Microsoft Whiteboard for Education is now available for download on Windows 10 and for the Apple iPad

That Microsoft is deeply attracted to gain a foothold in the educational market is something that no one doubts at this point. A market niche in which Apple entered with force but in which it has lost steam despite its efforts, among other reasons due to Google's push with its operating system Chrome OS and the increasing presence of Microsoft.

We have seen how it bets on Windows Lite to promote the use of a versatile and light operating system, how its applications turn to the academic world (Teams is the most recent example and now, to all this, add to the arrival of the Whiteboard for Education app on iPad and Windows 10

Having its origins in the Surface Hub, Microsoft Whiteboard, now Whiteboard for Education, is a free application through which seeks to encourage teamworksince all users can participate and interact in the same project and work with each other in real time. An application that is already available for Windows 10 in the Microsoft Store and for the Apple iPad.

Whiteboard for Education is available for download in all markets. In this way, teachers and students can share experiences and work in academic environments You can access all kinds of multimedia content that can be shared with other users.

A practical example is the one that allows students to create documents using a digital pen, a stylus or even using their finger and share it with Microsoft programs such as Outlook or OneNote.

Microsoft Whiteboard for Education has a series of features that seek to facilitate the work of teachers in their day-to-day work with the students:

• Possibility of resuming the task in a lesson at the point where it was left off.
• Adapt the background of the blackboard with a variety of new colors to reduce visual fatigue and among all of them there is no lack of blackboard color lifelong.
• Ability to use education-themed stickers and decals to collect survey responses and feedback in real time.
• Improved writing on the screen thanks to the Ink Beautification system, which analyzes handwriting and automatically replaces it with more legible strokes .
• Digitize paper jobs. Possibility to convert note images into digital ink thanks to Ink Grab.

Microsoft Whiteboard for Education what it achieves is improving the utility that both electronic whiteboards currently offer and large screens in the field educational, since it allows from creating lessons to developing projects and even offers the option to reproduce multimedia content.

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