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The Slate guide

Every feature of Slate, a chapter at a time. Prefer one long read? Here is the whole guide on one page.

Make your marks

  1. Pens & erasers
  2. Colour, size & presets
  3. Shapes
  4. Text
  5. Rubber stamps
  6. Fill & paint — bucket, brush & stroke
  7. The Insert panel
  8. Sticky notes & callouts

Arrange & dress the board

  1. Select, arrange & tidy up
  2. Surface & template
  3. Frame, textures & watermark
  4. Resize & fit to content
  5. Board furniture
  6. A deck of boards
  7. Light & dark

Bring it to life

  1. The magnifier
  2. Reactions
  3. Record narration
  4. Press play
  5. Direct the replay

Save & share

  1. Export: pictures and film
  2. Save, open & carry

At the front of the room

  1. Classroom timer
  2. Cover & focus
  3. Right-click & hold
  4. Growing the board
  5. Image lab — clean up a photo
  6. Fading ink

Live sessions

  1. Start or join a live session
  2. What participants see
  3. Talking & listening
  4. Letting participants write
  5. Focus tools & hands up
  6. Run a quiz
  7. Live polls
  8. Action register
  9. Snapshots & awards
  10. Sequence diagrams from a script
  11. Editing a sequence diagram
  12. Diagrams from code
  13. Styling a code diagram
  14. Air draw with a mouse
  15. Every keyboard shortcut
  16. Charts from your data
  17. Equations
  18. The lesson header
  19. Which one should I use?
  20. Pasting a drawing
  21. Thinking frames
  22. Tables
  23. Mind maps
  24. Video on the board
  25. Calendars
  26. Labels
  27. Lists, symbols & screenshots
  28. Reward stickers
  29. Infographics

The board’s own history

  1. Time machine, milestones & snapshots

Slate for…

  1. Jamboard alternative
  2. Google Meet
  3. Zoom
  4. Microsoft Teams
  5. Online chalkboard
  6. Online tutoring
  7. Record lessons
  8. Timer & games