Miro: Creating and navigating a board

In this guide:

• Create a new board
• Board features
• Navigating a board
• Adding content

Create a new board

After you have created your account, you can access the Miro dashboard. Use the dashboard to navigate between your accounts, teams, projects and create a new board.

Select the +New board icon to create a new board or choose one of the pre-existing template boards:

Board features

In your Miro board, there are features that will help you build the learning activities:

1. Main Toolbar: add content like text, comments, frames, shapes and stickies

2. Collaboration Toolbar: use frames, chat, screen sharing, timer, presentation mode, voting and video chat.

3. Navigation Toolbar: zoom in and out and go to full screen mode

Navigating a board

There are three modes of board navigation — Mouse, Trackpad, and Touchscreen.

Adding content

Select one of the tools from the main toolbar:

1. ‘Select/hand’ is the key tool for navigation.

2. Add text

3. Add sticky notes

4. Add shapes

5. Add connection lines

6. Pen tool