1.5.5. Scriblink Review - by Brian Norman

Scriblink is a basic online “whiteboard” tool. It allows for easy sharing of an online drawing space. It is available at http://www.scriblink.com.

Overall, this tool provides all of the standard whiteboard features that would be necessary in our solution, but does not offer much beyond that. There is no support for any lecture-oriented features like slides or text management. And since there is no support for linking to rosters, it would be difficult to adapt this program from its meeting-oriented design to a classroom-oriented use.

Good Features:

• Easy to use interface

• All commonly-used drawing tools

• Simple to share link with others

• Ability to upload files for drawing on

• Built-in chat client

• Ability to save whiteboards for viewing in the future

• VOIP for remote users

Bad Features

• Potentially insecure (possible to access whiteboards that are not your own)

Missing Features:

• No registration or authentication

• Unable to link with an existing class roster

• No method for importing pre-formatted text or slides

• No support for private whiteboards between two or more users

• Unable to save or manage specific layers of a drawing space