Smoothboard Air

If you're a teacher who's currently facing the eternal struggle of having students that are not interested in interacting with you during lessons but would rather glare at their devices, you can up your game by turning to specialized software solutions.

One such application is Smoothboard Air. This program can help you turn your computer or any white surface into an interactive whiteboard and connect your students' devices to it.

If you're not exactly tech-savvy, you can still install and configure this application on the target computer without significant efforts. The installation process only requires you to follow on-screen instructions, while the setup is almost entirely handled automatically.

After launching the application, you'll be prompted with a bunch of connection details, including a connection address, a name, a pin and a QR code. Your students can either access the address from their browser or scan the QR code on their devices and input the pin in order to connect.

As mentioned above, you can use Smoothboard Air if you're aiming to turn your display into a learning media, one that gives you the ability to annotate and highlight content directly on the screen using virtual instruments.

You're provided with a whiteboard mode that turns your screen white and lets you fill it with content, a pen, custom shapes, an eraser and a highlighter. Modifying the color and size of your brush is also possible.

Students can connect their phone and tablets, actively participate in the learning process by adding their own annotations to the whiteboard and even save what's currently on the screen as a screenshot.

To wrap it up, Smoothboard Air can be a trustworthy ally that can help you make your classes more interactive without forbidding your students from using their phones or tablets but actually encouraging them to do so.