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Pinned & Pop-out Video
Faces stay visible while you share.
How do you teach?
When you share your screen, the faces of the people you’re teaching usually vanish, along with every reaction you’d teach to. Pop video out or pin it to the board, so faces stay visible while you present.
When you share a website, your student’s face disappears, and you can’t tell if they’ve understood. Pop the video out or pin it to the board, and keep watching their reaction while you explain.
Presenting to a class shouldn’t mean presenting to no one. Pin student video to the board or pop it out, so you can see the class’s reactions while you share.
Screen sharing a demo usually hides the audience, so you can’t tell when you’ve lost them. Keep participants’ video pinned or popped out, and read the room as you present.
With students in the room, you can see their reactions already. Pinning video helps when a guest speaker or students at home join: their faces stay on the classroom display while you share.
In the room, you can read faces directly. When a presenter joins by video, pin them to the board on the big screen, so the room sees both the presenter and the material.
If your child learns online, their teacher can keep your child’s face in view while sharing material, so they notice when your child is confused.
Free for 2 weeks on any paid plan. No credit card required.
What it solves
- Building rapport through a screen
Helps you
Teach better
Part of
Video & audio
The problem
Sharing a screen hides the people you’re teaching
In most tools, presenting or sharing your screen pushes video aside. You lose sight of the people you’re teaching right when you need to see whether the explanation is landing.
The usual way
Teachers switch back and forth between the share and the gallery, or ask “are you still with me?” and hope for an honest answer.
How Pencil Spaces solves it
Pop video out into its own window, or pin video and screen shares to the whiteboard, to keep faces visible while presenting. Self-view can be hidden or resized, and automatic picture-in-picture is supported.
What changes
Connection, even while presenting. You keep watching the reactions of the people you’re teaching.
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What it looks like
In practice
A teacher shares a simulation and pins her student’s video to the corner of the board. When the student frowns, she pauses and asks what’s unclear.
In a 1:1 lesson
You share a video clip and pop your student’s camera out into a small window. When she looks confused, you stop the clip and explain.
In a group class
While you share a slideshow, you pin a strip of student video to the board. You see two students looking lost and slow down.
In a virtual training
You demo new software by sharing your screen, with the group’s video popped out beside it. When people start checking their phones, you switch to a quick exercise.
In your classroom
A scientist joins your class by video to talk about her work. You pin her video to the board beside her slides on the classroom display, so students see her as she presents.
In the training room
The CEO joins your offsite by video. You pin her to the board next to the slides on the big screen, so the room sees her face while she presents.
At home
During your daughter’s lesson, her teacher shares a picture book and keeps her video pinned beside it, so she can see your daughter’s face as she reads.
