When you have created a new whiteboard tab, you have a few different options that are available in the classroom Toolbar at the top of the screen. These options allow you and your students to do things like, draw, write and collaborate on your documents.
In order of appearance:
- Color wheel - choose from a range of colors to draw, type and create shapes.
- Select Tool - the select tool allows you to reposition and resize images, objects and PDFs.
- Move Canvas - reposition the entire screen in any direction, zoom in and out with your mouse wheel.
- Draw Tool - draw, write and annotate images, objects, and PDFs.
- Eraser Tool - when you hover over any object on the whiteboard it will go grey, right click to delete the object.
- Shape Tool - draw a Rectangle, Triangle, Ellipse or Line of any size. By holding down any Ctrl / Meta to draw a square, equilateral triangle or circle.
- Text Tool - will insert a box you can type in and drag to resize or reposition.
- Equation Tool - has 2 options, insert a maths formula or a graph, for more information read The Equation Tool / The Graphing Tool.
- Upload an Image or PDF - Upload an image/PDF from your files.
- Take Video Snapshot - Choose to take a snapshot of your / your students screen which will be uploaded into your Whiteboard as an image you can annotate on, for more information watch here.
- Change Background - Change the background to a grid size of your choice or to a black background.
- Zoom to Fit - zooms the whiteboard in or out to a view Full One Page of your work.
- Undo - undo previous change
- Redo - redo previous change.
Whiteboard shortcuts: