Annotating a shared screen and keeping a copy on whiteboard
This tool is most effective for helping students make sense of a large task or assessment criteria, but by bringing the information back into the space, you can highlight the key areas the student needs to focus on together.
The screen-sharing icon is on the right-hand side of the communications dock. You or your student can click on it and share your screen without installing any plugins (Note: we recommend using Lessonspace with Chrome or Firefox for the best results).
Click on this icon to begin on the right-hand section of the Lessonspace controls.
A menu will pop up asking if you would like to share your Screen, an Application Window, or a Chrome/Firefox tab; select your choice. Here's how to enable screen sharing for macOS Catalina (10.15) and later.
Click the blue Share button.
When sharing your entire screen, you might experience what's called an infinity mirror effect. Here's how to prevent it. When sharing a Chrome Tab, make sure you tick Share audio if you'd like to share audio as well.
Next, you'll notice the toolbar at the top of the screen share. Utilize the tools provided to annotate and draw on the shared screen.
Please be aware that annotations will be lost once the screen sharing is stopped.
If you need to keep the annotations on your shared screen, as an alternative, you can take a video snapshot of a shared screen and annotate it on the whiteboard. Here's how:
This way, your screen share annotation will be saved on the whiteboard as opposed to being erased once screen sharing is stopped.