4 Ways to Present Class Materials to Students on Interactive Displays

BenQ interactive flat panels are connected to the most popular cloud storage services like Google Drive and Dropbox, and can be configured to connect to your school’s NAS. And the good news is that accessing cloud accounts is super easy. 

Thanks to Tap ‘N Teach technology, teachers can log in to their own account in seconds and access private settings and all stored content, as well as all cloud services like Google Drive or Dropbox. You can even ask your IT manager to help configure auto-log in to designated accounts.  

If you’re planning to show your students a PDF document, PowerPoint presentation, or images you’ve saved on your drive, we recommend you open them with EZWrite whiteboarding software. To do so:

The big advantage of this option is that EZWrite allows you to draw and annotate your presentations and documents. Think about it as your presentation becoming the background for your BenQ board. 

EZWrite includes many helpful functions. Aside from basic marker and eraser tools, teachers can enable features like scoreboard, random pick, split screen, geometry tools, and many others. Moreover, if you enable collaboration mode, your students will also be able to annotate and edit the whiteboard!

With a little imagination and time, you can create great PowerPoint presentations that can become large, online boardgames. Ready-made presentations can also be downloaded directly from the internet.

This is a great step in the direction of gamification. Read on to learn how BenQ Interactive Displays can help you gamify your classroom.

Sometimes you really need your students to see your laptop screen, where important content is located. Or maybe you have software on your computer that you would like to launch for your students to use?

For content that you cannot open directly on your BenQ interactive flat panel, InstaShare is a great, wireless way to mirror your computer screen to the board. What’s more, once mirrored, you control what is happening on the interactive display. And you can use the stylus that comes with your BenQ board as a mouse for your computer.

To project your computer screen onto a BenQ interactive display:

InstaShare 2, the latest version of the app, allows up to nine screens to be displayed at once. You control which device is displayed and whether that device screen can be controlled from the board. 

This is a great tool for collaboration, and especially useful during the COVID-19 pandemic as it allows you and students to share content while maintaining social distancing.

In the past, you may have connected your Windows PC via VGA to a projector and whiteboard setup. However, in the era of high quality 4K, you need HDMI to get content on an interactive flat panel display. And since HDMI usually goes hand in hand with USB, the downside of this is long cables running all over the place, which isn’t just an eyesore and sometimes a pain to manage, but may also present safety concerns like kids and teachers tripping on cables. So while doable, we suggest aiming for wireless connectivity. 

To do so:

You can replicate the same process to connect your PC to the Interactive Display via USB Type-C. Take same steps as in case of HDMI, except select USB-C ports instead of HDMI. Newest BenQ Interactive Displays feature front-facing HDMI and USB-C ports that make it more convenient and simple to complete the task.

You may want to look for a solution such as a Windows open pluggable specification module, or OPS module. All you need is to install it directly into the dedicated slot on the interactive flat panel.

This enables you to log into Windows right from the display, just like you would from your laptop. The panel then acts like a giant touchscreen tablet, running Windows. 

This is, however, a costly solution, and one that might require additional training, so it’s not as straightforward as InstaShare and InstaShow.