What is Microsoft Whiteboard? Whiteboard User Manual

Microsoft Whiteboard is a free desktop drawing whiteboard application, but incorporates many other features such as note-taking, drawing, sketching, and cloud storage. This is one of the most interesting and useful whiteboard software available today. Whiteboard is automatically activated for existing Office 365 tenants. Windows 10 and iOS users can download the app from the Store.

The following article will guide teachers on how to use the Microsoft Whiteboard application in teaching.

Microsoft Whiteboard Utilities

• Provide more ideas for teachers with the Microsoft Whiteboard tool.
• Easily transform your teacher's work into professional-looking charts and shapes on an infinite canvas with an interface designed for pen, touch, and keyboard.
• Collaborate in real time, wherever you are. Bring your teacher's workgroup together on the same virtual canvas, and across devices
• Easy planning and problem solving in teaching.
• Manage incidents.

How to use Microsoft Whiteboard

For Windows 10 devices

Teachers can install the Microsoft Whiteboard application for Windows 10 from the  Microsoft Store . Once installed, sign in to Whiteboard with a free Microsoft account (Outlook, Hotmail, Live, Xbox, etc.) or an Office 365 account (personal, work, or school).

For iOS devices

Teachers download  Microsoft Whiteboard  to the device from the App Store (requires Apple's iOS 9 or later, iPhone 5s or later, iPad Mini 3 or later, iPad Air or iPad Pro).

After installation, teachers sign in to Whiteboard with a free Microsoft account (Outlook, Hotmail, Live, Xbox, etc.) or an Office 365 account (personal, work or school)

Using Whiteboard for the web

For commercial production, Whiteboard for the web is rolled out to all users. Once enabled, teachers can access whiteboard for the web at  https://whiteboard.microsoft.com .

Whiteboard for websites currently allows users to create and join boards, create and delete ink, and view sticky notes and images that others have added. Whiteboard supports most browsers like Edge, Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

Whiteboard User Manual

1. User Interface

When it comes to drawing and sketching apps, a smart user interface is key to making it easy for teachers and students to master their tools. Whiteboard provides just a giant white background board that users can draw or do anything on.

The main interface of Microsoft Whiteboard is extremely simple, anyone can access it, it includes a number of features such as: Select a board or create a new board, Share what the teacher has presented on the board with others. Otherwise, the Setting Menu helps teachers set up more for their boards. And at the bottom of the table there are tools that are also very simple.

2. Set background (table background)

Every subject. A topic may need different backgrounds to match a certain subject or study topic. To set up the teacher, click on the Menu Setting icon in the upper left corner of the board.

Next, the teacher chooses Format background and chooses the appropriate background, assuming Nam chooses Square here

3. Use a paintbrush.

To use the pen on the whiteboard, the teacher chooses the Switch to inking mode tool on the toolbar (this tool comes with a touch screen or a drawing board like wacom with a stylus is great) . Then the teacher can choose the appropriate colors or tools such as highlighter, eraser, ruler, selection tool (Lasso Select).

4. Add the contents to the whiteboard whiteboard

What can teachers add to the whiteboard?

• More photos
• Add notes
• Add word, powerpoint, pdf files
• Bing Image
• More Templates
• Camera.
• Text: Text.
• List: list…

To add these contents to the whiteboard, the teacher just needs to right-click on the whiteboard -> Appear menu -> then the teacher selects the content that the teacher needs to add.

Or click the menu on the toolbar

In the example below, Nam will add 1 Word file and 1 powerpoint file with 2 slides to the Whiteboard

It's that simple, isn't it?

5. Share and collaborate.

To share the content and ideas that teachers have presented on the board with their students or colleagues. Teachers just need to click the share button in the upper left corner of the board.

Then teachers turn on the Web sharing link on button and copy the link and send it to their students or colleagues.

The above is a quick guide to help teachers easily get acquainted with Whiteboard, a free software on Windows 10 that is extremely good (can be said to be the best whiteboard today). Hope teachers will have interesting teaching hours with Microsoft Whiteboard.

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