Microsoft Whiteboard

Microsoft Whiteboard is enabled by default for most O365 tenants, you can check this and other settings by following enable Microsoft Whiteboard for your organization.

All your whiteboards are automatically and securely saved in Microsoft Azure, and they’re accessible from your account in the Windows 10 app, iOS app, Microsoft Teams, or on the web. Learn more about where your Microsoft 365 customer data is stored.

Microsoft Whiteboard has always been free to students and education professionals as a part of the Office 365 A1 offer. It’s enabled by default for O365 tenants, you can check this and other settings by following enable Microsoft Whiteboard for your organization.

Yes. Sticky notes and text can be added in Teams or using the Microsoft Whiteboard application on Windows 10, iOS and Surface Hub.

You can use Microsoft Whiteboard for collaborating with your team or classroom to accomplish many activities, including: 

• Workshops  
• Running effective meetings 
• Brainstorming 
• Team sprint planning 
• Project planning 
• Problem solving 
• Incident management 

Using the Microsoft Whiteboard applications on Windows 10 or iOS, you can get started right away by inserting templates on your whiteboards. Open an existing board or create a new one, tap the + button in the toolbar, and tap Templates. 

Microsoft Whiteboard is automatically enabled for applicable Office 365 tenants, including in Teams. You can make your meetings more collaborative by sharing a whiteboard with all participants. That same whiteboard is simultaneously available in the Microsoft Whiteboard applications on Windows 10, iOS, Surface Hub, and on the web.

1. To prepare a whiteboard ahead of time, right-click on the meeting invite in your Teams calendar and select “Chat with participants”. Click the Microsoft Whiteboard tab at the top of the meeting chat to add content and get the board ready. 
2. After joining a Teams meeting, click the Share icon in the share tray of that meeting.
3. In the Whiteboard section, select Microsoft Whiteboard. 

You can access the same whiteboard after the meeting from the Microsoft Whiteboard tab in the meeting chat or using the Microsoft Whiteboard applications, and continue working on it. Use Microsoft Whiteboard in Microsoft Teams.

Resources: 

• 4 Tips for working from home with Microsoft Teams
• Support remote workers using Microsoft Teams  
• Microsoft Whiteboard YouTube channel

Yes, Microsoft Whiteboard was designed for both remote and in-classroom learning. In the classroom, students can focus on listening and learning instead of copying content from the whiteboard as they leave the class with a digital version.

Teachers can run more interactive lessons using a shared whiteboard where students can add their content or react on the content of others. Microsoft Whiteboard is a great tool for group projects, keeping all project members engaged and giving an opportunity for the teacher to watch and provide feedback.

Read-only mode for Microsoft Whiteboard in Microsoft Teams meetings allows the meeting organizer to choose how they want participants to interact with the board. When a presenter chooses read-only mode, all other meeting participants on the whiteboard will have a view-only experience. At any time during the meeting, the meeting organizer can switch between read-only mode, or allow collaboration from others from the Settings menu. For Enterprise customers, whiteboards default to collaboration mode. For education customers, teachers can choose read-only or collaboration mode before creating each whiteboard.

Microsoft Whiteboard allows you to export your board to your OneNote Class Notebooks with the “Send to OneNote” option available from the Settings menu.