What’s a digital board? How to use a digital whiteboar in the classroom? In this article, you will know the advantages of digital board for teaching and things you must know about digital boards.

What is a digital board?

A digital board is a new educational device that replaces traditional classroom blackboards and whiteboards. It is an emerging screen that is interactive. A touch screen digital board for teaching can display text, pictures, and videos and make the teaching material vivid.

With an interactive digital board, teachers can design more exciting projects and content for class, making students more attentive.

Advantages of using a digital board in the classroom

Interactive:

a digital board enables students and teachers to interact at the same time. And more than one student can interact simultaneously. For example, a teacher can have max 9 students’ laptops to project to an interactive board for teaching, or ask a team to do the work on the interactive touch screen at the same time. This adds interaction, especially in interactive games and teaching.

Collaboration- The digital smart board enables more collaboration.

Unlike traditional blackboards, or interactive whiteboards with a projector, the digital smart board enables students to engage in activities when they can corporate on the interactive board simultaneously, and they will perform together not only in offline classes but also online classes. Since digital classroom board can also built-in camera and microphone, it makes it possible for teachers and students to have an online teaching class by clicking a video conference meeting app on the digital whiteboard. The digital classroom brings high collaboration. Moreover, digital whiteboard functions like scan QR codes to download whiteboard memos, and wireless screen mirroring iPhones, mobile phones, tablets, and laptops, all help students to better understand what you are teaching because they can ask questions and submit comments.

Simple to use: Plug and play

Considering digital board price is relatively high, and the functions are comprehensive, people wish to have a smart and easy-to-use digital smart board to make fully utilized. Do not worry, the digital classroom smart board is a plug-and-play device, just power on it, and you will know how to use it. It’s a big version of”Android tablets”, just open the apps, then you will know how to use them. If you do not know how to use it, we have pre-loaded videos in the machine to help you figure out how to use the smartboard for teaching.

Time-saving

The digital board saves a lot of work for teachers like writing on the screen with chalk, and the annotation contents can be saved directly to the whiteboard and exported to email, and phones. Teachers can prepare documents, PPTs, videos and pictures, etc teaching material in advance and present it in class, which greatly saves a lot of time.

Vivid teaching

Whether it is text materials, pictures, or videos, they can be directly displayed on the 4K screen. If you need to explain or insert some content, you can open the browser on the digital whiteboard at any time. You search for content, and display search results, text, pictures, and videos, making teaching activities high productivity and vivid.

Accessible

Students get quick access to all the online resources available thanks to digital boards. You can engage learners from anywhere thanks to the accessibility of the internet. Students can connect with you and their classmates more easily as a result of this.

Compatible with many platforms

It is not only an integrated device that has the function of a computer, projector, Speaker, advertising display screen, and TV. It also can be connected with multiple platforms such as a video conferencing platform( Zoom, Skype, TEAM, etc). Moreover, a Digital whiteboard can also be integrated with the latest class recording system, a book scanner, an external camera, and microphone, etc both a digital classroom system and a video conference system.

Cost-effective-Low maintenance cost

When you buy a digital classroom whiteboard, the price may be high than a projector or projected interactive whiteboard, but the Android digital board can replace more than 6 devices (TV, digital signage screen, computer, speaker, projector, and camera) with its comprehensive and powerful function, so even the digital board price is high, in a whole system, the cost is effective. And you do not need to do much maintenance for the classroom smartboard.

Interactive digital board for online teaching

A digital classroom board is an effective teaching tool. Yes, in a traditional face-to-face classroom, it aids pupils in better visualizing the material, leading to deeper knowledge. And it also enables teachers to connect and corporate with students. On-line teaching smartboards help to record the voices and contents of teachers, and frees education from geographical restrictions, especially under the normalized epidemic situation, and students at home can participate in courses.

Must know about digital boards for classroom

Size: The global market digital whiteboard size is normally 55″ 65″ 75″ 85″ 86″ 98″ and 110″. The size is decided by the standard LCD panels( LCD screen ) size provided by leading large display screen manufacturers like LG, AUO, BOE, etc suppliers.

Specification: Digital board specification is decided by Android and Windows systems, and a Android classroom digital board specification is decided by the chipboard and existing chipboard spec. RAM2G/4G/8G. Storage 16G/32G/64G/128G/256G. And each chipboard has a fixed spec. When designed, in 2022, the leading Android chipboard is RAM4G, 32G SSD, and the highest RAM8G+128G. Talking about the windows system, more specifications are available, i3, i5, i7 processor, RAM 4G/8G/16G, ROM 128G/ 256G/512G, etc.

Digital board price: You can refer to our earlier article: What’s Smart Board Price?

How to use digital board： Digital board is easy to use, you can follow our Youtube instructions: https://youtu.be/qOzQl38Crhw

Digital smart board with pen: You can write or touch on DS’s smart board with a stylus pen or fingers or any object that is opaque (but kindly note it should be not sharp to avoid breaking the screen).

Which digital board is best- It is hard to tell which digital board is the best, it depends on the user’s demand, application, and budge. If you want to know the leading brands and functions of digital whiteboards, you can refer to this article Interactive Flat Panel For Education