New Zoom Feature Alert: Whiteboards
A new version of the existing whiteboard with some updated features!
Amy Linville | Division for Teaching Innovation and Program Strategy Mar 13, 2023![Zoom Whiteboard image Picture of Zoom Whiteboard](https://www1.ucdenver.edu/images/divisionofteachinginnovationandprogramstrategytipslibraries/default-album/screenshot-2023-03-09-144452.png?sfvrsn=ad535cbb_0)
Zoom is our university web-conferencing tool for faculty, staff, and students. Zoom recently rolled out a new version of the existing whiteboard with some updated features.
New Whiteboard Features
- Add Sticky Notes to whiteboards to help with reminders or quick tips in a discussion.
- Add Images and PDFs to whiteboards to help get the point across or further explain an image/graph through annotations.
- Templates: Built-in templates allow you to easily create flow charts, icebreaker activities, tables, and more without starting from scratch. Take advantage of the pre-designed templates to help you save time.
- Create whiteboards ahead of time: Zoom will allow users to prepare whiteboards before a meeting and then share the whiteboards during a meeting. This feature also allows for collaboration on a single whiteboard before a meeting between users by adding email addresses to the whiteboards in your Zoom account.
Template Examples
![Whiteboard Example in Zoom Whiteboard Example in Zoom](/images/divisionofteachinginnovationandprogramstrategytipslibraries/default-album/screenshot-2023-03-09-145137.tmb-image3000.png?Culture=en&sfvrsn=2b535cbb_1)
Ways to use it in the classroom
Check out ways other individuals have used Zoom whiteboards to enhance their classrooms.
- Annotating graphics, diagrams, text excerpts, or data visualizations that you’ve inserted as images.
- Quick demonstrations of concepts using the drawing function .
- Structured small group discussions and notetaking.
- Group project planning and feedback using comments.
- Drawing out formulas and equations for mathematics.
- Icebreaker drawing activities to help students get to know one another better.
- Lesson prep to prepare your lessons ahead of time.
- Whiteboards can be saved and shared later as study guides.
References
Introducing Zoom Whiteboard, A Visual Collaboration Tool (Apr 2022)
Using Zoom’s New Whiteboards in Your Online Teaching (July 2022)
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