Create your own Whiteboard in Google Slides

Both Zoom and Canvas come with a whiteboard option that can be useful for creating presentations and limited interactions. Google Slides allows you to create and prepare your own interactive whiteboard. The resulting whiteboard can be shared with your students, and they can have their own copy to use, either alone or shared with others in small groups.

Here’s how:

Open a new Google Presentation, and give it a name
Under the File menu, choose “Page Setup”

Here you can choose a dimension or set a specific custom size.

If you select Custom, you are prompted to enter the custom size.

Enter the specific size you want and click Apply:

For a blank white background, either select and delete the text boxes or click the Layout button and select the last option in the drop-down window:  Blank.

You now have a custom-sized tabula rasa that you can share. You can then use the text and drawing tools in the toolbar to add elements to the whiteboard:

For each student to have their own copy of the whiteboard, follow the tip on sharing copies of Google docs.

Check back for tips on how to customize your whiteboard.