How are people using the whiteboard in Zoom breakout rooms? We reveal how in this post. 63% of people use Zoom for having conversations with friends and family. Alternatively, 89% of people are using Zoom to get work done (Source: zippia).
Zoom Meetings is a proprietary videotelephony software program that was developed by Zoom Video Communications. The free plan allows up to 100 concurrent participants, with a 40-minute time restriction. Users have the option to upgrade by subscribing to a paid plan. The highest plan supports up to 1,000 concurrent participants for meetings lasting up to 30 hours.
To download or interact with Zoom Meeting apps suitable for your devices, you can access them from here.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a major increase in the use of Zoom for remote work, distance education, and online social relations. The increase led to Zoom being the 5th most downloaded mobile app worldwide in 2020 at 477.3 million downloads.
That was a brief introduction to Zoom, next we discuss how to use the whiteboard in Zoom breakout rooms.
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How to use a whiteboard in Zoom breakout rooms
The Zoom whiteboard is a simulated white space that you share with other participants in a Zoom meeting. It facilitates you to write down, draw, and design ideas using Zoom’s drawing tools. The benefit it has over a physical whiteboard is that you are saving your drafts and results after ideas generating session, copying them, and working on them later.
It is important to note that 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.
- Firstly, Start a Zoom meeting.
- Secondly, Click on “Share Screen” or “Share”.
- Thirdly, Select the “Whiteboard” option and share the Zoom whiteboard using the button of the same name.
- You are now able to edit the whiteboard as you wish. Tools for writing, drawing, and various stamps are to be found in the toolbar. New pages can be added with the plus symbol in the bottom right. You can turn pages using the arrows in the menu at the bottom of the page.
- Other participants must click “Annotate” at the top of their screen to be able to write or draw on the shared whiteboard.
NOTE: By clicking on “Clear”, you are either deleting all drawings, only your drawings, or only the drawings of others.
To save the whiteboard – Zoom
- To save the whiteboard once it’s full of notes or drawings, select the “Save” option in the toolbar. If you click on the arrow symbol, you have the choice between PGN or PDF formats.
- When you have finished working on the whiteboard, click “Stop Share”
That is how you can use the whiteboard in Zoom breakout rooms