Somewhere between Jamboard and the giant canvas that is Miro (coming up) is Conceptboard. It’s not a problem but you need to download the Whiteboard app for the best possible experience, although it’s possible to use it in the web app. Microsoft are working on this and hope to release guest access in Teams this year (they said the same in 2021). You can’t collaborate with external guests. Don’t forget that Office 365 is donated to registered charities (via Charity Digital Exchange). You can use post-its, text shapes or simply draw your own stuff using their multi-coloured pens. Many small charities are using Office 365 – but have you explored your whiteboard? It’s automatically available for Office 365 accounts. And sometimes that’s all we need right now. Check out this pretty horrific exported image of a whiteboard, where we asked participants to tell us how they were feeling on a scale of sad face to smiley face: No one’s winning awards for artistry here. Works best on mobile and tablet devices where you can use your fingers or stylus pen rather than a mouse. You’ll need to enable the whiteboard in your account settings to make it available in meetings. Why not log into your account and take part in Zoom's Whiteboard free training?įree with your Zoom account (Comes with all pricing plans). It's smoother and enables you to share the Whiteboard after the meeting with participants. Zoom Whiteboard had a makeover in April 2022. It can be useful for collaborating with less digitally confident people to gather very quick feedback or ideas on a short topic. Simply click Share and choose Whiteboard.Ī clear benefit of using Zoom’s own canvas space in your meeting is that your participants don’t have to click on a link and go to another online space to participate. But we haven't tested these yet.ĭid you know you have a whiteboard in Zoom for drawing on? You can easily share a whiteboard in a live meeting. It is now available on both Google Play and the App Store. So it’s best for people who like being on (or have access to) laptops and PCs. The online version is not optimised for use on mobile phones and tablets (although some features work). We’ve used the board with more people and it’s worked fine. For free you can have 3 ‘users’ on the board, but this is likely to be people that are subscribed. We’re unclear about the maximum number of public visitors at one time. They don’t have to do this to participate, so you can tell your collaborators to ignore it. Visitors will be prompted to sign up for an account once they have clicked on the link and joined the board. $5 per month for some additional functionality. Includes a very basic chat function. You could share a link to the board to your group and say that you’ll be there at a specific time to share ideas, without having to be on a call.įree version. You’ve got plenty of space to play on.Ĭlick and drag items to move them around or change their size. With Pinup you can add sticky notes (changing colours and pens etc.) as well as embedding YouTube videos and images. Pinup is an easy-to-use online post-it tool for desktop use. So you need to tell your collaborators not to do it! There are also no controls on who can ‘clear frame’ (and therefore delete everything) once you have given people editing rights. Sneaky workaround: upload your PDF to Google Drive, then open it in Google Docs and you'll have your text. We hope that this will be fixed.Īlthough you can export as a PDF or image. You can’t export the text on post-it notes as text e.g. You can create as many Jamboards as you like. Here's a nice example of participants in our training swapping ideas for online tools that have helped them to collaborate:įree to use with any Google account (you’ll need a gmail address but that’s it). It works best for a relatively small number of people – we’d say 20 is about the max. So if you have lots of topics to talk about you might want to split these down into smaller manageable chunks. You can add extra ‘frames’ (basically slides). The toolbar is a simple one, including post-its, a drawing pen, text and image. Invite anyone to participate with a link (you can give participants viewer, commenter or editor rights). Our clear favourite in 2020, Jamboard is a space where everyone can add their ideas on virtual post-it notes. This is not an exhaustive list! There are so many brilliant tools for collaborating online from mind-mapping tools to task management.īut we hope it’s a fun place to start. These tools can help enhance online meetings by giving volunteers, your team or other stakeholders a chance to contribute their ideas or capture important information to help you in your work. Superhighways has curated a range of free and low cost online tools that can help your small charity or community organisation be more creative when collaborating online. Refreshed article July 2022 (first published February 2021)
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