Windows release history

New features

1. PPTX object support: After importing a PPTX file, supported objects from the original file can now be edited.
2. Thin Pen settings:
   • Users can now set their preferred default Thin Pen settings in their FollowMe settings.
   • Find this setting after signing in to myviewboard.com and go to FollowMe > Settings > Pen Settings.

Modifications

1. The following restrictions will be applied to all non-sign-in users (ViewBoard users excluded):
   • Page limit: Up to 5 pages can be created or imported.
   • Screen recording limit: Up to 5 minutes of recording time is allowed.
2. Infinite canvas overview: All objects (including YouTube and web page widgets) in the canvas overview window will be represented with yellow rectangles. This improves overall app performance and stability.
3. Text > save text objects: When saving a text object (through the Adorning Menu), it will now save as an image file.
4. Present mode > Adorning Menu: All functions are now available in the Adorning Menu when in Present mode.
5. Backgrounds > import document file type as background: When importing any document type file (PPTX, PDF, DOCX) as a background image, it will be imported as a 3x3 grid background.

Improvements

1. ViewSonic Originals: Originals resources are now available in the Magic Box.
2. IFP users > stylus fine tip:
   • AI Pen: A stylus's fine tip end can now be used to draw in the AI Pen canvas.
   • Handwriting recognition tool: A stylus's fine tip end can now be used to write when the handwriting recognition tool is enabled.
3. Spin tool (in Adorning Menu): When spinning a selected object, the spin can now be stopped by pressing the object.
4. Page navigation: Press the left [←] or up [↑] arrow keys to navigate to the previous page, or press the right [→] or down [↓] arrow keys to navigate to the next page. (Only when no object is selected.)
5. Moving objects: When an object is selected, press and hold any arrow key to move the object in that direction quickly.
6. New language support: Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian.

New features

1. Object Alignment (select object > Adorning Menu):
   • Align multiple objects vertically or horizontally to easily organize objects on the canvas.
   • At least two objects must be selected to make this tool available in the Adorning Menu.
   • Object exception: Single table containing objects. (Objects must be moved out of the table to align the table.)
2. Divide into segments (Shapes > Rectangles):
   • Divide a rectangle into rectangle segments with equal length.
   • The minimum length of the rectangle segments is 100 pixels and minimum segments are 2 (200 pixels in length).
   • This feature is only available for the rectangle shape (not the square shape).

Modifications

1. Eraser Stroke tool:
   • For non-stroke objects, the Eraser Stroke tool can no longer erase these types of objects.
   • Instead, to delete these objects, users can use Eraser Lasso or Clear All; or select an object with the Selection Tool and use the Delete option.
   • Non-stroke objects include shapes, lines, tables, images, math tools, sticky notes.

Improvements

1. Pin the Page Management menu: The pin allows you to keep the Page Management menu while annotating the canvas.
2. Embed canvas page link (Select object > Adorning Menu > Link embedding > embed page link): When selecting from your list of pages, not only page numbers are shown but their page title as well.
3. Backgrounds > Preinstalled Backgrounds > ViewSonic Originals backgrounds: Originals standard backgrounds are now available from the Preinstalled Backgrounds list.
4. Export lesson > YouTube and web page widgets:
   • YouTube and web page widgets will generate a QR code of their URLs within the widget frame in the exported file.
   • This is to provide access to media in cases where lesson content is printed.

Modifications

1. Online and web page widgets (for example, YouTube widgets):
   • When users move around or zoom in/out of a canvas page, widgets will respond to canvas position and zoom level just as any other object.
   • In other words, a widget's position or size changes as users move or zoom in/out of a canvas page.
2. App integration removal: Zoom and Skype for Business integration will no longer be supported.

Improvements

1. GIF file performance: Experience improved performance when loading GIF files.
2. Object multi-select: To select multiple objects, users can press Ctrl + Left-click. However, be aware of the following exceptions:
   1. Sticky notes can only be selected one at a time.
   2. Locked or movable locked objects or strokes cannot be multi-selected.
   3. Any object or stroke inside a table cannot be multi-selected.
3. New language support: Greek and Kazakh.

Modifications

1. Sticky Notes (in the Adorning Menu): The spin feature has been removed from the adorning menu for sticky notes.

Improvements

1. Background Management:
   • User is able to apply a selected background as an editable image.
   • When enabling this option, the image will apply as a locked object.
   • When enabling this option, backgrounds will not apply in a 3x3 grid.
2. Dropbox: When a large number (e.g., hundreds) of files exist in a Dropbox folder, multi-page view is now supported in the file explorer.
3. Undo/redo now supports the following actions:
   1. Ruler: move, rotate, and resize.
   2. Set square: move, rotate, and resize.
   3. Clock: move and resize.
   4. Compass: move, rotate, flip, change angle, and change size.
   5. Flash card: move and resize.
   6. Protractor: move, rotate, and resize.
   7. Navigational compass: move, rotate, and resize.
   8. Timer/Stopwatch: move and resize.
   9. Online widget: move and resize.
   10. Web page widget: move, resize, maximize window, and restore window.
   11. 3D dice: move and resize.
   12. XY graph: move and resize.

New Features

• ViewSonic Originals content tiers: New tiered Originals content is accessible from within the Embedded Browser.
  • Originals content is accessible by opening the Embedded Browser and then pressing the ViewSonic Originals button on the home page.
  • Alternatively, by opening Originals content through the backgrounds menu, the Originals background categories page will open.
  • Tiers are identifiable by the icon displayed over content thumbnails on the Originals website.
  • Tiers break down by the following categories: Free (no sign-in required), Standard (sign-in required), Pro, Premium and Entity.

Modifications

1. Text Editor: Maximum characters allowed per text object are 4096.
2. Hyperlink text field (found in the Adorning Menu after selecting an object): Maximum characters allowed in a hyperlink field are 1024.
3. Flashcards: Maximum characters allowed per question and answer fields are 4096.
4. 3D dice > Presentation Mode: When in Presentation Mode, the settings and close buttons will be hidden.
5. Pen tools > sub-menu: When setting opacity to 0 in the Pen tools menu, the stroke will be totally transparent.
6. Laser Pen with math tools (Ruler and Set Square):
   1. When using the laser pen to draw strokes along the ruler or set square, strokes will no longer disappear.
   2. Users will also be able to undo and redo the drawn laser pen stroke.
7. Backgrounds Management > Background color/image: When applying a background color or a background image, only the most recent background application will affect the page background.

Improvements

1. 3D dice > images from File Manager > Cloud Drive: Users can insert images into faces of a die using images from a connected cloud drive.
2. Flashcards > images from File Manager: Users can insert images into a flash card answer or question using images from a local drive, connected cloud drive, or canvas page.

New Features

• New language support: Basque.

Modifications

1. Page Management: The Page Management menu will now appear closer to the floating toolbar.
2. Lines (Shapes and Lines menu):
   1. The minimum length of a straight line is now 10 pixels.
   2. Lines shorter than 10 pixels will not successfully create.
3. Windows Toggle > Windows mode > Screen Capture: When user takes a full screenshot, the screenshot will paste onto the canvas's current page. (Previous behavior was to paste on a new page.)

Improvements

1. Main toolbar: User is now able to dock the main toolbar at the top of the Whiteboard window under the title bar.
2. Share session popup: When displaying session info (session URL, QR code), a hint is now available with instructions on how to update the user's myViewBoard Name.
3. Pop Quiz answer limit: Teachers can now set whether students can submit an answer only once or more than once during a pop quiz.

Modifications

1. 2D shapes (polygons only) > Adorning Menu: Now all polygons and the circle offer a Divide into segments option. (Previous behavior for non-circle polygons was to only Show segments.)
2. Eraser > Clear All: The Clear All button on the eraser menu will now remain available while in Present mode.
3. FollowMe > Background Settings > Default: When a default background is set in FollowMe settings at myViewBoard.com, this background will automatically apply to a page when no file has been opened or no separate background image has been applied to the current page.

Improvements

1. Embedded Browser: Browser kernel has been updated to the latest version, which will increase support with more websites.
2. Backgrounds > Color Selection: Users can now apply a background color to either the current page or all pages.
3. Polls & Pop Quiz: UI size (buttons, icons and text) has increased, improving readability for students.

Modifications

1. Feature availability before sign-in: When myViewBoard Whiteboard is installed on a device attached to a ViewBoard, the following features can be accessed without signing in: YouTube search, Image search, Export to PDF, Export to PPTX, AI Pen and Immersive Reader.
2. Themes: Available themes are now simply Light and Dark. (Public Sector and Sports options removed, including some Shape Pen images under Public Sector theme.)
3. Touch gesture rules update:
   • One or two-finger touch and drag moves objects.
   • Two-finger pinch or expand resizes objects.
   • Three-finger rotation movement rotates objects.
4. myViewBoard Clips: The Clips button is now removed due to end of service support as of January 2023.
5. The following objects will not import when opening IWB file type: AI Pen objects, widgets, Shape Pen images and Magic Line Pen strokes.
6. Document camera: When opening a camera feed, the size of the feed window fits within a quarter of the current screen.
7. Paste from Clipboard:
   • When pasting the same object multiple times on a page, the object will paste on top of previously pasted objects.
   • In order to access previously pasted objects, tap-select the top-layer object and move it. (Do not use lasso to select.)
8. Math tools > X-Y graph: Actions taken within the graph tool cannot undone/redone.

Improvements

1. File Manager: Search files and directories with keywords under the current directory in a local drive.
2. Polls: Reorder questions by dragging and dropping them in the right-side menu under Questions.
3. Signing in under different Windows accounts: Sign-in sessions will be stored separately under different Windows accounts. Therefore, these sign-in sessions will not interfere with each other.
4. Finger to Move Canvas setting: On launching myViewBoard Whiteboard, a toast reminds the user that Finger to Move Canvas mode is turned ON, if this setting is enabled.
5. Fade tool (in Adorning Menu after selecting an object): Fade-in and fade-out animations is now supported for lines and 3D shapes.

v2.62 December 2022

v2.61 November 2022

v2.60 October 2022

• No major updates this month.
• Various bug fixes.

v2.59 September 2022