When you’re in the office, it’s easy to visualize and develop ideas with a felt-tip pen on a whiteboard. Brainstorming together in a team leads to new trains of thought and enables you to put ideas into clearly understandable form. Just because your Zoom meeting is virtual, it doesn’t mean that you can’t brainstorm together. With the Zoom whiteboard, you and the other participants can work on your ideas together.
The Zoom whiteboard is a virtual white space that you share with other participants in a meeting or team. It enables you to write down, draw, and design ideas using Zoom’s drawing tools. The advantage over a physical whiteboard is that you can save your drafts and results after a brainstorming session, copy them, and work on them later.
The Zoom whiteboard can only be shared by the meeting host. Participants who join a Zoom meeting are therefore dependent on the host activating the whiteboard function and sharing the screen or alternatively transferring the sharing rights to other participants.
Just like screen sharing, whiteboard sharing is not complicated at all. Follow these steps to share and edit a Zoom whiteboard.
The Zoom whiteboard works similarly to Paint in Windows due to its white drawing and design surface. The features include various tools and utilities that you and other participants can use to capture and visualize thoughts. The Zoom whiteboard offers the following tools:
For a digital brainstorming session you don’t necessarily have to rely on Zoom. There are numerous Zoom alternatives such as Skype and Microsoft Teams that also make creative collaboration possible in a virtual conference room.
As the meeting host, you can not only share the whiteboard with other participants in the meeting, but also allow multiple users to share the whiteboard at the same time. To do this, press the arrow symbol next to “Share Screen” in the menu bar in the current meeting. A menu will open where you can allow sharing for an individual or for several participants at the same time. Under “Advanced Sharing Options”, the host can also allow all other participants to share the whiteboard.
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