Drawing tools
The toolbar holds the tools below
Colour and size
Section titled “Colour and size”The colour button opens a set of colors, plus a Custom Colour picker for anything not in the set.
The size button sets the thickness of the brush and shape outlines.
Freehand drawing. Click and drag.
Shapes
Section titled “Shapes”The shapes button opens a menu containing:
- Line
- Arrow
- Rectangle
- Rounded rectangle
- Circle
- Triangle
- Diamond
Pick one and drag on the board to draw it.
Toggle fill/stroke switches between a shape drawn as an outline and one filled with the current colour.
Click anywhere and type. The toolbar changes to text options while you are writing: bold, italic and underline.
Eraser
Section titled “Eraser”Drag over what you want gone. The eraser behaves differently depending on what it touches:
- Brush strokes are rubbed out where you cross them, splitting a long stroke into parts
- Shapes and text are removed whole
Select
Section titled “Select”Switches out of drawing, so you can pick up and change things you have already drawn. See Editing annotations.