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Screen Share
Share a screen. Draw on it.
How do you teach?
When you can’t see a student’s work as they do it, mistakes surface too late to fix in the lesson. With Screen Share, several people can share at once, and anyone can draw on a shared screen.
Your student says the homework “just won’t work”. They share their screen, you see the problem in seconds and mark it up right on top.
In an online class, asking a student to explain their work in words is slow. Several students can share their screens at once, and you annotate each one live.
Participants learn software by doing, but you can’t see their screens. They share what they’re doing, several at a time, and you draw directly on their screens to guide them.
In the room, students can show you their work by turning their laptops around. Screen Share is for when they work on their own devices in a Space: they share, and you mark it up on the classroom display.
In a workshop, sharing usually means swapping cables at the projector. With Screen Share, several participants can share their laptop screens to the Space at once, and you mark them up on the big screen.
If your child is stuck in an app or website, they can share their screen in the lesson, and their teacher can draw right on it to show what to do.
Free for 2 weeks on any paid plan. No credit card required.
What it solves
- Can’t see a student’s work as they do it
Helps you
Teach better
Part of
Video & audio
The problem
You can’t fix what you can’t see
When students work in another app or website, the teacher can’t see what they’re doing. Problems get described in words, misunderstood, and stay hidden until it’s too late to help.
The usual way
The usual way is one person at a time sharing in a call, with no way to point at anything on the shared screen. Explaining where to click becomes a guessing game.
How Pencil Spaces solves it
Screen sharing comes with live annotation, and multiple participants can share at the same time. Anyone can draw on a shared screen to point things out.
What changes
Richer collaboration. Students show their work and teachers mark it up, right in the moment.
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What it looks like
In practice
A student shares her spreadsheet and her teacher circles the formula that’s wrong, right on top of her screen. She fixes it while they talk.
In a 1:1 lesson
Your student shares his code editor. You draw an arrow to the missing bracket on his screen, and he fixes it before you finish your sentence.
In a group class
Three students share their research tabs at once. You move between them, circling a strong source on one screen and a weak one on another.
In a virtual training
Five participants share their screens while setting up a dashboard. You spot the one on the wrong menu and draw on her screen to show where to click.
In your classroom
Students build slides on their Chromebooks. Two share their screens to the Space, and you mark up their layouts on the classroom display for everyone to see.
In the training room
Each team shares its laptop screen to the Space instead of swapping cables at the front. You move between them on the big screen and annotate each one.
At home
Your son is stuck in a typing program. He shares his screen with his teacher, who draws a circle around the button he’s missing.
