# Introducing Class Whiteboards: Drive Active Learning and Collaboration

##### Mike Lovell

Mike Lovell is the SVP of Marketing at Class. He has dedicated his career to technology and the applications that can innovate the way people live and learn.

•Apr 13, 2022

We’re thrilled to announce that Class's [instructional whiteboards](https://www.class.com/features/collaborative-active-learning#instructional-whiteboards) are now available. This latest addition to the Class learning platform opens new opportunities for effective instruction, active learning, and sustained collaboration in education and corporate training settings.

Designed for learning—with input and feedback from experts from K-12, higher education, and corporate learning and development—Class's instructional whiteboards connect seamlessly with other capabilities of Class, such as [enhanced breakout rooms](https://www.class.com/features/collaborative-active-learning#enhanced-breakout-rooms), to expand the possibilities of instruction and collaboration.

## New possibilities for instructors

Virtual whiteboards can often be unwieldy, making it hard not just to communicate with participants but also to encourage collaboration and creativity. With Class's instructional whiteboards, instructors now have the ability to:

- **Create, save, and reuse** multiple whiteboards, making it easier to prepare content in advance of a Class session and use the same whiteboard over multiple sessions
- **Add pages** to whiteboards, allowing for better organization of material or creating collaborative activities that can be assigned to breakout rooms
- **Easily enable editing privileges** to allow participants to contribute ideas and demonstrate comprehension in real time
- **Use math and science symbols** to easily add equations and formulas to learning activities
- **Add images** to whiteboards, enabling better content delivery and the creation of interactive exercises for participants and students
- **Bring participants together** to the same location on a shared whiteboard to create focus and stimulate discussion

## Support active learning and collaboration

In the physical classroom, whiteboard activities are a great way to drive active learning, engagement, collaboration, creativity—and fun. With Class's instructional whiteboards, you can design activities that spark discussion and collaboration, driving active learning and deeper knowledge acquisition.

Some examples might include:

- **Assigning whiteboards to breakout rooms** for hands-on collaboration, and then bringing the whiteboard back into the main classroom for group discussion
- **Using the same whiteboard** over multiple sessions, allowing participants to review and build upon prior work—and creating a record of learning in the process
- **Providing individual whiteboards** to learners so that they can work privately with fewer distractions
- **Creating warmup and icebreaker activities** using images to make collaboration more fun and efficient
- **Building assessments** that allow participants to use text, images, and drawings to demonstrate comprehension
- And many more …

We look forward to seeing how instructors, learning designers, and learners exercise their creativity with instructional whiteboards in conjunction with the other capabilities of the Class learning platform to change how the world learns.

To learn more about the capabilities of the Class learning platform, including instructional whiteboards, [request a demo](https://www.class.com/demo/) today.

##### Mike Lovell

Mike Lovell is the SVP of Marketing at Class. He has dedicated his career to technology and the applications that can innovate the way people live and learn.