Teaching Tools: myViewBoard Whiteboard

You can open and work with files from Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides, spreadsheets, and Word documents, which means you can easily add existing materials into your lessons. The software also allows you to look up images and web pages during your presentations, adding more visual interest and information.

myViewboard Whiteboard lets you record your lectures, so you can save them or share them with students who need to review the material. This tool enhances lessons to be more interactive and accessible.

Creating an account is not required but is recommended.  Having a myViewBoard account allows you more options like saving your work and connecting to your Google Drive and other drives you may have.

Click this link to get started: https://myviewboard.com

Once you click on the link above, you will notice the below options on the top right of the screen, click Try now. 

• Click Sign up with Google

• Select or type in your Harcum email

• Depending on what device you are on it may ask you to log in to your Harcum email, just follow the prompts

• When you sign in for the first time it will ask you to select if you are a teacher, administrator, etc. 

For additional information on setting up an account, click here and select "open in new tab"

When you open myViewBoard, you will see this box display in the bottom right corner.

Click on the Google "G" and when the new window displays, sign in with your Harcum email username and password. A web browser will then open, prompting you to sign in to the Harcum Hatch. Follow the prompts given on the screen.

If you downloaded the Companion App on your phone, open the app. 

Here is the Toolbar you will find in the myViewBoard App on the computer.  Each tool has a different function.  A lot of the tools mentioned offer more options if you click the button a second time. 

1. Windows Toggle - This will minimize your whiteboard program and allow you to use the computer normally but with the ability to annotate and write on the screen no matter what program you open or use.

2. Wireless Presenting and Video Conference - if you enable this it will allow others to share their screen with you

3. Screen Shot and Screen Recording tools - This allows you to record your screen and voice as you talk and do your lesson

4. Move Tool - Used to move the toolbar location

5. File Manager - Open, Save, Export, Share your files

6. Magic Box - Import, web content (YouTube & Image search), Tools, Quizzes, Polls, and More

7. Web Browser -  this allows you to quickly do Web searches while you are in your whiteboard

8. Move around Your Canvas - to give yourself more space to write.

9. Select Tool - lets you select an item  in order to move or manipulate it.

10. Pen Tool - This tool allows you to write or draw on the screen, using various different virtual tools

11. Eraser - Allows you to erase your whole page or certain parts

12. Shapes and Lines - Lets you draw different shapes, including graphing tools and tables

13. Tool Text - this tool allows you to type on the whiteboard or if you click the tool a second time it will convert your handwriting to text.

14/15. Undo/Redo - this tools allows you to reverse or reapply actions