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Kaltura Meetings: Meetings Tools
Draw On Your Kaltura Digital Whiteboard
This article describes how to collaborate with your participants in real time on the Kaltura Live Room Digital Whiteboard.
The Kaltura Live Room Digital Whiteboard is a perfect tool for collaboration, brainstorming, and language learning.
Display Your Digital Whiteboard
- Click Tools.
- Select Whiteboard.
💡Instructors/Moderators can add additional boards as needed by simply clicking +Add Board in the thumbnail tray to add a new board to the whiteboard.
Create Additional Whiteboard Pages
- Your whiteboard drawings are automatically saved and remain from session to session – unless you delete them.
- Each whiteboard can support up to 50 pages.
- Use the right and left arrow keys to navigate to next or previous boards (available to Instructors/moderators only).
Whiteboard Tools
Use Cursor
Use Laser Arrow
To Free Draw/Use Pencil
- Select the Pencil icon.
- Click & drag your cursor to draw.
💡Use a touch screen device or USB trackpad to more accurately write equations, music, and more.
To Highlight
- Click the Pencil icon to reveal a drop down.
- Select the Highlighter icon.
- Click & drag your cursor to highlight text on the whiteboard or slide.
To Type
- Select the Text icon.
- Click the whiteboard where you want your text box to be.
- Enter in your text.
- Click outside of the text box to post it.
💡Edit text by double clicking text you posted on the whiteboard.
To Draw Shapes
- Select the Square icon.
- Click the selected Square icon to display a menu of shapes: Circle, Right Triangle, Equilateral Triangle, Square, Pentagon, Hexagon, Heptagon, Octagon, Polygon, Line, Single Headed Arrow, Double Headed Arrow.
- Click and drag your cursor to draw the shape.
💡To fill in a shape, click the Fill box before selecting the shape and the shape will be filled with color.
Undo or Redo
- Click the Undo or Redo arrows to undo or redo previous marks.
- Undo and Redo applies to up to the last 10 edits committed by you – not by others. Meaning, you cannot undo edits or actions by other participants.
- Undo and Redo apply to the current session only. You cannot undo or redo marks from previous sessions.
Set Backgrounds
Formatting Tools
To Change Color
You can select a color and apply it to the marks you draw. You can also change the color of marks you already drew.
- Select the Cursor tool Or select the mark you want to change the color of.
- Click the color you want to apply.
To Adjust Line Thickness
Adjust the thickness of Free Draw, Eraser, Highlighter, Shapes by simply selecting the thickness to apply the thicker or thinner line.
Create Clickable Links
You will now be able to type in a weblink and allow participants to click on it.
- Select the Text tool
- Type in a web address OR Copy/paste a link
💡Participants will be able to click on the link and be brought to that page.
Add Images
Instructors/Moderators can upload images to their whiteboard.