Whiteboard

Craft's Whiteboard is a great tool for Strategy Meetings, Teaching, and Brainstorming, or it can simply be a way to express your creativity and collaborate with others. 

If you've used other digital whiteboards before, this feature will certainly feel familiar to you. If this is your first time, you'll get acquainted with it in no time.

Here's a quick overview of Craft's Whiteboard. 

How to Create a Whiteboard

Whiteboard Toolbar and Gestures

Background and Grid

Move

Select

Shape

Sticky Note

Text

Arrow

Pencil

Media Assets

How to Create a Whiteboard

While on a document, open the right sidebar. In the insert ("+") Tab, drag or click on the Whiteboard block to add it to your document. 

Use the forward slash function to create a Whiteboard by typing "/whiteboard".

Whiteboard Toolbar and Gestures

Use the button on the top right corner of the Whiteboard to adjust the zoom ratio. While on a Macbook or iPad, you can also pinch on the touchpad/screen to zoom in or out. 

Background and Grid

Change the background and the grid style of your Whiteboard at any time by clicking on the brush icon. 

Move

The hand icon will allow you to move across the whiteboard without selecting any of the existing items.

Select

Use the mouse cursor icon to select single or multiple items at once, for editing. 

Shape

Here you'll find a variety of standard shapes, ideal for diagrams and flowcharts.

Sticky Note

Quickly generate a sticky note

Text

Shapes and Sticky Notes will allow you to write on them by default. You can select the Text function to write anywhere in the whiteboard.

Arrow

Connect shapes, sticky notes, or texts with arrows. Here you will also find the option to format the arrowhead's start or end.

Pencil

To draw freely or create custom shapes. In the three dots button right beside the pencil option, you'll also find a highlighter, the eraser, and the laser tools. 

Media Assets

You can upload images and videos to your Whiteboard. This option can be found in the three-dot menu of the Whiteboard toolbar. Each asset can be of up to 100MB. There can be up to 50 images and 10 videos per Whiteboard.