White Board Options

White Board Options

With features built-in to Zoom or using other applications, you can simulate a physical whiteboard. Conveniently, Zoom allows you to log in to your account from one computer, one tablet, and one phone Links to an external site., and you may wish to install Zoom across all of your devices to test which options work best for you. You can also use the document cameras at the podiums in all Emory classrooms or make a document camera using your phone/tablet/webcam directed at a physical whiteboard or piece of paper.

If you are not familiar with the Screen Sharing feature of Zoom, you may find it helpful to review the Screen Sharing page in this course before considering these white board options.

 

Zoom Whiteboard

The meeting host and participants can draw, type, and mark-up a blank, virtual whiteboard or documents on a shared screen using the Annotation and Whiteboard features in Zoom. (For more information, visit the Annotations page in this course and the Zoom support pages for using annotation tools on a shared screen or whiteboard Links to an external site., the Zoom Whiteboard User Guide Links to an external site., and sharing a classic whiteboard Links to an external site..)

Overview

Zoom Whiteboards have a number of useful tools and features, including:

  • tools to add text, shapes, images, lines, drawings, and highlights
  • multiple pages with an “infinite” canvas that can be zoomed in/out
  • the ability to collaboratively view/edit a whiteboard outside of a Zoom meeting (for example, you can create a whiteboard before a Zoom class and have students add to it during/after class)

You can access the Whiteboard feature in Zoom in several different ways.

  1. Login to the Emory Zoom web portal at emory.zoom.us/ Links to an external site. and click Whiteboards.
  2. Open the Zoom software from your computer and click Whiteboards.
  3. During a Zoom meeting, click the Whiteboards button.
  4. From your phone or tablet, open the Zoom app and select Whiteboards.

 

Using Whiteboards from the Zoom desktop client during a meeting

Here, we describe how to use the Whiteboard feature from the Zoom desktop client during a Zoom meeting. The steps for creating, editing, sharing, and exporting Whiteboards are very similar across these different Zoom platforms with a few key differences, listed below. You should easily be able to translate these steps to accessing whiteboards in other ways with the support of the Zoom Whiteboard User Guide Links to an external site.

 

 

Using other applications as whiteboards

By opening an application that allows you to write and draw and then sharing your screen, you can easily have access to an electronic whiteboard from any device.

 

Using a Classroom or "DIY" Document Camera

(Adapted from Indiana University: Share handwritten content in Zoom when teaching from home Links to an external site..)

 

Zoom Support