Description
This article describes the instructional use and benefits of multiple digital Whiteboard tools available to teachers and students.
Explanation
Each of the following whiteboard tools provides similar brainstorming and collaborating features. Use the resources below to explore and learn more about each one.
Freeform
- Freeform is a great place to bring your ideas to life. Sketch out a project, design a mood board or start a brainstorming session on a flexible canvas that supports almost any kind of file.
- Features: Unleash your creativity
- Add photos, video, audio, documents, PDFs, web links, stickies and more anywhere on a Freeform board, perfect for creating a digital pinboard, collecting research for a school project or gathering inspiration for your home renovation.
- Use your finger, or Apple Pencil on a compatible iPad, to draw anywhere on the canvas. Choose from a variety of brush styles and colors.
- Create beautiful diagrams with a library of over 700 shapes and alignment guides to help make your document look just the way you’d like.
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Scan paper documents with the built-in document scanner to archive documents and even annotate them if you’d like, directly on the board.
- Features: Unleash your creativity
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Google Jamboard
- Google Jamboard offers all the shareable features of Google Workspace. While MCCSC doesn't have Jamboard whiteboard hardware, the Jamboard app (browser version and iPad app) is available for faculty and student use.
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Microsoft Whiteboard
- Microsoft Whiteboard offers many of the same Jamboard features plus a built-in template gallery. Whiteboard is available in Microsoft 365 and as an iPad app
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- For Canvas assignments: Use the online submission type and select Website URL. Students will then share their Whiteboard with you or People in the Organization with the Link and submit that shared link.
- Viewing in Canvas Speedgrader: When you open a Whiteboard assignment in Canvas Speedgrader, choose view in a new tab. (See below.)
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