Zoom Whiteboard provides meeting hosts, attendees, and collaborators with tools for annotation, diagramming, and more.
Benefits
Zoom Whiteboard is available both inside and outside of your meetings, allowing you to collaborate anytime. Whiteboards created within meetings can be shared quickly to your attendees, allowing them to view or edit after the meeting ends, and are even available within breakout rooms. Zoom Whiteboard additionally offers a library of templates and shapes to help start your collaboration session.
Key Features
- Start a new whiteboard or open an existing one with a single click from your Zoom meeting toolbar
- Ensure all participants see the same thing, or allow them to navigate on their own, with the “All eyes on me” feature
- Export whiteboards to PDF or image formats
- Switch between a number of tools, including pens, highlighters, shapes, lines, text, stickies, and more
- Leave and reply to comments on whiteboard content
- Annotate using a touch screen or tablet for additional precision
- Organize whiteboards into shared projects
- Share to Zoom Rooms via pairing, including Zoom Rooms for Touch
- Access and edit whiteboards from your Zoom app on your computer, mobile device, or web browser
What to Expect
Zoom Whiteboard is a component of Zoom Meetings, a cloud hosted solution for which Zoom promises 99.9% uptime. See the Zoom Status portal for current service status and past incidents.
Requirements
You must be a licensed user of Zoom Meetings to create and share Whiteboards.
Cost
There is no additional cost to use Zoom Whiteboard.
Getting Started
- Open the Whiteboards tab in your Zoom app, use the Whiteboards button in a meeting, or the Whiteboard page on the BU Zoom website to start collaborating
- Watch a Zoom Whiteboard video tutorial
- Review Zoom’s documentation on Getting Started with Zoom Whiteboard or some specific, helpful articles: