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Annotate Screen Shares
Mark it up, right on screen.
How do you teach?
Pointing at a shared screen with words alone is slow: “no, the other button, top left”. With Annotate Screen Shares, you draw right on the shared screen, and the marks clear when sharing ends.
Saying “click the second icon” five times wastes a lesson. Draw a circle on your student’s shared screen instead, and the mark disappears when sharing stops.
When thirty students look at a shared screen, half are looking at the wrong spot. Draw on it to point things out, and everyone sees exactly what you mean.
In software training, “where am I supposed to click?” is the most common question. Draw directly on the shared screen to show them, and the marks vanish when you stop sharing.
On the classroom display, pointing with your finger only helps the front row. Draw right on a shared screen so the whole class sees what you mean, and the marks clear when sharing ends.
A laser pointer doesn’t show up on a laptop screen. When a screen is shared to the Space, draw right on it, and everyone sees the mark on the big screen and on their own laptops.
When your child is lost on a page, their teacher can draw right on the shared screen to show where to look, and the marks clear when sharing ends.
Free for 2 weeks on any paid plan. No credit card required.
What it solves
- Students looking at the wrong spot
Helps you
Teach better
Part of
Video & audio
The problem
Everyone looks at a different part of the screen
On a shared screen, everyone’s eyes go somewhere different. Without a way to point, teachers describe locations in words and students still look in the wrong place.
The usual way
Teachers zoom in, move the mouse in circles or repeat directions until someone finds the spot. It slows the lesson and loses the students who were already lost.
How Pencil Spaces solves it
Draw temporary annotations right on top of a shared screen to point things out. The marks clear when the share ends, so there’s nothing to tidy up afterward.
What changes
Explanations that land. Everyone sees exactly what you mean.
What it looks like
In practice
A teacher shares a map and draws a quick circle around the river delta. Every student looks at the same spot, and the circle disappears when she stops sharing.
In a 1:1 lesson
Your student shares his browser. You underline the search filter he keeps missing; he clicks it, and the mark is gone when he stops sharing.
In a group class
You share a primary source and underline the date everyone overlooked. Twenty-five students look at the same line at once.
In a virtual training
You share the CRM and circle the field participants need to fill in. Nobody has to ask which box you mean.
In your classroom
You share an article on the classroom display and underline the key sentence. Students following on their Chromebooks see the same mark.
In the training room
You share the budget template on the big screen and circle the column each team owns. The marks clear when you move on.
At home
Your daughter’s teacher shares a picture and draws an arrow to the bird hiding in the tree. Your daughter spots it right away.
