The 8 Best Online Whiteboards for Streamlining Collaboration

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With the growth of remote learning, Tutor Management Software can play a key part in helping your business become more efficient. However, there are other apps you can use to make your tutoring services more successful, such as online whiteboards. In fact, a cloud-based whiteboard provides educators and students with an invaluable tool for collaboration.
Whiteboards can not only simplify the process of teaching remotely but also streamline communication among tutors, students, parents, and teachers. By enabling shared real-time access to documents, notes, and resources from different screens, online whiteboards make remote instruction easier than ever before.
With so many choices out there, it can be hard to decide which one best meets your needs. To make it easier for you, we've compiled this list of the best online whiteboards available today – ones that offer features designed specifically with online learning in mind.
Before we get stuck into the roundup, it’s important to remember that choosing the right online whiteboard is essential if you are looking to collaborate effectively with your students.
With so many different types and brands to choose from, it can be daunting to figure out which option works best for your needs. To make an informed decision, first look at the features available on each type of board - consider things like size, sensitivity level, and color options. Make sure the board you go with is compatible with any devices or software that you need. Then look at usability: how easy is it to use the board in question? Does it offer visuals that are helpful to make collaboration quicker?
Finally, decide on a budget that fits your project’s requirements, and then research reviews online to find out which boards offer top-notch performance for their price tags. With this research done in advance, you are more likely to make an informed decision when it comes time to pick the perfect whiteboard for all of your team’s projects!
This list contains a wide variety of online whiteboards to choose from, including the one we use in our new AI-powered teaching and learning platform, Bobbin.
Lessonspace is our whiteboard of choice for our new teaching and learning platform, Bobbin. With Bobbin, you get all the features of Lessonspace's online whiteboard, integrated with smart AI tools for lesson planning and reporting.
We chose to integrate Lessonspace because it's by far the number one when it comes to online lesson recording. There are also many great features that come with this online whiteboard, which really give it a professional look and user experience.
With subject-specific tools and a variety of colorful pens, the whiteboard itself is user-friendly and full of features that make learning fun. It also benefits from a 'leading mode', where tutors and teachers can get full control of what students see to manage focus.
Features you get using Bobbin and Lessonspace:
It also integrates seamlessly with TutorCruncher, so you can run your tutoring business all in one place.
Bit Paper features an extremely simple design but covers a hugely comprehensive number of options needed to hold meetings or teach lessons creatively. Bit Paper is great for brainstorming shared ideas and creating visuals that can be easily shared during presentations.
Throughout the review process, we discovered the importance of a whiteboard being both fun and simple to use. When you go on to the site, you are automatically directed to the whiteboard. No need to download anything or set anything up; you can just straight up create a paper. Alternatively, if you want to track and manage all your papers, the sign-up process is simple; you just need a name, email and password.
Cool features of Bit Paper include:
Groupboard is one of the oldest online whiteboards, with over 700,000 Groupboards having been made, showing its ability to stand the test of time. Its popularity, no doubt, comes from its impressive security features and appealing privacy settings.
Users can password-protect not only their accounts but also each document they create. Business-wise, you could therefore store lesson plans, teaching resources and even sensitive information on a board in confidence that they are secure. This can also be highly reassuring for parents that their children’s information and progress are kept private.
However, Groupboard misses out on the top spot for a notable reason - the cost. For the most secure and effective package, this online whiteboard comes at a significantly higher price than its competition. And while it has a lot of flexibility with integration and offers a demo similar to Bitpaper, straight away, it is clear that the tool is not as intuitive in a number of ways.
Main features that make Groupboard a great option (and potentially justify the cost):
Whiteboard .fi was created by a teacher/developer with a passion to be an entrepreneur!
Very simple and very basic, the main purpose of this board is for informative assessment. It's extremely fast to set up and requires very little effort. You can use it on any device, and all you need is the lesson code to log in and start learning. Whiteboard .fi is ultimately a virtual classroom that can hold multiple students, with their own board space to write down answers.
This seems to be an extremely practical tool that can be used in school classrooms where the teacher can ask a question on the board, all the children reply on their tablets, and the teacher can review all the independent answers on the screen. You may remember the 'Now show me your whiteboards' line when you were in school. Well, this