Magic Box

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Business	Education	Online & Classroom

Magic Box is a powerful tools to make your Whiteboard more engaging:

Pop Quiz - quickly call a pop quiz, and have your audience/students draw or type answers from their own devices
Polls - advanced polls and quizzes with many formats to choose from
Throw - wireless file sharing to Whiteboard session
Math tools - including a compass, ruler, XY graph, and more
Video-assisted learning with myViewBoard Clips - high quality educational videos and quizzes
Insert YouTube videos
Safe web image search
Interactive widgets

Magic Box is available in Whiteboard and Classroom. Available features differ between platforms.

Jump to Magic Box supported files

Business theme	Education theme	Online & Classroom

Magic Box in Whiteboard for Windows/Android

How to open Magic Box in Whiteboard for Windows

Open Magic Box by clicking the icon in the main toolbar.

Whiteboard for Windows: the most feature-rich version.

How to open Magic Box in Whiteboard for Android

Open Magic Box by clicking the icon in the main toolbar.

Whiteboard for Android comes preinstalled in ViewBoard IFPs and myViewBoard Box.

Whiteboard is available for both Android and Windows. The Windows version supports more features. All ViewBoard IFPs and myViewBoard Box devices come preinstalled with Whiteboard for Android. Both the Windows and Android versions can be downloaded for free from https://myviewboard.com/download/.

Icons	Whiteboard for Windows	Whiteboard for Android
	File Click this icon to access local or cloud storage such as Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive (click here for cloud integration instructions).	File Click the local drive icon to access additional folders in your Android device: , cloud storages icons will appear after icon
	Sticky Notes Click here to add sticky notes in various colors to the canvas, displaying text messages.
	Tools¹ Tools that can appear over the whiteboard/desktop such as a clock, timer, compass, calculator, random dice, graph tool, and more. Some tools only available in Windows version of Whiteboard.
	Magic Box Camera¹ Click the Camera icon to use your device camera, and insert the picture directly onto the whiteboard. Icon is not displayed in Android version of Whitboard if no camera is connected to the host device.
	myViewBoard Clips² Click the icon to browse curated, safe and certified educational videos.	Not available
	YouTube Click the icon to browse YouTube video. Drag and drop the videos onto the whiteboard.	Not available
	Image Search Click the image icon to safely search the web for images, and drag and drop onto the canvas.
	Online Widgets Click the icon to browse animated widgets for a variety of themes.	Not available
	Throw¹ Click the icon to browse documents that participants have shared with the whiteboard session. Participants can do this via myviewboard.com - learn more about Throw here.
	Pop Quiz¹ Click the icon to create a quiz, which participants can answer from their devices. The teacher can view answers from this icon.
	Polls¹ Click this icon to create: multiple choice, true or false, rating, free response, voting, or random draw polls. Answers can be saved for future reference.	Not available

¹ Available for Premium and Entity accounts.
² Available for Entity accounts.

Magic Box in Classroom & Whiteboard online

How to open Magic Box in Whiteboard online

Open Magic Box by clicking the icon in the main toolbar.

Magic Box in Whiteboard online: a different UI with only core features.

How to open Magic Box in Classroom

Open Magic Box by clicking the icon in the main toolbar.

Magic Box in Classroom: similar to Whiteboard online with some extra features.

Classroom is a distance and hybrid learning solution available for myViewBoard Entity account types. It is fully browser based and requires no software download for teachers or students. Whiteboard (online) is a lightweight version of Classroom without classroom management features.

Icons	Classroom and Whiteboard online
	This PC Insert files from your device.
	Google Drive Insert resources saved in the connected Google Drive account. For multipage PDFs, each PDF page is inserted into its own canvas.
	OneDrive & OneDrive for Business Insert resources saved in the connected OneDrive account. For multipage PDFs, each PDF page is inserted into its own canvas.
	Images Safely search for images from the web.To insert, drag them to the canvas.
	Polls (Classroom) Create True or False or Multiple Choice quiz *Only available in Classroom.
	myViewBoard Clips¹ Insert curated, safe and certified educational videos. ¹ Available for Entity accounts.
	YouTube Search for YouTube videos using keywords. To insert, drag them to the canvas. Switch to presentation mode (bottom left icon) to play the video.
	Webpage Embed a webpage link onto the canvas. Switch to presentation mode to activate.
	Ladder Shuffle Random student or huddle picker with gamification elements. Switch to presentation mode (bottom left icon) to play the game. *Only available in Classroom.
	Widgets Animations that users can insert on the canvas. In present mode, users can click on an object to trigger the animation.
	Sketchfab* Browse millions of 3D models. Let students explore models at their own pace in present mode. *Only available in Classroom.

Supported file types

Whiteboard and Classroom can display files from your device (such as your computer or interactive flat panel running Whiteboard), and from your cloud storage. Simply Open the Magic Box and click the first icon (file icon).

Click here to learn how to link your cloud storage such as Google Drive to your myViewBoard account.

Whiteboard for Windows/Android supported filetypes

Filetypes	Whiteboard for Windows	Whiteboard for Android
Whiteboard files	.olf & .vboard for myViewBoard, .iwb for multiple brands, .flipchart for Promethean, .notebook for SMART,.enb for Evernote¹	.olf for myViewBoard, .iwb for multiple brands
Documents	.pdf, .docx, .txt, .one, .url,	.pdf, .txt, .url
Presentations	.pptx, Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, Jamboard	Google Docs, Slides, Jamboard
Images	.png, .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp, .gif, .svg, .ico, .tif, .tiff	.png, .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp, .gif, .svg, .ico
Audio	.mp3, .aac, .wma, .wav, .m4a
Video	.mp4, .3gp, .mov, .mkv, .m4v, .avi, .xesc, .wmv, .mpg, .mpeg	.mp4, .3gp, .mov, .mkv, .m4v, .webm, .ts

¹ Please use File Conversion to open these file formats.

Classroom and Whiteboard online supported filetypes

Filetypes	*Classroom Teacher view* and Whiteboard Online**	Classroom Student view
Image	.JPEG, .PNG, .GIF
Video	.MP4, .MOV
Audio	..WAV, .AAC, .MP3*
Scalable Vector Graphics	.SVG
Microsoft Word	.DOC, .DOCX	n/a
Portable Document Format	.PDF	n/a
PowerPoint	.PPT and .PPTX	n/a
Google	Jamboard, Google Docs, Slides	n/a