OpenBoard

OpenBoard is a simple cross-platform interactive whiteboard software for schools and universities that allows teachers to prepare lessons and present them in class. It is designed to be used with interactive whiteboards, pen tablets or an ordinary screen and mouse in classrooms, lecture halls and other teaching spaces. OpenBoard is an open source project, and is available for free for any use.

Features:

• Easy-to-use Interface: OpenBoard's user interface is designed for intuitive use and works without registration or complex setup, so teachers can start a lesson right away.

OpenBoard provides an intuitive user interface for creating, annotating and presenting interactive whiteboard lessons in the classroom.

• Handwriting Input: OpenBoard works with interactive whiteboards, pen tablets, touch screens and a simple mouse, so no special hardware is required.

• Built-in Library: OpenBoard's side library holds images, audio, video, animations and interactive widgets that can be dragged onto a page with the mouse.

• Drawing Tools: OpenBoard features a pen, highlighter, eraser, line, selection and text tools, several colors and line widths, and page backgrounds such as grids and lines.

• Cross-Platform Compatibility: OpenBoard is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and lessons created on one system open on the others.

• Teaching Tools: widgets such as a ruler, protractor, compass, calculator, stopwatch and clock help with geometry, math and timed classroom activities.

• PDF Import: OpenBoard can import PDF documents, so existing slides and worksheets can be shown and annotated page by page during a lesson.

• Open Source: OpenBoard is an open source project released under the GPLv3 licence and is available for free for any use.

• Extensibility: the library can be extended with additional widgets and with the teacher's own pictures, sounds and videos.

• Export: boards can be exported as PDF files or in OpenBoard's own document format and then shared through services such as Google Drive and Dropbox.

• Web Mode: OpenBoard's built-in web browser opens web pages inside the program, so online resources can be shown without leaving the board.

• Desktop Mode: the Show Desktop mode lets the teacher write and draw over other applications and the Windows desktop.

• Podcast Recording: lessons and presentations can be recorded as videos with or without sound for students who missed the class.