Whiteboard
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Whiteboard knowledge base
The Whiteboard
TeachForge’s live teaching surface — pages, drawing, collaboration, broadcast, capture, video stories, Library embeds, and document feedback — for online lessons, face-to-face rooms, and one-to-one tutoring.
One board. Many teaching jobs.
The big idea
The Whiteboard is TeachForge’s live teaching surface. Build pages, draw and annotate, bring in Workshop figures and Quest questions, then teach online or in the room — with collaborators who do not need school identity systems to join.
It is one board with many teaching jobs: a lesson canvas, a presentation stage, a broadcast window for Meet or a projector, a marking desk for PDFs, and a story surface for timed video. Learn the layouts once; the rest of the toolkit stays familiar.
The Whiteboard connects to the rest of The Forge — Workshop Stations, Quest Ladder, Library inserts — without trapping your teaching inside a single slide deck.
How teachers use it
Whole-class online
Share a link, broadcast a clean view into Meet or Zoom, and keep classroom tools (timer, hands, Q&A) in one place.
Face-to-face in the room
Project or fullscreen the board, use Link Screen for a second monitor, and keep private notes off the shared view.
One-to-one tutoring
The same board scales down — fewer collaborators, focused pages, and live drawing without a separate “1:1 mode”.
Feedback and marking
Portrait boards and PDF import support annotation, rich comments, and optional mark schemes.
Guides in this knowledge base
Thirteen focused articles. Open the one that matches the job in front of you.
Core board
- Layouts, pages and the canvasLandscape, Portrait, Infinity, pages, themes, slide sorter
- Drawing tools and page objectsPens, shapes, images, crop, rotate, right-click actions
- Accessibility, identity and privacyA11y menu, non-identifiable names, private notes
People, sharing and class
- Collaboration for teachingTiers, realtime edit, lock, 1:1 and whole-class patterns
- Sharing and embeddingLinks, QR, social share, iframe embeds
- Classroom controls, Q&A and Live DeskTimer, hands, Q&A, focus, Live Desk
Live delivery
- Presentation modeBuild vs deliver, spotlight, reveal, watermark
- BroadcastingClean popup, freeze, Meet/Zoom share tips
- Screen capture and Link ScreenMulti-monitor link, crops, blur, captures on pages
- Recording and YouTubeRecord whiteboard or screen, upload privacy
Rich content and assessment
- Video teaching and timed storiesEmbed media, timed objects, Build lenses
- Library, Workshop and Quest embedsInsert stations and ladders with live parameters
- Document boards, feedback and markingPDF import, comments, mark schemes
Connected to the rest of TeachForge
- Workshop — build interactive figures in Stations, then send them to the board
- Library — insert stations, Quest ladders, and saved creations onto a page
- Quest Ladder — launch questions from the board and watch class progress