Abstract: Temporary access to a digital whiteboard is enabled for conference participants during a conference (e.g., a video conference). Based on a request to share a digital whiteboard with conference participants during a conference, ones of the conference participants to which to grant temporary access permissions for the digital whiteboard are determined. The temporary access permissions are granted to enable the ones of the conference participants to access the digital whiteboard during the conference. Based on an event occurrence, which may, for example, correspond to a termination of the conference or a disconnection of an owner of the digital whiteboard from the conference, the temporary access permissions are revoked to restrict further access to the digital whiteboard by the ones of the conference participants.

Abstract: Whiteboard roles controlling levels of access to functionality of a digital whiteboard shared to a video conference for participants of the video conference are inherited based on conference roles of those participants within the video conference. Based on a request to share a digital whiteboard to a video conference, a whiteboard role is determined for each participant of the video conference based on a conference role of the participant within the video conference. For each participant during the video conference, access to functionality of the digital whiteboard corresponding to the whiteboard role determined for the participant is enabled, in which different functionality of the digital whiteboard is enabled for different whiteboard roles.

Abstract: An incognito mode limits access to subject digital whiteboard content by one or more participants of a digital whiteboard session. During an active digital whiteboard session, a content item is added to a digital whiteboard, based on input obtained from a participant device connected to the active digital whiteboard session, in an incognito mode that limits access to the content item by other participant devices connected to the active digital whiteboard session. At some point thereafter during the active digital whiteboard session, a determination is made to change access privileges for the content item to revoke the incognito mode designation thereof. The determination may be on a time-basis or an event-basis. The access privileges are thus changed during the active digital whiteboard session to enable concurrent access to the content item within the digital whiteboard by the participant device and at least one of the other participant devices.

Abstract: A request is received. The request identifies a first conference participant of a conference as a follow-along participant for a second conference participant of the conference for which a whiteboard is enabled. A trigger associated with the first conference participant is identified. Responsive to the identified trigger, a second viewport is set for display at a device of the second conference participant. The second viewport is based on a first viewport into the whiteboard where the first viewport is displayed at a device of the first conference participant.

Abstract: A first conference participant of a conference that includes a whiteboard is identified. A first viewport into the whiteboard is identified. The first viewport is displayed at a device of the first conference participant. A second viewport is set based on the first viewport. The second viewport is displayed at a device of a second conference participant. The first conference participant may be identified based on a trigger associated with the first conference participant. The first conference participant may be identified based on speech in an audio stream received from the device of the first conference participant. The first conference participant may be identified based on an edit to the whiteboard received from the device of the first conference participant.

Abstract: A system may instantiate a virtual whiteboard during a video conference controlled by a host device. The whiteboard may include a first page configured to output first visual content and a second page configured to output second visual content to displays of participant devices connected to the video conference. The system may move the first page to a first breakout room associated with the video conference and the second page to a second breakout room associated with the video conference. Access to the first page within the first breakout room may be limited to a first group of one or more of the participant devices connected to the first breakout room and the host device. Access to the second page within the second breakout room may be limited to a second group of one or more of the participant devices connected to the second breakout room and the host device.

Abstract: A system may connect user devices to a virtual whiteboard configured to output visual content to displays of the user devices. The system may invoke a video conference from the whiteboard to transmit, to the user devices, a message configured to connect the user devices to the video conference, and instantiate the whiteboard including the visual content output to the displays of the user devices within the video conference. In some implementations, the message may include context information (e.g., a title associated with the whiteboard, participants of the video conference, or an elapsed time of the video conference). In some implementations, the system may configure a graphical user interface (GUI) indicating users of the whiteboard. The GUI may be configured to receive selections of users to invite to the video conference.

Abstract: A system may instantiate a virtual whiteboard during a video conference controlled by a host device. The whiteboard may include a first page configured to output first visual content and a second page configured to output second visual content to displays of participant devices connected to the video conference. The system may move the first page to a first breakout room associated with the video conference and the second page to a second breakout room associated with the video conference. Access to the first page within the first breakout room may be limited to a first group of one or more of the participant devices connected to the first breakout room and the host device. Access to the second page within the second breakout room may be limited to a second group of one or more of the participant devices connected to the second breakout room and the host device.