For teachers, tutors and lecturers
Share notes live with a class
When you share a note live, everyone with the link sees what you write and type while you do it, on their own phone, tablet or laptop. They don't need an account or an app.
How to share a note live
Open the note
It can hold handwriting, typed text and PDF pages, such as your slides.
Start Live
Press Share, then Start under Live. You get a link, a QR code and a short code.
Show the code
Show to the room puts the QR code on the whole screen, for a projector. Students scan it, or open pondnote.ink/join and type the code.
Write
Everyone sees what you write as you write it. Pause stops sending changes until you go on, and Stop ends the sharing.
What students need
A browser on a phone, tablet or laptop. Watching needs no account. Students can follow you from page to page or scroll through the note on their own.
Handing out copies
A copy link gives each person their own copy of the note, or of the whole notebook, to write in. Your note doesn't change. If you change it later, Update to now makes the link hand out the new version. Copies already taken stay as they were.
Writing together
With Plus, other people can write on the note with you at the same time, each with their own pen.
Who is on the note
The share window shows how many people are on the note and which page each of them is on. Once you stop sharing, the link and the code no longer work. Copies people took stay with them.
Devices and connection
You can share from anything with a browser: an iPad, an Android tablet, a Windows laptop with a pen or a Chromebook. Notes are saved on your device first. If the connection drops, you can keep writing, and the note syncs when you're back online.
Questions
Do students need an account?
No. Watching a live note needs only the link, the QR code or the code. Taking a copy into their own notes needs a free account.
Is sharing free?
Yes. Live sharing and copy links are part of the free plan. Writing together needs Plus.
How long does the code work?
3 hours, counted again from each time someone joins with it. The link and the QR code don't expire.
What do viewers see?
Everything on the note: handwriting, typed text, pictures and PDF pages.