Creating a Reset Button in SmartBoard Notebook
by Langwitches ~ May 5th, 2009. Filed under: SmartBoard, Tutorials.
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On Teqsmart, I saw the following post about Creating a Reset button in a Smartboard Notebook file. Many times over the past year, I wish I would have been able to reset a student activity. Students were working individually and wanted to repeat an activity or students from different classes of the same grade level were using the same file and we needed to close the file, not save the changes and re-open the file for them to get started.
So here is a simple solution from Teqsmart:
Step 1: Create your interactive student page.
Step 2: Now, without moving any of the objects, create a 1 second Page Recording.
Step 3: Allow the student to create his or her solution to the problem. When that student is finished with their solution, click the play button on the page recording control bar, and your page will “reset” to its original state.
Here are some screenshots that illustrate these 3 steps.
After you create the student activity page, go to Page Recording.
Make sure you have Page Recording selected, then push “Start Recording” and record for 1 second.
Once you click “Stop Recording”, A Play/Pause/Stop button will automatically appear at the bottom of your slide. 
Students are ready to do their activity and manipulate the page as they want to. Simply click on the play button to reset the objects on the page to its original positions.
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July 9th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Worked fine with a simple page, but when I tried it with a page containing checker tools from the Lesson Activity Toolkit, it didn’t work. In fact, as soon as I finished making the recording, all my checker tools and the lines I had placed for naming the parts of the cell just disappeared and didn’t come back again when I pressed the “play” button.
August 30th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Works like a charm! Thanx!
September 21st, 2009 at 4:26 am
Fantastic. Past experience has taught me though that when using Page Recorder with multiple objects (and therefore multiple layers) it is best to embed any objects that you don’t need to access by turning the whole page into a Theme. Have just created the Reset Button for a problem solving activity and it looks slick.