Teaching Board
Teaching Board
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My lessons

Lessons are kept in this browser on this computer. Clearing the browser’s history and site data removes them, so download a PDF or lesson file of anything you want to keep for good.

How to use the Teaching Board

Tools

Live class

  • Press Live class. The first time, Sign in with Google with the account the site owner approved as a teacher. Then press Start live class.
  • Send students the invitation with Copy invitation or WhatsApp. It has the board link and, if you saved one on your desk, your Google Meet link.
  • Students watch until you let them write. Switch on Let everyone write, or switch on one student at a time.
  • Students always see the page you are on. Each student writes in their own colour, and their name shows beside their pen as they write.
  • With Select, point at any writing to see who wrote it.
  • Students can rub out only their own writing. You can rub out anything.
  • Press End class when you finish. Save keeps the board with the students’ answers.

Teaching on a video call

  • Save your permanent Google Meet link once, under My Google Meet on your desk. In a live class, Open Google Meet at the top opens it, and students get a Join Google Meet button.
  • In Google Meet or Zoom, you can also Share screen and pick this tab, so students who can’t join still see the board.
  • Use Laser to point. The red trail fades, is never saved, and students see it too in a live class.

Maths

  • Maths → Equation: type 3/4, x^2, sqrt(x) or press the symbol buttons. It lands on the board as neat printed maths. Click it twice with Select to change it.
  • Graph: type up to three rules such as x^2, sin(x) or 1/x, set how far the axes go, and the graph is drawn for you. Coordinate grid gives empty axes.
  • Ruler and Protractor: drag the middle to move, drag the round handle to turn, press × to put away. A pen or line started just above the ruler’s top edge follows the edge, and shows its length.
  • Compass: press where the centre is and drag out the radius.
  • Number line, fraction bar and circle, clock, base-ten blocks: pick the numbers, then drag the stamp where you want it. Pull a corner to resize.
  • Fill shapes on the left makes boxes, circles and triangles see-through coloured or solid.
  • These printed things sit under your writing, so the eraser rubs out your pen but never the graph, equation or PDF page below it.

English and SAT

  • English → Reading passage: paste a text. It is set out with a number every 5 lines, over as many pages as it needs. You and your students can highlight and write on it.
  • Vocabulary card: a word, its meaning and an example. Look up fills it in from an online dictionary when the internet allows.
  • Writing pages: four-line for handwriting, lined for essays, and Question | Answer for two columns.
  • Class timer: choose a time, including the SAT section times of 32 and 35 minutes. Press the time at the top to pause or stop it. Students in a live class see it too.

PDF pages and zoom

  • Insert → PDF pages, or drag a PDF onto the board: each PDF page becomes a board page you can write on. Up to 30 pages at a time; choose which ones if the PDF is longer.
  • + and − at the bottom zoom the board; so do two fingers, or Ctrl with the mouse wheel. Drag with two fingers or press Move to look around. Fit shows everything again. Zoom is only your own view; students zoom for themselves.
  • On a page-sized picture or passage, Select picks up the writing on top when you drag; a single click selects the page picture itself.

After class

  • Save keeps the lesson in My lessons, ready to open and change any time.
  • Download → All pages as PDF makes notes you can send on WhatsApp or email.
  • Download → Lesson file saves the lesson as a file. Open it again from My lessons → Open a lesson file, or drag it onto the board, on any computer.
  • The board keeps itself as you work. If the browser closes during a live class, open the board again and the class carries on.

Using a lesson again

  • Before class, press Worksheet → Keep this as the worksheet. Starting a live class does this for you.
  • After class, Worksheet → Clear answers removes everything written since, and keeps the worksheet.
  • For the next student, open My lessons and press Use again. A clean copy opens without the answers, and the original stays as it was.
  • To change parts, use Select: click any writing, text or picture, or drag a box around several, then move them or press Delete.

Shortcuts

  • Ctrl+Z undo, Ctrl+Y redo, Ctrl+S save
  • Page Up / Page Down change page
  • + and − zoom, 0 shows the whole board
  • Delete removes the selected picture or text; arrow keys nudge it
  • Hold Shift while drawing a line, box or circle to keep it straight or perfectly round

Writing

  • Your teacher decides when you can write. When you can, the label at the top turns green and says You can write.
  • Pen writes in your colour. Highlight marks words in a passage. Text lets you type. Click your own text with Text to change it.
  • Rub out removes only your own writing. Your teacher’s writing stays.
  • Undo takes back your last change.

Pages

  • Your board follows your teacher. When the teacher turns the page, your board turns too.
  • While someone is writing, their name shows beside their pen.
  • To see small writing, press + at the bottom, or pinch with two fingers. Fit shows the whole board again. Zooming changes only your own view.
  • When your teacher starts a timer, the time left shows at the top.

Keeping your notes

  • Save notes keeps every page of today’s class in My notes on this device. Your notes are also saved for you when the class ends.
  • Download → All pages as PDF gives you a file to keep or print.
  • Open My notes any time to look back at earlier classes.

Equation

Write the way you would say it: 3/4, x^2, sqrt(x), <=, pi. Press Enter for a new line; the equals signs line up.

The equation takes the colour and size chosen on the left.

Add

Reading passage

A long passage runs over several pages. The line numbers carry on from page to page.

Add PDF pages

For example 1-5 or 2, 4, 7-9.

Class timer

The time left shows at the top of the board. In a live class your students see it too.

Save online

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Join your class

Type your name, pick your colour, and join. Your teacher will see your name next to your writing.

Your colour