AWW app

Comments: It is a lovely teaching tool. Far simpler to use than any other whiteboard available on the market. And I have tried quite a few.

Pros: The software is easy to use and share. It works beautifully for teaching. Multi colored pens allow you to highlight messages you want to give easily. You can also assign a pen to an individual so that individual contributions can be noted. It is now possible to save a whiteboard and retrieve as well.

Cons: There are a couple of things that could be improved on. First of all, the one major irritant is the inability to scroll down in case you require more than one screen's worth of drawing / writing etc. Secondly, I find that everybody does not seem to have the same coordinates. I have often found a student of mine writing something at the top of his screen but is invisible on mine. I have had to give him some point on his screen below which he should write. Occasionally (not recently though), the shared board would just stop updating. Having said all this, it still remains my personal favorite as a teaching tool.

Comments: A web-based collaborative space. I can easily (and quickly) communicate with people outside of my company. As an engineer, I often have to communicate with drawings and sketches. This whiteboard is like having a meeting in person in a conference room with whiteboard, except that we don't have to travel miles and miles to get to one another. And after the meeting, you can save a PDF so you don't lose all of the information you worked on.

Pros: The whiteboard is easy to use. It has lots of tools and functionality. You can select from different colors and pen styles to make your drawings easier to understand. You can also add in shapes like rectangles and circles to make your drawings a little cleaner to read. Text boxes and Post-Its also make for a clean yet versatile whiteboard environment. You can also upload images, multi-page PDFs, and PPTs so you can discuss images or documents that have been created in advance. The boards are easy to use. I find it helpful for collaborating with people outside of my company/organization because they don't have to have an account. AWW offers a Premium tier, but you don't have to have one in order to use the software. They also have a VOIP feature in case you are trying to hold a conference call with voice audio.

Cons: Some other competitors have templates so that you can quickly get an outline developed (like a timeline or another form of visual planning). Navigation in the board can be a little counter-intuitive at times. I believe it was intended to be used with touchscreens like tablets and "smart boards". I have a background in engineering and drafting so I naturally try to pan using the middle button, but doing so does nothing in the whiteboard. In order to pan, you either have to zoom in/out to get where you are going, or you have to click the hand in the top right and then you can move around.

Comments: I use it daily to provide online maths tutoring to my students with utmost ease and satisfaction. It's very nice.

Pros: Uploading pictures, drawing lines and shapes, different pen size and colour options. Changing size of the image has become easier and also overall control of the board include features like saving the board.

Cons: Eraser size cannot be changed. No underline options for text. At times the student writing is not simultaneously visible to the tutor.

Comments: I was able to teach with ease without extra steps. I like that I can use any messenger or online classroom available and don't have to switch to use this app.

Pros: I tutor online and use this app a lot with all my students. 5love the ability to work together on the same board. Whether I explain something or my student solves a problem, we can always go and ask questions about different steps, we can mark what was unclear and it helps with discussion a lot.

Cons: It would help me if I could choose a graph paper background or had and ability use other math tools, such as typing formulas or use a protractor to measure angles.

Pros: I like that I can share it with my students. That way they can interact with me and share what they have to share. Its fun and entertaining too.

Cons: It loads slow sometimes. It doesn't connect to the shared party. They can't see what I'm drawing sometimes.