Zoom Whiteboard

Where teams brainstorm, plan, and learn.

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With Zoom Whiteboard, you can brainstorm and collaborate on a persistent, expandable, digital canvas. In-person and remote teams can ideate from Zoom-enabled devices, providing you and your team with the intuitive features you need to collaborate.

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Features and Use Cases

Gather your team.

Collaborate with your team or peers by initiating a virtual whiteboard from within a Zoom meeting.

Interactive whiteboard collaboration.

Brainstorm fast and efficiently with smart connectors, sticky notes, drawing tools, and comments.

Ideate, organize, and act.

Categorize information in real-time with sticky notes.

Share whiteboards with others.

Easily share your online whiteboards with others using the share sheet.

Access on any device.

Whiteboard collaboration on your Zoom client for desktop, web browser, or Zoom Room for Touch.

Use Cases

Start something now and share it later.

Create a whiteboard wherever you are and collaborate instantly. Share it with anyone who has a Zoom account to work together in real time.

Green Icon check Use built-in whiteboarding tools to expand and clarify your ideas.

Access your whiteboard from any supported device, including browsers, Zoom clients, and Zoom Rooms for Touch.

Designed for instruction and interactive presentations.

Zoom Whiteboards support interactive teaching and presentations on all supported Zoom hardware, from laptops to Zoom Rooms for Touch.

Use room size 55" and 65" digital whiteboards to present and collaborate with groups of people.

Enhance lessons and presentations with touch tools, templates, images, and an extendable workspace.

Leverage Zoom's existing platform.

Zoom's existing platform integrates perfectly with Zoom Whiteboard giving everyday Zoom users a whole new tool and a huge advantage when collaborating.

Create and share real-time interactive whiteboards directly within Zoom Meetings, with flexible access controls for participants.

Take your workshops to the next level by offering whole new ways to work together using all of what Zoom has to offer.

Get Started and Guides

To get started with Zoom Whiteboard, you'll need the latest version or at least the global minimum version of the Zoom app on your device.

 

How To Guides

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  • How to Create a Whiteboard

    From a Zoom meeting.
    1. Start a meeting from the Zoom desktop client.
    2. Click the Whiteboard button on the in-meeting controls.
    3. Click New Whiteboard.
    4. Click the arrow next to All Participants can edit to choose what permissions you would like participants to have.
    5. Click Open and Collaborate.
    6. The whiteboard will open in your meeting window. 

  • How to Share a Whiteboard

    1. Once you have created a whiteboard, click Share at the top right to send the whiteboard to others.
    2. Enter the email addresses of the people you would like to share the whiteboard with and set their permissions. Click Send.
    3. Alternatively, click Copy Link and then paste the link in a message or email to send to others.

  • How to Manage, Access, and Delete a Whiteboard

    Managing, Accessing, and Deleting Whiteboards from the Zoom Desktop Client
    1. Sign in to the Zoom desktop client. 
    2. Click the Whiteboards button at the top right.
    3. Choose one of the following options on the left:
      • All Whiteboards: Displays all whiteboards visible to the user from the filters below.
      • Recent: Displays the most recently opened or edited whiteboards.
      • My Whiteboards: Displays all whiteboards that the user has created.
      • Shared with Me: Displays all whiteboards others have shared with the user.
      • Starred: Displays whiteboards that have been starred by the user.
      • Trash: Displays all whiteboards that have been moved to the trash.
    4. (Optional) Click the ellipses icon next to the whiteboard you want to manage, then choose from the following options:
      • Share: Select other users on the account to share with.
      • Lock: Temporarily prevents editors, commenters, and viewers from opening and editing a document, while owners and co-owners retain full editing functionality.
      • Star this Whiteboard: Adds the whiteboard to the Starred page. 
      • Open in new tab: Navigate to a new browser tab to open the whiteboard.
      • View activity: View a log of creation and all modifications of the whiteboard.
      • Move to: Relocate the Whiteboard to another folder.
      • Rename: Change the name of the whiteboard.
      • Duplicate: Makes an exact copy of the whiteboard. The title can be changed before the copy is created.
      • Move to Trash: Moves the whiteboard to the Trash tab.
    5. (Optional) Click the whiteboard icon you would like to open.

  • How to Close/Exit an Active Whiteboard

    When sharing a Zoom whiteboard, select the red X in the pop-up bar. See screengrab below for reference.

  • How to Use the Whiteboard Tools

    Whiteboard tools are located on the left of the screen. Click an icon to activate a tool; your cursor will change to show the selected mode.

    Click on the canvas to create objects or use the Select tool to modify objects' properties.

    See Zoom’s Whiteboard tools guide for more details on each tool.

Learn More

To see how you can enhance your team's collaboration and take your brainstorming sessions to the next level, visit Zoom's Whiteboard support page.

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