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title: "Whiteboard"
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Instructors or moderators can use the digital whiteboard for collaboration, brainstorming, and language learning.

### To display the whiteboard

1. Click **Tools**.
2. Select **Whiteboard**.

Instructors/Moderators can add additional boards as needed by simply clicking **+ADD BOARD** on the left of the screen to add a new board to the whiteboard.

![image](media://3048db80-0641-407b-8ec9-95f95145132b)

- Your whiteboard drawings are automatically saved and remain in the classroom unless you delete them.
- Each whiteboard can support up to 50 pages.
- Use the right and left arrow keys to navigate to next or previous boards (available to Instructors/moderators only).

Use the cursor tool to select drawn objects then move them, resize them, or edit them.

![image](media://4b53b11d-a010-4555-af08-ceedd3c44652)

  
Use the laser arrow to enable your participants to track your cursor as it moves along the whiteboard. Each participant has their own laser pointer identified by their first name to help you identify who is using the laser pointer.

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### To free draw or use the pencil tool

1. Select the **Pencil** icon.
2. Click and drag your cursor to draw.

> 📝 Use a touch screen device or USB trackpad to more accurately write equations, music, and more.

![image](media://17c981a8-b8df-4452-a87a-0bd570537744)

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### To type text

1. Select the **Text** icon.
2. Click the whiteboard where you want your text box to be.
3. Enter in your text.
4. Click outside of the text box to post it.

> 📝 Edit text by double clicking text you posted on the whiteboard.

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### To highlight text

1. Click the **Pencil **icon to reveal a drop-down bar.
2. Select the **Highlighter*** *icon.
3. Click and drag your cursor to highlight text on the whiteboard or slide.

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### To draw shapes

1. Select the **Square** icon.
2. Click the selected **Square** icon to display a menu of shapes: *Circle, Right Triangle, Equilateral Triangle, Square, Pentagon, Hexagon, Heptagon, Octagon, Polygon, Line, Single-Headed Arrow, Double-Headed Arrow*.
3. Click and drag your cursor to draw the shape.

> 📝 To fill in a shape, click the **Fill **box before selecting the shape and the shape will be filled with colour.

![image](media://192bdd5b-1452-4fa2-b531-39ea145c3613)

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### To undo or redo

- Click the Undo or Redo arrows to undo or redo previous entries.
- Undo and Redo applies to up to the last 10 entries made by you; you cannot undo entries made by other participants. However, instructors or moderators can delete or erase any entries created.
- Undo and Redo apply to the current class session only; you cannot undo or redo entries from previous class sessions.

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### To apply background, colour, and line weight

Each board can have backgrounds applied to the whiteboard: two types of **Graph Paper**, **Dot Grid Paper**, **Vector**.

![image](media://4910502b-858b-423d-96f2-cf7ff4145244)

You can select a colour and apply it to the objects you are about to draw or the objects you have already drew:

1. Select the **Cursor** tool OR select the mark you want to change the colour of.
2. Click the colour you want to apply.

![image](media://57de30ca-baa8-4d45-9167-c95bd49f9b88)

You can adjust the thickness of **Free Draw**, **Eraser**, **Highlighter**, **Shapes **by selecting the thickness to apply the thicker or thinner line.

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### To create clickable links

1. Select the Text tool.
2. Type in a web address OR Copy/paste a link

> 📝 Participants will be able to click on the link and be directed to that page.

![image](media://5abb2adb-1150-44fa-acb3-7e5d5868eb78)

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### To add images

1. Click the **Pencil **icon to reveal the drop-down bar.
  
2. Select the **Image** icon.
3. Click an image or document previously loaded from your content management system or Click +Add icon to search your desktop for a new image.
4. The image file you uploaded will now appear on the list of files. Click the name of the image to highlight it. Click **Add**.

![image](media://fa793540-d441-41c0-8f11-d146c950afce)

The whiteboard supports pasting images directly from your clipboard. Images copied from a web browser or using the OS snipping tools can be easily pasted on the whiteboard or on any document while being presented on stage.

Instructors or moderators can delete or erase any entries created on the whiteboard. Participants with *Draw on whiteboard* permissions are only able to delete entries they created.

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### To delete specific entry

1. Select the **Cursor** tool.
2. Select the object you want to delete.
3. Hit the *Delete* key on your keyboard.

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### To erase an entry

1. Select the **Eraser** icon.
2. Click and drag the eraser over whiteboard marks you want to erase.

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### To export whiteboard

Instructors and moderators can save individual whiteboards to their desktop:

1. Click the **three dots menu** in the top-right corner of the whiteboard.

2. Click **Export Whiteboard**.

![image](media://0b76117a-6e68-4c9f-8ece-316e24083046)


You can also import a previously exported whiteboard page:

1. Click the three dots menu in the top-right corner.
2. Click **Import Whiteboard**.
3. Search your desktop for a previously saved Kaltura formatted whiteboard.
4. Click the **Import** button.

> 📝 Instructors or moderators will be able to upload a whiteboard page to another classroom and modify the whiteboard page after.

![image](media://7c091a1b-f4d5-4241-8a86-0ffff3ee591c)

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### To clear whiteboard

Clearing the whiteboard is only an option for instructors or moderators. To clear the whiteboard:

1. Click the three dots menu in the top right of the whiteboard.
2. Select **Clear Page**.
3. Click **Ok** in the *Confirm Delete* pop-up.

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Resetting the whiteboard deletes all boards in the whiteboard and all marks on them. The process cannot be undone! To clear all pages:

1. Click the three dots menu in the top right of the whiteboard.
2. Select **Clear All Pages**.
3. Click **Ok** to in the *Confirm Delete* pop-up.

To dismiss the whiteboard, click the **x** in the top right of the stage or select another app/file to display. Dismissing the whiteboard does not clear it. The whiteboard entries are saved in the room until they are deleted or erased.