Whiteboard facilitates multiple users to write and draw on a specific area on a display screen. Whiteboarding is an essential component of a teleconferencing application and helps users in a conference to effectively exchange ideas both visually as well as through audio communication. Digital whiteboards that have digital capabilities enables a user to annotate, mark-up , draw in real-time on any digital format like document, screen, image, slide or picture appearing on the screen. Whiteboarding has become an increasing popular medium of the modern classroom.

In a physical classroom or a conference, which is connected with other people at a distance, the need to communicate visually is of prime importance. Therefore, the ability to mark-up, annotate or draw on a screen helps to keep the listeners interest as well as communicate effectively.

The main toolset that facilitates whiteboarding during a conference are:

• Arrow - pointer
• Freehand drawing
• Empty rectangle and ellipse
• Text tool
• Eraser
• Line drawing
• Highlighter
• Line thickness
• Choice of Fill Color
• Preset symbols marker
• Numbered marker

Screen annotation is a whiteboarding technology that is used to mark up items shown on a screen that will work with any application. UC's whiteboard technology uses an innovative toolset that makes virtual classroom/conference a reality. The features of UC's whiteboarding technology that act as a key differentiator from that of its competitors are:

• The ability to have simultaneous multiple whiteboards.
• Import existing picture files.
• Taking screenshots of active application in your system.
• Review, create, and update graphic information in a whiteboard.
• Hide/Display your annotations.
• Edit or move contents by clicking, dragging, and dropping information on the whiteboard using mouse.
• Cut, copy and paste information from any application into the whiteboard.
• Use different-colored pointers to mark comments by the users in a conference.
• Save the Whiteboard contents.
• Load saved Whiteboard pages that help you to prepare information before a conference, and then use it in the Whiteboard during a meeting.

UC's whiteboarding technology will enhance your business communication by presenting information in a manner that caters to the cognitive and psychological levels of its users.

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