Kidsboard User Guide

Kidsboard thumbnail

1  Whiteboard
      Press the mouse button to draw on this.
 
2  Drawing Colours
 
    Pick one of these with your mouse to draw in that colour.
Small Palette
 
    Drawing Tools
 
    Freehand  Draws squiggly lines.
Line  For straight lines.
Oval  Use for circles and ovals.
Rectangle  Use to draw squares and rectangles.
Filled Oval  Draws solid circles and ovals.
Filled Rectangles  For solid squares and rectangles.
Flood Fill  Pours the chosen colour over a drawing.
Text  Places words on your drawing.
 
3  Line Size
      Use this to choose how thick your drawing line is.
 
4  Art Icons
 
    Colours  Click to get lots more colours to draw with.
Set Background  Replace the white background with an image you can draw on top of.
Save  Store away your drawing into the gallery.
Load  Take an image from the gallery so you can draw on it some more.
Trash  Clean the Kidsboard ready for a new drawing.
Help  Get some help (come here).
 
5  Multi-user Icons
 
    Chat  Open the chat window to talk with friends.
Messages  Display the message board window to leave messages.
Games  Want to play a game with some friends, then click on that.
 
6  Page Tabs and Useful Links
      Use the tabs to switch between different versions of the board:
  • Click on 'Multi-User' to go to a board on which you can draw with the other users who are logged on to your Kidsboard.
  • Click on 'Single-User' to go to a version of the board where there are no other users logged on, so you can draw by yourself.
  • Click on 'Gallery' to view a list of pictures which have been saved.
 
    Use the links to see useful pages like this user guide.