New Features of Boardmaker

1. New Features of Boardmaker Version 6 brooslinj@sps.springfield.ma.us

2. Dashed Borders • Make a button • Select button by clicking on left side of mouse • Right click on mouse • Click properties • Select dashed borders

3. Easier Board Sharing • Click file • Select export • Click current board to a version 5.3 • Click file • Select export • Select folder of boards to a package. This allows you to send many files all at once to an email. It compresses the file size.

4. Resizing • Click on button • Click control and shift and move with mouse. • You can do this with more than one button. This is good to use when you want to make a series of buttons and symbols bigger or smaller. The buttons and symbols are proportionate.

5. Drag and Drop • Boardmaker needs to be opened and can be seen at bottom of computer. • Open up google images. • Find a picture. • Click and hold mouse on google image and drag to Boardmaker. • Use mouse to symbol finder box and let go of mouse. • The picture will be imported into symbol finder.

6. Drag and Drop • You can also drag and drop pictures from your computer. • Go to my computers • Select picture • Click and hold mouse and drag to Boardmaker • Go to symbol finder box and let go of mouse. • You can rename symbol if you want. • You can add more than 1 photo at a time.

7. Free Form • Click on free form button. • Draw any shape. • Hit control and draw shape. This will make straight lines. • You can select corner tool and select different shapes.

8. Alignment and Centering • Select buttons • Right click on mouse • Select alignment • Align left sides. • You can use this to also change color of fonts, • Size of fonts, centering.

9. Swap • You have 2 buttons on the screen. • Select both buttons • Hit alt and move 1 button to the other one and let go. • The buttons including pictures will swap.

10. Shuffle • Select all buttons. • Click on edit. • Click on shuffle • The pictures will move positions. • This is great for bingo.

11. Symbolate • Select symbolate button which is A with the face. • Make a button. • Type a sentence. • Picture symbols will appear for every word you type.

12. Symbolate • Highlight a word. • Hit f2 on computer. • The picture will change. • Double click above word to make a default picture. • Right click to make symbol smaller or change text position.

13. Symbolate • Double click above word to add new symbol to symbol finder. • Add new pictures to symbol finder by dragging and dropping. • If you want to make one symbol for two words, type underscore between the two words.

14. www.mayer-johnson.com • You can go to this website and select recorded trainings. • You can watch different trainings online to learn more. • www.adaptedlearning.com • The above website is a great resource to share and download already created Boardmaker files.