Boardmaker Plus! v. 6

The interactive communication activity designer

Add interactive educational activities to printed materials!

Boardmaker plus box shot All the features of Boardmaker v.6, plus the interaction of voice, animations and video

Bring Boardmaker activities to life and make the computer a student learning tool with Boardmaker Plus! software. Featuring more than 4,500 Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) in both color and black-and-white, all in 44 languages, Boardmaker Plus! is a drawing program combined with a graphics 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 ideal tool for creating symbol-based print and 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. 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!

Shuffle buttons

New Features

Symbolate-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!
PCS supported by 44 languages!
Symbolate button-just type and symbols appear!
Symbolate buttons will read aloud and highlight each word-symbol pair, or word, as each word is spoken
Swap and shuffle buttons allow for quick swapping of content, appearance and actions between two or more buttons
Quick Text, Quick Picture, and Quick Record buttons allow changes to buttons in the Use mode
The MJ Sounds Library contains dozens of fun sounds
Drag and drop images from the Internet or other programs
Dashed button borders
Draw freeform buttons of any shape
Align and center button content
Quickly resize multiple buttons
Movable buttons let users create dynamic activities for counting, sorting, sequencing and more!
Interactivity with video and animation support, and synthesized and digitized voice
Play movies and sound files!
Record speech!
Option to install country-specific symbols such as holidays, famous people, food and currency
Option to install a library of symbols pertaining to sexuality
Switch access
Export boards to v. 5.3, and export groups of boards in board packages
More than 100 sample boards and more than 350 templates
System Requirements More than 150 sample interactive boards and more than 100 interactive templates