Boardmaker® Studio is designed for Windows and brings you well-known features of programs from the Boardmaker® family . These are thousands of pictorial communication symbols and numerous ready-made templates, forms and tools for working with them. However, Boardmaker® Studio also brings a new, simpler and fresh look and many new functions and features that will save you effort and time.
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Boardmaker® Studio offers hundreds of ready-made templates and forms for different activities, as well as useful tools and functions to help you customize them or create new ones.
Use it to upload, edit, and enhance all of your printable activities in Boardmaker, as well as most interactive activities in Boardmaker® Plus!
New interface
Boardmaker® Studio brings a new and fresh design, for better visibility and easier use. A clear toolbar, highlighted menus and icons, clearly organized ready-made forms and useful tools for editing activities and projects, these are all features that will be well known to users of programs from the Microsoft© Office suite.
The new Studio Connect control panel
Studio Connect is the name of the program's new control panel, which gives you quick and easy access to the activities you are working on. From the dashboard, you can also instantly connect with other users on the BoardmakerAchieve.com user pages.
From the Studio Connect control panel, you can immediately start creating a new activity or choose one of the many templates with which to create it, directly access the projects you are working on or try a finished activity. All this is possible with just one click on the corresponding four buttons, which are clearly highlighted using four basic colors.
Saving finished activities
Once you've created your activities, you can save them on BoardmakerAchieve.com. So you will have access to your activities and you will be able to download them from any computer.
You can also share the most popular activities with other experts who might find them useful. On these pages, you will easily find many ideas for yourself, thousands of activities covering many topics, created by experts like you.
At BoardmakerAchieve.com, you can find helpful tips and tricks, connect with other program users, exchange ideas, and join peer and enthusiast groups.
Boardmaker® Studio – basic and additional package
All content of Boardmaker® Studio is divided into two parts - the basic package (Studio Starters) and the additional package (Studio Additions).
In the basic package that you received with the Boardmaker® Studio program, you will find over 150 ready-made forms and 60 ready-made samples of different activities. There are also handy ready-made tools, sound effects and award-winning animations that you can add to them.
In the additional package (Studio Additions) you will find additional collections of PCS symbols in four different styles.
It is enough to add symbols, text, questions and answers to the ready-made forms for activities and you have a ready-made activity for printing or playing on the computer. The forms are organized according to the type of activity and subject area. There is no need to do anything with ready-made samples, it is enough to press the "Start" button and start playing and learning.
Types of activities are: art and creativity, books and presentations, calendars, cause and effect, communication, research, games, marking and labeling, flashcards, math, matching pairs, schedules and sequences, word study, etc.
Subject areas cover math, reading, communication, science, social studies, writing, tutoring, aptitude assessment, and more.
Software requirements
Boardmaker® Studio is compatible with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10 operating systems. This software requires 512 MB or more of RAM and 900 MB of hard disk space. While using the program, the CD does not have to be in the optical drive (CD reader).
1.45 GB of memory is required to download the program. If the original download package is removed from the hard drive after installation, 500 MB of memory will be freed up.
Compatibility with other programs from the Boardmaker® family
Cards for printing made in the programs Boardmaker , Boardmaker Plus! and you can transfer Boardmaker with Speaking Dynamically Pro to Boardmaker Studio. It's the same with most interactive cards made in Boardmaker Plus programs! and Boardmaker with Speaking Dynamically Pro. Some animations may need to be adjusted here.
Switching may not be possible for all Boardmaker add-ons, Boardmaker Plus! and Boardmaker with Speaking Dynamically Pro.