Whiteboard

Whiteboard activity

Moodle activity plugin to embed whiteboards into the Moodle course.

Motivation for this plugin

This plugin was built to enable teachers to improve collaboration with students using one of the popular whiteboard solutions. This was techincally already possible by using the URL activity, but having an activity for a specific purpose makes it easier for students to understand immediately what kind of content/activity their about to use. Also, the Whiteboard activity makes it easier for the teacher to add a whiteboard.

How to use

The Whiteboard activity is added like any other activity:

1. Navigate to a course in which you have editing rights and turn on editing. 
2. Click on "Add an activity or resource" and pick "Whiteboard".
3. Enter a name for the activity, the board ID and type.

Here's how you can find the board ID:

• MIRO: https://miro.com/app/live-embed/uXjVPfdzxzc=/ —> the board ID is uXjVPfdzxzc=
• Conceptboard: https://app.conceptboard.com/board/42za-8nk7-petm-xdao-aa3i —> the board ID is 42za-8nk7-petm-xdao-aa3i

Please note: 

• The board you're embedding must be configured to allow embedding. MIRO has a good tutorial on how to do this here https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016335640-How-to-embed-editable-boards-into-websites. 
• Conceptboard does not, but it's fairly simple: Open your board and then click the "Share" button in the top right corner of your screen. Then adjust the permissions as needed.

Installation and setup

Please refer to the documentation page: https://docs.moodle.org/400/en/Whiteboard/Installation

See http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installing_plugins for details on installing Moodle plugins

Want to use a different whiteboard solution?

We're happy to support more solutions — please create an issue in the bug tracker liseted below for it and we'll review it. (or, if you know what you're doing, create a pull request)