mstarczak

I've just spent the last day hunting through various threads and posting in forums looking for a solution. Google has been working out. Firstly, separate the basic interface of SMART notebook on a touchboard. In that space there are many alternatives. Openboard I quite like, likewise googles Jamboard, Microsoft Whiteboard. All provide decent functionality. If what you are after though is the pretties that Notebook provides, the option I'm now going down is Prowise presenter10. Its cloud based, which brings with it several advantages. The main one is its device agnostic. Free version works fine. Paid version ($55aud) looks good and I think allows sharing across faculties, as well as some student device integrations. It also opens/converts Notebook files. Hopefully this helps someone else who is googling furiously.

As this is still one of the top google returns on this question I thought I'd post the information I found most helpful on this issue. Using the information from the TechNet article below I had success. Chapter 6: Software Restriction Policy for Windows XP Clients A mistake I was doing was typing in the file path and specifying the type of files. So, f:\*.exe simply blocked exe files from running in the root of the F drive. What I needed to do was to block exe files from running on the F drive completely, no mater what level of folder they were in. So, f:\ would achieve this, but it wasn't blocking anything. For that, I actually had to read the instruction properly, and take note of the sections titled "DLL checking" "Skip administrators" and "Defining executables". These sections are within "The File path rule" After doing that it worked. I'm also going to look at a couple of other possibilities that may assist people, but more when I know I've achieved what I want.

Late last year I had no major issues using Italc2 with windows 7. I'm intending to try it a new school in the next few weeks. The script above will be invaluable as I wasn't aware of the /quiet switch and that bit had caused one of the few issues. I know the fact that the security permissions have to be set on each machine for admin access will be a pain and I'll reread the thread and see if someone's got the technique right to avoid that. I found a thread elesewhere that talked about how to setup a global repository of the machines, I know that method worked as well. I'll get back after I've had a go as I think the program is quite useful. Its not ABtutor, but the fact I can install it and have multiple vieweers makes it attractive for what i want.