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REMOTE MEETINGS
The Challenges
An increasing number of businesses have been adapting to a hybrid or remote-first mode, especially during COVID, and will remain in this mode post-COVID. If your business is one of them, you likely already faced some new challenges of supporting remote teams to the parity as they were all physically in office before.
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According to our 2021 survey, around 67% of participants miss the genuine feeling of using a whiteboard to explain ideas or brainstorm together.
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"Before COVID, the main reason I need to commute to the office is I can just use the whiteboard during my meetings that day."
- Kristen O'Kelly, Amazon Sr. Program Manager
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There are many options of online whiteboard software, but staring at the small computer or tablet screen intensively can easily result in eye strain.
Or thousand-dollar smartboards, which are typically way out of most businesses' budget to support each remote team member.
The Solution
Turn a cheap whiteboard into a remote collaboration tool with the Boardit web-based app and readily available hardware (webcams, projectors), and save the whiteboard content at any time which means no more rapid note-taking, taking pictures or needing to write down "do not erase".
It's intuitive and cost-effective.
How Remote Teams Rely On Boardit
A projector is needed to let Boardit bring remote participants' drawings to a physical whiteboard.
Not all remote participants have a projector? Boardit app enables those remote participants to join with a digital canvas and their drawings will be projected to the other's whiteboard so that all remote participants enjoy the "One-board" experience.
Step 1: Set up a projector in the room, and face it to the whiteboard. The projected area can be bigger than the board or cover a portion of the board.
Step 2: Face a webcam towards the whiteboard. To avoid the projector light glare on the board, it's better to place the webcam at a corner towards the board.
The following are common setups:
​Setup #1:
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A projector is mounted to the ceiling in the meeting room, facing the whiteboard
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A webcam connected to a computer is placed at a corner to avoid the projector light glare on the board.
​Setup #2:
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A projector is placed on a table freely in the meeting room, facing the whiteboard
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The built-in back camera of a computer is placed at a corner towards the whiteboard, to avoid the projector light glare on the board.
Step 3: Use the Boardit app to grab the written area, and the app will take care of the rest. This includes:
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Projecting other participants' content to the whiteboard
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Streaming the merged content to all participants
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Saving a whiteboard snapshot at any time, and exporting all snapshots after the session
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