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title: Navigating Newline Engage Cloud Tools
description: "This guide describes how to navigate tools of Newline Engage Cloud, a free online interactive whiteboard that is designed specifically for teachers and students. ![](https://newline-interactive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Whiteboard.Chat-2.0-Navigation-Help-1-1.png) You may also benefit from [Getting Started with Newline Engage Cloud](https://newline-interactive.com/docs/getting-started-with-newline-engage-cloud/) ### Navigating Tools Accessible…"
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# Navigating Newline Engage Cloud Tools

This guide describes how to navigate tools of Newline Engage Cloud, a free online interactive whiteboard that is designed specifically for teachers and students.

![](https://newline-interactive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Whiteboard.Chat-2.0-Navigation-Help-1-1.png)

You may also benefit from [Getting Started with Newline Engage Cloud](https://newline-interactive.com/docs/getting-started-with-newline-engage-cloud/)

### Navigating Tools Accessible from Top Left Corner as Shown Below:

 ![](https://newline-interactive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-3.26.00-PM.webp) 

1. **Home** - Clicking on the Logo will take you back to the landing page of www.newline-engage.com
2. **Board Type & Name** - Instructor, Student and Group. You can set the name of your board here
3. **Download** - Click on Cloud icon next to the board name to access the drop-down menu below
   - **Copy Page** - Make a copy of this page
   - **Download PDF** - Download this Board as a PDF 
     - **My Board** - Only my board
     - **This Page** - Only this page
     - **Whole Class - Single Page** - Entire class as a single page (including students)
     - **Single PDF** - Entire class as a single PDF (including students)
     - **One PDF Per Scholar** - One PDF per student
   - **Download Student Report** - Download student's grading and engagement report as a .csv file on your local computer
   - **Export** - Export the board in .wbc format for long term saving
     - **Save local copy** - Save a copy of this board on your local computer
     - **Export to uswest** - Export this board to your account at www.newline-engage.com
     - **asia** - Export this board to your account at www.newline-engage.com
     - **eu** - Export this board to your account at www.newline-engage.com
   - **Import** - Import previously exported .wbc format board into your account
   - **Save Copy** - Make a copy of your board
   - **Send a Copy** - Copy the URL and send it to your colleagues
   - **Send Unencrypted Copy** - Some browsers do not support or understand encryption. This is a way to workaround those browsers by sending a link to an unencrypted board
   - **Share with Community** - Publish your board to Community Boards under Manage Boards so teachers around the world could copy your board and benefit
4. **Class Code** - Find the six letters class code near the top left corner of your board. Your students can use it to join your class.

 

### Top Tool Bar as shown below:

![](https://newline-interactive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-3.28.39-PM.webp)

1. **Undo/Redo** - Use these to undo or redo the last action
2. **Refresh** - Reload the board. This is useful to come out of temporary network connection related issues.
3. **Clear & Delete** - Click on the trash icon to access a drop-down menu with following options to clear/delete content of your board or page.
   - **Clear Page** - Clear content of the current page
   - **All Pages** - Clear all pages of this board
   - **Student Pages** - Clear student placed content across all students, all pages
   - **Students and Pages** - Students will be removed from the class, along with all of their content across all pages of the board
   - **Delete Forever** - Delete this board and all of its pages, along with students boards
   - **Delete Page** - Delete the current page from this board
4. **Zoom In & Out** - Regular zoom feature
5. **Zoom On & Off** - You can turn off zoom completely for your students so they do not accidentally zoom-in or zoom-out
6. **Dashed Line** - Toggle between full line and dashed line
7. **Toggle Highlighter** - Toggle between fully opaque line and transparent line as highlighter
8. **Font Size** - Change size of your font
9. **Pen Thickness** - Change the thickness of your drawing pen
10. **Font** - Change font
11. **Color Picker** - Select a color for your board and/or pen
12. **Student Help Indicator** - When a student clicks on Hand symbol on their boards, a notification will show up on instructor board with a list of students asking for help
13. **Class Timer** - Use for timed activities, with optional locking of the class on timer expiry

 

### Top Right Corner of the board as shown below:

![](https://newline-interactive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-3.38.31-PM.png)

1. **Participants' Panel** - Also called **Avatars**, where each participant's avatars are displayed as circles. Click to open list of current participants to the board.
   - **Create Chat**- Only available on instructor's board. It will enable the chat functionality on the board
   - **Create Group Board** - Only available on instructor's board. It will allow instructor to group students together on a single board for group work
   - **Lock Class, Lock Page** - Instructor can lock the class or lock current page
   - **Follow Teacher** - When enabled, students will be forced to be on the same page as instructor
   - **Rename/Showcase Student** - Rename a participant or showcase their board to entire class
2. **Actions Menu** - Also known as **"three-dots" menu**. Next to Avatars or Participant's Panel. Click to open up a menu with following actions
   - **Auto-correct all boards** - Correct all pages of all of your students boards with a single click
   - **Delete auto-correct** - Undo auto-correct, giving your students another chance to correct their work
   - **Chat Language** - Set language of your chat. This is the language in which your students will receive your messages in. Applicable to both teacher and student. A student can also set their chat languages, enabling a teacher's message to be translated into different languages, one each for their students.
   - **Lock all objects on this page** - Lock all objects on this page so they can not be deleted/moved
   - **New poll** - Create a new poll
   - **Open Class Boards** - Browse through boards of participants by clicking on their name from the list
   - **Grading Report** - See your participants grading report with an option to visit a student's board and place a manual grade
   - **Demo Student** - Join your instructor board as a demo student
   - **View student engagement report** - See your students engagement score

   - **Set Background** - Set background color for your board
   - **Set Background Image** - Set an image as a background for your board
   - **Start Inline Audio/Video call** - Start audio/video conferencing that is inline, with videos of your students available directly in the board
   - **Premium Audio/Video call** - Start twilio (paid subscription required) premium audio/video conferencing for better quality and advanced features
   - **Audio/Video call** - Start audio/video conferencing as a separate tab. You can switch between whiteboard and conferencing using lower toolbar tab.

   - **Toggle replication to students** - Disable replication of whatever you as an instructor is writing/drawing on to your students' boards.
3. **Board Settings**
   - **Default Tool for the Class** - Set the default tool for you entire class
   - **Default Board Size for the Class** - Set the size of your board, beyond which drawing/writing will not be permitted
   - **Font for Textbox** - Set font when you type in a Textbox
   - **Starter Mode** - Easy mode for teachers, with limited functionality available. Better when you are just getting started with Newline Engage Cloud
   - **Students see simple tools** - Restrict tools that students see
   - **Students see very simple tools** - Further restriction on tools available to students
   - **Dark Mode** - Set whiteboard in a dark mode
   - **More Settings** - Use this dropdown for advanced setting controls for your board
     - **Customize Student Tools** - You can individually pick and choose which tools are available to your students
     - **Students can only draw on individual or group boards** - Keep this enabled to ensure that students do not disturb others
     - **Students can not add pages** - Enable to prevent students from adding pages to their book
     - **Readonly showcasing** - By default, a showcased student's board becomes a group board, and other students can write on it. Enable this setting to ensure showcasing of a student's board is purely for the purposes of showcasing
     - **Enable webcam for video recording** - Enable your local computer's webcam to capture photo, video
     - **Draw dots on click** - Easy way to draw dots on your board
     - **Only logged in users can join** - Enable to ensure that only students with registered accounts at whiteboard are allowed to join your board when you send the invite link
     - **Enable enter in textbox** - Allow linefeed inside Textbox by pressing Enter
     - **Enable speech to text** - Enable transcription of speech into text
     - **Disable immersive reader** - Disable read-aloud using immersive reader
     - **Pen and board color match** - By default each time you choose a different color under Color Picker, both pen and board change their color. You can disable that to only change color of your writing/drawing pen
     - **Disable right and double click** - Disable all right click menu options
     - **Disable Wobot** - Do not show our AI-enabled chat-bot as a way to get support
4. **Invite Participants** - Invite your students using QA code, copying a link to your board, posting them directly at Teams or Google Classroom, or simply sending the class code

 

### Left Side Tool Bar as shown below:

![](https://newline-interactive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-3.58.34-PM.png)

1. **Drawing Tools** - The following options are available to draw on your board. Most are self-explanatory.
   - **Pen (Click & Draw) - Simply click anywhere on the board and start drawing**
   - **Line  **
   - **Arrow**
   - **Curve**
   - **Double Arrow**
   - **Shapes**
     - **Circle**
     - **Rectangle**
     - **Triangle**
     - **Polygon**
   - **Magic Draw** - Use this for assisted drawing. As you make an attempt at drawing, it will suggest matching professionally drawn objects that you can select and place on the board
2. **Write** - The following options are available to write/place text on your board. Most are self-explanatory.
   - **Click & Type** - Simply click anywhere on the board and a textbox will appear where you can type your text
   - **Rich Text** - If you wish to place long-form text on the board, use this editor with advanced editing options
   - **Speech to Text Button**- Place a button on the board specially designed for young kids to click, record answers and transcribe them on the board
   - **Basic Text Editor **- Our basic in-built word processor, best used with college-lined Grid to convert entire board into a truly digital notebook
   - **Textbox (for answers)** - Use this to assign answers and points (using right click sub-menu), and subsequently auto-correct or give an option to students to self-correct

   - **Hand Write** - Our in-built hand writing recognition option to digitize hand writing
   - **Math Editor** - Our in-built LaTex based Math editor for advanced math
   - **Math Eqn Solver** - Use this to enable multi-step math equation solution
   - **Note** - Place a stickie note
   - **Manual Grade** - Use this in conjunction with Open Grading Report to manually grade each student's board
3. **Erase**
   1. **Object Eraser**- Drag over any object to erase it
   2. **Whiteout** - Drag to partially erase an object
4. **Upload**
   - **File from computer **- Upload a PDF or jpeg, png image file from your local computer to the board
   - **File from Google Drive **- Upload a file by linking to your Google drive
   - **Bingo** - Upload a bingo deck of cards (downloaded from myfreebingocards.com or similar site). Each participant who joins your board will automatically be assigned a randomly selected bingo card from this deck.
   - **Gameplay**
   - **Linked PDF **- Upload the PDF by providing link from a website without having to download it first
   - **Live Worksheet **- Upload any worksheet directly from liveworksheets.com
   - **Photos, Audio, Video**
     - **Add Webcam Photo** - Take a pic using webcam and upload
     - **Add Webcam Video/Audio** - Record audio or video using webcam and place the recording directly on your board
     - **Upload Audio/Video File** - Uploaded an audio or a video file to your board
5. **Tools**
   - **Breakdown **- Use to breakdown a math block manipulative or a currency into smaller denominator
   - **Dropzone** - Place a dropzone for auto-counting of currencies and math manipulative blocks, or creating math equations
   - **Grading Report** - View student grading report
   - **Grids **- We support the following background grids for drawing, writing, graph work, music etc.: Grid, Big Grid, Isometric Grid, Hand writing, College lined, Red & white, Coordinate plane, Graph paper 5x5, Graph paper 10x10, Primary lined, Programming, Music sheet, Syllaboard, Elkonin, Grid painter, Grid box, Dot painter, Clear grid
   - **Infinite Cloner **- Enable infinite numbers of clones for an object
   - **Pause Animations** - Stop animated objects
   - **Select/Crop** - Crop part of an image/PDF
   - **Math Cards** - Use to show combining smaller denominations into larger ones, or to breakdown larger denominations into smaller ones, and optionally combine with place value chart
   - **Chatle (Wordle)** - Play Newline Engage Cloud's clone of the popular wordle game, and observe students play it in real-time
   - **Time Machine **- Place it on a student's board to go back in time to see how they progressed while working on their assignments
6. **Select** - To select an object for access to its right-click menu
7. **Move & Resize** - To move or resize or rotate an object
8. **Lasso** - To select multiple objects and group them
9. **Pan**

 

### Lower Tool Bar shown below:

### ![](https://newline-interactive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-4.00.03-PM.webp)

1. **Page Number** - Type in the page number of the booklet you wish to go to
2. **Prev & Next Page** - Use to flip through pages of your booklet
3. **Thumbview** - See the thumbnail of each page of your booklet, rearrange pages, delete and insert pages to your booklet or password protect pages to create digital escape rooms
4. **Grid View** - To see students boards in a grid, for observing their progress in real-time
5. **Manage Boards** - To go to a listing of all of your boards, manage them in folders or sub-folders, and to manage your boards' lifetimes

 

### Right Side Tool Bar as shown below

![](https://newline-interactive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Screenshot-2022-02-24-at-4.01.48-PM.png)

1. **Full Screen Mode** - Switch board into full screen mode
2. **Gizmos**- The following static images are available to post on your board to facilitate creation of interactive lesson boards
   - **Favorites** - You can mark any of the below as your favorite and access them from this first menu option without having to scroll down or finding them
   - **Alphabets** - The following alphabet characters are available to teach languages
     - **ASL**, **English**, **English Letters**, **French**, **Hindi**, **Marathi**, **Russian**, **Tamil**

   - **Animals & People** - The following categories of stickers and images are available
     - **Animals**, **Candies**, **Clothes**, **Faces**, **Food**, **Hobbies**

   - **Currencies** - The following currencies are available
     - **Argentinian Currency**, **AU (Australian)**, **Canadian**, **Chinese**, **EU**, **Indian**, **Japanese**, **Malaysian**, **Singapore**, **Taiwan**, **UK**, **US**

   - **Experiments**
     - **Biology**, **Chemistry**, **Electrical**, **Experiments**

   - **Festivals** - This is a seasonal list of festival symbols, stickers that we keep changing

   - **Math** - The following math symbols and manipulatives are available to teach math** **
     - **Math Symbols**
     - **Manipulatives**

   - **Shapes & Patterns** - We support the following shapes and patterns
     - **3D Shapes**
     - **Patterns**
   - **Stickers** - A wide range of emojis, stickers, rewards and feedback available to give personalized attention to your students
     - **Emojis & Stickers**
     - **Feedback**
     - **Reward**
   - **Others**
     - **Block Code **
     - **Comic**
     - **Game**
     - **Icons**
     - **Mind Maps**
     - **Music**
     - **Phonogram**
     - **Robots**
     - **Weather**
3. **Widgets** - These are active, configurable, interactive in-built widgets available to make your boards highly interactive and engaging
   - **Add Link** - Add a link to go to a specific page of your booklet, or to an external site, including ability for students to self-check their answers
   - **Clock** - A clock where you can demonstrate time by moving both hands
   - **Colored Clock**
   - **Dice** - Regular dice
   - **Dice Super** - Dice with possibility of having fractions etc. as face values
   - **Editor Molecule** - In-built molecule editor for chemistry teaching
   - **Factory:**
     - **Form** - To create quick polls, surveys and exit tickets
     - **Table** - To place a table on the board
     - **Tile** - To create movable/cloneable word tiles, matching cards, guess-a-word game
   - **Piano** - Place a two-octave piano and use it to teach music
   - **Xylophone**
   - **Rekenrek**
   - **Spinner** - Regular spinner
   - **Student Name Spinner** - Spinner where students names are added as and when students join your class
   - **Student Signals**
     - **Stop Light** - Place a stop light to take pulse of the class
     - **Thumb Signals** - Place a thumb signal so students can indicate up, down
     - **Screen Shade** - To hide part of your board and reveal as part of your concept explanation
     - **Snake Pointer** - To draw the attention of the class
     - **Spotlight** - To draw attention of the class
   - **YouTube** - Place a YouTube video
   - **Website** - Embed a website
   - **Write Software** - Our in-built javascript coder to teach basic javascript programming
4. **My Objects**
5. **Search Palette**

 

### Right Click Actions on objects placed on the board

1. **Add Answers and Points (applicable to Textbox and Dropzone only)**
2. **Add to My Objects**
3. **Advanced Edit**
   - **Flip Horizontal**
   - **Flip Vertical**
   - **Send to Back**
   - **Rotate**
   - **Add Link**
4. **Animate**
   - **Animate-Rotate**
   - **Animate-Move**
   - **Animate-Color**
5. **Clone **
6. **Copy **
7. **Create Duplicate for Students**
8. **Delete**
9. **Enable Student Clone**
10. **Enable Student Move**
11. **Fix Size/Unfix Size**
12. **Last Upd: <name>**
13. **Lock**
14. **Move**