Google Jam Board

Watch how-to videos on Jamboard

The Jamboard includes short how-to videos that demonstrate how to use many of its features. You can watch these videos right on the Jamboard. To watch the videos:

1. On the Jamboard, at the upper-left, tap menu 

2. Tap Help 

3. Tap a video to watch it on the Jamboard.

How to host a live session

Important: If you don’t assign an owner to a Jam and you close out the session, your frames are not saved!

1. Tap add  to start a new Jam.

2. Tap Menu  add owner and share and enter your email address to add yourself as the owner. Your content will now be saved to your google drive.

3. (Optional) To access a saved Jam on a Jamboard, use the phone or tablet app to select the Jam from  your ‘My Jams’ list. Tap push to board  and select the nearby board you want to push it to.

4. (Optional) To present your Jam to a meeting, tap Menu  join a meeting and enter the meeting name or meeting code from your Google Calendar meeting request. This is covered in more detail in “How to present to Google Meet” below.

5. Tap Menu  close this Jam to exit a Jam. You don’t have to sign out. The next person at the board will not be able to see any previous Jams. Later if you need to get back into your Jam, the owner and collaborators can access it using the My Jams tab on the web viewer or on the phone or tablet app.

How to present to Google Meet (Presenting online to people not in the same room)

You can join meetings and present from the board using google meet. First, create a google meet session on a pc, phone, or tablet. This is accomplished by going to meet.google.com or by using google meet app. Make note of the meeting name or meeting code that you used.

To present your Jam to a meeting:

1. Tap menu  join a meeting.

2. Enter the meeting name or meeting code. For example, you could enter rhills

3. Tap Turn onto present the content on the Jamboard instead of the camera feed.

4. (Optional) Tap turn off to display the camera feed instead of the content on the Jamboard

Jamboard and Google Drive

Jams you own appear in your google drive along with your Docs, Sheets, and other files. This happens automatically when you create or take ownership of a Jam.

How Jams work with Google Drive:

• Open, copy, and share Jams directly from your Google Drive

• Organize Jams in your Drive however you like, moving and copy them into different folders

• Open Jams right from Drive using Jamboard apps for the web, Android, and iOS

Tip: In Drive, you can search for Jam files by entering “Jam” in the search box

How to use the PC attached to the Jamboard

1. Turn on the PC by pressing the power button located on the side

2. Then press the input button labeled on the back of the Jamboard

3. Log into this PC with your normal Network Login

4. Important: Once you are done, shutdown the PC by clicking on the start button, power, shutdown. This allows the PC to shutdown properly.

Note:

This PC provides Microsoft office and Adobe Acrobat and browsing such as YouTube. If a more resource intensive application such as ArcMap is required log into your pc at your desk with remote desktop (see below).

How to use Remote Desktop

1. Make note of the DP tag of the PC that you want to remote into. For example, DP 1518

2. Click on the remote Desktop icon on the computer connected to the Jamboard.

3. Enter the DP tag #, then click Connect

4. Logon to the PC as you would if you were sitting at your desk