Using the Zoom Whiteboard

Summary

Learn how to use the whiteboard in Zoom to promote collaboration.

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Zoom has a whiteboard feature to collaborate with others during meetings. It has many different tools (draw, shapes, lines, sticky notes, and text) and you can even create more than one page if you need a new "sheet" to work on.

One nice thing about a Zoom whiteboard is you can even set up your own whiteboard before the meeting, instead of populating it during the meeting. So, if you have something for people to look at and update, you can have that ready as soon as you share the whiteboard. And you can save several whiteboards!

To Set Up a Whiteboard Before a Meeting

  1. Log in to Zoom and click the Whiteboards icon at the top to set up before the meeting.
    Click whiteboards at top of Zoom window
  2. Click the New button to start a new whiteboard. You can choose from an existing template or click the X to close and create a blank whiteboard.

To Access the Whiteboard During a Meeting

  1. Start the meeting and click on the Whiteboards icon at the bottom of the screen.
  2. You can click New whiteboards or Exising whiteboards.
    Choosing whiteboards icon from the bottom.
  3. Right-click on the up arrow of the Whiteboards icon to see sharing options. Set the desired options, then click X to close this screen. 
    Screen to set sharing options

Using the Whiteboard

  1. The toolbar offers more options if you click on an option (like the draw toolbar):
    Whiteboard tool options
  2. For more information on the whiteboard, including using tools, visit Zoom Whiteboard Support.

Closing the Whiteboard

  1. To close the whiteboard, click the X at the top of the Zoom screen.
    Screen to close the whiteboard

Details

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Article ID: 139776
Created
Thu 5/26/22 5:05 PM
Modified
Wed 2/19/25 4:40 PM

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This is not something that any UTHSC faculty, staff or student needs to request. You already should have one. By logging in with your SSO into tennessee.zoom.us, you are accessing your UT Zoom Licensed (Pro) account. However, if you are not using Single Sign On or SSO to login, you will not see it.