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As a teacher preparing students for a technology-driven future, you’ll recognize the vital role of STEM education in paving the way to a rewarding career.
In our fast-paced world, smart devices to impart learning have evolved leaps and bounds to ensure you can effectively support and guide your students. Such innovative smart boards, like the BenQ Board Pro RP04 Series and Master RM04 Series, are designed to elevate the classroom experience for students and teachers.
An all-in-one digital tool for today’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) classroom, these latest Google EDLA-certified interactive displays offer exceptional software and specs and come bundled with training, online support, and security for your school’s data.
These educational smart boards also keep today’s ever-curious students engaged and excited by immersing them in learning experiences that bring out the best in them.
Moreover, these classroom boards sport future-forward innovations and conveniences to help you unleash your full teaching potential as a catalyst for your student’s success. They adapt to your teaching style seamlessly so you can teach your way, present your way, whiteboard your way, and share your way.
Engage Every Student Actively in STEM Lessons
The empowering potential of technology is shaping the education world like never before. STEM lessons focus on developing skills to solve real-world problems. So, it’s imperative that your teaching engages students through immersive audiovisual tech and innovative collaborative projects to foster healthy competition, creativity, and teamwork.
Designed to lead schools into the future, the award-winning BenQ Board Pro RP04 and Master RM04 combine hardware like a 4K UHD ultra-responsive touch display, powerful 20W speakers, and an 8-Core GPU. They ensure your students experience the most complex STEM concepts on the smart board.
EDLA-certified BenQ Boards combine Google’s entire ecosystem, like the Play Store, Google Classroom, and essential services, to give you access to all your education apps, and productivity apps like Microsoft Office. Plus, BenQ Board’s EZWrite 6 whiteboarding software features cloud whiteboarding for your Google Classroom with your list of students and class files.
This allows all your students to join the session from their seats, or remotely, and work together simultaneously on the canvas using their devices.
Additionally, AI-powered tools built into EZWrite, including text-to-speech, optical character recognition, and multi-language translation enable you to give more inclusive lessons and engage every student equally.
BenQ Board Pro RP04
Sporting a 4K UHD touch display, 20W front speakers, and a 16W subwoofer, the BenQ Board Pro Series RP04 smart boards enable you to create immersive lessons for your students. Plus, innovative, subscription-free BenQ software integrated with official Google services for education makes the BenQ Board a flexible, customizable, and interactive display for you and your students. Available in 65″, 75″, and 86″ sizes, the cutting-edge BenQ Pro RP04 is a perfect fit for every classroom.
7 Ways Smart Boards Can Transform Your STEM Classroom
You’ve likely involved your students in a variety of STEM projects, from the popular marshmallow challenge for instilling team building and designing circuits to fuel innovation, to analyzing the impact of chemical experiments.
With an advanced interactive display, STEM lessons can be more fun and participative to enhance your students’ skills. Integrating AI tools and teacher-focused software like EZWrite 6, BenQ Boards transform teaching and learning.
Insights from a 2024 Zipdo survey reveal that 94% of teachers believe technology in the classroom is important for student success. And 65% of students would be interested in attending classes that include tech.
Explore a few innovative ways a smart board can empower you to transform your STEM lessons:
1. Access Your Files, Add Media to Enrich Lessons
You can easily connect your cloud drive to your BenQ account and then access it on the board with a tap thanks to the BenQ Account Management System. The list of supported cloud storage drives includes:
- Google Drive
- OneDrive
- Dropbox
- Box
- Nextcloud
Plus, EZWrite 6 lets you easily drag and drop images and links from Chrome or add instructional videos from YouTube to your lessons on the board. You can even import documents, slides, and PDFs, and convert both handwriting and text in images into editable text with AI.
Students can easily share content from their devices to the board with InstaShare 2, including native casting from devices running Windows, macOS, and ChromeOS.
You can make and add notes during class, save your session as an editable IWB file, or export it as a PDF handout for your students.
Plus, the handy Google Assistant is a button press away. Use the board’s remote control to bring it up and ask away.
2. Challenge Your Students Through Competitive Projects
No matter the activity, convert it into a healthy competition to open mindsets and boost creativity.
With up to 50 touchpoints on the Board Pro RP04 and the Master RM04, you can get everyone involved. Use Team Post to split the screen so multiple students can compete on the board simultaneously. Plus, writing and designing feels as smooth as doing it on paper, as there is no gap between the glass and the panel.
Each team or group can also join the EZWrite 6 whiteboard to work on the problems from their devices with the cloud whiteboard function. Track each team’s progress by checking each page, leaving comments and feedback, and sharing their work in class.
3. Maintain a Secured Digital Log of Class Projects
BenQ EZWrite 6 is a centralized space for you and your students to store, document, and reference all their data and observations.
Monitor the changes and progress in a month-long biology project by clicking pictures or videos with mobile devices and importing them to EZWrite 6. When analyzing, you can zoom in to get a detailed view.
With a connected document camera, you can display a real-time video of the project and its findings. Your students can also present their observations and progress, up to nine simultaneously, by casting to the board.
4. Instill Confidence and Teamwork, Expand Imaginations
Let teamwork come naturally to your students through collaborative activities that encourage individual effort for a common goal. For example, they can use the built-in templates and backgrounds in EZWrite 6, to quickly begin working together in a structured manner.
You can also record every minute of brainstorming sessions, including audio, with the built-in screen recorder to review with students later and improve team strategies.
When it’s time to present, EZWrite 6 offers 999 pages, enough for every team member to present their findings and creativity.
5. Make Experiments and Events Come Alive
BenQ Boards, with the ability to display millions of colors on their 4K UHD screens, bring every wisp of smoke, chemical reactions, and fine nuances of scientific phenomena alive.
The room-filling sound of the built-in 20W speakers and 16W subwoofer helps you to showcase world-changing discoveries, nature’s beauty, tours of museums, and engineering marvels with immersive sound.
Give students a close-up view of experiments, artifacts, or other physical materials, with a connected document camera as well without having to pass it around the class.
6. Ensure Safer Learning With ClassroomCare®
BenQ Boards sport unique ClassroomCare® features designed to protect student and teacher health.
Their antimicrobial coating makes them safe to touch and helps prevent the spread of germs in your class. That way, multiple students, even multiple classes, can use the board worry-free.
You and your students won’t feel any eye strain thanks to the board’s anti-glare, flicker-free, Eyesafe® Certified 2.0 screens that feature low blue light technology at the hardware level. That means no orange filter; the board filters out low blue light without affecting its vivid visuals.
Moreover, the built-in air quality sensors and air ionizer can help to maintain air quality in your classrooms.
7. Take Your Teaching to the Next Level
With a BenQ Board, you have a personalized account, which you can log in to with an NFC card or a QR code on any BenQ Board in your school to easily load all your folders, settings, and bookmarks. And all teacher accounts are separate. Only you can access your files, folders, and the online accounts and apps you’re logged into.
EZWrite 6 is an unlimited canvas and a powerful solution that empowers you to teach in novel and engaging ways. Equipped with innovative tools, it helps at every step, from preparing lessons to teaching during class, to post-class reviews. With it, you can also work across platforms: on the board, a browser, Windows, macOS, Chrome OS, and iPadOS.
This flexible whiteboard lets you expand the size of your canvas, annotate, import media, pull up templates, and use both math and measuring tools.
You can also annotate and record videos anywhere on the board while using other apps thanks to the Floating Tool. All your classroom tools and templates are a tap away on the Floating Tool or the Sidebars.
After class, you can share whiteboard sessions your way, whether as a recording or a PDF file, so students can review your lessons at their own pace.
BenQ Board Master RM04
Creating interactive lessons for your students is a breeze on the BenQ Board Master RM04 EDLA-certified smart boards. You can access features quickly with a tap, give engaging lessons with the interactive whiteboard, access the entire Google Play Store library, use the Floating Tool to annotate pages while using apps, take screenshots, and record videos to share online. BenQ Master RM04 boards are available in 65″, 75″, and 86″ sizes and offer a multi-window mode to open up to 6 apps to give more engaging lessons.
Empower Your Teaching and Your Students With Smart Boards
From learning devices to entertainment choices, the world students know today is digital. BenQ Boards are top-notch interactive teaching solutions designed with STEM’’s interdisciplinary structure in mind. The immersive experience of these smart boards fosters collaborative learning and keeps students keenly engaged while also skilling them in visual design and presentation.
As a teacher, you will value the way BenQ classroom boards empower your teaching while letting you teach your way. Moreover, customized training and reliable support ensure you leverage the edge of your smart board quickly and smoothly.
