Collaborate on Digital Canvas Using MS Whiteboard
Microsoft Whiteboard is an application that lets us create and collaborate with others on a freeform digital canvas. The official Microsoft Whiteboard app is available for Windows 10, and there are similar ports available for the iPhone and iPad.
It’s designed for teams that require to ideate, iterate, and work together both face to face and remotely, and across multiple devices. If you've been invited to a whiteboard and received a web link, you can use it to access the whiteboard in your web browser regardless of the operating system.
Microsoft’s whiteboard solution delivers a number of features specifically aimed towards improving the tutorial experience. Teacher’s can cash in on built-in translation tools that automatically provide live captions and subtitles for PowerPoint presentations, and that they can enhance their math lessons with integrated OneNote and Immersive Reader options.
Benefits of MS Whiteboard:
1. Create content which can look rich & incorporate multimedia as well as LTI tools.
2. Use Comprehensive and Actionable Learning Analytics.
3. Collaborate on real-time documents and conferences with teachers and students.
Using Whiteboard in a Teams Meeting:
Whiteboard is available in the share tray for Teams meetings. When people create a board for a meeting, it is associated with the meeting and all meeting participants can access the board during the meeting and afterwards. Because a board is a common resource that everyone connects to, changes made to the board are seen everywhere in real time. All whiteboards created in Teams meeting get the same “Whiteboard meeting” name.
People can share Whiteboard as ”view only” to externals in a meeting by sharing your screen (share desktop) and dragging the Whiteboard App to that shared screen. Participants can then see what you're sketching or applying to the board and may give feedback by voice/chat.
Whiteboard could be used instead of PowerPoint to present ideas and solutions to attendees and it doesn’t matter if they are inside or outside of the organization.
Whiteboard for Windows:
The Windows version is the most functional client. Additional formatting tools are available along with sticky notes and templates designed to get ideas flowing. By making the Whiteboard app available to PC users, Microsoft is giving those users a chance to more actively participate in group discussions. Anyone involved during a meeting can add content to the whiteboard. This type of collaboration can be especially helpful when the meeting participants are not all in the same room.
