Explain Everything is the leading digital whiteboard platform for delivering engaging lessons and collaborating with students in real time. Whether you begin with a blank canvas or save time by importing resources you already have on your computer, creating interactive lessons, tutorials, and recording video has never been easier. 

The interface is simple and familiar, making it easy to get started, start from scratch, or use one of the many templates. One way to make your lessons more engaging is to turn your teaching materials into quick tutorials and explainer videos to share with your students. You can even create group assignments and let your students work together. However you decide to use Explain Everything, it will definitely enhance learning in your classroom.

There are many ways to get started with Explain Everything once you’ve signed in to your account. You can enter a code to join a project and collaborate with your students in real time, create a new project, or open one you’ve already created. Your list of projects can be viewed and sorted in various ways. You can also organize My Drive by creating folders. Let’s create a new project. You can start with a blank canvas, browse through templates, or import a file like Promethean whiteboard files, PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, and more.

 You also have the opportunity to enter an invite code from this screen as well to collaborate on projects from other teachers or students. Templates are a great way to get started if you need inspiration for a great lesson by building upon an already created idea. If you have lessons you’ve made in other apps like Google Classroom, you can import those lessons if you have already converted them into PDFs. 

Once you’ve imported your files, opened a template, or created a blank canvas, you can use the tools to enhance the lesson, record a video, or start collaborating with your students right away.

 The toolbox has everything you need to create engaging projects with familiar tools you've used, and other programs like text, pen, undo and add media. The Add Media button is how you will access Promethean apps and add external elements like videos, photos, sounds and more to your projects.

 If you have exported lessons from other programs as PDFs, you can import them here by selecting Files.

Promethean apps are a great way to increase student engagement, gamify your lessons, and manage activities in the classroom.

Let's check out the spinner first. Whether you want a fun way for your students to choose the next topic or a quick way to randomize items, the spinner is a great tool to add to your kit. You can find it under "Add Media" on the toolbar and can have up to four on the Whiteboard by clicking the plus sign.

Creating lists for your spinners is easy; you can type items in one by one, copy and paste, or import up to 50 items all at once from a CSV file. Just click the title of the list and then "Create List" to get started. After your list is created, tap the center button to spin.

The timer can be an important asset in your classroom by keeping assignments on track, providing an alarm or buzzer when time is up, or measuring how much time it takes to complete a task. It can also simply display the time. It can do all of this because it is not only a timer but also a stopwatch and a clock.

Tap the gear icon to select one of these modes at the top. Similar to the spinner, you can have up to four open by clicking the plus sign. To set a timer, simply click the number you wish to change, type it in, and click the play button to begin.

There are preset timers readily available for the most common time frames; just click the clock icon next to the plus sign and select what you need. If you use a certain time frame a lot and want to have it readily on hand, you can click the pencil icon and edit any of the presets.

The timer and spinner both have settings that allow you to customize your experience. They both have styling options for colors as well as options that are unique to the tools, such as celebrations for the spinner and time display settings for the timer, clock, and stopwatch.

When you are finished with these tools, click the X to get back to your amazing lesson.

Polling allows you to connect with your students easily and do learning checks from anywhere you have an internet connection at anytime. To create a poll, click the Add Media button, then Apps, and then Polling. It will open in a new tab. As you create new polls, they will be saved here, and you can access them and see the results at any time. 

Each poll has an icon which tells you at a glance what kind of poll it is. There is also a menu giving you various options like viewing results, duplicating, and more. You have many types of polls to choose from; make your selection and start creating your poll. Give your poll a title, type your question, add up to five options, and add more questions if you need to. You can customize the poll by changing the background color and adding images. You can also add more text on the page if you need to.

 When the poll is ready to go, click Launch to get started. The launch screen will display the join URL to give to your students to participate in the poll. You can also see how many students have joined, as well as how many responses have been collected. Clicking the View Responses button will show the responses in chart view. By default, this is a bar graph of each response. Switching to card view will show individual responses; names are hidden by default, so click Show Names to show student names.

 Polls are saved in the cloud, so you can reuse them as many times as you wish. Each set of responses will be grouped by polling session.

Creative polling gives your students a canvas to express themselves beyond multiple choice and short answers. Students can type a response and support it with pictures and even annotations. 

To get started, click the add media button, then apps, and then polling. It will open in a new tab. Select creative from your polling dashboard, give your poll a title, then type your question or prompt. You can even leave it blank if you'd rather give a verbal prompt. From the toolbox, you can add more questions, change the poll type and background color, add pictures, text, and annotations. The students will see everything you add to the canvas, so keep that in mind when adding objects.

When the poll is ready to go, click launch to get started. The launch screen will display the join URL to give to your students to participate in the poll. You can also see how many responses have collected so far. Click the view responses button to see the responses. Student names are hidden by default, so click names to display them if you want to see them.

You can enlarge the responses by clicking them if you want to review them as they come in. To end the polling session, click stop poll. On the next screen, you can edit the title of the poll, review the responses, view the poll, or even delete it if you prefer to review the responses later. Polls are saved in the cloud, so you can revisit them and even reuse them as often as you wish. As you create new polls, they will be saved on the dashboard. 

To view responses, click the three dots on the poll you want to review and select view response sets. If you have launched a poll more than once, you will see each set of responses. Find the one you want to see and click view responses.

Staying on the same page with your students has never been easier. You can collaborate with your students in real time or teach them the value of teamwork with collaborative projects. All you need is an invite code. Every project you create generates a unique invite code you can share with students and other teachers. 

Collaborators with Explain Everything accounts only need the code to type in after they've signed in. Anyone without an account will need the invite link. If they're in the same room with you, you can click "Show QR Code" for them to scan. You can change who has access to the project, their permissions, and what kind of collaboration it is. Open collaboration is selected by default, and everyone with edit permissions can work on the project at the same time. 

In the presentation scenario, the audience can see and hear everything you do but cannot manipulate the Whiteboard. Voice chat is available, but participant mics are muted by default. 

An interactive broadcast allows participants to edit the Whiteboard regardless of having an Explain Everything account. Voice chat is disabled for this scenario. Review your account at explaineverything.com for information about broadcast participants and more.

Creating an engaging tutorial or explainer video is easy with Explain Everything. Pressing the record button at the bottom of the whiteboard will capture everything you do on the canvas. You can also capture your voice in the recording. While you are recording, you can choose what part of the canvas should be included in the video. Click the camera icon and the button that says "Camera." You can also change the orientation of the video to portrait mode by either selecting the project at the top and choosing camera frame options or clicking the button in the camera option.

 To end the recording, press stop. The video is now embedded in the project. To share the entire recording as is, click the share button and select "Create Web Video Link." Click "Copy Link" to share it with your audience.

 If you want to rename the video, you can do that right here. By default, others are allowed to download the video; toggle off this option if you don't want to allow that. 

To share just a portion of the recording, select the timer to open the timeline, choose the selection tool, and drag it across the part you want to share. Then select "Create Web Video Link." 

Once your video has been processed, you will get a notification when it is complete and ready to view. On the share screen, you'll see the download button as well as one to copy the web link to share with others. There is also a Google Classroom button to easily share the video with your Google Classroom. If you click the three dots, you'll find other services to which you can share the video, as well as an embed code.

Like many video editing software, you have a set of tools to edit your recordings and explain everything. The timeline is where you can see your audio and video and make adjustments; it will appear once you've ended a recording, but you can also show and hide it by clicking the timer.

There are two lines called tracks, one for audio and one for video; you can lock and unlock them to prevent them from being altered or deleted while editing. The editing tools are above the tracks. The selection tool allows you to make smaller selections of the recording to export as separate video, delete, or trim recordings.

The red line in the middle of the timeline is called the playhead; it marks the current time. You can drag the timeline back and forth to scrub through the recording to find the part you want to select. 

You can delete the selection entirely, which will leave a gap in the timeline. To delete a selection without the gap, use the delete and compact tool; it will shift the timeline to that point. You can also use the delete from here tool to delete everything after the playhead. If you need to split the recording in two, align the clip to the playhead where you want the cut and click split. You can fade in your audio simply by selecting the clip you want to fade in and clicking the fade in button below the tracks.

On the recording panel, there are recording modes; you can use them to either re-record or add new parts to the current recording. Mix mode is the default recording mode that allows you to layer recordings. You can do separate takes for audio, video, add animations, and even create various camera movements. Each take is a new recording on the timeline that can be moved around independently of each other. Overwrite mode will record over unlocked tracks in its path after the playhead; this is the mode you choose if you want to re-record part of a recording. 

You can use audio recording to create quick animated clips to add to your lessons; simply select the mix recording mode and either import a recording from the add media tool or make a new recording right on the canvas. Move objects around the canvas and use the tools to create an animation to accompany your audio.