Here you will find answers to frequently asked questions about netboard.me

Netboard is a world wide accessible web page where you can easily gather videos, photos, RSS feeds, presentations, links and many more things from the web. Netboard is the best way to combine and share different web content.

There is no limit for that.

We don't have such plans

Complaint is a way to notify administrators about netboards that violate Terms of the Services.

Please describe it using Feedback widget (Contact Support) at your personal page or just email us about the problem (support@netboard.me).

We will try to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

Your feedback about features you want is very important for us.

Email us about it (support@netboard.me) and we will try to add it.

netboard.me, as European company, is fully committed to complying with the GDPR

Your data is stored and processed in European Union.

We do not sell and/or distribute user data in any other way.

Our Terms Of Services cover GDPR aspects.

We committed to protect the privacy and security of our users.

We are committed to making further improvements to address any issues related to GDPR.

In the European Union

Your data is stored and processed in Germany (Frankfurt and Falkenstein) and Netherlands (Amsterdam).

Towermates OÜ (Estonia, European Union)

Sepapaja 6, Tallinn 15551

No

We do not sell or share user data.

No

We use the following third-party services:

Mailchimp to send emails. Mailchimp is GDPR compliant.

UserVoice to receive and respond to support requests. UserVoice is GDPR compliant.

Paddle to receive payments. Paddle is GDPR compliant.

Here

Any person in the web.

If you are Personal account or Organization account owner:

No. No one else can see your private netboard.

If you are Organization Instructor:

Yes. Your Organization account owner can access it.

If you are Organization user without Instructor role:

Yes. Your Organization Instructors can access it.

Yes

You can select friends who can see your private netboard at your personal page using "Who can see this netboard" action. Also, you can do it in the netboard menu using "Grant access" option.

You can share a netboard access link with someone without a netboard.me account.
It will allow them to collaborate on your netboard.

You can generate a Read link to allow them to see and comment on your private netboard.
You can provide an Edit link to allow them to edit your netboard with the same privileges as a registered co-author. Both links work with private and public netboards.

Yes

Just drag the post to the target tab name and its content will be shown.

Yes

Just drag and drop the tab while your netboard is in Edit mode.

Immediately after you save them.

Yes.

Just post the link, which Google suggests you for the document sharing.

Yes.

You can use tags to quickly filter posts on the netboard (e.g. #level1 or #level2). Just start any word with "#" to create a tag.

 Trophy score is calculated automatically basing on the type and amount of content, number of followers and votes.

Higher trophy score affects search results rank and netboard position in the Top rated list of the Organization Explore page.

Yes. We have plugins for Google Chrome and Firefox.

They work via context menu once installed.

Click right mouse button on the content you want to post (link, image, selected text, free space on the page to post a link to this page, etc.) and select Post to netboard from the appeared context menu.

Extension for Google Chrome

Firefox Plugin

By the default netboard.me tries to fill empty space to make the board to look as a fancy Web Page.

Sometimes strict posts order is required. For this case you can use Ordered or Notes alignment.

The difference between them is height equalization which is not performed with Notes alignment.

To switch an alignment you need to enable Edit mode, open Template tab and chose an option from alignments menu.

In Ordered alignment, the layout maintains the original order of the posts, even if this approach results in empty spaces within the layout.

Conversely, the Default alignment prioritizes filling all empty spaces on the page, which may result in slight alterations to the order of posts.

You can see the difference in the image below. Default alignment is on the left, and Ordered alignment is on the right.

Mosaic alignment makes your netboards fancier and more compact.

You can see the difference in the image below. Default alignment is on the left, and mosaic alignment is on the right.

Notes alignment functions similarly to Ordered alignment but does not equalize the height of posts.

This means that while it maintains the original order of the posts, the individual posts can vary in height, potentially leading to a more dynamic or varied layout.

Like Ordered alignment, this approach may result in empty spaces within the layout due to the commitment to preserve post order.

You can see the difference in the image below. Default alignment is on the left, and Notes alignment is on the right.

By the default co-author has limited ability to edit your netboard.

He/she can make new posts and delete previously added posts.

You can give more options to co-authors (customizie netboard theme/template and/or edit other users content) on the netboard's settings screen.

Yes

Co-author will gain access automatically.

When you switch your account type to Organization you get an ability to register own users and create users groups.

In your Settings

You should open Account tab of the setting screen.

Yes

Email address is optional for users created within Organization.

A user who has never logged in is marked as inactive.

After the first successful login the user is marked as "Active".

Only users of yours and friendly Organizations

In case the user has the Instructor role, her/his followers can also collaborate with her/him.

Internal netboards are accessible only by users within your organization.

You can allow the access for friendly organizations, giving the Internal trust level to your friendship.

Internal netboards can also be shared, just like Private netboards, to open access for specific users or groups.

Owners can establish friendships between their accounts.

Friendship allows users of friendly organizations to collaborate (share, follow, vote, comment, etc.) and to access each other.

Once Friendship is established, it's possible to create common groups with users of the friendly organization.

Users of the friendly organization with "Internal" trust level can access your organization internal netboards.

Only account owner can request a friendship of another account.

You should click "Friendship Request" button on the profile page of the owner of another account.

No

Only two Organization accounts can establish a friendship.

In your Settings

You should open Friendship tab of the setting screen.

Once you publish a netboard to the group it creates or updates Group Library.

Group members see published netboards in the Library section and receive updates on these netboards changes.

Currently, we support the following user roles:

LMS Student - can only log in to netboard.me via LMS, has no password, no own profile panel and cannot create own netboards.

Regular Student - can't publish content to the Web and her/his profile is accessible only by users from the same or friendly Organization.

Student With Web Access - users with this role can publish content to the Web and create access links to own netboards. Users profile are open, but only users of yours and friendly Organization can collaborate with them.

Instructor - has almost the same rights as an account owner. Instructor can't create or edit other instructors but can create and manage student accounts and groups. Instructor profile is open and her/his followers can collaborate with her/him. Instructor can share private netboards externally.

There are two possible reasons:

The netboard is private or does not have enough content to be shown.
There is a rating (see Trophy score question) threshold which is used to prevent empty and incomplete pages from being displayed.

Netboard.me can be configured as an LTI 1.3 Provider with any LMS that supports LTI 1.3 integration.

To set up the integration, you must have admin access to your LMS and have an organization account on netboard.me.

After setting up the integration:

• Teachers can add their netboards as an activity (resource, content, etc., depending on specific LMS terminology) to the course.
• When students open a netboard from the LMS, they are automatically granted permission to read or edit, depending on the teacher's choice.

Go to your Account Settings > LMS tab, select the LMS option you want and follow the instructions to set up LMS integration.

When a user first enters netboard.me through the LMS, netboard.me tries to find the user in your organization's account using the user's email address provided by the LMS.

If no matches are found, a new user is created:

• A teacher is created with the Instructor role.
• A student is created with the LMS Student role.

• They can reset the password and log in to netboard.me directly instead of through the LMS.
• You can create teacher accounts in advance with the same email address they use in your LMS. In this case, they can log in to netboard.me as regular users and prepare materials. Netboard.me will match them with their email address when they log in through the LMS to select a netboard to share.

• They don't have a password, they don't have their own profile panel, and they can't log in to netboard.me directly.
• The administrator and instructor can change the LMS Student user role to a different role. The user account will then work like a regular netboard.me user account with its own profile panel, the ability to create netboards, and log in to netboard.me directly.

The account administrator must manage teacher accounts in netboard.me. Netboard.me does not receive notifications when a teacher, for example, resigns from the school or changes their email address.

To prevent the number of unused student accounts from growing, the administrator can configure the LMS Students retention policy - the number of days that netboard.me must retain unused LMS Students accounts.

Generally speaking, the way you add a netboard to a course in an integrated LMS depends on how it has been configured by the LMS administrator. Below we describe typical cases for some popular LMSs.

The general approach is to add a netboard as a course activity, content, or resource, depending on your LMS. This may be called differently in different LMSs, but there is always a common action of selecting a link from the LTI 1.3 Provider (netboard.me).

When you add a netboard to a course, you will always see this window (it can be different sizes and open in a pop-up window or another browser tab, depending on the specific settings):

Make sure your Moodle administrator has configured the netboard.me LTI integration.

1. Open the course to which you want to add a netboard.
2. Click the Add an activity or resource button.

   

3. Select the External Tool option on the Activities tab.

   

4. Select the netboard.me tool (it may be named differently by your Moodle administrator) in the Preconfigured tool selector and click the Select content button.

   

5. A pop-up window will appear with your netboards. Select the access level at the top and click on a netboard to add it to the course.

   

Make sure your Canvas administrator has configured the netboard.me LTI integration.

1. Open the course to which you want to add a netboard.
2. In the Assignments section click the + Assignment button.

   

3. Select the External Tool option in the Submission type selector.

   

4. Click on the netboard.me tool (it may be named differently by your Canvas administrator).

   

5. A pop-up window will appear with your netboards. Select the access level at the top and click on a netboard to add it to the course.

   

6. For the expected experience you should select the Load in a new tab option.

   

7. Click the Select button.

Make sure your Blackboard administrator has configured the netboard.me LTI integration.

1. Open the course to which you want to add a netboard.
2. Go to the Content section.

   

3. Select the netboard.me tool (it may be named differently by your Blackboard administrator) in the Build Content dropdown.

   

4. Select the access level at the top and click on a netboard to add it to the course.

   

1. Switch your netboard to the Edit mode by clicking Edit button in the top menu.
2. Enter video URL in the "Post any link" field and press Post button.
   Example of the video URL from Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGXi_9A__Vc
3. Click Save button in the top menu to apply your netboard changes.
4. Click on just saved video post to make video player appear.

Video is being discovered automatically using provided link. We know that following services are supported, but there is no way to get the full list: