Teacher guiding young student using a digital tablet in classroom.

Accessibility in the classroom

Give every student a voice with SMART

Building an inclusive classroom means working to remove barriers for every single student. SMART solutions offer tools and opportunities for all students, no matter how they think and learn.

Support every student's voice

Choose technology that removes barriers.

SMART solutions help teachers increase access and engagement for all learners. Our interactive displays and learning software come equipped with tools that give access and voice to all learners.

We’re proud to make learning exciting and robust for students with diverse needs. Our product design is grounded in Universal Design for Learning with features to promote student engagement, representation, and expression.

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Students in a classroom touching an interactive SMART Board, showcasing modern educational technology.

SMART RX interactive display showcasing a vibrant landscape image with rolling hills and a colorful sunset. Accompanied by educational stamp blocks with emoji faces.

Features to know about

Tool Explorer

Take interactivity and inclusivity to the next level. SMART’s programmable pens, cubes and stamps encourage students to participate, including those who express themselves non-verbally, to engage in a whole new way.

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Some reasons why accessibility-minded educators love Tool Explorer:

It facilitates hands-on learning.

It supports engagement and expression in learners without relying on verbal language.

Students can collaborate meaningfully and simultaneously with different object types and choices.

It supports differentiation.

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Open the doors to learning with features that invite everyone to jump in

Magic Pen

Our Magic Pen feature lets teachers engage students and direct focus with colourful, interactive strokes. Highlight and magnify features are also included, which are effective at directing student attention within any program or content type.

SMART Ink

Capture student attention with colourful, interactive inking that works just like a real pen would. Just pick it up and write! Students and teachers can interact with content in their own way, at their own pace.

SMART has always built products that support accessibility and promote social and academic participation for ALL students.
Alex Dunn
Upper Canada District School Board
Lumio is the best tool I've found to promote digital inclusion, period. I've seen it empower students with diverse learning profiles through its engagement tools (interactive manipulatives and graphic organisers) and accessible features (audio instructional feature and immersive reader), but most of all, its teacher-friendly workflow empowers educators from all levels of tech readiness to find success, regardless of their readiness to adopt technology in the classroom.

Anthony Howell

Peel District School Board

More ways to learn with SMART

Inclusive access

Give students the choice to interact with their learning in a way that works for them, whether physically interacting with the board and tools, or engaging and participating with the class from personal devices.

Tool Explorer stamps facilitate aided language instruction and digitally represent abstract ideas on the display.
Digital Manipulatives support learning by modelling and allow students to physically demonstrate learning, without relying on language as a primary communication tool.

A teacher supports a student in a wheelchair using a laptop in front of an interactive SMART Board, highlighting inclusive education technology.

SMART design matters

Inclusive design

We've designed our products with a full set of tools to give teachers endless options for keeping students' interest, personalising instruction and ensuring accessibility. Whether using Lumio or a SMART Board with iQ, our intuitive design minimises distractions to keep the focus on learning, not technology.

Focus attention with tools like the spotlight and Magic Pen.
Transition between teacher and student pacing when student devices are connected to a lesson, allowing students to work at the pace best suited to their needs – ONLY with SMART
Support personalised learning with a variety of activity types, including games and graphic organisers. Personalised feedback helps support self-regulated learning.

Young student with headphones using a laptop, actively participating in an online learning session.

SMART design matters

Inclusive voice

We believe in elevating student voices, so we offer flexible ways for students to participate and show learning. Students can choose the pace and place for learning that works best for them, and can collaborate both synchronously and asynchronously with their peers, empowering every student to share their thoughts and ideas.

Students can view and interact with content from either the front-of-room display or on their individual devices to best suit their needs and learning preferences.
Instant Brainstorming with Shout It Out and Whole Class Whiteboard activities provide all students in the classroom an equal voice in class discussions.

Quality tools for a more accessible classroom

The SMART Board RX series interactive display features a stunning mountain landscape at sunset.

SMART RX series

Our one-of-a-kind powerhouse display built to evolve around your needs, the RX Series is the only interactive display that offers easy-to-grip user-programmable tools to help you support inclusive classrooms.

Learn about the RX series

Lumio

Our award-winning digital learning software that helps all learners participate academically and connect and learn with their peers, in class or at home, all from their student devices.

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