SMART Board

SMART Technologies Buying Guide 2026

SMART Technologies offers many different product solutions for a wide range of sectors. In education in particular, the manufacturer offers a broad portfolio of products and solutions.
The term blended learning stands for a successful mix of different learning formats and methods. SMART uses this as its guiding principle and motivation to deliver a comprehensive product.

Developed for all tireless teachers, pupils, parents and leaders, and perfectly tailored to educational institutions, businesses and public bodies, SMART Technologies products offer intelligent solutions.

Why choose SMART Technologies?

The manufacturer is committed to helping improve learning outcomes. Technology-supported teaching is a good, modern and, over time, proven way to achieve this.
The company offers solutions designed specifically for education and works closely with teachers and pupils to develop them. SMART Technologies' product development benefits greatly from this input, which always ensures that the products contain the features that are actually needed.

The following key themes are taken into account during development:

• Current research findings
• Community
• Educational consulting
• Professional development

Current research findings

SMART Technologies uses EdTech best practices to optimise your learning outcomes. EdTech is one of the most debated topics in education and is based on the results of global research studies.

What exactly is EdTech?

EdTech covers functions, tools and software applications developed specifically for education. EdTech, short for educational technology, is an umbrella term for the use and management of media and technology to improve educational processes. It therefore covers the use of learning programmes and software in educational institutions – for both youth and adult education.

SMART Technologies has developed its own system based on this principle.

SMART Technologies calls this its EdTech Best Practices. These best practices comprise 22 EdTech functions in four categories that move your educational plans forward. Based on the latest research, SMART has compiled 4 main topics that form the foundation.

• Strategic technology planning
• Technology integration
• Professional development
• Technology infrastructure

Community

With SMART, you join a large community made up of a wide variety of people – learners and pupils as well as parents and students. This community strives to bring about outstanding achievements and creative solutions.

SMART Exemplary Educators

With SEEs, you share your passion for effective teaching with digital tools and innovative technologies. The community's insights and suggestions contribute to the continuous optimisation of SMART's application solutions and help create modern learning environments. This automatically expands your personal learning network and enriches your lessons.

The SEE programme is divided into two areas: the SMART Educator and the SMART Exemplary Educator

• SMART Exemplary Schools form a worldwide network of innovative educational institutions that benefit from one another.
• SMART Exemplary Students work at their educational institutions to make productive use of digital tools and innovative technologies.

Educational consulting

SMART offers a range of professional development services that enable teachers and pupils to use the products as effectively as possible. The company develops tailored implementation plans to meet teachers and schools where they currently are and support them from there. SMART builds on this basis and works with you to develop the perfect solution for your environment. Our trained expert advisers will support you in this.

Professional development

The company provides many different approaches that let you train yourself and acquire further knowledge and skills free of charge. SMART makes a wide range of content available on public channels, allowing you to discover possible applications and integrate them effectively into your teaching methods.

• Online courses
• Certifications
• On-site training
• Live online training

It all depends on which training method you prefer. SMART offers various ways to acquire knowledge and build what you have learned into everyday practice – the ideal solution for everyone, whether self-directed or guided.

Blended learning

What does SMART Technologies offer to enrich your lessons? In addition to high-quality display technology, SMART offers further options and features. The SMART Learning Suite is available online and provides content that supports you in delivering lessons – ideal for distance learning too.

SMART provides ready-made learning content combined with the right functions to put this content into practice – age-appropriate resources for all age groups and levels.

The company offers ready-made content for pupils from kindergarten and pre-school through to primary and secondary school.

SMART provides a variety of student activities that can be used straight away. You can share the dashboard directly with parents, so you can also use SMART for distance learning. The SMART Learning Suite provides learning activities for children. The application can easily be used with any Microsoft and/or Google account.

This platform is not just for pupils and parents. SMART also gives teachers access to the SLSO library with ready-made learning activities. There, teachers can use, edit and forward resources to pupils. It is also possible to respond to and comment on pupils' work. SMART is also extremely active in distance learning and offers interactive features for teaching remotely. You can also motivate pupils with games or other applications, give feedback and work on content together.

Feel free to ask our expert advisers about possible product trials and demonstrations.

SMART interactive displays

Create inspiring learning experiences with SMART. SMART displays enable unparalleled collaboration. Encourage your pupils and teachers to work together socially, competently, creatively and confidently.

SMART Board delivers interactive technologies to improve learning outcomes. This includes free learning software integrated into all displays for the education sector. You also receive an annual subscription to the SMART Learning Suite. Please note that these conditions may change, so you will always find the respective scope of delivery in the product data sheet or product description.
Turn your lessons into an interactive experience for pupils and teachers alike.

Seamless teaching with iQ Android technology

The integrated iQ Android PC lets teachers start a presentation intuitively and write down information just as on a classic whiteboard. You can also browse the web and then use the content you have found. Save valuable time by accessing all information directly via your display.

Device compatibility with many systems

So that you can use all content and your pupils and teachers can share their resources, SMART Board displays offer extensive compatibility with iOS, Windows, Android and Chrome OS. So it doesn't matter which source you use to play back content – easy content sharing.

Simultaneous tool differentiation

This function allows several users to work together. Several pupils can add notes, delete information and actively work together at the same time. Object awareness technology also ensures that you can write directly on the display with pens or fingers. And if you want to erase something, simply wipe over the content with your palm! Simple and intuitive.

SMART Ink technology

This technology allows teachers to write on, create and annotate PDF and Microsoft Office files as well as websites. The software lets you edit and save almost any file type. Convert handwritten notes into text and use the wide range of display tools.

Additional accessories expand your options

With the SMART Chromebox, you can access all Chrome OS files. Alternatively, you can connect a Windows 10 Pro PC – quickly and easily. There are also SMART remote management systems, document cameras, coding kits, mobile display stands, wall mounts and more.

SMART Learning Suite

With the Learning Suite, you inspire your pupils and support your teachers. Spark your pupils' enthusiasm with game-based learning activities.

This software gives you an all-in-one solution designed to improve learning outcomes.

You can find out whether the Learning Suite is included for you in the respective product descriptions or product data sheets. If you have any questions, please contact our expert advisers.

SMART believes that teachers bring more than just subject knowledge – and the same should apply to learning software! That is why SMART has developed the Learning Suite as the perfect software for teachers, equipped with digital tools for interactive lessons.

• Shared workspace
• Game-based learning activities
• Formative assessments
• Powerful features
• And much more

With the Learning Suite, you encourage open teaching. Every pupil knows rigid, teacher-centred frontal teaching, but SMART clearly moves away from this and offers ways to motivate pupils and teachers to learn together. This creates not just pupil participation in lessons but genuine collaboration.
Make your lessons more interactive by dynamically integrating files in various formats.

Intuitive handling is also important here, so that every user can understand and use all functions in just a few steps. SMART offers a wide range of options for this:

• Create and deliver lessons on any device, including Chromebook™ devices.
• Deliver lessons to pupils' devices
• Switch flexibly during lessons between teacher-paced and student-paced learning
• Access the suite anytime, anywhere – including from home
• Pupils can access it from any internet-enabled computer, tablet or phone
• Easy integration into familiar workflows
• Sign in with a school account for Google or Microsoft®

This is just a small selection of everything this learning software offers.

Please note that the Learning Suite is only available on subscription. Feel free to ask our expert advisers for exact prices and conditions.

Success stories

The SMART system has already become established in many institutions, and pupils and teachers benefit from it. The success stories show just how many possibilities SMART displays offer. We have therefore summarised some of these stories for you to show you what is possible.

Encouraging active learning and bringing ideas to life

West Point School – France

This bilingual school teaches 50% of lesson time in English and the other 50% in French. With around 400 pupils from kindergarten to primary school, suitable learning software has to offer many possibilities and an intuitive user interface. Around 20% of the pupils have an international background.
The school decided to integrate EdTech to improve its existing learning methods and gain new, digital teaching options. It also wanted to make lessons more interactive to increase pupils' motivation.

A major concern was building teachers' confidence with the new technologies. The first challenge was therefore to convince the teaching staff of the benefits of the Learning Suite. Teachers were encouraged to experiment with the display on their own and try out the functions at their leisure – initially behind the scenes, so that they could handle the product as confidently as possible in front of the pupils, since this is also how pupils learn to use a program. With SMART, the school wants to go beyond conventional learning methods, and the manufacturer's innovative technologies now allow it to act faster and more collaboratively. The teachers benefited from the references and resources already collected and were able to integrate them productively to create an active and interactive learning environment.

Disruption-free multimedia lessons were not the norm before. It was therefore all the more important for West Point School to play back content smoothly without having to fall back on old technologies such as overhead projectors or video trolleys.

One example makes the advantage all the clearer: when difficulties arose in a history lesson about the Middle Ages, the teacher was able to react flexibly and search the internet for videos that underlined and highlighted the desired content.

Kaylee – USA

Sometimes the progress of an individual deserves to be highlighted, as in Kaylee's case. She was always very shy and rarely dared to say anything – not just because she was embarrassed or didn't know what to say, but because she suffers from selective mutism. This makes it impossible for her to interact with people she is not familiar with. One of her teachers recognised the problem and responded to her. The first step was to win the pupil's trust, but when she started writing and drawing on the SMART Board, her anxiety noticeably decreased.

The teacher built on this and gave Kaylee more and more opportunities to express herself. Just two weeks after their first meeting, Kaylee began to speak during her interactions with the SMART Board – quietly at first, then becoming braver and louder.
After making progress in a calm environment, she set herself the goal of speaking in class too. Using the SMART Board gave her the confidence to express herself, but that alone was not enough: combined with a committed and motivated teacher, this success led to personal and emotional progress that has a positive impact on her surroundings and on herself.

Jocelyn – USA

Jocelyn also benefited from using SMART Boards. She was always known as serious and ambitious, and above all extremely independent. Together with 100 other pupils, she took part in her school's SMART Hackathon in San Antonio to research and present an alternative energy source. Her team examined hydropower and put together an impressive presentation with SMART.

To achieve this, the team used diagrams, images, videos and facts, which they were able to visualise with the integrated SMART technologies. This collaboration produced not only a successful presentation but also successful teamwork, which led every group member – including Jocelyn, who had tended to be a lone fighter – to recognise how valuable and rewarding teamwork can be. She and her classmates became creators of a sustainable future.

Ayrshire College – Scotland

To promote innovation and creativity in further education, the college turned to SMART Technologies. The college has made a name for itself in further education and helps students realise their potential and deepen their knowledge. To modernise the institution, the college opted for SMART Boards and SMART Learning Suite software solutions and gradually equipped its rooms with these products. With more than 14,000 adult students, it is not always easy to find a product that can be used for all subject areas.

This college teaches not only tourism and sport but also, for example, natural sciences and hospitality. Each area requires different teaching methods. SMART combines various options to deliver interactive and engaging lessons – for all subjects. But installation is not the end of it: Ayrshire College can continue to take advantage of SMART workshops, training and professional development to get the most out of the technology.

In the end, the efforts and investment paid off and have had a lasting effect – because motivation and enjoyment of learning lead to even better learning outcomes.

Sharlston Community School – West Yorkshire

Cost is always an issue in education, and Sharlston Community School was no exception. The school management therefore considered how to make modernisation possible without disadvantaging anyone. For exactly this problem, SMART offers the SMART ClaaS programme, which spreads the costs over the following years. This paved the way for modernisation.

Pinders Primary School – Wakefield

This urban school is particularly diverse, which is also reflected in the range of languages its pupils bring with them: for around 80% of pupils, English is not their mother tongue but their second language. The challenge was therefore to integrate a technology that connects pupils and teachers, makes it possible to use applications intuitively and supports them with engaging illustrations.

Together with the IT specialists at Elementary Technology, a 5-year plan was developed to integrate SMART Board interactive displays, document cameras and notebooks. The plan covered not only the purchase but also suitable training and ongoing professional development.
Alongside performance-enhancing hardware upgrades, the comprehensive implementation project also involves active communication between the planning team, pupils and teachers in order to develop lively, interactive lessons that appeal to all users.