Zoom is a powerful video conferencing application.
It has an online whiteboard integrated within the application which you can use for taking
online classes.
However, this native whiteboard of zoom is not suitable for math teaching.
This video has two parts.
In the first part I will show you how to use digital whiteboard which is available inside
zoom application.
And this part will be useful for all online teachers except math.
And in the second part I will show you which in my opinion is the best online whiteboard
for math teaching.
So let's get started after a short break.
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I have made many videos about online whiteboards, which are available on my YouTube channel.
But few of my subscribers they asked how to use whiteboard and zoom together.
And one subscriber asked that which is the best online whiteboard for match teaching,
I don't want to waste your time.
So if you are interested on any particular topic, please look in the description and
you will be able to reach directly to a specific point in the video.
In this video, I will be using three main things.
One is the wecome tablet.
This is where chrome tablet and it has a pen, and you write on this tablet.
And whatever you write appears on your screen.
Very simple.
You connect this tablet with a USB to your computer or laptop.
Then of course zoom application and zoom whiteboard is missing in math tools, such as set a square
protractor, compass, ruler, and dice and these kinds of things.
But because this is integrated inside zoom, you don't need to install any extra whiteboard
if you are not teaching mathematics.
But if you have to do that there are many whiteboards available.
And I have already made comparison videos of most of these whiteboards, you can watch
on my channel, I will be using my two accounts to log into zoom, one using desktop application
and other using my mobile phone.
And before I start a meeting, you should understand that we have to decide few things.
The first is that whether we want our participants, our students to share the screen, or only
we will be sharing our screen as a teacher.
If it is a collaborative project where students are collaborating with you, then both hosts
and participants will be sharing the screen.
So first of all, we have to make these settings in zoom.
And then I will start a meeting as a host and as a student.
So to do the settings in my browser, I type zoom.us and then I click on my account and
settings on the left hand side here.
Now you can scroll down are in order to reach quickly you can click on in meeting basic,
and then I scroll a little bit further down.
And these are screen sharing options.
The first option is who can share host are all participants.
Currently I have selected to host if I select all participants, then this second option
will be enabled.
And the second question we have to ask our selfies, that who can start sharing when someone
else is sharing.
So of course, you as a teacher want to override your students, if one of your students is
sharing and you want to interrupt you should be able to do that.
So I am assuming that I am working on a collaborative project with my students.
So therefore I give them access to share.
And then I only allow myself to override any other who is sharing the screen.
And now I can save these settings.
I will get this message that your settings have been updated.
There are a few more settings you might be interested in.
And these are about annotation because when you will be using whiteboard, you and your
students will be able to annotate on the same whiteboard.
They will be able to draw something or write something.
Oh there are two settings.
One is about saving of annotations.
You can save the annotations when you save the whiteboard and the native zoom whiteboard
can be saved in PNG format and in PDF format.
So when you will save the whiteboard, then rotations will be saved if this option is
ticked.
And the second option is only the user who is sharing can annotate.
This is by default unchecked.
So this was about annotations.
Now there is another setting about whiteboard.
And you can also take if you want to autosave, your whiteboard, no remote control.
So this option is also turned on.
And it says that the person who is sharing can allow the control of sharing to any other
person.
So these are few settings, which are related to screen sharing.
And first of all, you have to check these settings before you start a zoom meeting.
And no, I am ready to start a meeting.
So I'll open my zoom application.
And I click here new meeting.
And no, I want to join with computer audio.
And now the meeting has been started.
As you can see, I am logged into meeting without video.
And no, I have moved myself towards the other corner and I am showing you complete screen
of my computer.
And you will understand the reason in a minute.
And no, I'm sure that you know how to invite others.
But if not just click on this more and in white, and then you click on email.
It has opened my email and it is ready to send the email message which is here, there
are two important things, meeting ID and the password, you can change this password in
your account settings.
And no, I just type my email address of another account.
So this is the email address of my other account.
And no, I simply send this invitation and no I'm joining on my iPhone, I opened the
application, I click on join meeting and I enter the meeting ID and click join and then
the password continue.
And now I have logged in.
But I will join without video.
And no as you can see that I got this message on my host screen that someone is trying to
join the meeting.
And I have to click the admit button.
So I click on admit.
And on my phone, I don't want to use the audio because otherwise there will be echo.
And no I can see my host and myself.
And now we both are inside the zoom video conference.
And now let us first see how we can share the online whiteboard, which is inside zoom.
So I click on share screen on my host account.
And these are all of my tabs.
If I want to share my full screen, I click on this screen option.
To access the whiteboard, I click on whiteboard option, and then click on share.
And now this is the whiteboard, which is available inside zoom, I am not able to see all these
icons or anything.
Above that, I'm just looking at the whiteboard on my iPhone, because I have allowed my participant
to annotate to do that on my iPhone, there is a pencil icon.
If I click on that, then I select a color.
So these are color available.
And I can select the thickness at the top as well.
Currently, it's maximum thickness and red color is selected.
No, let me select a freehand drawing tool.
And if I type anything here, whatever, I can see this on my iPhone, and no.
So if I draw on my iPhone with my finger, no, I am drawing on my iPhone with my finger.
And as you can see that I'm able to annotate the whiteboard very simple, you can collaborate
with your students on the same whiteboard.
And the best thing about this whiteboard is that you can click on this Save icon and you
can save this as a PNG or as a PDF.
So let us save as PDF.
And now if I click here, I can click on showing the folder.
And no I have PNG because when you click straight away here it will be saved as a PNG so I have
clicked twice here.
So two copies of PNG and then a PDF copy as well.
If I click on that, as you can see that a beautiful PDF is ready for me.
So this can be used by your students for future reference.
Whatever you have taught them, they are able to save as PDF.
So let us close this.
But the problem with this whiteboard is that it does not have any math tools.
No protractor, no ruler, no compass, no for math teachers, it is very important to have
these math tools.
And now I'm going to show you which in my opinion is the best online whiteboard for
math teaching.
And that is called active inspire.
So one of my tabs has this active inspire whiteboard.
So what I do is I click on stop sharing, and now click on share screen once again.
And this time I select this active inspire and I click Share No, as you can see that
there is a green Mark around this activinspire because this is an external application.
So this green thing can be changed in size.
If I hover near the edge, I can click and drag, and I can change the size of my whiteboard.
Now this whiteboard is from a company which is world renowned company in agritech tools.
And that is called promethium.
They also manufacture physical digital whiteboards.
This white area is called flip chart.
And now let us close this flip chart.
No, I have made a very detailed video about activinspire, in which I explained all the
math tools available in this application.
But I have got many questions, students who are saying that they could not find these
tools.
So tools are available in tools, math tools.
And when they see here, they see only two tools.
And then they quickly shoot a message that there are only two tools available compiles.
And all these are disabled, there could be few reasons for this.
The first is that you have not started any new file to start a new flip chart, and you
see this white area.
And now you go back.
And now you look at these math tools.
And no all tools are enabled.
So my subscribers, unfortunately, some of those that don't even bother to start a new
file, they just look at tools, math tools, no tools available, they just send a message
I have got many messages.
But there could also be some other reasons.
For example, if you don't have Java installed on your machine, if you don't have Flash Player
installed, and if you have installed only the personalized version, which I have not
tested, because when you install activinspire, it gives you two options.
One is personalized.
One is free trial.
In free trial, it asked for a key, you can ignore that and you can start a free trial,
I am using the free trial and I'm getting all the tools I have not used personal installation.
Once the trial is finished, I will use the personal installation and I will let you know
whether I am facing the same problem.
But at this stage, there should not be any problem.
If you have done these things, install Java and start flashplayer and start a flip chart,
then you should be fine.
I'm not going to explain all math tools.
Because for that, you should watch the other video I will put a link right at this place.
But for someone who is first time on my channel, I would like to explain only two of these
tools, which will help you in using all other tools as well, because most of the things
are common.
So I click on Tools, math tools, and a ruler.
This is the first tool I want to show you.
And the second would be a compass when you put this ruler inside activinspire and you
want to close it, there are three dots here, you have to click once and then you will see
these three dots, you click here and you close this it will be vanished from your whiteboard.
So this is how you close now there are few hover actions.
If you hover in the middle, you will see this cross sign you click and drag and you can
move this if you hover on the right edge, you will see this type of arrow you click
and drag and you will change the size.
If you hover over top or bottom corner, you will see this type of arrow.
Now if you click and drag, it will rotate but you should be looking at the angle written
in the middle.
And this should be zero degree in order for this ruler to be perfect horizontal and not
to draw the line, you click the pencil icon, then you set the thickness This is very, very
thick, you just have to be something here.
And then when I bring this pencil very close to the ruler, I will see this red mark no
I click and drag and the line will be drawn and no I move this away, maybe this side and
no I open the compass.
No in order to make the compass large over here and click and drag it will become large
or small.
To close the leg hover over this pencil and you will see this you can close the legs and
open the legs.
So let me adjust this properly and no I move this towards this corner.
Again.
I can rotate this by bringing it here and then click and drag and it will rotate like
this.
And now I want to place it perfectly on this line so the angle should be zero.
And now the final part how to draw the circle when you hover near the edge of the pencil
and you click and drag.
A circle will be drawn.
So you should be moving in a circle.
So a circle is drawn.
Now you want to move this away.
Click and drag.
Now you want to close it.
First click then you will see these three dots click again.
And then you click Close.
Similarly, click first you will see these three dots, click again, and then click Close.
So this is how you can use math tools.
If you want to learn more, watch my other video.
So no I am sure that after watching this will do whether or not you are a math teacher,
you should be able to use a whiteboard with zoom and you can teach mathematics using free
zoom account up to 100 students for a 40 minute session.
So keep your sessions up to 35 or 40 minutes and enroll students up to 100 in free zoom
account in free active inspire account and start teaching mathematics online.
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Thanks for watching and see you next time.