Enable Direct Whiteboard to Whiteboard Screen Sharing
As a user I would like an easy way to connect one or more remote whiteboards together so that everyone participating can collaborate using the full capabilities of the SMART boards.
The current process right now uses the app. The first time setup and use process is:
- Open App
- Scan App
- Click Sharing button on App
- Set sharing session to static link (one time step)
- Get link
- Send link to other team
- Have team type link into whiteboard
- Have remote team click star to save as bookmark
- Use whiteboard session
This setup needs to be done every time a new user leads a white boarding session which makes it cumbersome.
The steps for on going use are:
- Open App
- Scan App
- Click Sharing button on App
- Tell other team to open browser
- Tell other team to click "..." and bookmarks
- Click bookmark that corresponds to my static link.
The additional downsides of the app based approach are:
- It drains my phone battery
- If you forget to disallow the app from using cell data it can use 11 GB of data (that was an expensive accident).
My feature request is to enable sharing directly from the whiteboard. This will make it easier for technically illiterate folk to share sessions between whiteboards.
It should:
- Use the whiteboard's wifi connection to create and power the static/dyanmic sharing link
- Have a button to turn on sharing on the host whiteboard
- Enabling an easy way to see a session ID instead of having to scan with the app on the host whiteboard
- Input for the Session ID on remote whiteboards to join the screen sharing session
Thanks for the suggestion.
We’re in the process of working on a replacement to the kapp whiteboard experience that will allow for this. To preview what it will be like, you can try out Workspace activities in SMART Learning Suite Online now.