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OpenBoard is a cross-platform (Linux / Windows / OS X) interactive whiteboard application. It is currently maintained by the Education Department (DIP) of the Canton of Geneva, in Switzerland. Official site : openboard.ch
OpenBoard is intended for use primarily in schools, and can be used both with interactive whiteboards or in a dual-screen setup with a touchscreen and secondary display.
Information about the latest release can be found on the Downloads page.
Main features include:
- Drawing tools (pen, highlighter)
- Many different elements can be added to the board, including text boxes, pictures, videos, music and widgets (native or HTML/javascript)
- Easy management of all these elements through a built-in "library" pane
- Search tools to retrieve pictures, videos and audio from Planète Sankoré, abulEdu.org and Pixabay.com
- Screencast function (OS X and Windows only)
- Desktop mode, to easily annotate anything outside of OpenBoard
- Integrated web browser
- ...
OpenBoard is a fork of Open-Sankoré v2.0. The main differences are that OpenBoard is simpler, having removed some of Open-Sankoré's more complicated features in favour of ease of use, and it is now based on modern libraries (Qt 5.5 on all platforms; Cocoa and AV Foundation for OS X-specific code).