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Meet Your SMART Board

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Meet Your SMART Board

Every primary classroom at Katherine I. Daily, John K. Hubbard, and Pioneer is equipped with a SMART Board MX075-V5 interactive display with iQ — a 75-inch touchscreen that’s a whiteboard, a lesson hub, and a giant shared screen all in one. This page is your friendly guide to getting comfortable with it, from the first tap to your favorite new teaching tool.

The Basics First 5 Minutes Built-In Tools Teach With It Connect Devices Care & Cleaning Help & Training

Get to Know Your Board

Think of your SMART Board as a huge tablet built for a classroom full of little hands. It runs its own built-in software (called iQ), so you don’t need to connect a computer to start teaching — just turn it on and tap.

75″4K Ultra HD touchscreen display
20simultaneous touch points — the whole small group can work at once
2pens in the tray — no batteries, no pairing, no charging
iQbuilt-in whiteboard, browser, and screen share — no computer required

The board knows what you’re holding. Pick up a pen and it writes. Touch with a finger and it moves things. Wipe with your palm and it erases. There’s no mode to switch — students can write and erase at the same time without stepping on each other’s work. (Yes, palm-erasing is as satisfying as it sounds.)

Your First Five Minutes

New to the board, or just moved rooms? Here’s the five-minute tour that covers 90% of what you’ll do every day.

  1. Wake it up

    Press the power button on the front control panel. The board wakes to the iQ home screen — no login, no laptop, no waiting on a projector bulb.

  2. Find the Home screen

    Tap the Home button (on the front panel or the on-screen toolbar) any time you feel lost. Everything — Whiteboard, Browser, Screen Share, your apps — lives here.

  3. Open the Whiteboard and write

    Grab a pen and go. Change colors and pen styles from the toolbar, move your writing with a finger, erase with your palm. Pages are unlimited — no more “don’t erase this!” corner.

  4. Sign in to your profile

    Tap the profile icon and sign in with your Noble Google account — the easiest way is scanning the QR code with your phone. Signing in saves your whiteboards to your own space and connects your Google Drive, so your work follows you.

  5. Cast something to the big screen

    Open Screen Share on the board, then share from your laptop, Chromebook, or iPad — it works with Google Cast, AirPlay, and Miracast, so your device almost certainly speaks its language.

Built-In iQ Tools

These live right on the board — no computer, no installs, no tickets. Tap Home and explore.

Whiteboard

Your everyday canvas

Endless pages with built-in backgrounds (handwriting lines, grids, graphic organizers) and digital manipulatives made for primary grades. Import a PDF and write all over it. Everything saves — pick tomorrow up right where today left off.

Browser

The internet, one tap away

A full web browser on the board itself — pull up a read-aloud, a virtual field trip, or a math game without touching your laptop. You can write over web pages with the pens, too.

Classroom Tools

Little helpers, big impact

Timers, spinners, and dice for centers and transitions; a screen shade for the big reveal; screen capture when someone’s work deserves saving. Primary-teacher catnip.

Your Profile

Your stuff, everywhere

Sign in with a quick QR-code scan to reach your files and Google Drive securely. Sharing a room or covering a class? Each teacher’s profile keeps their work separate and private.

A word to the wise

Please don’t run live web or video searches on the board while students are watching. Search results, autocomplete suggestions, and thumbnails can surface unexpected content — even with filters on. Find and queue up websites and videos before the lesson, and if you must search mid-class, use the screen shade or do it from your desk first, then bring it to the big screen.

Teach With It: Lumio & SMART Notebook

The board is wonderful on its own — and even better with the free SMART software that comes with it.

Lumio is SMART’s web-based lesson tool — and a favorite for primary classrooms. Turn the slides and PDFs you already have into interactive lessons with games, sorting activities, and manipulatives, then run them on the board or send them to student devices. Thousands of ready-made, teacher-created activities are free to grab and go.

SMART Notebook is the classic desktop lesson software for building interactive lessons on your computer and delivering them at the board with the pens and touch features.

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Connect Your Devices

Your board plays nicely with the tech you already use.

  • Teacher laptop, wired: connect with HDMI (plus the USB touch cable) or a single USB-C cable, and the board becomes a giant touchscreen monitor — control your laptop right from the glass.
  • Teacher laptop, wireless: use Screen Share to mirror without any cables — handy when you’re teaching from the back of the room or beside a small group.
  • Chromebooks & iPads: student devices cast through Screen Share with your approval — great for sharing work in seconds.
  • SMART Ink: with SMART software on your connected computer, you can write over anything — slides, websites, videos — and your notes stay put.

Care & Cleaning

The board is tough — it’s built for classrooms — but a few habits keep it looking and working like new.

Please do

  • Clean the glass with a dry, lint-free microfiber cloth — that handles fingerprints (and there will be fingerprints).
  • For stubborn smudges, lightly dampen the cloth with water — and spray the cloth, never the screen.
  • Keep the pens in the tray so they’re charged with purpose (and not in the reading nook).
  • Power the board down at the end of the day, like the Chromebook cart.
  • Submit a workorder the moment something seems off — small fixes stay small.

Please don’t

  • No dry-erase or permanent markers on the glass — the pens and your finger are all it needs.
  • No spraying cleaner, water, or disinfectant directly onto the screen.
  • No harsh or abrasive cleaners — skip anything with bleach or ammonia.
  • No sharp or hard objects on the glass — pens, fingers, and soft pointers only.
  • No tape, magnets, anchor charts, or sticky notes on the screen or its edges — the frame senses touch, so things stuck along the border can confuse it.

Quick Fixes Before You Call

Most board hiccups have a thirty-second fix. Try these first — and if the board still won’t cooperate, we’re one workorder away.

What’s happening Try this first
Nothing on the screen Make sure the board is powered on, then check you’re on the right input — tap the Input button on the front panel. If you’re using a laptop, check both ends of the cable. More help: Projector or SmartBoard Not Displaying.
No sound Check the board’s volume on the front panel, then your laptop’s volume and its sound output setting (it should list the SMART Board when connected). More help: No Sound or Audio Not Working.
Touch or pens acting up Wipe the screen and check the edges of the frame for stickers, tape, or anything leaning against the glass. Still glitchy? Power the board fully off, wait ten seconds, and power it back on.
Screen Share can’t find the board Make sure your device is on the school Wi-Fi (not a hotspot), then close and reopen Screen Share on the board and try again.
Board feels slow or frozen A full restart cures most of it: power off from the front panel, count to ten, power back on. It happens to the best of us.

Stuck? We’ve got you.

The Noble Help Center has a whole section of SMART Board guides, posters, and training modules written for our teachers — plus articles on Lumio and SMART Notebook.

Want a friendly human instead? Book time with our Instructional Technology Coach for one-on-one help getting the most from your board — from first steps to fancy tricks.

For repairs or anything hardware-related, submit an IT workorder or call the Technology Department at (405) 872-3452.

Browse the Help Center Submit a Workorder Book the Tech Coach