Welcome, OpenBoard!
Continuing with our new proposal to offer hotfixes as an agile and dynamic mechanism for correcting errors or omissions, we now provide Fix Pack 2. With it, our users will install OpenBoard in Escuelas Linux.
Why was OpenBoard not included in the recently released Escuelas Linux 6.13?
OpenBoard was omitted because, unfortunately, its development team is one of those who have decided to not offer binaries for Linux 32-bit architecture. Additionally, the OpenBoard web portal provides a 64-bit version that is not compatible with our distribution. For these reasons, we decided to take over the task of compiling the OpenBoard source code for its correct operation in Escuelas Linux, both 32 and 64 bits, which turned out to be a very complex task and that, when it finished, would have delayed the development and release of Escuelas Linux 6.13.
What is OpenBoard?
It is a great interactive whiteboard with which teachers will have a friendly environment to present their online classes.
-You can make use of a virtual whiteboard to make annotations, just as you would in a real classroom, but to this whiteboard, you can add, if you wish, square or line guides.
-You can open documents or images on the board and use either a virtual laser pointer, highlight, or draw on those objects.
-Teachers can open a web browser built into the board or easily show something they have available on the computer by pressing "Show Desktop."
-Make use of virtual rules, squares, and transporters.
-Make use of many interactive virtual objects, such as dices, scales, tables, multiple-choice questions, etc.
-Use symbols to create live flow charts.
-And many more features!
To install, download the file shown in the link, uncompress it and run "hotfix-2" inside the created folder.
OpenBoard will be included by default in future versions of Escuelas Linux. To use it, open the menu → Applications → Education → Miscellaneous → OpenBoard.
No teacher using Escuelas Linux can miss it!
https://osdn.net/projects/escuelaslinux/downloads/74961/openboard-fix.tar.gz/