessment at.

2. Choose the word which you want to hide and change its color to be

the same as the background. (If the back ground was white you are

going to change the word color to white.)

3. To reveal the answer use the fill in tool to change the background

color.