3.8 Whiteboard
Vivi’s whiteboard tool allows teachers and students to annotate over a blank canvas or to load a background image and annotate over that.
To use, select Whiteboard from a room’s homepage.
The Whiteboard will load as a blank white page or, if you have previously used the Whiteboard, your previous boards will automatically load.
Along the top, the tools available, from left to right, are:
Home - returns to the room’s homepage.
If returning to the room’s homepage, annotations will remain in the whiteboard so users can go in and out as necessary.
Toggle Full Screen - Toggles between full screen and windowed mode.
Sharing Controls - Allows the presenter to share their whiteboard to the Vivi display, pause and resume their screen share, and stop sharing.
On Screen Timer - If sharing, the ability to display a floating timer will be available. See section 3.12 for more details.
On the left of the screen is the drawing toolbar. Selecting each tool will open more options such as the ability to change the color or line thickness. The tools available, from top to bottom, are:
Select - select, move, resize, and rotate elements on the page.
Pen - freehand drawing tool. By selecting this, more options will appear to select the color and thickness of the line. Use the + icon to add more colors.
Highlighter - freehand, semi-transparent drawing tool. By selecting this, more options will appear to select the color and thickness of the highlighter. Use the + icon to add more colors.
Eraser - erase portions of a pen or highlighter lines, or eraser entire pieces of text or shapes.
Draw Shapes - allows for shapes to be placed on the page including rectangles, circles/ovals, triangles, arrows, lines and stars. By selecting this, more options will appear to customize the color of the border and fill of the shape and the thickness of the border of the shape. Use the + icon to add more colors.
Insert Text - allows for typed text to be placed on the page.
Background - see Background below for more information.
Undo - undoes the last change made to the whiteboard.
Redo - redoes the last Undo item.
Clear Whiteboard - Clears the current board, not including any backgrounds inserted.
On the bottom right, the whiteboard navigation and extra tools can be found. These tools are:
Arrows - Navigate between any boards currently available.
Number of Boards - Shows the number of boards currently available. Select this to see all boards.
+ Icon - Adds in additional boards.
There is a limit of 20 boards that can be added.
Menu - opens a submenu with additional options shown below.
Download Image - saves the current board to the device.
Save to Drive - saves the current board to Google Drive.
Save to OneDrive - saves the board page to OneDrive.
Save to OneNote - saves the board page to OneNote.
Clear All Boards - clears all whiteboards.
Background
The Background feature allows teachers and students to add whiteboard backgrounds from Vivi’s whiteboard background library, allowing them to select from educational whiteboard backgrounds to enable different academic tasks, and improve note-taking.
Whiteboard users may select from a variety of backgrounds, including:
Blank
Graphic Paper - including lined paper, graph paper, dots, handwriting, and staff paper.
Table and Diagrams - including column organizers and Venn diagrams.
Custom - Shows any custom backgrounds that have been loaded (see below for information on loading a custom background).
Select either Apply to All Boards to add the selected background to every board, or Apply to Board to add the selected background to the current board only.
To add a new custom background, select Upload Image or PDF. Once selected, a window will open so you can browse your computer's files. Locate the intended image or PDF file you wish to use. Images must be in JPEG or PNG format. If loading a PDF file, each page of the file will be available to be used separately.