Annotate zoom
#Annotate zoom how to#
You need to ensure in advance of the activity students know how to locate their own set of annotation tools. Duke Senior Lecturer of Romance Studies Melissa Simmermeyer has also demonstrated how to use Zoom annotation outside of the whiteboard for instructional and icebreaker activities. For example, perhaps after your class finished brainstorming, you might ask students to individually use the stamp tool to place a check or star by an idea they particularly liked, as illustrated by the example below.Įncouraging students to use the annotation tool gives them another opportunity to participate. Students may also simultaneously annotate on the whiteboard.
Using Zoom Whiteboard with Multiple Annotators
You can save your whiteboard as a PNG or PDF. If you would like to save any of your whiteboard activities for your class, you can do so by clicking “Save” at the right-end of the annotation menu. If, for instance, you wanted your students to participate in a group brainstorm, you could ask them a question (and post it on the whiteboard for clarity) that they could answer by shouting out answers or sending them through chat, while you wrote them down. The whiteboard can also be used to adapt active learning techniques such as “ Focused Listing” to the virtual classroom (you can read about how Learning Innovation has done this in our own workshops). You can highlight portions of the text (using the “draw” tool and selecting the square or circle that looks like a grid), use arrows to call attention to certain attributes of the text (the arrows from the draw function can point in multiple directions) and change text colors and sizes to distinguish notes about the passage from the passage. The annotation tools provide multiple ways to engage your students in course activities. In the above example, I have posted the opening lines from Pride and Prejudice with annotations created in Zoom. You can copy and paste text onto the Zoom whiteboard, so if you wanted to have your students look closely at a passage or problem together, you could quickly make that information available using the text function. Keep accessibility standards in mind when using these features. Zoom provides a selection of colors for text and drawings, and you can bold, italicize or change the font. There are functions that allow you to redo or undo annotations, clear your drawings and clear the drawings of other participants. You can mark your whiteboard using simple Zoom annotation tools, including text, draw, stamps and an eraser. In your main Zoom meeting room, you can use the Zoom whiteboard in place of a dry erase or chalkboard. Using Zoom Whiteboard for Large Class Discussion You do not need a secondary device or stylus to use the Zoom whiteboard, but keep in mind that drawings may be difficult to produce and read with a mouse. If you want to use a phone, tablet or stylus, OIT has created an annotation and handwriting guide. Learning Innovation’s Flexible Teaching website has put together a guide on best practices for using online whiteboards, which includes a comparison of Zoom whiteboard’s functionalities to other options. While the Zoom whiteboard is useful (and conveniently built-into the platform), it may not have the features you need for your particular course, discipline or use case.
Is the Zoom whiteboard the best whiteboard for my class? Zoom provides step-by-step instructions that demonstrate how you can share a whiteboard with your students.
This blog will cover some of the basic functionalities of the Zoom whiteboard as well as how you can use it in your online course meetings this semester. Zoom has built-in whiteboard and annotation options you can use in your course meetings.