Bring the power of visual learning to your classroom with SMART Ideas® concept-mapping software. Students can better analyze and understand complex ideas with multilevel, interactive maps that help break down concepts one level at a time, enhancing clarity and comprehension.
New perspective on learning
With SMART Ideas, you can create multilevel concept maps that take students through concepts 1 step at a time for greater clarity. And you can easily convert the maps into a multi-page website for everyone to share. A bank of descriptive graphics helps instructors break down information in highly visual ways so students can understand each element of a concept. You can enhance maps with topic-specific clip art or external links to make course material more dynamic.
Show concepts from multiple perspectives
Multilevel maps are the key to illustrating logical and thematic connections. Viewing separate levels of a map helps students think about concepts in chunks that are easier to understand. And with SMART Ideas, you can present information from a variety of perspectives. Show all map levels at once or switch between the text-only and visual views to demonstrate the connection between graphic and written elements. For presentations, you can clear the toolbar and present your map in an easy-to-view format.
Link multimedia
Easily add links or attachments to your maps to better illustrate ideas. Students can use multimedia to enhance their own presentations, making their projects as descriptive and informative as possible.
Integration with the SMART Board interactive whiteboard
Use SMART Ideas with a SMART Board interactive whiteboard for touch control, handwriting recognition and more.
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.
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.
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.
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