Whiteboard

Where: Menu → Teach → Whiteboard

A digital whiteboard for sketching ideas, diagrams and explanations by hand – to prepare lessons or live while you teach, for example when sharing your screen in a live session. Every trainer of your organisation sees and edits the boards. Learners only see a board when it is part of a published course they may take – and then without being able to change it.

How to

1. Under “New board”, enter a name and click “Create and draw”.
2. Draw with the tools at the top: rectangles, arrows, lines, freehand, text and pictures. Ctrl+Z undoes a step.
3. Every change is saved after a moment; “Saved” shows next to the name.
4. In the list you rename or delete boards. A board that is part of a course has to be removed there first.
5. To put a board in a course, open the course editor: “+ Add item”, kind “Whiteboard”, then choose the board. Learners see later changes to the board at once.

Tip

• Two buttons at the top right of the board: “Fill the window” spreads the board over the whole page (without menu and header), “Full screen” over the whole screen, e.g. to show it in class. Esc or the same button leaves either. Learners have them in the course too.
• Texts on a board that is part of a course are found by search and known to the AI learning companion.
• The menu at the top left exports a board as a PNG or SVG picture or as an .excalidraw file, and opens such files again.
• When two people edit the same board at the same time, the last saved version wins.
• The whiteboard is based on Excalidraw (open source, MIT licence) and runs entirely on our servers; nothing is sent to Excalidraw or other services.