- Hey everybody!
It's Ian from Microsoft Whiteboard
and today I want to give you an overview
of how to use Microsoft Whiteboard for education.
So let's dive in.
So we're in the Whiteboard app here
and as you see at the bottom we have a bunch of pens.
So I'm gonna walk you through
this toolbar at the bottom
because that's kind the core of the whiteboard.
It's meant to be really simple for you to use
but there's a lot of power behind what we offer.
At the bottom there's pens.
You can use these pens with your keyboard and mouse
your pen if you have one
or even your finger if you have a touch device.
So just select one of those
and you can draw some beautiful ink.
This is our Rainbow.
We also have Galaxy which I love.
Has all the stars and kind of sparkles of space.
We also have a highlighter which is really nice
if you just wanna highlight a little bit
in there just like that.
We also have an eraser.
You can also flip the back of your pen around
if yove one.
And you can always use your pen if you have a pen
that kind of an eraser on the end of it.
All the Microsoft Surface Pens do this.
But we have one baked into the app down there.
Now we also have a ruler.
This is super popular in education.
You can kind of rotate it with your fingers
and you can get it to just how you want it
and then you can draw some straight lines
really easily just like that.
And rotate it again.
Really nice.
You also have a lasso tool
this little rope icon down here.
This one is good if you're trying
to get a hold of a lot of stuff at once.
So you can grab all the things here.
It'll group them together
and now I can drag that around really easily.
So that's pretty nice.
And then you might be wondering
"Well can I only do Ink on this whiteboard?"
No that's not true.
You can add text.
Let me show you how.
You can tap the little text box down here
pulls up a keyboard onscreen
or I can use my keyboard down here.
I can just type some things just like that.
Pretty nice.
I also can add sticky notes just by tapping
the sticky note box.
I can add anything I want just like that.
I also can add images.
I can pick some image from my computer locally
or something really fun I wanna show you
is our Bing Image Search.
The way this works is I can tap on Bing Image
I can write a word let's think cat.
Cats are cute.
It will do an automatic recognition
of what I wrote with my handwriting
and then you'll notice it's pulling up cats
from Bing Image Search.
But these are creative comments filtered.
So you're not gonna have any concerns
of copyright or anything like that.
You'll actually be able to use these free of charge.
You don't have to worry about it.
And it's all safe search as well
so you won't get anything inappropriate
which is really nice when you're in the classroom.
So let's jump back here and I can pick
a couple of these cats that I like.
I like this one I like this one
I just tap on them really easy
puts them right on the canvas for me.
Now I can drag these to where
I would like them pretty simple.
And then what's even more powerful
is I can take my pen and I can start to do things
like put glasses on these cats
'cause that always makes every cat way cuter.
Right?
And when I do that if I tap on this image now
you'll notice the ink is all sticking to the image.
So we know when you annotate and image
even if you do something like this
where some of the ink is off of the image.
We know now that that ink belongs to that image.
That is so powerful.
How many times have you used other applications
where everything starts breaking apart on you
becomes a real mess really fast?
Microsoft Whiteboard is smart enough
to know the difference.
So that is image insertion with Bing Images.
Moseying along here on the right-hand side
we can also to our Insert menu.
This is really powerful.
So the Insert menu has a lot in it.
Lemme give you a quick overview.
The first two at the top are Note Grid and List.
These are part of our Templates Preview.
I'm gonna talk about templates in a moment
but these are really easy ways
just add a little grid here
so you can just put this right on.
And now I can add some sticky notes for example
just like that get a bunch of sticky notes
really fast and easy.
And then I can do things like let's say
change the color of these sticky notes
just by tapping on them
selecting the Color icon and changing the color.
I can even do something where
the students could be voting on these.
So you see they can hit Like.
If more students are on this board
they will actually be able
to vote on these things too.
But what's magical is let's say at the end of this
that you want to organize these sticky notes in some way.
Well you can just tap on this Note Grid.
You'll see the little icon there with the arrows.
If I tap that I can sort these by different types.
So I can say "Sort by color sort by reaction count."
You'll see the ones with the votes
went up to the top.
So that's really powerful if you're running
some kind of brainstorm session or something like that.
Makes it really easy to organize all the thoughts
all the ideas that your students may have.
Also if you're a student really great.
If you're just working in a brainstorm session
with your fellow classmates.
Maybe you're working on a group project really good.
So coming back here you can zoom out
just by pinching and zooming.
I'm gonna get some more space.
You can also add let's try a list.
So I can put a list here really simple.
Zoom in a little bit for you
and I can type things on here on this list
really easy just like that.
Doesn't take very long and it's really simple to do.
And then what I can do is mosey on down here
and now I have Stickers.
Stickers are part of our Microsoft Education Package.
You may have seen these stickers pop up
in other apps that you know and love
like OneNote for example.
I'm gonna hit Stickers and you'll see
we have a bunch of different categories up here.
Everything from Fruit Crew to planets.
I love the pets in space.
I think these are some of the coolest.
So you can just tap on these
pick the ones you want
it dropped a bunch right on the canvas just like that.
You can move them wherever you'd like
use them however you'd like.
And they're really fun and engaging.
I've seen students and teachers use these
in a number of different ways in really cool ways.
But they're just fun.
They kinda make the whiteboard come alive.
So those are stickers.
And then we have these three options down here.
So we have the PDF Word Document in PowerPoint.
This is a super powerful feature
because what it lets you do
is take documents you may already have
and content you may already have
that you teach your class with
and put it on to the whiteboard.
And then you can pick pieces of it
that you wanna bring into the whiteboard
and then kind of go from there.
This is powerful because I'll show you
when you hit PowerPoint here
what's gonna happen is you'll actually get
a dialog so you can pick a PowerPoint
that you'd like to open.
But what we do is we pull up all the slides
inside that PowerPoint in the whiteboard
for you to choose from.
So you don't have to take all of your PowerPoint slides
from big long decks into the whiteboard.
You can pick what makes sense for you.
And that may only be one or two slides
that you wanna use.
So showing you how this works
you get to see a preview of all different slides here.
You can pick just that slide just that.
Let's go with this one.
Hit insert and boom now they're on here
which is really nice.
So I can decide that I now want to annotate
between these two and do something here
that makes sense over here.
And you see how this is all coming together
and letting me reason between
lots of different content in a really natural way.
So that is how you can insert
some documents on your canvas.
But let me show you the next thing.
This is where stuff really starts to get fun in Whiteboard.
What you can do is you can go up here
in our little Settings menu in the top right
you can turn on Ink to Table and Ink to Shape.
So you flip those switches and now
I gonna zoom in a little bit.
You can take your pen and you can draw
let's say a circle.
And it perfects it.
I can draw a messy square and it perfects it.
I can draw a rectangle and it usually
will get it most of the time.
But if I take that square
and now I put a line through it.
It makes it into a table.
So you'll see it has little plus and minuses there.
I can just put a horizontal line and add a row
or a vertical line and add another column.
And I can just keep doing that really fast and easy.
I'm just doing this with my pen
just my pen in Ink.
I could use my finger
I could use my mouse to draw
but this is all done with Ink
which is really really cool.
So going back to the whiteboard here
I can now write inside these cells
and you'll notice they automatically expand
to fill as I'm writing just lik that.
Really cool.
So this is a really powerful AI feature that we have
where we recognize shapes we recognize tables.
But there's a couple other things
that we recognize that are really powerful.
Two of my favorite features are called
Ink Beautification and Ink Grab.
So Ink Beautification is gonna make
your handwriting more legible
and if you're a teacher
maybe that's not a problem for you
but if you're a student in a group project
working with other kids that may be helpful.
And the other one is Ink Grab
where we're gonna convert an analog picture
of ink your own handwriting in real life to digital Ink.
So let me show you how these both work.
If I take my handwriting here on the whiteboard
and I write a word let's say Microsoft
that's always a good one.
If I just tap on this word now
you'll see we automatically group it all and select it
but there's a little magic wand icon at the top.
This magic wand will let you convert
what you wrote into more legible handwriting
just with one click.
And so it stays as Ink which is amazing.
I can still edit this
I can change the color of it just like that
it's still Ink.
I can resize it really easily
but it's much easier to read
than my own handwriting was which is cool.
The other one I told you is this Ink Grab feature.
This is probably the coolest AI feature
we have in the product.
So let's imagine that you're doing something like this
where maybe you're doing an extra help session
and you have some content here
that you wrote on a real notepad.
This is something that I really wrote
so I have a bunch of examples here.
Well you can actually take the Microsoft Whiteboard app
it's on iPhone.
So I just have my iPhone here
and I took a picture of this content
just on the piece of paper
and I was able to put it onto the whiteboard.
This is the same whiteboard that I'm on
on my Windows computer.
So I just a picture plopped it right on
to our whiteboard here
and if I switch back now to the whiteboard
what you're gonna see is that image
was converted for me into Ink.
So I'm gonna just find it over here.
There it is.
And how cool is this?
So what I didn't show you was that image
got converted into real Ink.
I'll show you how to do that.
That same magic wand button
that I showed you a minute ago
but I can erase now pieces of this.
Let's say I don't want that March th date anymore
and we really just wanted to focus on example one
so I'm just gonna get rid of that
and keep those two examples.
And now you have the content
that you started on paper
but you have brought into a digital sense.
And this is great 'cause now
you can reuse the content
you can share it with other people more easily
maybe you had a student come in
with a really good example problem
and you wanna show the class the next day
the ideas and the options here are really limitless.
But it helps you bridge the divide
or bridge the gap between starting analog
and moving into a digital sense which is really cool.
So that's Ink Grab.
And lastly you may have wondered
how does the collaboration work
and I kind of hinted at it but I wanna show you.
So if you come up to the top right here
there's My Profile icon here as the teacher
but I can also tap the little plus button
and you'll see all the people
that I can invite to this whiteboard.
It first pulls up all the people that you work with.
So maybe it's your students from your classes
other faculty other teachers
but you'll notice something at the top here
which is really really important.
We actually depending on how your tenant is set up
behind the scenes talk to your IT admin.
We actually will pull up the classes that you teach.
And this lets you with one tap
invite your entire calculus
or your entire physics class to this whiteboard.
So you don't have to invite individual students.
You can invite the whole class with just one click.
So if I click on Calculus there
you see I can change it to read only
if I only want the students to be able
to see the board and not edit anything
or I can invite them all as collaborators
and say they can edit with me.
If I want them to be adding content
brainstorming anything you'd like.
And then just hit Invite and then
they'll all get the link to the board
they click it they all join in
and now everybody is on the same exact whiteboard.
So that's really really powerful.
And the last thing I think I wanted to show you today
is a couple of our export options
and then I'll end with the templates.
The export options up here are
you can send to OneNote so I tap Send to OneNote.
It's gonna go open up all my OneNote Class Notebooks
if you're used to using that.
So you see I have my Biology
my Intro to Ecology.
I can just tap on the one I want.
It's gonna pull in all the sections
in those OneNote Notebooks so I can decide
where to send it to.
So if you're using Class Notebooks
you can say I wanna send it to my Collaboration Space
and then it's gonna let you actually send it off
as a link to the whiteboard
and here is just an example section
I can say Send and that's gonna
send a link to this whiteboard
plus an image of the whiteboard.
So you can get back to it or you can just
have it in OneNote for safekeeping.
You also can do the same exact thing
if I go back here with Post to Teams.
So if I use Microsoft Teams
if your school is using that
I can say Post to Teams.
It's gonna find all the teams that I'm a part of
and then I can share this whiteboard directly
with any channel any classroom
anybody on Teams that you would like.
So that's really powerful feature in Whiteboard.
You can also do things like change the background.
This is a really powerful
if you are teaching in front of the class
on a large screen device
the large screen devices can get really taxing
on your eyes after a while.
They're big they're bright
and so if you are doing that
this is a good option for you to kind of play with
and see what works best for your class.
This lets you change the color of it.
Black is obviously a lot easier on the eyes.
You can do something fun like blue or purple.
You can change the background to have it dot grid
or squares or just keep it solid.
That will sync its changes by the way
for everybody on the board.
So if you change it to black
all the whiteboards will be black
no matter how many other people are on the board
which is a nice thing too.
And then you can have a couple of other options
in this menu like a Clear Canvas button.
So if I wanted to delete everything really fast.
You can move the toolbar.
So you can say I wanna put it on left-hand side
or on the right or on the bottom.
So those are all nice things.
But the last thing I wanted to show you
maybe the best for last
is this concept of templates in Whiteboard.
Templates are gonna help you get going really really fast.
And let me show you how they work.
So if I go over to the Plus button again
you'll see there's Template.
It opens up this beautiful gallery
on the right-hand side of different templates
that you can use in Whiteboard.
So you could run a brainstorm session
you could do a retrospective
you can run a meeting
you could do project planning
but one I love for education is KWL.
If you wanna keep track of what you know
what you wanna learn and previous knowledge.
If I just tap that it puts this pre-made area
or pre-made template on our whiteboard.
So I'm just gonna get some space here
move it to a little cleaner area
and you'll see all this different kind of goodness
that you get from a template in Whiteboard.
So the first one I'll just zoom in
is we put a little area over here
that actually shows you and tells you
how to use this template which is really nice.
If you're not familiar with KWL
you can just give this a read
and you'll understand it in a couple seconds.
Down here you can put the project goals
you can type in a list and then the meat of it
is the real heart of this
is these KWL sections where you can add sticky notes
just by tapping just like that.
Really simple and easy.
And you can run the exercise for your class.
So imagine as a teacher you could set up a whiteboard
ahead of time and come into the classroom
with this template already ready to go
pre-filled with all the content
that you wanna have
and then you can just get going really fast.
Maybe you already sent that link to the whiteboard
to OneNote or you invited the whole class
and they got the link in Teams for example.
Doesn't matter how they get there
but you can get going really fast with these templates.
And we're gonna be having more templates
coming very soon for education
so make sure to subscribe to the YouTube channel
and you'll be the first to know
when we have new education templates out.
So anyway that was a really quick overview.
There's a lot of capabilities
in Microsoft Whiteboard for education.
I can't wait to show you them all.
So make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel
and hit the bell also.
That will notify you as soon as new episodes are released.
And this was our overview on everything
for Whiteboard for education
but we're gonna be doing deep dives
on specifically what makes sense
to use if you're a school that uses Teams.
We have a speciaL whiteboard in Microsoft Teams
which I'm gonna talk about in another video.
We have an IOS app.
So if you have iPads
we have a full Whiteboard app for iPads.
This was the Windows app
that I was showing you today.
We also have a web app on Office.com
or just go to Whiteboard.Microsoft.com.
But the point is that Microsoft Whiteboard
is a really rich application that can
meet the needs of a lot of what you may be
trying to do in your classroom.
So give it a shot
let us know in the comments what your favorite
features are in Whiteboard that you've tried
and maybe how you're using it in your classroom.
We'd love to hear from you
and we'll see you in the next video.
Thanks.