Mastodawn

Okay, help: what's a good compromise for a whiteboard for one-off use in a lecture? I want to collect student ideas, group them together and talk them through interactively while showing the whiteboard on a screen. Nothing more.

For a long time I would have used Flinga Whiteboard (https://flinga.fi/) but my employer stopped paying for it. They do pay for Miro but it's horrendously complicated to use, and a steep learning curve for a one-off activation exercise in class.

Is there something simple, freely available (maybe - ideally - open source) that is at the Flinga end of complexity rather than Miro?

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Daltux

I think you could take a look at #Excalidraw, released under MIT/Expat license:

https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw

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GitHub - excalidraw/excalidraw: Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams

Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams - excalidraw/excalidraw

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David Weir 1d ago

@daltux Thanks for the tip!

I did take a look at Excalidraw before posting this, and I think it has the same issues that cryptpad does - no way to simplify the UX/cut down the number of controls, and access control is too simple (read or edit only).

What I (and I am sure my colleagues) want is something with infinite scrolling, a few shapes, a few colours, the ability to lock objects, and that's about it.