Using Whiteboard in ShowTime

ShowTime offers a virtual whiteboard in your online training room, allowing you to draw, place shapes, and lay text that is viewed in real-time. Whiteboards help you educate your audience through illustrations and explain difficult concepts to your learners in a simplified manner. In ShowTime's whiteboard, you can use a handy set of tools such as text boxes, shapes, drawing tools such as pen/marker, and much more.

To use the whiteboard feature:

Click on Whiteboard at the bottom of your screen once after you launch your session.

This will open a white canvas board in a new tab. Now, you can begin to draw and practice on this whiteboard using different set of drawing tools available. Note that your participants will not be able to see this whiteboard window unless you share your screen.

To share the whiteboard:

1. Choose Start ScreenShare at the bottom of your whiteboard window and click Select window -> Whiteboard

Note: The Whiteboard contents can't be saved or downloaded for future use.

ShowTime offers various tools like textboxes, shapes, line, pen, marker etc. You can also click on Selection on the top to change colors, font etc. To know how to use these, refer to the video below.

2. Once you're done using the whiteboard, click Stop Sharing at the bottom to stop sharing your screen.

3. To exit the whiteboard tab, click Close whiteboard. This will redirect into your showtime session.

Use external drawing boards as Whiteboard.

ShowTime allows you to use external devices such as IPad, Wacom etc. as a drawing board for your whiteboard. Once you setup the external device, you can start drawing on them to display workflows and training content to your audience.

Here are few guidelines on how to connect common external devices:

To know how to use your IPad as a second display for your Mac with Sidecar - click this link.

To know how to use the Wacom drawing board as second display - click this link.