Use Live Whiteboard for Teacher-Paced Sessions and Live Lessons

The Wayground Live Whiteboard lets you elaborate and highlight elements to further student engagement and interaction. Enabling it on an ad hoc basis during teacher-paced sessions and live lessons helps your students understand better.

You can check for student understanding, engagement, and interaction as well as modify your instructions based on real-time insights into student activity. You can also pull up every student's activities on a live whiteboard to showcase an example to your class to enhance learning.

To enable the live whiteboard feature for a Teacher-paced session or a live lesson, follow these steps:

1. Select the resource you want to start a live session for
2. Click on 'Start now'
   
   
   
   
3. Select 'Teacher paced', customize the session settings, and click on 'Start' 
   1. If you are starting a live lesson, simply click the 'Start' button without needing to choose a session mode
4. Share the join code or join link with your students
5. Once students enter the session lobby, click on 'Start'
6. Now, you can enable the Live Whiteboard during your session. Click on the board icon () on the bottom bar; this is the Live Whiteboard
   
   
   
   
7. Draw on your screen, and your students will see your annotations in real time
8. Click on 'Allow participants to draw' to encourage your students to participate in the session or lesson in real time. Once this is turned ON, you can also check your students' annotations. Learn more here: Live Whiteboard for Teacher-paced Sessions (for Students)
   1. Click on 'if you want to return to your whiteboard to continue any demonstration and discussion.
9. The whiteboards include tools like a pen, highlighter, and eraser, as well as the ability to add shapes, text, equations, undo, and redo capabilities. To exit the Interactive Whiteboard tool, click on the  button in the top right corner of your whiteboard
   
   
   
   
10. Click on 'Close' to stop the Live Whiteboard annotations to go back to your live lesson or teacher-paced session
    
    

Note:

• You need to start and end the Live Whiteboard for every slide.
• You can enable a Live Whiteboard multiple times within a live lesson or an Teacher-paced session
• You cannot activate the Live Whiteboard for homework (assigned) sessions.