Integration with the SMART Board interactive whiteboard
Use SMART Ideas with a SMART Board interactive whiteboard for touch control, handwriting recognition and more.
Style collections
Build concept maps by dragging and dropping ready-made symbols, basic and deluxe connectors, images and interactive clip art.
Curriculum-specific Clip-Art Gallery and cliplets
Make use of over 2,000 resizable pieces of clip art to enhance your lessons - they’re all organized according to curriculum topic. Or use cliplets to tell time, measure angles and much more.
Visual effects
Change connector styles and add patterns, images and shading to symbols. The software comes with sticky symbols, so you can layer objects and move them together to easily categorize ideas. And when you create tree diagrams, you can expand them one branch at a time.
Legend creation
Create legends to emphasize the meaning of symbols and their relationship to information.
Multilevel diagrams
Add sublevels to symbols to create multilevel diagrams, and then export maps to create navigable websites.
Multimedia linking
Add links or attachments to files, websites and levels within diagrams. You can also link to multimedia files and play them within SMART Ideas software. And it’s easy to create new, linked symbols with a single keystroke.
Easy-to-share formats
Save concept maps as a Microsoft Word document, HTML file or image file, keeping all map levels intact.
Cross-platform compatibility
Open maps on both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.
Multiple views
Switch between the Diagram view or the text-based Outline view to demonstrate the connection between visual and written ideas. Or show all map levels at once in the Global view.
Presentation mode
Remove toolbars for ease of viewing. You can also automatically organize diagrams by choosing a layout style.
