Our team demos haven’t looked the same for a while now. There are more smiles, and a profusion of post-its and colours… The reason? We’ve been testing like mad the feature that would maximise participant engagement without requiring you to juggle multiple tools. We’re continuing our momentum in gamifying your sessions: after ou Teams tool, it’s now your content that’s being transformed into interactive, tactile, replayable, and shareable activities
- 🖍️ Evolution of Annotations: from top-down to interactive
- ⬜ The blank page: A whiteboard that’s finally practical
- 🫨 Activity templates: “Replay” mode
- 🗽 Navigation Freedom: Personalising learning paths
- 📚 Organisation Library: Pooling your activities
🖍️ Evolution of Annotations: from top-down to interactive
Annotation tools have been completely redesigned and enhanced. Import your PDF as usual, then add—or have participants add—text, shapes, sticky notes, emojis (Glowmojis 😉), or even images.
Whether in plenary sessions or breakout rooms, you’re expanding the realm of possibility for activities:
- Complete: Fill in the blanks in a text, table, or calculation.
- Label / Annotate: Add names or explanations to parts of an image or diagram, or provide feedback on a participant’s work.
- Connect: Draw lines by hand or use the shape tool to link points or explain logic/reasoning.
- Highlight / Circle: Identify errors in a text or spot key elements in an image.
- Position: Place a cursor, an emoji, or a name on a gauge, map, or image to give an opinion.
⬜ The blank page: A whiteboard that’s finally practical
In the “Document” menu, a new option has appeared: the ability to start from a blank page. It can be used on its own, duplicated, or inserted into existing documents. With this blank page, you no longer need third-party tools to build ideas live and collectively. Its 16:9 format ensures that work can be exported in a clean, readable format (for both your participants and AI…).
Here are some great pedagogical uses for a blank page:
- Structuring ideas through mind maps and diagrams.
- Expressing concepts through drawing (icebreakers, “Coat of Arms”, Rich Pictures).
- Exploring a topic through brainstorming and open questions.
- Producing a collective deliverable: posters, visual summaries (sketchnoting), or mini-presentations.
🫨 Activity templates: “Replay” mode
This is the big one! Import your PDF, overlay images or shapes, and save the lot as a “Template“. The platform remembers the initial position of the elements, and participants can now move them
These templates are saved in your library and can be replayed with different groups or integrated directly into your sequences…
By offering participants activities that require manipulation and drag-and-drop, you’re pushing the needle further towards gamification:
- Order: Place steps, numbers, or images in the correct chronological or logical sequence.
- Match: Link two elements that go together (a logo and a brand, a tool and its use).
- Classify / Sort: Distribute elements (images or text) into different predefined zones or columns.
- Prioritise: Place elements on a pyramid or a scale (from most to least important).
- Hide / Reveal: Mask part of a document with a solid shape to reveal it only when the time is right.
But these also open up a more playful field: educational gaming. Board games, branching paths, collaborative challenges… content becomes a space to explore, where one learns by doing. Think of it as: “The learning journey where you are the hero.” en faisant.
* 💡: * Tip: If you design your presentations in Canva or PowerPoint, you can link objects to other pages within the presentation rather than external sites. This allows you to create interactive games (like Snakes and Ladders), where every square is clickable and leads to a different page in the journey.
🗽 Navigation Freedom: Personalising learning paths
Synchronising PDF slides is one of our great strengths for collaborative work. However, you can now desynchronise slide scrolling so that each participant can navigate freely through the document.
This freedom of navigation supports more autonomous pedagogical approaches:
- Consulting resources at one’s own pace.
- Self-positioning within a course.
- Differentiating learning paths.
📚 Organisation Library: Pooling your activities
Super Administrators and Organization Managers can now share activity templates across their entire organization. Facilitators will find these activities in the Document library, under the “Organization” tab, and can launch them in any space.
These common activities become a shared pedagogical heritage, ensuring consistency, quality, and time savings for facilitators.
For more information, please contact the team!
🔍 How do I try it out?
Click the blue “+” icon: “Project new content”, then select “Document“. Import a PDF or start from a blank page, explore the annotation bar (by hovering over the table), and check the advanced options via the “…” menu: template creation, adding pages, and desynchronisation.
To get you inspired, we’ve prepared three brand-new table layout for the occasion 😉.
We know the feeling: reading this article, ideas are sparking, eyes are widening… and the only thing you want to do is host a new session on Glowbl. That is exactly what drives us, a simple yet bold ambition: to allow you to offer a vast pedagogical diversity without multiplying tools, by building on what you already have.
Less effort for you, more engagement for your participants.
I am Aude-Marine Bertin, and as a Digital Learning Manager, I will guide you through getting started with Glowbl. I host workshops twice a week and run dress rehearsals ahead of your live sessions. With a background as a film editor and festival coordinator, I look forward to helping you create inspired and creative events, workshops, and training sessions.. LinkedIn
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