Online Whiteboard for Education
Visual Learning and Dynamic Collaboration for Students and Teachers
An online whiteboard creates an open space for teachers and students, making interaction and collaboration easier. Excalidraw looks and acts as a physical whiteboard while incorporating digital features like real-time collaboration, frames for slides, multiple scene management, follow mode, and voice hangouts.
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Excalidraw is designed for both live and asynchronous formats supporting various use cases from explaining complex concepts and presentations to assignments, collaborative projects and more.
Complex Concepts
Unpacking the complexity is where the infinite canvas, follow mode, and laser pointer features prove useful. Create mindmaps, flowcharts, simplify the concept into manageable parts, and visualize interconnectivity and implications on an infinite, shareable canvas.
Collaborative Diagramming
The real-time collaboration feature allows students to work together on projects within the classroom or from different locations, making teamwork and idea-sharing easier. Start a session on your scene or export it to a link and let students work with your entry.
Live Presentations
Frame your thoughts into slides using the Frame tool in Excalidraw+. Scan QR code for remote control, download to pdf or pptx to share later on, and use other essential features.
Online Presentations
Start an online, dynamic, interactive session in real-time. Use follow mode and laserpointer on your Excalidraw.com canvas or use slides and enable voice hangouts in Excalidraw+. Share slides later on using a read-only link, pdf/pptx export or embed it as an iframe.
Assignments
Turn your board and notes into an assignment. Let students collaborate live, let them work individually with an 'Export to link' option, or create multiple scenes in your Excalidraw+ workspace.
Online Lectures
Use follow mode and a laser pointer to track the educator’s annotations live, collaborate on your whiteboard in real-time, insert a web embed to increase interactivity, or start a presentation with voice hangouts using slides.
Private Tutoring
Connect the dots on the collaborative whiteboard. Create notes, link to related illustrations, and track the progress on the infinite canvas. Get organized with collections and multiple scenes, use comments and voice hangouts in the Excalidraw+ workspace.
Summary
Both students and educators can make use of Excalidraw.com online whiteboard for various use cases, from visualizing complex concepts to real-time collaborative sessions.
An online whiteboard provides a safe space to interact with multiple benefits in the learning process.
Specific Examples and Use Cases for Different Professions
Educators
From illustrating complex concepts through presentations to assignments, online whiteboard fosters creativity and interaction in the classroom.
Students
Take notes, create mindmaps, visuals, and illustrations, collaborate with your classmates, and present ideas.
Private Tutors
Facilitate an interactive session in real-time. Design materials, sketch exercises, show, explain, and co-create.
We are currently conducting testing and research on the use case. Are you using Excalidraw for educational purposes? Hop on a chat with us and get a discount.
Why Use an Online Whiteboard in Education
We understand and share your love for deep research. Here you have a few studies on how you can benefit from using an online whiteboard in Education as they:
PLUS
Excalidraw.com offers an infinite collaborative canvas to sketch and co-create. Level up to Excalidraw+ workspace for features such as comments, frames for slides, voice hangouts, read-only links and more.