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Whiteboard / Layouts & pages
Layouts, pages and the canvas
Choose Landscape, Portrait, or Infinity, organise pages on the left, and set themes and slide tools so the board matches how you teach.
Frame the lesson before you fill it.
What layouts and pages are
When you create a whiteboard you choose how the canvas behaves. Landscape and Portrait are paged boards with fixed slide sizes — Portrait is an A4-style slide preset on a paged board, not a separate board engine. Infinity is a single endless canvas with pan, zoom, and a dot grid.
On paged boards, the left-hand page list is the spine of the lesson: add pages, reorder them, attach speaker notes, and decide what exports. Each page holds its own objects — drawings, images, Library inserts, video, and more.
Why teachers care about layout
Landscape for projection
16:9 (and similar) pages that match screens, Meet shares, and classroom displays.
Portrait for documents
A4-oriented pages that suit PDF marking, handouts, and vertical reading.
Infinity for exploration
One continuous space when the lesson should sprawl, cluster, and zoom — not flip slides.
Pages as lesson beats
Break a session into clear beats, assign pages, or hide pages until you are ready.
Choose the layout for the teaching job. You can still change slide dimensions on a paged board after create when the lesson needs a different frame.
Inside layouts and pages
The create chooser and page sidebar give you the structure; themes and slide tools give you polish.
- Create choices — Landscape, Portrait, or Infinity
- Paged board modes with slide dimension presets (16:9, 4:3, square, A4/A3 and related sizes)
- Infinity canvas with camera pan/zoom and dot grid
- Left page list — add, rename (tiered), reorder, duplicate, delete with undo toast, search, thumbnails
- Speaker notes per page for presenter support
- Export include/exclude per page, plus cleanup for excluded pages
- Themes and page templates for a consistent look
- Slide sorter grid to drag-reorder the whole deck
- Auto-advance when you want timed page flow in delivery
How a lesson board takes shape
Create Landscape, Portrait, or Infinity
Match the frame to projection, documents, or open exploration.
Add and organise pages
Use the sidebar or slide sorter; add notes where the delivery needs them.
Theme, template, then teach
Lock the visual frame before you fill pages with content and classroom tools.
Paged vs Infinity
| Choice | What you get |
|---|---|
| Landscape (paged) | Multi-page board; wide slide presets for screens and broadcast |
| Portrait (paged) | Multi-page board; A4-oriented slide size — ideal for documents and marking |
| Infinity | Single infinite canvas; pan/zoom camera; no page flip metaphor |
Under the hood, paged boards use a paged board mode; Infinity uses infinity. Portrait is a slide-dimension preset on paged — say that to colleagues so nobody hunts for a third engine.
What can live on a page
Each page is a full teaching surface. Typical contents include:
- Ink, shapes, text, and tables from the drawing tools
- Images, photos, and screen captures
- Library inserts — Workshop stations, Quest items, saved creations
- Embedded video and audio, including timed story objects
- Document/PDF raster pages when you import for feedback
Quest classroom tools can also assign pages to collaborators, hide pages, or lock everyone to the page you are teaching.