Has anyone any experience with the current SMART range (MX, 6000, 7000)? Specs they seem about on par with alternatives, but with the benefit of having the physical pens etc.

The simple solution is to buy back into SMART, but it is a subscription and I don't need to explain to fellow education based IT people why this won't happen.ġ) Buy SMART hardware products, get the year's free subscription, then fall back to free restricted mode. But, it will not work forever, and one day it will simply be taken out of our hands and it WILL cease to work entirely. The problem that we've got is that teaching staff are hanging on to Smart Notebook like a vice they REALLY do not want to let it go, and I can understand it given their last decade of lesson planning has been done using this resource. We're about to go out for tender for new interactive displays, and have sampled solutions from Hitachi, Sharp, Promethean, and BenQ thus far. Our smartboards/projectors are 8 years old at the youngest, with the average age being older than the Yr7s.

From testing, Smartboard 11 will likely cease to work entirely, and given that it's already sketchy (we have to use M$ ink in powerpoint, as the SMARTInk plugin doesn't work with Office 2016), we seriously need to find an alternative sharpish. We're running 1609 LTSB W10, but we will be looking to catch up to the latest LTSC in the near future. Thanks from someone who needs to think of as cool avatar and sign-off.įast forward almost 6 months, and just wondering what people are going for these days? We're even more behind the times than the OP we're running 11.0, also on a perpetual license. (We could always upgrade her early so it doesn't have to be compatible with Windows 7) We are moving to Windows 10 shortly, so definitely needs to be compatible with Windows 10. Or can anyone recommend any other (free or cheap) software that could be used instead? So do we bite the bullet and upgrade to the latest version and pay the annual costs, where they have the option to increase the prices at any time? Obviously SMART Notebook 11.4 is well out of support, but has the perpetual licence, so we are not breaking any licensing agreement. She is making a note every time it happens, so different classes, different files and different links and different types of links (ie not all sound files etc). Local Profiles so effectively a new profile as well. Replaced the PC entirely with a brand new image (so new hardware and a new image - not the old image updated) So far I have uninstalled and reinstalled the software. A short disruption, but we are a special needs school so any disruption has a disproportionate affect on the children. Keeps on freezing and she is having to load the file up again. One of our users is having continuous problems with the Notebook software.

Hi We currently have SMARTboards in the school and use SMART Notebook 11.4.

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