This tool was suggested by Beth Downing and GIS. Whiteboard.fi allows you to share a digital whiteboard with up to 50 students online synchronously. Students also have their own whiteboard that teachers can push content to as an image and have them manipulate, type on, or draw on. Teachers can see all student whiteboards and can even copy student boards to their own and share them with the rest of the class. This is a great tool for formative assessments, drawing/pictures, or for students showing their work with math problems.
Pros
- Share digital whiteboards synchronously with entire classes
- Teachers can share their boards with pdfs as backgrounds for students to work on
- Students work on their own whiteboard that the teacher can see
- Teachers can copy student boards to share with the rest of the class
- Whiteboards can be downloaded as images
- Teachers can erase student boards
- Teachers can regulate who is in their room
- Whiteboard.fi be used on any device
- Has grids and math formal insert tools
Cons
- Lacks collaborative learning opportunity since teachers and students cannot work on the same boards together at the same time
- Cannot save boards other than as an image which cannot be manipulated later
- class code changes daily so new links/codes will have to be continually posted in Schoology
- Limits to 50 students per room