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====Whiteboard Features====
 
====Whiteboard Features====
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If you need a "blank slide" to draw on (if you don't want to draw on your presentation):
 
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* "Upload" and display the default presentation, as it contains blank slides:
 
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** Click on the "Upload Presentation icon (now a cloud icon, not a document icon)", then click on the "Show" button beside "default.pdf".
 
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** At the bottom middle of the presentation area, click on the next arrow, to get to a blank slide to use with the Whiteboard.
 
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** The default presentation (default.pdf) contains 4 blank slides. 
 
  
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[[Image:PresentationIcons.jpg|Alt=Upload Presentation button, Polling button, Previous slide (left button), Select a slide (2/50, and Next slide (right button)]]
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The Presenter can use a Whiteboard in Meetings (and students, if allowed). <br>
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On the Whiteboard tool bar, at top, select a tool to click on and draw with, such as:
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* First tool: Select a T (text), a line, shapes (circle, triangle, rectangle), and a pencil (freehand drawing)
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* Second tool: For shapes, you can pick a thickness; for text, choose a font size
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* Third tool: Click on the color box to pick a drawing color
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* Fourth tool: Click on the backward arrow to undo your last action
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* Fifth tool: Click on the trashcan to clear the whiteboard
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* Last tool: The Moderator/Presenter can click on the bottom whiteboard icon, "Multi-User Whiteboard" icon, to allow ALL participants to draw on the whiteboard.
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** You can draw on the default presentation page, an uploaded document, or you can upload a blank document.
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** To draw perfect shapes (rectangle, circle, triangle), click and hold the Ctrl or Shift key on your keyboard, then click and draw your shape.
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[[Image:Bbb-whiteboard-screen.jpg|border|Alt=Whiteboard with the word "Pencil" written on it, plus a drawn square, circle, triangle, underline, and typed text, all added with whiteboard icons ]]
  
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The Instructor and Presenter can use a Whiteboard in Meetings, by moving your cursor over the ''right side of the default presentation area''.
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=====I need a blank page to draw on!=====
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* In addition, the Instructor/Presenter can also click on the bottom Whiteboard icon, "Multi-User Drawing" icon, to allow ALL participants to draw on the whiteboard.
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* The default presentation contains blank slides:
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A number of icons will pop up for you to click on and draw with, such as:
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** At the bottom middle of the presentation area, click on the next arrow, to get to a blank slide to use with the Whiteboard.
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* A hand (pan and zoom), pencil, shapes (rectangle, circle, triangle), line, T (text), X (clear page),
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** The default presentation (default.pdf) contains five or more blank slides.  
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* A backward arrow (undo shape), color box (to pick a drawing color), sliding arrow icon (to change the thickness of the lines/shapes drawn).  
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* If you need to get back to the default slides:
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* To draw perfect shapes (rectangle, circle, triangle), click and hold the Ctrl or Shift key on your keyboard, then click and draw your shape.
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** In the lower-left corner below the Presentation, click on the Actions button (a plus sign), click on "Upload a Presentation", then to the right of default.pdf, click on the circle button, then the Upload button to display the default.pdf again, with its blank pages
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* You can draw on the default presentation page, an uploaded document, or you can upload a blank document.
 
  
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[[Image:Whiteboardicons.jpg|Alt=Rotated view of whiteboard icons ]]
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[[Image:Bbb-presentation-icons.jpg|border|Alt=Upload Presentation button (plus icon), above it, a previous slide (left arrow), Slide 2, and Next slide (right arrow)]]

Latest revision as of 14:47, 27 August 2020

Whiteboard Features

The Presenter can use a Whiteboard in Meetings (and students, if allowed).
On the Whiteboard tool bar, at top, select a tool to click on and draw with, such as:

  • First tool: Select a T (text), a line, shapes (circle, triangle, rectangle), and a pencil (freehand drawing)
  • Second tool: For shapes, you can pick a thickness; for text, choose a font size
  • Third tool: Click on the color box to pick a drawing color
  • Fourth tool: Click on the backward arrow to undo your last action
  • Fifth tool: Click on the trashcan to clear the whiteboard
  • Last tool: The Moderator/Presenter can click on the bottom whiteboard icon, "Multi-User Whiteboard" icon, to allow ALL participants to draw on the whiteboard.
    • You can draw on the default presentation page, an uploaded document, or you can upload a blank document.
    • To draw perfect shapes (rectangle, circle, triangle), click and hold the Ctrl or Shift key on your keyboard, then click and draw your shape.

Alt=Whiteboard with the word "Pencil" written on it, plus a drawn square, circle, triangle, underline, and typed text, all added with whiteboard icons

I need a blank page to draw on!
  • The default presentation contains blank slides:
    • At the bottom middle of the presentation area, click on the next arrow, to get to a blank slide to use with the Whiteboard.
    • The default presentation (default.pdf) contains five or more blank slides.
  • If you need to get back to the default slides:
    • In the lower-left corner below the Presentation, click on the Actions button (a plus sign), click on "Upload a Presentation", then to the right of default.pdf, click on the circle button, then the Upload button to display the default.pdf again, with its blank pages

Alt=Upload Presentation button (plus icon), above it, a previous slide (left arrow), Slide 2, and Next slide (right arrow)

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