Using Vyew’s Drawing Tools

The Whiteboard Tool Palette

Click on the “Pen” icon at the left of Vyew to open.

• Edit Menu – Undo, cut/copy/paste, clear page or selected items, filter objects by user, and more.
• Selection Tool – Move and modify objects.
• Line Tools – Draw freehand and highlight on the Vyew Room whiteboard with color and width options, or straight lines with color, width and arrowhead options.
• Text Tool – Insert text with color, font, size, bold, italics and underline options.
• “Sticky Note” Tool – Post text or voice comments and start a discussion.
• Shape Tools – Draw rectangles and ellipses with border color, border width, and fill color options.
• Delete Tool – Delete any object, depending on user permissions.

Edit menu

• Undo several levels.
• Cut, Copy and Paste
• Duplicate Page
• Clear Page – Remove multiple objects by type. Not undoable!
• Delete Page – Remove an entire page and it’s contents. Not undoable!
• Unlock all Objects – See the Lock tool in Manipulating Content.
• Filter Object – View objects by creator for easier manipulation.

Select Tool

Multi-selecting

Click and drag a box around the objects you wish to select.

Modifying Objects

Depending on the type, you may copy, rotate, resize and more. See Manipulating Content.

Line Tools

• The Pen icon opens three tools:
  • Freehand
  • Highlighter
  • Straight Line – click to add an arrowhead.

• Color Palette

• Line Width – 4 presets: 3, 5, 9 and 15 pixels. Click for fine control between 1 and 50 pixels.

• Arrowhead – for straight line tool only.

Text Tool

• Six font choices: Arial, Courier New, Georgia, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, and Verdana.
• 13 font sizes between 8 and 96 pixels.
• Bold, Italic, Underline.
• Color palette.
• Click the Save icon, or type CTRL-s to leave text editing mode.

“Sticky Note” Tool

• Text Comments – Type text then click Save.
• Audio Comments -
  1. Click the red circle to begin recording.
     If the Adobe Flash Player Settings box pops up, select Allow, check Remember, then click Close.
  2. Click the black square to stop recording and save.

  3. To play back, open the comment and click on the “cell phone” icon.

• Have replies emailed to you.
• Add flags: To Do, Done, Question, or Favorite.

• Click the button near the right center of Vyew to open the comments side bar to see multiple comments.

• At the top, you can filter by user, date or flag; search by term; or display a summary page.

Shape Tools

• The Shape icon opens two tools:
  • Square
  • Ellipse
• Border and Fill Color Palettes
• Border Width – 4 presets: 3, 5, 9 and 15 pixels. Click for fine control between 1 and 50 pixels.

Delete Tool

Hover the Delete Tool over an object. The object will highlight red. Click to delete.

Hide Your Cursor

• Room owners have their mouse position broadcast to everyone by default. Turn this off by selecting Hide my mouse pointer from others from the UserList pod dropdown.
• Collaborators and Moderators may choose to turn this on.