Boardmaker Plus! Australian/New Zealand Version 6 for Windows
by Mayer-Johnson, LLC
Boardmaker plus the onscreen interactivity of voice, sound, animations and video capability!
Now available in Australia and New Zealand: RealSpeak Solo Australian English Voices Add-on for Boardmaker Family Software
Bring Boardmaker activities to life with voice as well as video and animation support and make the computer a student-learning tool with Boardmaker Plus! software. Featuring more than 4,500 Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) in both colour and black-and-white, all in 44 languages, Boardmaker Plus! is a drawing program combined with a graphics library and database that also has the ability to talk and play recorded sounds and movies. This interactive component allows users to create talking activity boards, worksheets, schedules, books, writing activities, games and more, and adapt all materials to each student.
“Boardmaker Plus! is the #1 tool for teachers and students. If you don’t have it yet, you need to get it today.” – Wendy Ness, Special Educator and School Psychologist
Create fun, interactive activities with ease!
Boardmaker Plus! is the ideal tool for creating:
- PCS symbol-based print materials
- computer-based interactive materials such as
- communication displays for AAC users
- talking lessons for English language learners
- visual schedules and social skills stories for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
- books and symbol-supported literacy activities for beginning and pre-readers
- song and story boards for preschoolers
- and general educational and functional living skills activities for special education students
- communication displays for AAC users
“I can create social stories and behaviour interventions very quickly! Students read and remember the stories. No classroom should be without Boardmaker Plus!” – Sara J. Binns, Primary Special Education Teacher
Boardmaker Plus! is so easy to use!
- Open a template or create your own board
- Choose symbols and languages
- Print and use, or use interactively!
Quick Check of Features of Boardmaker and Boardmaker Plus! At-a-Glance
View sample activities created with Boardmaker Plus
Boardmaker Plus supports Universal Design for Learning (UDL) too. Read more about how Boardmaker Plus supports UDL…
And that’s just the beginning! Add more symbols to the core library, or add digital images or other graphics, and the communication possibilities never end!
Features
- Powerful Interactive Features
- Symbolate button will read aloud and highlight each word or symbol-word pair, as each word is spoken
- Quick Text, Quick Picture, and Quick Record buttons allow changes to button content in the Use mode
- Mayer-Johnson Sounds Library of over 150 fun .WAV format audio files included – heaps of fun sounds to use with your interactive boards
- Movable buttons let users create dynamic activities for counting, sorting, sequencing and more! View Movable Buttons screenshot
- Video and animation support – Play movies and sound files!
- Drag and Drop – You can now drag in images from your Internet browser or other programs. Now also supporting formats such as .avi (Audio Video Interleave), and .mpg (MPEG video)
- Synthesised and digitised voice options (record speech!)
- Adaptable for low vision users
- Switch access built-in with auto, step and inverse scanning
- Access with mouse, trackball, touchscreen, alternate keyboard, switch, joystick or head-tracking device
- More than 600 sample interactive boards and 94 interactive templates
- Symbolate button will read aloud and highlight each word or symbol-word pair, as each word is spoken
- Plus All of Boardmaker’s Printed Materials Features
- Symbolate Tool – Just type and symbols appear in the new Symbolate button feature! Quickly and easily add symbol support to sentences, stories and other text using a Symbolate button. Just choose the Symbolate Tool, click where youu want the text to appear, and start typing – or copy and paste in a block of text. Matching symbols will automatically appear! View Symbolate screenshots
- Swap and Shuffle Buttons – Quickly swap the contents of two buttons, or shuffle two or more buttons to create random answers or bingo boards. View Swap and Shuffle screenshot
- Drag and Drop – You can now drag in images from your Internet browser or other programs. Now also supporting formats such as .png (Portable Network Graphics).
- Dashed Lines – Simplify cutting printed materials
- Varied Line Thickness – Enables students with vision impairments to participate in activities
- Coloured Button Borders – Add more visual appeal
- Freeform Tool – Lets you draw freeform buttons of any shape you like. No longer limited to square buttons or hotspots! View a Freeform button
- Align and Centre Buttons – A powerful time saver
- Quickly Resize Multiple Buttons
- Easier Board Sharing – Package up your boards to take with you or share with others. Export boards to Boardmaker version 5.3 or higher, and export groups of boards in board packages.
- Now with more than 4,500 PCS symbols in both colour and black-and-white
- Combine elements of different PCS to create custom symbols
- Transparent backgrounds allow symbols to be layered to create stories, language activities, games and more
- Option to install country-specific symbols such as holidays, famous people, food and currency
- Option to install a library of symbols pertaining to sexuality
- 159 templates, including templates for the Boardmaker Activity Pad!
- PCS symbols supported by 44 languages.
- Each symbol is supported by 44 languages, can be searched in all languages, and placed in a board or activity with any of the languages
- Symbols may be placed with:
- no text above the symbol
- one or any two languages above the symbol
- Additional text in any language may be added to the symbol by the user
- Symbolate Tool – Just type and symbols appear in the new Symbolate button feature! Quickly and easily add symbol support to sentences, stories and other text using a Symbolate button. Just choose the Symbolate Tool, click where youu want the text to appear, and start typing – or copy and paste in a block of text. Matching symbols will automatically appear! View Symbolate screenshots
Click here to see a quick overview of the top new features in the Boardmaker Version 6 family (Boardmaker, Boardmaker Plus and Boardmaker with Speaking Dynamically Pro) in PDF format.
Boardmaker Plus! includes a variety of new sample boards and templates that are ready-to-use or may be customised:
- Ocean Activity
- Student Behaviour Board
- Sing-along – 5 Little Speckled Frogs
- Bookshelf Template – Hey Diddle Diddle
- Sentence Writing Activity
- Classroom Jobs
- Recipe Template – create onscreen cooking activities
- Vehicle Bingo – onscreen calling board
- Maths Activity
- Student Portfolios
- Photo Album
- Social Stories
Boardmaker Plus! has a wonderful selection of products ready-to-use add-ons to save you time such as Community Science and Cooking Up Fun!
Click here to download a pdf booklet showing you all of the additional symbols supplied in the 2000/2002/2004/2006 Addendum Bundles (3.4 MB .pdf) and the 2008 Addendum Library.
New! Give every student access to Boardmaker Plus! activities you create by distributing them to every classroom computer and home computer that has Boardmaker Player software installed!
View Boardmaker Family Product Features Comparison to see the features of Boardmaker Studio, Boardmaker Plus! and Boardmaker.
Confused about which symbol software program would best meet your needs? Click here to view our Symbol Software Comparison Chart comparing the features of Boardmaker, Writing with Symbols 2000, Communicate:In Print 2 ANZ and Communicate: SymWriter ANZ.
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System Requirements for WindowsexpandClick to collapse
- Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and 7 (with 6.1.4 update or later) – Compatible with Windows 64-bit Editions
- 1 GHz or faster processor
- 512 MB RAM (1GB recommended)
- 1GB of avaliable hard-disk space for installation
- 800×600 display with 16-bit video card (1024×768 recommended)
- CD-ROM drive
- Sound Card for interactive features
View/DownloadexpandClick to collapse
- Boardmaker Software Family V.6 User Guide (12 MB)
- World of Boardmaker Software Family Idea Book (4.3 MB)
- Boardmaker Updates
- Boardmaker Software Family v6 30 Day Trial from the Mayer-Johnson website (285 MB)
- Free web resources from Mayer-Johnson for Boardmaker Plus! at BoardmakerShare
Online Training and WebinarsexpandClick to collapse
- Free Online Training by Spectronics is available for this product
- Free Web Classes by Mayer-Johnson
Boardmaker Plus! Australian/New Zealand Version 6 for Windows is targeted at the following age ranges:
- All Ages
Boardmaker Plus! Australian/New Zealand Version 6 for Windows is designed to foster development in the areas of:
- Early concepts
- Literacy
- Communication
- Life Skills
- Resource preparation
Users can access Boardmaker Plus! Australian/New Zealand Version 6 for Windows in the following ways:
- Mouse/ Trackball/ Joystick
- Keyboard
- IntelliKeys
- Touchscreen
- Single Switch
- Multiple Switches
- Tracker Pro (USB)
For answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and technical support visit:
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