Hi I checked with my reseller regarding whether Smart Technologies supported Chromebooks before converting all of my teachers from iMACs
Oops! Turns out the reseller was wrong, and I know some of my teachers that actually use the markup capabilities of the SmartBoard are going to be upset.
I hear you are working on Chromebook drivers to enable SmartInk and other tools. Here's a strong vote to roll that out soon! Our reasoning for converting from iMACs to Chromebooks is that we want our teachers using the Google cloud-based tools and the same HW/SW platform the students use so that they become at least as familiar with the platform as the students are expected to be. We are now one-to-one with Chromebooks and are endeavoring to integrate it into the day-to-day instructional flow.
St. Matthews Catholic School is about 425 km south of you in Kalispell MT and would love to beta test when Chromebook support is ready. If you can contact me with any more information on how long we will need to wait that would be much appreciated!
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Zone Vang commented
I support moving teachers to Chromebooks and adding Smart Ink as an extension. This approach simplifies management, strengthens system security, and allows teachers to easily annotate using their existing smartboards.
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Lumio now has support for SMART Board tools (e.g. pens, eraser) when inking in the Lumio whiteboard.
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Ram commented
Agree with this. At the moment we have to use annotate.net to achieve this on the Chromebooks. Lots of primary schools in the UK are moving staff over to Chromebooks and there are no Smart tool options to support us or our Smart whiteboards and Lumio.
Like annotate.net it could be a simple Chrome extension. -
Gard Stave Overøye commented
A smart ink application for chrome webstore is most needed indeed, as we have a fourth huge operating system now (GoogleOS) that will take completely over in Google Workspace for Education incorporated schools.
