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Introducing the creative Canvas beta in Showbie

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Shared by Dan • July 02, 2026

Canvas replaces whiteboards and scratch-pads used in class with one expandable creative workspace designed around your lesson workflow in Showbie.

With Canvas, you can extend live modelling on an interactive digital whiteboard shared with students. Add images, connect concepts, explain equations, mark up diagrams, and expand on learning with dynamic instruction and visual explanations that build up over a lesson.

Engage students more deeply on interactive Canvas with live annotation updates visible in real-time, expanded digital annotation toolkit. Plus, the ability to screen record live modelling explainer clips for learners to revisit after a lesson, in class or remotely, to support the transition from instruction to independent practice, homework, revision and independent learning.

Bring teaching & learning together with Canvas

Traditional whiteboard instruction offers a one-time explanation and relies on student note-taking or extra resources to revisit a lesson concept. Spend less time with your back to the class and more time engaging your students with engaging and interactive live modelling to help instruction resonate more deeply with every learner.

With a near-infinite digital whiteboard at your fingertips, bring seeing, hearing and doing into one seamless digital workspace where teachers and students can interact.

  • Consolidate instruction in one essential platform
    Use fewer, more impactful, tools to reach every learner and keep lessons flowing smoothly with less app switching and distraction in class.
  • Scaffold rich lessons on an expandable workspace
    Build up a repository of resources with interactive content, create diagrams connecting sequenced concepts, and compound knowledge over time
  • Diagram & markup resources with flexible new tools
    Combine precision and flexibility in your modelling with customisable digital ink, highlighters, lines, shape tools, text, notes, and images.
  • Extend the impact of instruction with Canvas screen recording
    Instantly record live modelling from your canvas and create video explainers allowing students to rewind teaching at any time.
  • Boost student engagement with real-time note-taking and live annotations
    Enable students to take notes and expand their understanding right alongside your instruction with flexible student annotations on a canvas.
  • Personalise supports & adapt instruction in the moment
    Easily share supplemental instruction, detailed feedback and deeper explanations, adapted for individual students using Canvas.

Get started with the creative Canvas today and take instruction and student engagement even further with Showbie.