Annotating on Something Shared by a Student in WebEx

Recently Heidi Moore, a math teacher at La Pine High School, was asking about how to annotate on something her student shares with her in WebEx. This could be so handy, especially as a math teacher. It seems like the obvious way would be for students to share their screen. So we tried that but the teacher cannot annotate on it. After doing some troubleshooting with my teammates, John and Scott, we were able to find a workaround. We found that teachers can annotate on something a student shares if the student shares it as a photo. Here’s a quick video demonstrating:

Let us know in the comments if you have some good tips or tricks when communicating with your students in WebEx.

About Christie Boen

I have worked with Bend-La Pine Schools since 2007. I am an Instructional Technology Coach and District Librarian.