Serial number and product key

[Øistein Gjøvik]

Hello, anyone! I am working in a school where we have a SMARTboard. My question is regarding the product key. When installing the software I enter the serial number from the SMARTboard, and get a product key by e-mail. No problem. But what should the students to? My students are all over having pupils of their own in teacher practice. So a lot of them have access to SMARTboards of their own at their respective practice shools. Can they use any serial number, to obtain a product key, and still be able to switch between different SMARTboards? Is this not possible or perhaps not even allowed?

Anyone knows?

[Obe Hostetter]

The SMARTBoard serial number is used to obtain a product key so one can use SMART Notebook software for more than the trial 30 days. Once you have a registered version of SMART Notebook on your computer, you can connect your computer to any SMARTBoard and it will work. If you have more licensing questions, I would contact Smarttech at http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/About+Us/Company+Info/Contact+Us...

The reason to register SMARTBoards is so you get an additional 3 years warranty and I would highly recommend this.

[Jennifer Harper]

The other plus to registering is that each product key is good for 1000 licenses.

[Øistein Gjøvik]

Thanks, both of you. The most important thing seems to be that our prospective teachers can use their own computers with smartboards, no matter what schools they are in.

[Julie Baird]

Thanks for this info. I didn't know that the product key was good for 1000 licenses. I knew that we could use our product key on hour home computer or on student home computers that don't have a SmartBoard connected as long as we had one in our classroom.

[Warren Apel]

For student's home computers, even if you legally can install Smart Notebook, they might not want you to. It's a pretty large program, when you include all the gallery objects and such. I steer students towards using Smart Web Express or Student Edition (Smart Notebook SE) which is a lighter easier installation.
Warren