Here are some suggested ways that you can use Board, to engage your users in a collaborative space, sharing thoughts and reviewing each other's contributions.

  1. Question Collection:
    • Ask students to pose questions they would like addressed or clarified in the next class.
  2. Showcase:
    • With groups of one - each student has a board of their own, to build up a showcase of their work.
  3. Exit Ticket:
    • Have your students answer some key questions - What did you learn today? What Surprised you about the topic?
  4. Existing / Prior knowledge:
    • Before a topic is started, have students contribute what they know and what they dont know to the board
  5. Reflections on learning:
    • Students can add interesting things about what they learned in class that day.
  6. Weekly Plan:
    • Setting the columns as days of the week, would have students put suggested activities on each day. like a revision plan.
  7. Book Review:
    • A student could add a Note, with the heading of a Book and add a short review - or like to a longer one..
  8. First Reactions:
    • Have students post their initial views about a new topic, or book, resource they have been introduced to.
  9. Tips Sharing:
    • Students can share their tips on the topic, such as how to prepare for a presentation...
  10. Playlist of videos:
    • Students add their best videos for - relaxing, exercising etc.
  11. Brainstorming:
    • Brainstorming on a topic or a project, students share their ideas and comments.
  12. Sharing Bookmarks:
    • Each student shares a bookmark of an interesting resource, blog post, with a short explanation of why its useful
  13. Guest Wall:
    • Let attendees share their first impressions of an event (MTmoot)
  14. Student voting:
    • When different ideas are added to the board, the students can choose to star some and the board can be set to order by votes.
  15. SWOT Analysis - Each of 4 columns would represent the four aspects of the S.W.O.T analysis:
    • Strengths
    • Weaknesses
    • Opportunities
    • Threats
  16. Evidence Gathering:
    • Have the students work together collecting evidence on a topic.
  17. Kanban Board - Each column representing a "sprint" or todo column, with a completed column or like a kanban board. with columns for:
    • Backlog
    • In Progress
    • Peer Review
    • In test
    • Done
    • Blocked
  18. Pros and Cons discussion:
    • Let students post their views on a topic, in the pro or con columns
  19. Temperature Check:
    • Ask Students to add in how they are feeling about the subject, progress etc..
  20. Goal Board:
    • Student to post up goals they would like to see achieved in the class.
  21. Group Project Work:
    • Turn on Separated groups so project teams (or breakout rooms in zoom) can collaborate together for their chosen project.
  22. Compliment Sharing:
    • Each student can add a compliment to another student.
  23. Wishlist:
    • Students can post their wishes for what is covered next or what projects they would like to do
  24. Note taking:
    • Collaborative notetaking for students during a lecture / webinar session.
  25. Group work management:
    • Different columns to organize and manage a group project, list of tasks and status. (For example, interesting sources, to do, doing, to review...)
  26. Book analysis:
    • A column for each character of a novel, posts with information about them, quotes, ...)
  27. Where are you?:
    • A column for each phase of the project. Each participant can add a post in the current phase explaining its aims.
  28. Problems and solutions:
    • Participants add a problem they had and how did they solve it. Columns could be main areas, so problems are topic organized.
  29. Pros and Cons discussion from multiple perspectives:
    • Let students post their views on a topic, in the pro or con columns and taking different perspectives or roles.
  30. Multidisciplinar understanding:
    • Given a topic, create different columns about how it is seen from different disciplnes or perspectives. For example, in reading a novel, adding posts about art, music, philosophy, historical facts... related to the novel or studying an artistic movement, add contemporary references or resources.
  31. Looking for examples:
    • Given a topic, students look for different examples to illustrate the topic.
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