Jamboard

Google LLC

About this app

Jamboard is G Suite’s digital whiteboard that offers a rich collaborative experience for teams and classrooms. Watch your creativity unfold: you can create a Jam, edit it from your device, and share it with others. Everybody can collaborate on the Jam anytime, anywhere. For businesses and schools that use Jamboard hardware, you can use your phone or tablet to join or open a Jam on a nearby board.

* Draw with various pens and colors to bring your ideas to life.
* Share Jams and work together with others in the same Jam in real time.
* Add sticky notes to brainstorm ideas together.
* Bring your Jams to life by inserting photos and stickers.
* Import drive files from G Suite to annotate documents together.
* Highlight objects with the laser pointer tool.


Permissions Notice

Camera: Takes photos to insert into jams.
Contacts: Share jams with people in your contact list.
Location: Find nearby Jamboards.
Storage: Access jam files and photos on your device.

Ratings and reviews

It's almost great. I particularly like that you can have an ongoing session that participants can access at any time after you have logged out. HOWEVER it sucks that there's basically only 2 tools to write with (just a pen and pencil) and there's no changing the size of the tip, also, only 5 colors available (white doesn't count). Handwriting recognition is ok, but not great. Once the novelty wears off it's more of a nuisance.

This is an amazing app but it has one big flaw. You can't costomize the background or have something you draw up and want it to stay as the background or draw on top of it, it won't work. Another nice thing would be if you could edit the shapes more. At least on the iPad it won't let me change the boarder size or fill color. I would pay for that, it would change my life as a teacher! Also if I could make it portrait style to create worksheets:)

Great for making art reference sheets and taking note. I find it hard to put multiple images on one slide. The app makes it hard to expand images because you need to be touching the image with 2 fingers. This is hard considering the images are usually small when 1st placed. You also have to be touching an empty space in order to zoom in and out of the entire slide. This has lead to me accidently moving things.

What's new

Bug fixes and stability improvements.