Sharing the Whiteboard

A Whiteboard slide is a blank slide. When you are on a Whiteboard slide all of the Annotation tools are available to you. This makes the Whiteboard slide ideal for use like you would use a whiteboard in a classroom or a flip chart in a meeting or conference room. You can sue the whiteboard to take ideas from the group, have students present ideas, or make drawings or diagrams to help clarify points, just to name a few things.

To share a Whiteboard as a resource that will appear in your Content pane, click on the Share menu from within the Content pane. When the menu opens, choose Whiteboard.

To share the Whiteboard as a slide within your slide set, right click on a thumbnail and choose Insert New Slide. From the menu that appears, choose Whiteboard.

When the Whiteboard opens you can use any of the Annotation tools in the Annotation toolbar, including Pointer, Draw Text, Drawing tools, Color Picker, Highlighter, Stamp tools, Select Annotations, and Clear Annotations.

If you want your attendees to be able to draw and mark on the Whiteboard, you must give them permission. Give them permission by opening the Attendee Permissions window from within the Attendees pane. Then check the box called Annotate current content. If you do not want attendees marking on the Whiteboard or other slides, you should uncheck this box. Keep in mind that when you check this box that it gives the ability to use the Annotation tools to all attendees, and when you uncheck it, it takes the ability away from all attendees. All people logged in as presenters have access to the Annotation tools, regardless of whether or not this box is checked.

You can add the Whiteboard and annotations prior to your session so it will be ready ahead of time. Logging out of the session does not remove the Whiteboard or the annotations that have been added to it.