Jamboard

When you open Jamboard, you'll see all of the recent jams you've opened. You can click the + button in the bottom right to create a new jam.

Within a New Jam you can:

  1. Draw: Use a pen, marker, highlighter or brush. You can draw from pre-determined colors.

  2. Eraser: Erase something you've drawn.

  3. Select: Choose and adjust a shape, sticky note, image, text box.

  4. Sticky note: Add a sticky note with text. You can choose from several colors.

  5. Image: Add an image from your device, image search, Google Drive or Photos.

  6. Shapes: Add a circle, square, triangle, diamond, rounded rectangle, half circle, bar or arrow. Choose border color and fill color from the menu bar at the top of the jam.

  7. Text box: Add a box where you can type and format text.

  8. Laser: Use a pointer to emphasize and highlight certain items on the screen when presenting ideas to others.

  9. Background: Choose from dots, lines, graph, or dark colors.

  10. Clear frame: Wipe everything off your frame with one click. (Undo if it was a mistake!)

  11. Frame bar: See all of your frames in one place. Add new frames, duplicate or delete.

  12. Menu: From here, you can rename your jam, download it as a PDF, save a frame as an image, remove, or make a copy your jam.

Screenshot of a Google Jamboard. There are numbers 1 to 10 on the screenshot. 1 points to a pen icon. 2 points to an eraser icon. 3 points to a cursor icon. 4 points to a document icon. 5 points to an image icon. 6 points to a circle icon. 7 points to a textbox icon. 8 points to an icon that looks like a laser pointer. 9 points to the set background button in the toolbar. 10 points to the Clear frame buttonin the toolbar at the top of thepage. 11 points to a icon that looks like two rectangles overlapping at the top right of the page. 12 points to the three dots in the top right of the image.
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