Whiteboard

Intro

The Whiteboard activity allows you to create collaborative visual tasks where students work together to produce a shared output, such as a poster, diagram, mind map, or annotated solution.

This activity is primarily a collaborative creation tool that helps students externalise their thinking and construct knowledge together.

However, the Whiteboard tool in LAMS is not just a drawing space. It enables real-time teamwork, where students contribute ideas, organise concepts, and build a collective response to a task you set.

When students work in teams, they can co-create a single artefact that represents their shared understanding. You can then review, compare, or showcase these outputs across teams, creating opportunities for discussion, critique, and reflection.

This is a great way for students to learn from each other as they share their knowledge and perspective -putting you in a facilitator role, rather than as content expert.

Why do I want to use Whiteboard?

Use Whiteboard when you want students to create, not just respond.

You can ask students to:

• Develop a group poster explaining a concept

• Map relationships between ideas visually

• Solve a problem collaboratively and show their reasoning

• Brainstorm and organise ideas as a team

Whiteboard shifts the focus from answering questions to building knowledge together.

Educational Insight

Whiteboard activities deepen learning by requiring students to collaboratively discuss, organise, and visually represent their ideas on a shared canvas. As they co-create an output, you encourage them to explain concepts, evaluate different perspectives, and structure their thinking more clearly. This process strengthens understanding, builds communication and teamwork skills, and promotes shared ownership of learning, while allowing you to guide and facilitate rather than simply deliver content.

What can I use Whiteboard for?

Whiteboard can be used for any learning activity where students need to visualise, organise, or co-create knowledge.

Common use cases include:

• Group posters summarising key concepts

• Case analysis with visual breakdowns

• Process diagrams or workflows

• Brainstorming sessions

• Concept mapping and idea clustering

Pedagogies that use Whiteboard: Problem-Based Learning, Team-Based Learning, Inquiry-Based Learning, Jigsaw, Case-Based Learning, Think-Pair-Share.

How does it work?

You create a Whiteboard activity and define the task for your students.

Students then access a shared canvas, typically within their teams, where they can:

• Add text, drawings, images and visual elements

• Organise and rearrange ideas

• Collaborate in real time to produce a final output

Once completed, you can review each team’s whiteboard, use them for class discussion, let students evaluate other teams' work (Gallery Walk) or compare approaches across teams to deepen learning.