Miro is an online collaborative whiteboard platform that allows teams to collaborate efficiently on anything from brainstorming with digital sticky notes to organizing and managing agile workflows. It is completely FREE for certified students and educators.
For Educational License, you can have:
- Unlimited boards
- Password protection on public boards
- Unlimited collaborators per board (team members) + unregistered Guest Editors.
- High-quality resolution export without a watermark
- Manual board backup
- Voting
- Timer
- The account is valid forever for educators; 100 members in a team
- The account is valid for two years for students; 10 members in a team
Miro helps you to work on projects, brainstorm, design UX and product, build agile boards, hold retrospectives, and engage in other collaborative activities.
To kick things off, create a new board and add a Frame to it. Each board is endless, and frames act like pages. There is no need to start from scratch — just pick a pre-made Template from the library. You can easily navigate the board using Frames, and upload different types of content. Use Stickies to write down ideas and tasks like on a real whiteboard. To speed things up, you can paste cells from a spreadsheet and each cell will be added as a sticky note or add notes in a bulk mode.
Invite coworkers and remote colleagues to real-time brainstorming and ideation sessions, or collaborate with people in various time zones at your own pace. Changes on the boards are highlighted to help you stay on top of the latest information.
The flexibility of the Miro interface allows for a large range of tasks to be performed through the platform. As a live visualization tool, tutorial activities such as mind-mapping and quick diagramming are easy benefits to encouraging participation in online settings, while the ease of accessibility and file sharing capabilities may appropriately substitute studio pin-up culture.
Some instance where the use of Miro is encouraged include:
- - Studios
- - Tutorial activities
- - Remote collaborations
- - Moderation
Getting Started with Miro
- - Learn how to create, navigate and customize boards, collaborate with others and keep your work organized inside Miro.
Participant Onboarding
- - Learn the basics of Miro to jumpstart your collaboration
Miro Guide by Melbourne School of Design
- - Applying for an Educational License
- - Privacy Settings
- - Miro Interface
- - Setting Up a Miro Board
- - Uploading Content