Microsoft Whiteboard App adds ink grab, ink beautification and MicrosoftTeams integration.

Outside of the obvious, "how do users keep up to date with all the changes", I love the pace of continual development within the Microsoft productivity and collaboration tools.

?Microsoft Whiteboard is another often overlooked tool that used to be tied to just Surface Hub that is available across all Windows 10 devices, iOS (Android soon) Surface Hub and now is finally integrated into your Microsoft Teams meetings

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Whiteboard in Teams Meetings empowers meeting attendees from the same Office 365 tenant to participate in the shared inking and whiteboard collaboration experience regardless of the location and device used and is automatically shared and made available in a new Whiteboard tab at the end of the meeting.

Whiteboard App new features

Ink grab, enables you to take a picture of your notes scribbled on a physical whiteboard and convert them into digital ink on the Whiteboard App. This is simply brilliant since you don’t need to recreate / redraw your sketch from scratch and all of the information is captured. This is great if you start an ad-hoc brainstorm session on a physical whiteboard, since you can easily continue on the digital whiteboard and include remote collaborators in the conversation. To use, simply take a picture of the content and use "ink grab" to transform them into digital ink.

Ink beautification is an awesome tool for people with bad handwriting or that struggle to write neatly on a digital screen, "Ink Beautification" increases the readability of quickly-jotted notes in the Whiteboard canvas, which analyess handwriting and automatically replaces it with more legible strokes/fonts  This feature increases readibility and therefore the afectiveness of learning and collaboration addressing many of the common reasons find difficult to use surface pen or ink.

If you haven't used Microsoft Whiteboard, spend some time this Friday lunchtime (if your not down the pub) and provide your team with an infinite digital canvas by downloading Microsoft Whiteboard.