Using Whiteboard Tools

Slides display in the whiteboard area of the Virtual Classroom. A blank slide is a "clean slate" on which you and your students can draw using the whiteboard tools or display a web (HTML) page. You can use multiple slides in each Virtual Classroom session, or lesson. You can return to any slide in a lesson as long as the Virtual Classroom session is open.

You can navigate from slide to slide, add slides, or use the blank slides provided for each Virtual Classroom session.

Look for the drawing tools on the toolbar to the left of the whiteboard. In addition, you can find other functions associated with drawing, such as adding grid lines and clearing the draw layer, on the Whiteboard menu.

On the whiteboard (slide), you can:

• Draw freehand

• Draw shapes

• Draw lines

• Enter text

• Select an object

• Clear the draw layer

• Format fonts and lines

• Select and change colors

• Delete objects

• Add grid lines

• Enlarge objects

• Bring objects to front/send to back

• Highlight with an arrow

Note: You cannot save or reuse any work you or your students do with the whiteboard drawing tools. To prepare materials in advance, or reuse them in different classes, place the materials on a web page and then enter the URL for that page in the Location box.