// OVERLAID FOR TEACHERS

Any screen is your whiteboard.

Draw over slides, PDFs, spreadsheets or a website while you teach online. No separate whiteboard app, no switching windows mid-lesson, nothing for students to install.

// SOUND FAMILIAR?

THINGS YOU'LL STOP SAYING.

  • “Everyone look at the... this bit. Here.”

  • “Can you all see my mouse?”

  • “Hang on, let me find the whiteboard app.”

// HOW IT PLAYS OUT

THREE MOMENTS WHERE IT PAYS OFF.

01SCENARIO

A board that cleans itself

In a real classroom you'd wipe the board between examples. Fading ink does that for you. Circle, label, explain, and the marks clear a couple of seconds later so the next example starts on a clean slide.

HOW

  1. Set Fade to 2s or 5s depending on how long students need to copy.
  2. ECircle the part you're talking about.
  3. TLabel it. It fades with everything else.

02SCENARIO

Show students where to look

Thirty students on a shared screen means thirty different places they're looking. Spotlight dims everything except the area around your cursor, so their eyes follow yours.

HOW

  1. ⌃⌥CCycle cursor effects to Spotlight.
  2. Move the cursor as you explain.

03SCENARIO

Write the working out beside the question

Maths, chemistry, grammar: the working out belongs next to the problem, not in a separate app. Highlight the given values and write each step right there on the slide.

HOW

  1. HHighlighter over what's given.
  2. TType each step next to it.
  3. ⌃⌥ZUndo a mistake without breaking your flow.

// RECOMMENDED SETUP

WHAT WE'D SET.

overlaid · settings
Fade5s
Enough time to copy a label, then the slide is clean again.
Cursor effectSpotlight
Pulls a full class's attention to one spot.
StrokeThicker
Press ] a couple of times. Thin lines disappear on a compressed video call.
ToolbarPinned
Easy to reach if you're not a shortcuts person.

// WORKS OVER

THE APPS YOU ALREADY USE.

  • Keynote
  • PowerPoint
  • Google Slides
  • PDFs in Preview
  • Any website
  • Zoom
  • Google Meet
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Slack huddles
  • Webex
  • Discord

Overlaid draws on your screen, not inside an app, so anything you can see, you can draw on.

ONE THING TO KNOW

Share your entire screen, not a single window.

Your drawings live in their own transparent layer on top of everything. A single-window share only sends that one window, so viewers won't see your marks. Share the whole screen and they will.

// FAQ

QUESTIONS WE GET.

No. Overlaid runs on your Mac only. Students see your annotations as part of your normal screen share.

Not a dedicated one. Overlaid draws over whatever is on screen, so most teachers open a blank slide or a blank page and draw on that. If you want a proper whiteboard canvas, Presentify and DemoPro both have one.

No. A single-window share only includes that window, and the drawings are a separate layer on top. Share your whole screen and they show up.

// YOUR NEXT CALL

Try it on your next call.

7 days free with every feature. Then a one-time purchase. No account, no subscription.