Happy belated New Years to our amazing Vivi Teacher Community (ViviTC)! To kick off 2023, we are excited to share some new updates and enhancements that are sure to enrich your Vivi experience by offering.
- Additional ways to interact, engage, and create with the Whiteboard (including new templates thanks to all the amazing feedback from educators like you!)
- Easy to use annotation tools that will help ensure accessibility and ease of presentation for teachers and students alike
- More options for digital signage (both around design and widgets) that will bring your content to life in inspiring ways
Explore additional details about each enhancement/update and how you can apply them to your own classroom or school below.
Instructional Enhancements:
- New Whiteboard background templates & toolbar updates
We are so excited to release our first set of 9 background templates for the Vivi whiteboard to make Go-Green with Screenshot, Multiple Methods, note-taking, graphic organizers and other lesson engagement activities even easier. These whiteboard templates help you maximize the usage of any screen by turning it into a collaborative learning space.
Some templates include:
- Lined Paper (large and small)
- Graph paper (large and small)
- Dots
- Handwriting paper (large and small)
- Music paper
- With more coming soon
This release also gives you and your students even more workspace – while also adding more customization and accessibility! The updated toolbar includes new colors (for writing and annotating), drawing tools, as well as a smaller, single toolbar for easy access when implementing strategies like Mess-Free Practice.
- Faster annotations for real-time engagement
Updates to our annotation tool make it faster than ever to engage with presented content, streamline the annotation process for teacher and student presenters, as well as Adjusting Lessons on the Fly. The annotation screen is also now edge to edge to allow for full screen interactivity.
Digital Signage Updates:
- Easy, consistent, high-quality display presentations & dynamic widgets
We have released 11 new digital signage templates that are customizable and replicable – to make it easy for anyone and everyone to build consistent, polished, and impactful content to be shared school – or system-wide.
Each template can be customized with:
- Embedded images
- A variety of texts
- School colors
- Displayed in landscape or portrait mode to fully optimize all screens
Based on feedback, we have also added 3 new dynamic widgets for weather, calendar and news to make it easier than ever to display up-to-date, relevant information to your school community. These widgets can be deployed to specific groups of displays to make sure that the right people are seeing the right information.
Looking for ways to engage with other ViviTC members from around the globe? Click here to learn more about the Vivi Teacher Community, share your own Teacher Tips and best practices, earn some swag, and connect with other ViviTC members – both virtually and in person at conferences and get togethers throughout 2023.
