Download a free library of PCS symbols designed to cover vocabulary unique to a specific country! Files are compatible with Boardmaker v6, Boardmaker Plus! V6, and Boardmaker with SDP v6. These symbols are already included with Boardmaker Studio and BMO. Boardmaker For WindowsBoardmaker For WindowsLook at most relevant Boardmaker v6 full version websites out of 31.6 Thousand at KeywordSpace.com. Boardmaker v6 full version found at editmicro.co.za, inclusivesolutions.co.za, spectronics.com.au.Your search term for Boardmaker Plus will return more accu. We've introduced Boardmaker Online which is a subscription service that allows you to create activities in an online version of Boardmaker. This new Boardmaker Online Editor creates activities in a format that is not backwards compatible with Boardmaker v6. We will be adding a download capability, but it will be in Boardmaker Studio format.

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Create unlimited communication and educational materials using Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) with Boardmaker!

Boardmaker is a communication and learning tool containing over 4,500 Picture Communication Symbols (PCS). It is designed to enhance the language and learning process for students of all levels. The program allows you to:

• Make a professional looking communication display in minutes
• Quickly find and paste PCS symbols into your display or desktop publishing program
• Make the pictures any size and with any spacing
• Print and/or save your display on disk for later use
• Print displays in black and white or colour (if you have a colour printer)
• Combine elements from PCS to create your own custom symbols
• Import digital photos and other graphics and create custom-drawn images
• Store, name, retrieve, resize, format and paste any image or graphical object

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Boardmaker is the ideal tool to for creating symbol-based materials such as communication displays for AAC users, worksheets and flash cards 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 materials for special education students. 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!

Boardmaker Includes

• Now with over 4,500 Picture Communication Symbols (the Australian PCS symbols and vocabulary in the Windows version) in both colour and black-and-white.
• Symbols from the 1998 Addendum Library now integrated into the core set
• Symbols with transparent background, enabling you to seamlessly layer them to create free-form materials (e.g. in stories, language activities, games and more)
• A drawing program
• More than 100 sample boards and more than 350 templates
• Option to install a library of sexuality symbols
• Option to install country-specific symbols such as holidays, famous people, food and currency
• A Boardmaker User Manual
• Printable alphabetical index of core Boardmaker symbols (.PDF format) which lists the names of all of the available core symbols
• The Windows version also contains a printed tutorial to introduce users to the main features of Boardmaker in a guided way.

Boardmaker is so easy to use!

1. Just open a template or create your own board
   
2. Choose symbols and languages
   
3. Print and use!

From November 2006 in Australia and New Zealand, Boardmaker for Windows has been upgraded to Version 6.

Reasons to Upgrade to Boardmaker for Windows Version 6

• 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, and start typing-or copy and paste in a block of text. Symbols will automatically appear! View Symbolate screenshots
  
• Movable Buttons – Define the buttons and destinations and you’re on your way to an amazing interactive board. View Movable Buttons screenshot
  
• Swap and Shuffle Buttons – Allow for quick swapping of content, appearance and actions between two or more buttons. View Swap and Shuffle screenshot
  
• Align and Centre Buttons – A powerful time saver
  
• Freeform Tool – Lets you draw freeform buttons of any shape you like. No longer limited to square buttons or hotspots! View a Freeform button
  
• 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), .avi (Audio Video Interleave), and .mpg (MPEG video)
  
• Quickly Resize Multiple Buttons
  
• Easier Board Sharing – Package up your boards to take with you or share with others
  
• Dashed Button Borders – Change button colours, borders and thickness
  
• Export boards to Boardmaker version 5.3, and export groups of boards in board packages
  
• Now with PCS 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
  Note: In order for the many languages to work, the computer needs to be set up with the correct regional settings and has the appropriate fonts for those languages.

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.

REASONS NOT TO UPGRADE TO BOARDMAKER FOR WINDOWS VERSION 6

• Your machine is old and can’t run Windows 2000 or higher
• You’re happy with your current version
• Your computer doesn’t have 512 MB of memory or higher

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, InPrint 3 ANZ and SymWriter ANZ.

Click here to download a pdf booklet showing you all of the additional symbols supplied in the 2000/2002/2004/2006 Addendum Bundles (3.0 MB .pdf) and the 2008 Addendum Picture Index (580 KB), and the 2012 Addendum Picture Index (1.5 MB).

Videos about Boardmaker Software Family

• Windows 10, 8 (not Windows RT or Tablet edition), 7, Vista, XP, 2000 – Compatible with Windows 32 and 64-bit Editions
  
• 512 MB RAM
  
• 350 MB free hard disk space
  
• 800×600 display with 16-bit video card (1024×768 recommended)
  
• CD in CD-ROM drive (built-in) – note will not run with external/USB CD drive. If you don’t have a built-in CD drive please consider Boardmaker Studio
  

• Boardmaker V.6 User Guide (12 MB)
  
• World of Boardmaker Idea Book (4.4 MB)
  
• Boardmaker Software Family v6 30 Day Trial from the Mayer-Johnson website (285 MB)
  
• Lingo Overlays for Boardmaker
  

• Free Pre-recorded Online Training by Spectronics is available for this product | View recorded Online Training Webinar for Boardmaker Basics: Creating Print Activities

Boardmaker Australian/New Zealand Version 6 for Windows is targeted at the following age ranges:

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• All Ages

Boardmaker Australian/New Zealand Version 6 for Windows is designed to foster development in the areas of:

• Early concepts
• Literacy
• Communication
• Life Skills
• Resource preparation

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For answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and technical support visit:

Hurrah! At last Mayer-Johnson UK and LTS have got their act together and brought out a cheap deal on BoardMaker for Scotland.

CALL has been pushing for this. BoardMaker purchasing information has been pretty muddled lately, so the new clarity is welcome, as well as the discount.

The offer is only for the latest version, BoardMaker Plus! V6, which is the ordinary print-based BoardMaker 6 plus some new interactive features (see below). In case you are unclear - here's a few basic questions and answers.

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I've got BoardMaker 5 - why might I want V6?

Lots of nice features such as 'Swap Button', easier photo importing, easier resizing, and the magical 'symbolate as you type' tool.

Why can't I just upgrade my print-only BoardMaker?

A marketing decison by Mayer-Johnson, it seems. The old paper only version looks set to fade away quietly. (You MAY still be able to get it through third party suppliers, for now.)

I don't want to pay for extra features I'll never use!

I know, it's really annoying! But this LTS deal may take some of the pain out of it. And you never know, you may change your mind later and see a use for the new interactive possibilities of BoardMaker Plus!

I've got BoardMaker 6 - why might I want the Plus! version?

Well, it's not necessary IF all you ever want to do is make print-based symbol materials. But the Plus! version is also interactive - it talks, kids can use it themselves - drag and drop and switch access - brilliant on interactive whitboards or large plasma screen - you could make symbol quizzes, language activities, on screen work sheets, homework exercises etc. - could be just the very 'next step you were waiting for, for your pupils...

I'm new to all this. Why might I want to buy BoardMaker Plus! at all?

Well it is a really valuable tool to help you make the educational environment visual and supportive, useful for ALL pupils actually, but especially early years, additional support needs, those with language or literacy difficulties. It's not the only tool - (CALL is not wanting to 'advertise' as such or to promote one symbol software above all others, but we do believe almost everyone can benefit from using symbols more, and BoardMaker is a tried and tested old warhorse). There's a good overview and comparison (and free trial) on the Mayer-Johnson website Also there are more and more free downloadable resources coming out all the time through the Adapted Learning website - a bit like the Clicker Learning Grids (only in symbols)

I like the sound of the free downloadable resources. Are they only for the Plus! version?

No, they are mixed. Many are for V6 print version but these will also play in V5. I suppose in time more of them will become more Plus! oriented

I've got an ancient Mac version - does the upgrade apply to me?

Yes, to ANY/ ALL old versions - but you'll get a PC version V6, there is no Mac BoardMaker Plus! (If I were you and I still use Mac, I'd keep my old Mac BoardMaker that will run in any machine without the CD in the drive AND buy the new PC one at the discounted price)

I hate upgrades! I love my old BoardMaker because it is so simple! Will the new version look all different and complicated?

No actually, it looks and behaves pretty much exactly the same as the older version, it's just got the new features added in. You don't see the new interactive features unless you double click and go looking for them.

What is the BoardMaker Plus! Player?

It means you can set a symbol exercise and get a pupil to complete it on ANY computer, without needing the BoardMaker Plus! CD in the drive. Interesting possibilities here for homework perhaps

What are the Symbol Addenda and why would I want them?

This is a one CD pack of ALL the new PCS symbols that have come out since 2000. (There were 5 editions - 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008). Everyone is always muddled about which symbols they did or didn't buy - whether they installed them - how to tell which Addenda are or aren't installed and so on. It's confusing to see symbols in some materials that you then can't 'find' in your BoardMaker. The Addenda are where many of the symbols particularly useful for autism materials are. So frankly I'd advise everyone to get this pack unless you are 100% certain that you already bought and installed all of those Addenda at the time (and still have the CDs...) Ensuring that ALL classes / schools have the same full set of Symbol Addenda is a valuable step forward in preparing to make your school or authority Communication Friendly. The symbol Addenda will work with all versions, including older ones.

I use BoardMaker with my communication impaired clients, but I'm not in a school - can I buy at the LTS discounted rate?

As far as I know, yes, if you are in Scotland.

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For further information about the LTS deal, available from 22nd February 2010, see software pages on LTS website or call Jonathan Cairney (Commercial Licensing Manager) on 0141 282 5000.