The design of the folds of the board make it difficult to use the board that ships with the game as a demo board. I was able to set up the board in a way that work, but there's an inherent unevenness at the midpoint. I was hoping to teach my girlfriend the game using the demo spellbooks and the smaller board, but there's no easy way to set up the board in "demo mode".
In the future, assuming you have control over such things, it would be nice if there was a way to fold the board into a smaller "demo board" mode to assist those of us who are going to be teaching the game "in the real world."