Hey everyone, Daniel from TwinBytes with another tutorial for you. This time I'm going to be
talking about OpenBoard, which is another open source whiteboard program. Previously I did a
video on Microsoft whiteboard which was pretty popular. Although it's been missing a lot of
features that people are requesting. The good news is this program seems to give you a lot
more tools that you're looking for. So I'm going to give you a quick review on it here.
Right now I'm in the desktop mode where I'm able to show you their website.
You would go to openboard.ch and you'll have a link at the top here to download and also
there's a link to get OpenBoard for free. I'm in the highlighter tool where I can...
or a laser pointer tool I should say, so I can actually point to these things. I want
to go into my selector tool so i can click on the download link and it'll take me here.
Then i can switch back to my laser pointer where i can show you that you're able to
get it for the mac and windows as well as Linux if you're using Linux Ubuntu.
It gives us some other options here where i can switch back to the
OpenBoard where i can see the actual board to write on,
or in the top right corner, there is show desktop which takes me back to where i just was.
I can actually draw right on the screen if i choose to. I can have an erasing tool to erase
part of what's there and there's a highlighter tool as well and there is options to change the
colors within there. The select and modify object is where i was able to then navigate the website
and you'll see here that the things just don't look right with the highlights as i'm scrolling
through so if i want to delete all of these i can select them one by one or i can actually
control a to highlight everything and then hit delete and that wipes out the entire screen here.
Now there is a virtual keyboard as well as a screen capture tool. So I can capture part of the
screen here and then it prompts me again if i want to save it to the current page which actually does
it more as a background you can do it to a new page which again it goes as a background or added
to the library i'm going to go to a new page just so you can see what it does and it it puts it on
the screen here and it does have this as an image. The desktop again i'm going to the select tool
highlight another thing, I can say add to library and then we'll be able to see that in our library.
So there's also another capture tool here to capture the screen and that captures the
entire screen. So I'm going to click up here to show the open board and we're back on here.
So we've got different pages here I had this save as a new page so i'm going to delete that
by hitting the x and say yes i want to remove that page. So i got a fresh one to start with
and we're gonna go through the options here pretty quick because there's
a lot in here that you could really play for a long time with.
So in the top we've got a stylus option and that just shows and hides the menu bar
at the bottom here when we click that on and off. The other options on this bar you have the pen
drawing tool so you can draw lines, choose what color, you can choose the size,
or width of each line as well and then you've got an eraser tool which also has options for the
width of the eraser. You have a highlighter tool which also gives you five different colors
and unfortunately it doesn't give you any more options than that five colors that we've got here.
There's the select tool which allows us to select the objects and you can do different
things with them such as making a copy of that, which you can then move around by grabbing it
and just moving it. You've got the option here to lock the image, so it can't be modified.
You've got another option in here where you can change the order of it bring it
behind. You can see the orange is on top, and then clicking it up brings that on top.
You've got a resize tool so you can actually make this bigger smaller and as well as the
width and the height. If we were to get that out of the way. There we go. So you can adjust the
height and the width separately or just grab this and keep the same proportions and just resize it.
and there's a little swivel tool in the top right when you click on that you can
change the angle of the image as well and then there's a delete tool with
the x in the top left and just get rid of it if you don't want that.
Now at the bottom again there's interact with items, which we'll have to see that when we get
to it and then there's a hand tool here for being able to move things around such as the screen,
uh the background. You've got a zoom tool where you can zoom in and zoom out of your project.
There's the laser pointer which is what i was using earlier to point at things,
so you're not marking up your screen when you're trying to just point to something.
You've got a line drawing tool which is very cool because previously in the microsoft whiteboard you
had to use a ruler in order to do a straight line, but here you can do a straight line and you can go
back to your select tool go into that and then you can do all the other same features as what you had
with the other images. There is a text writing tool.
and you can again resize that, reposition it,
you can highlight certain text and change the colors on them. Which gives you a whole lot more
options for colors you can see here, the the whole spectrum of colors is available to you. And you've
got the font style as well in f and you'll see here it gives you just about everything available.
and you can zoom out or zoom in and you can change the justification of it which
you can't see when it's too small but here left center or right
and of course making copies of it. If you want to do that and locking it and making the text behind
or on top of everything else. and the x to get rid of that.
You've got the option to capture part of the screen on here as well and the virtual keyboard.
If we go back up to the top, you've got the background. So you can choose from a plain white
grid or lined paper and that's available in white and black options and when you're using the grids
or lines you can zoom in or out and change how big you want the grids or line spacing to be.
You've of course got undo and redo commands, you've got pages to add more pages, so you can see
I just created a new blank page and I can navigate through this just like a PowerPoint presentation.
and you can switch between the pages up here between previous and next,
and you can also erase a page if you have anything written on that.
So let's look at some of the other features over on the right side of the screen here.
We've got the audios and there's only one option for an audio in here but that gives you
a little bit of an audio tool which you can add others in there.
Movies,
pictures,
now i did my screen captures earlier, so you can see that I've got that and once i drag it onto the
screen i can click once to highlight it and then i got all my interactive tools which you've seen
earlier that i can work with. and so i can bring stuff to the background or foreground as i'd like.
Now if you wanted to get other images in here without taking screenshots,
there is no import tool to import pictures. You have to paste them in here ahead of time. So you
can see I created a folder here called exotic cars and i've got a picture of some cars that uh
for some reason that glitched out on me. Let's try that again.
Well it wasn't doing that when i was playing with it earlier and now it's glitching on me.
Anyway... these are some exotic cars that i had the pleasure of test driving at one point
and let's bring this one out this is more of my favorite and it's totally glitching on me here.
So, there we are I'm posing beside my lamborghini and... well it's not mine, but it's one that
I test drove and again you got all the options here for rotating it and all that kind of stuff.
Now in the pictures if you want to get stuff in here, what you'd have to do is actually
you can copy pictures that you have in your pictures folder and save them to the
pictures directory on your computer. So that would be in the c drive, users, your username,
and then in pictures, there's a folder called OpenBoard.
So if you save the pictures into OpenBoard then it will appear in here and you can create subfolders
in that folder like i did here with the exotic cars and dump your pictures in there.
Moving on here there's animations, interactivities,
this gives you a whole bunch of other things you can do. So I'm going to create another page
and you can kind of see as we're going through here are different pages it's like a slideshow.
So this gives you some different tools that are interactive and you can edit them and
make changes to how this is going to work. Put if i can type in there
and it tells you if you have it right or wrong the answer so i had that one
wrong and i keep getting out of there so if i'll put in the correct answer you can see here i got a
a green check mark and it moves on to the next question so you've got some different
interactive tools like this and they have all kinds in here that you can play with and modify
I'll click the little house to go back to the home screen again and you can see all the other stuff
here as well, there's applications. So here in case you were interested in getting your ruler out
you can grab that drag the zero marker to a certain point here on your grid maybe if
you're using a grid and then you got the little curved arrow so you can swing that right around
and measure something if you wanted to and the little x to close out when you're done with it.
and there's also a compass tool which is kind of cool. You again line that main point up and
then you can resize it as well and once you have it resize how you want
click on the end of it and draw around and you've got a perfect circle.
You can change the colors of it as well just like you did with the line drawing tool. There's a
protractor as well we've got to drag that out here and again you can position that where you want
and then there is a tool here to measure with or the swivel tool if
you wanted to swivel it around that way first and there's a width tool as well
and that resets it back to its original position and you've got a x to close that out.
So there's a bunch of tools available to you in here. There's Google maps as well
which is kind of cool and there's a notepad which this was available
in the Microsoft Whiteboard and you can type in here make your notes.
Of course it gives you a default sample note in French but here we can
write in here and there isn't options to change anything else other than the size of the text
and you can minimize and maximize that note as well and the other basic tools.
You can play with this and and go through the different applications
and see what they can do for you as well. What you're interested in more. They do have the
shapes, so you can actually draw out diagrams and things with different colored shapes.
and you have your favorites that you can put in and then a web search where you can add whoops
you can click in there and just search directly within the tool here and of course your trash bin.
Anyway that's pretty much it with this tool. It does give you all the features that we had
in the Microsoft Whiteboard but you can do a lot more it seems with this and
it lays it out as a presentation tool. So you can navigate through the different pages and still
interact with them and draw on them as you go. If you go up to the documents here in the top right,
you can see the different pages that you have and you can export these in open board format or
export it to a pdf file. So then you'll have that available to email to somebody if you wanted to.
You have your different documents here you can rename and give them a more
relevant name that's going to make it easier to find.
You can organize your documents by creating folders
and adding new documents specifically in here before you can go into edit each one
and this one particular document contains these three pages.
So each document could have one page or could have multiple depending on how you have this
set up. and here you can add a folder of images or add images, images from a file, but this was
not working exactly as planned. Let's try and get something else in here.
If i go to add an image, it adds it as a page, so if we go in here to edit this page
and I want to try and select this image.
I can't really work with it. There's nothing you can do with this here. So I can't...
I can't use it like i could where these ones i can highlight it and move them around, but in here
when I'm clicking on it, it is not giving me the tool to do anything at all with it.
So if you want to get an image you can't do it like that. You have to actually save the
image into your pictures folder as i said earlier and then they'll be available to you here
and then you can browse that location and grab those pictures and move them over.
Anyway that's it for this quick tutorial I hope you guys did find it helpful. If you did
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more detailed videos that go into more detailed areas of any particular program including this one
and just let me know what it is you guys are looking for i'm always looking for
feedback on what other videos that we can make that you want. All right,
thanks so much for watching. We'll see you in the next video. Bye for now.