Microsoft Whiteboard For Mac

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A question to Mac users in conjunction with Lync for Mac and office 365. Do you guys have the whiteboard functionality in Lync? I have tried several times but besides sharing my desktop or powerpoint slides I don't have the functionality of the white board. Note: Jamboard can be used on Windows and Mac in Google Chrome. Microsoft Whiteboard. Note: Whiteboard can only be used on Windows. Go to the Microsoft Store and download Whiteboard. Open Whiteboard.

Sure…most meetings can be an email. But there’s one type of meeting that requires face-to-face interaction: the brainstorm. While working from home, brainstorming still needs to happen. It’s a break from the tedium of PowerPoint and it’s an opportunity to give our creativity a place to expand.

So what do you need to brainstorm virtually? Most video conferencing apps, including Zoom and Microsoft Teams have a white boarding feature. But you need something to draw with. Now here’s where most people get stuck: no one can/wants to draw with a mouse or track pad. A Wacom is the perfect tool to virtually whiteboard.

Which Wacom tablet is best for digital white boarding?

If you want to draw on screen while you white board digitally, and annotate docs while you’re at it, Wacom One is the perfect tool. The pen never needs charging and it’s designed to be comfortable to write on: no sticky, cold screens that you normally experience. Buy it at Amazon, Best Buy or the Wacom estore.

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For those who want to experiment with digital white boarding, but aren’t ready to draw on screen, try a Wacom Intuos. Like the Wacom One, the pen never needs charging. It’s also light and small, so it’s easy to throw it in a backpack if you’re ready to move the home office from the dining room to the kitchen. Purchase this one at Amazon, Best Buy or the Wacom estore.

How do you whiteboard digitally?

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams requires users to add a plug in to the platform. Here at Wacom, we’re using the InVision plug in. You need to sign up for InVision to add the plug in to your various chats, groups or meetings, but once you do all of the people within the chat can white board together at once. You can do some sketch noting, or visual thinking while others expand on your ideas.

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Zoom

Zoom includes a whiteboard feature right out of the box, but it’s a bit tricky to find. Here are instructions on how to access it.

1) When you are in a meeting, click on the share icon in the controls. It’s right in the middle in-between “Manage Participants” and “Chat.”

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2) A dialog box will open up. Select the option that says “whiteboard.”

Now you can brainstorm on your very own whiteboard. Don’t worry about losing a great idea – there’s an option in the bottom right corner that allows you to open a new whiteboard.

You could use a track pad or mouse in either of these applications, but chances are, your ideas are less likely to flow as smoothly and the end results may not be ready for prime time with colleagues or clients. Instead, try drawing with a Wacom. The Wacom Intuos is a great price and it comes with a three free pieces of creative software, including Clip Studio Paint. The Wacom One is perfect for anyone who wants to draw on screen. And, when you’ve clocked out for the day, you can hand either off to a student who needs to do their math or find a creative outlet with digital art.

Microsoft Teams Whiteboard App

The humble flipchart has been largely replaced with the whiteboard, and now Microsoft has a digital update to share. The appropriately name Microsoft Whiteboard is a digital workspace for use in the classroom, office and other scenarios where there is a need to present and pull together ideas. At its heart, the app is a cloud-based whiteboard that can be used to either present and share ideas with others, or to collaborate on a shared workspace as part of a brainstorming session.

One of the immediate benefits of Microsoft Whiteboard over its physical counterparts is that you are afforded an unending workspace – you can just keep expanding and expanding for as long as you need to.

There are two main uses for the app. It can be used in an office environment to enable a group of people to work together. The participants could be gathered together in the same room working on their own devices, but the cloud-based nature of the app means that it can also be used by people in remote locations.

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Another key usage scenario is in the classroom. A teacher or lecturer can use Microsoft Whiteboard to give a presentation to a class, allowing students to interact with information on screen. Conversely, a student could present work within the app, and the collaborative sharing features could be used by the teacher to ink comments and marks.

The tools you're presented with are pretty simple. There is a range of customisable pens for on-screen inking, and you can easily add sticky notes and images. There's automatic saving, so you never have to worry about forgetting to do this manually and thereby lose the best idea of the day. The very small toolbar is also home to the Insert menu which you can use to add list, text, the contents of the clipboard or a range of different documents to your workspace. There are a number of template available covering these such as brainstorming, weekly planning, project management and planning, and meeting management. While, ultimately, there is little outstanding about any of these various templates, they serve as a helpful starting point.

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It is slightly disappointing to find that Microsoft Whiteboard is currently only available for Windows 10 and iOS, as this automatically cuts out a large portion of its potential audience. Another disappointment is the way sharing has been implemented. Rather than letting you invite participants using their email addresses, you are instead provided with a link to your whiteboard which you can then share with other via whatever means you want – there's no way to stop this being shared further.

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Verdict:

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Microsoft Whiteboard is a simple idea, and it keeps its whole approach simple too. It's certainly a useful tool, but really there is nothing beyond the bare minimum of options