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Teaching and collaborating with Zoom Whiteboard

The University of Minnesota recently enabled the use of Zoom Whiteboard, a new tool for visual collaboration.  Key features of Zoom Whiteboard provides a large canvas to write, draw, mark up images, insert sticky notes, and connect ideas using lines and shapes  offers space for spontaneous, dynamic writing and annotation combines the collaborative functions and shareability that many of us are accustomed to from tools like Google Drive The Creating and Collaborating with Zoom Whiteboard video demonstrates how to create a Whiteboard and share it with others: Inclusive and Accessible Practices with Zoom Whiteboard Whiteboards are inherently a visual tool so they are an inequitable medium for people with low to no vision. As of this time, people who use screen readers are unable to contribute to Zoom Whiteboards on their own due to technical barriers with the tool. As additional layers, such as sticky notes, images, and text comments, are added to a Whiteboard, it is challenging for scre