Collaborating in Zoom, using Annotations and Whiteboards

The collaborative whiteboard is a technology that’s been gaining some attention in distance teaching. In Zoom, teachers and students can collaborate– after a fashion– in real time, by simultaneously writing/drawing/typing on a document or whiteboard.

(Each participant is essentially annotating their own layer– they can’t alter what another participant has done. For that level of collaboration, you might consider using Google Jamboard.®)

These settings should be enabled in your Zoom profile:

  • Screen sharing
  • Who can share? [All participants]
  • Annotation
  • Allow saving of shared screens with annotations
  • Whiteboard
  • Allow saving of whiteboard content

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