Joining a NodesNow meeting remotely? As a remote participant at a NodesNow meeting, your primary tool is the desktop web app. It offers you the features of the touchscreen and contains integrated video conferencing - enabling you to interact with your collaborators as if you were in the same room.
Using the web app, you can share content to spaces, work directly on the canvas, and communicate with Microsoft Teams. This guide will walk you through each of these functions to ensure your first NodesNow meeting is comfortable and smooth.
Prerequisites
To follow along with this guide, you'll need to register for a NodesNow account using your email, or sign in with Google, Microsoft, or Apple. If you need help, see our sign-up tutorial.
To join a meeting, you'll need a space invitation. Typically, you'll get this in an email invite via NodesNow from the meeting facilitator. Or they will cut and paste the meeting details and share them with you. These include the space's IRL and PIN.
Note: If you already have a space invitation, you can skip ahead to step three.
1. Sign in and create a NodesNow space
1. Sign in and create a NodesNow space
Now that you have a NodesNow account, you're ready to start.
Navigate to space.nodesnow.com and sign in.
Once logged in, you'll be redirected to a space management dashboard.
On your dashboard, click CREATE to launch a new space.
Your newly created space will appear on the dashboard. Double click the space to open it.
2. Use the canvas toolbox
2. Use the canvas toolbox
Now that you've created a space, let's walk through the canvas toolbox.
To use the drawing tool:
Tap the pencil icon in the canvas's toolbox to open the drawing menu.
Select a color from the available color palette, or use the default setting.
Choose a line thickness or use the default setting.
Click anywhere on the canvas to start drawing.
To move, duplicate, resize, and delete drawings and other items, use the selection tool:
Click the selection tool if it isn't already selected. Then follow the steps below depending on what you want to do.
Move
Click and drag an item to your desired location.
Release to place it.
Click outside the item's bounding box to close the item's menu.
Duplicate
Click an item to select it.
In the item's menu, click the duplicate icon.
Click and drag the duplicate item to your desired location.
Release to place it.
Click outside the item's bounding box to close the item's menu.
Resize
Click an item to select it.
Click and drag one of the corners of the item's bounding box to adjust the size.
Click outside the item's bounding box to close the item's menu.
Delete
Click an item to select it.
Click the trash can icon to delete it.
Undo changes
To undo changes:
Click the undo icon in the lower left corner of the canvas.
To recover an action you've undone:
Click the redo icon in the lower left corner of the canvas.
Note: NodesNow provides support for up to 15 undo and redo actions.
To write a note:
Select the note tool in the canvas's toolbox. A color palette will then slide out. Select your desired note color.
Once the color is selected, the cursor will turn into a plus (+) shape. Click anywhere on the canvas to place the note onto the canvas.
Type something in the note.
If desired, select the note, then inside the toolbox, click on the color selection toolbox above the note to change the note's color.
5. Click anywhere on the canvas to set the note.
After you finish a note, you can click it to open the note menu. From there, you can also move, duplicate, resize, and delete it. See the section on the selection tool above for more details.
To write on the canvas:
Select the text tool in the canvas's toolbox.
Type something to replace the default text.
As before, you are free to customize your text box. Click on the text box to select it, and the text tool will show up. With this new version not only you are able to change the text's color, but you are also able to change the text's size directly from within the toolbox.
After you have finished writing your writing, you can click it to open the text toolbox as demonstrated above. From there, you can also move, duplicate, resize, and delete it. See the section on the selection tool above for more details.
To add a shape to the canvas:
Select the shapes tool in the canvas's toolbox to open the shapes menu.
Select any of the four shapes, then click on the canvas to drop the shape onto the canvas.
After you place a shape, you can click it to open the shapes menu. The shapes menu will allow you not only adding color to shapes, but also adding a border and a color border as well. You can also move, duplicate, resize, and delete it. See the section on the selection tool above for more details.
To upload an image or video to a space's canvas:
Click the upload tool in the canvas toolbar - your operating system's file organizer will appear.
In your file organizer, choose media that you want to upload. The desktop web allows uploading .jpg, .png, .gif and .mp4 files with a size limit of 100 MB per file.
Your files will be placed on the space's canvas. From there, you can also move, duplicate, resize, and delete them. See the section on the selection tool above for more details.
3. Use the space inbox and move content to the canvas
3. Use the space inbox and move content to the canvas
The space inbox serves as a repository for content shared by participants in a space. From here, you can bring the content for presentation on the canvas.
1. Open the space inbox
To open the space inbox:
Tap SHARED ITEMS at the middle right of the screen.
The app will launch a Shared Items sidebar which will display notes and media that participants have sent to the space.
2. Move a note to the canvas
In the space inbox, tap and hold the note you want on the canvas.
Drag it to your desired location on the canvas.
Release it to place it.
From there, you can move or restyle the note (or media) as above in the section on the selection tool.
Note: Once moved to the canvas, content will disappear from the inbox.
4. Connect to the space's Microsoft Teams call
4. Connect to the space's Microsoft Teams call
There are two ways to join a Microsoft Teams call: from within the NodesNow space or directly in Microsoft Teams. This guide shows how to join it within the NodesNow space. You can learn how to connect to the space directly in Microsoft Teams here.
If you closed the space in the previous section of this guide, reopen it on your desktop browser.
Select START TEAMS CALL on the top of the canvas.
That's it. You're in. To exit the call, click END MS TEAMS CALL.
If you'd like to see Teams in action in your space, click on the gear button then select Meeting Info to get a URL that people can use to join you.
5. End the session
5. End the session
When it's time to exit the space:
Tap WRAP UP AND LEAVE.
Tap Leave again and our space will be saved and you'll be taken to the NodesNow dashboard.
Congratulations! Now that you've learned all the ways to interact in NodesNow spaces as a remote meeting participant and asynchronous collaborator, you're ready to contribute to more engaging, productive meetings.