Windows 10: Inclusion and collaboration enhancements in Microsoft Whiteboard

Brink · Jun 20, 2019

Student engagement is key to helping students develop and learn, while also maintaining that ever important classroom management. When used effectively, technology can enable great collaborative learning opportunities. However, we (the team behind Microsoft Whiteboard), are aware that using technology can sometimes pose challenges in classroom management. Today, we’re excited to announce six new features in Microsoft Whiteboard for Education designed to promote effective, focused collaboration for all students – and also add a little bit more fun.

Microsoft Whiteboard is an app that lets you and your students draw, add notes and charts, write, type, and work together on a freeform digital canvas. Collaborate wherever, whenever, and save different boards for all your different lessons and projects.

Reactions give students and teachers the ability to quickly “thumbs-up” stickies, images, and text on the Whiteboard from their Windows 10 or iOS device. They provide a low-stakes way for students to express opinions and participate, and they’re also great for taking quick votes and promoting peer feedback.

Send to Teams encourages students and teachers to continue the conversation beyond the class period by allowing individual users to share boards they’ve created to a channel within Microsoft Teams. Sharing a board keeps it viewable and open to collaboration, providing students with a touchpoint for reviewing, catching up on missed discussions, and continuing to iterate and expand on the lesson.

Emerging literacy, learning a second language, and learning differences like dyslexia or ADHD can sometimes present challenges in following what’s being written on a classroom whiteboard – physical or digital. That’s why we’re bringing Immersive Reader into Microsoft Whiteboard. Immersive Reader provides a set of tools like focus mode, parts of speech identification, and a Picture Dictionary to help students better decode text on the whiteboard – and ultimately improve their reading comprehension in general.

Sometimes it can be tough to know where to focus on an infinite canvas – and that’s especially true for students with low vision. Follow-along (preview) helps direct students’ view by automatically following and zooming in on one user’s contributions to the board. For example, a student with low vision could use follow-along to keep the Whiteboard zoomed to wherever their teacher is working on the board, and thus stay focused on the most relevant content.

At other times, the barrier to students focusing is, well - other students! As great as interactive lessons on a shared whiteboard can be for student engagement, sometimes students will choose to engage in inappropriate ways, and that can take the lesson off-course. Read-only mode helps reduce this problem by allowing teachers to “mute” particular individuals, reducing distraction without embarrassing the student or interrupting the flow of a lesson.

Finally, to celebrate the partnership between NASA and the Education Workshop team, we've added two space-themed EDU sticker packs. Add fun and far-out friendship with Classroom Pets in Space or visualize the universe in class with our new Orbiting Planets sticker pack collections. Best of all, these new packs and all the Whiteboard stickers will soon be available on both iOS and Windows 10!

Download Whiteboard for Education on Windows 10 and iPad today. Reactions and space-themed stickers are now available.[*] Send to Teams, Immersive Reader, Follow-along, and Read-only mode will be rolling out soon to Windows 10 and iOS. To learn more, provide feedback, or be inspired by others using Whiteboard, join our Whiteboard for Education Facebook group.

*Reactions is available for both Windows 10 and iOS. Space sticker packs are available for Windows 10 and coming soon to iOS.
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Source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...on/ba-p/691417

See also: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...TE/ba-p/679764

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Brink · Jun 20, 2019

New Microsoft Whiteboard version 1.1811022 for iOS - November 13

Microsoft Whiteboard provides a freeform intelligent canvas where teams can ideate, create, and collaborate visually via the cloud. Designed for pen and touch, it lets you write or draw as smoothly as you would with ink, while automatically recognizing and transforming shapes and tables as you draw. It enhances teamwork by allowing all team members to edit and comment directly on the canvas in real time, no matter where they are. And all your work stays safe in the cloud, ready to be picked back up from another location or device.

Lot's of new Whiteboard goodness in this release. Smash that UPDATE button to:

Lock any image to the whiteboard background and never worry about accidentally erasing, moving or having to recreate template-like content again.

Make sure your whiteboard is easy for people of all abilities to read and edit with a new Accessibility Checker.

Access improved sticky note editing experience. Just double tap to add text & let your ideas flow fast.

Your recognized shapes and tables now have a hand-drawn effect applied to them to help you impress your peers with your penmanship.

When opening a whiteboard, we now show you a fancy loading animation to help pass the time (and so you don't sit wondering if anything is happening).

A sprinkling of usability, performance and bug fixes to make your whiteboarding experience a bit more polished.

Source: Microsoft Whiteboard on the App Store

Brink · Jun 20, 2019

New Microsoft Whiteboard version 1.19104223 for iOS - May 10

Microsoft Whiteboard provides a freeform intelligent canvas where teams can ideate, create, and collaborate visually via the cloud. Designed for pen and touch, it lets you write or draw as smoothly as you would with ink, while automatically recognizing and transforming shapes and tables as you draw. It enhances teamwork by allowing all team members to edit and comment directly on the canvas in real time, no matter where they are. And all your work stays safe in the cloud, ready to be picked back up from another location or device.

What's New

We have a lot of exciting improvements in this release:

Meeting Invite: Your meetings now appear as suggested contacts so you can invite all participants with a single tap

Selections: Selection visual enhancements make it much more obvious what content is selected

Highlighter Colors: New highlighter color and thickness options help you emphasize your points

Education: Education customers will also see the send to OneNote menus in an easy to use side panel
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Source: Microsoft Whiteboard on the App Store

Brink · Jun 20, 2019

New Microsoft Whiteboard version 1.1811022.1 for iOS - November 15

Microsoft Whiteboard provides a freeform intelligent canvas where teams can ideate, create, and collaborate visually via the cloud. Designed for pen and touch, it lets you write or draw as smoothly as you would with ink, while automatically recognizing and transforming shapes and tables as you draw. It enhances teamwork by allowing all team members to edit and comment directly on the canvas in real time, no matter where they are. And all your work stays safe in the cloud, ready to be picked back up from another location or device.

Lot's of new Whiteboard goodness in this release. Smash that UPDATE button to:

Lock any image to the whiteboard background and never worry about accidentally erasing, moving or having to recreate template-like content again.

Make sure your whiteboard is easy for people of all abilities to read and edit with a new Accessibility Checker.

Access improved sticky note editing experience. Just double tap to add text & let your ideas flow fast.

Your recognized shapes and tables now have a hand-drawn effect applied to them to help you impress your peers with your penmanship.

When opening a whiteboard, we now show you a fancy loading animation to help pass the time (and so you don't sit wondering if anything is happening).

A sprinkling of usability, performance and bug fixes to make your whiteboarding experience a bit more polished.

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Source: Microsoft Whiteboard on the App Store

Windows 10: Inclusion and collaboration enhancements in Microsoft Whiteboard

Inclusion and collaboration enhancements in Microsoft Whiteboard

Inclusion and collaboration enhancements in Microsoft Whiteboard

Inclusion and collaboration enhancements in Microsoft Whiteboard

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