How to Save Precious Teaching Time with BenQ Boards

BenQ interactive displays feature instant access, NFC-based card log in. Tap N Teach allows educators to get started within a couple of seconds, not minutes. It’s a lot faster than booting up a laptop or even rummaging in a bag for the right textbook.

One swipe of an NFC card and you have access to all your cloud accounts, cloud content, and saved settings, just as you left them in the previous session. You don’t even need to re-enter passwords for services like OneDrive or Google Drive, saving yet more valuable time. 

Combined with the soft power down and instant on of BenQ interactive displays, Tap N Teach means class starts pretty much on the dot, every time. The lengthy set up and “getting ready” phase of days gone by is history. 

Interactive boards and displays from BenQ work great with the most popular learning management systems, or LMS. Leadings tools like Google Classroom and ClassDojo run directly on the interactive display, with no additional devices needed to show content and stats.

And since interactive displays offer wireless connectivity with smart devices, students can quickly sign in from their own phones, tablets, or laptops, saving you the need for a time consuming roll call. 

When tracking student progress and performance, teachers can consolidate all class materials within the LMS, so that gauging each student’s level of success becomes faster and more efficient than using a multitude of devices and software platforms. It’s just quicker, smarter, and more effective. An LMS is a great addition, and the best way to LMS is on an interactive display! 

Remember, some LMS options are downloadable directly to the interactive display, while others may need to run via a browser. Which is fine, because BenQ interactive displays have Chrome pre-installed. 

Having an interactive display as the focal platform of your classes opens up countless opportunities to access high quality, ready-made materials that are available online. There are endless options to choose from, and using pre-made materials is a surefire way to save prep time both in class and at home. Better yet, much of the pre-made content created by education specialists can be customized to some degree to suit your particular needs and preferences. 

We’ve discussed Kahoot! many times by now, and for good reason as we often say. Kahoot! has boundless educational games and activities available, with many supporting customization. With platforms like Kahoot! you don’t have to devote hours to creating new activities. Get big time savings without sacrificing quality and engagement. Check how to use Kahoot! on BenQ Interactive Displays here.

We’d like to stress that bountiful pre-made class materials not only serve to save time, but by that also reduce stress and improve the work-life balance of teachers. Education as a profession is notorious for work following teachers home to an extreme degree, and this is a good way to at least mitigate that. 

Without an interactive display as a focal point, the many devices used by teachers and students may have a hard time interacting.

How do you get content from a student’s tablet to a teacher’s laptop? Is there some adapter or dongle needed? Maybe an SD card? Are they all on the same Wi-Fi network?

Lots of questions, and inevitably someone decides to call IT. Which could be a while, no offense intended. And let’s not even talk about the number of cables and wires that may be involved.

Since interactive displays have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, they put the “connect” in connectivity and offer a central platform for content exchange that’s entirely wireless. This is made even smoother with apps like BenQ InstaShare for device mirroring. The student’s tablet and the teacher’s laptop are all on the same Wi-Fi network as the interactive display, or connected via Bluetooth. 

With InstaShare, there’s no need to even move content and wait for it to download. One icon tap, and the tablet and laptop are mirrored onto the interactive display, which takes less than a second and requires absolutely no wires or messy cables.