Coming from AWW App

  • 25 February 2021
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I came from using AWWP, and when I was on AWWP, we were able to make new pages

I’m using Miro for teaching purposes, and It’s hard to put all the pages within one board. 

Is there a way to make multiple pages within the board?

Marina 3 years ago

Hi everyone,
Welcome to Miro and Miro Community! :raised_hands_tone2:


I’m so sorry you have to switch to a completely new tool and experience these difficulties. This is always a challenge. And Miro is indeed a more complex tool.

 

I wanted to jump in and let you know that we also have Miro Lite. This is a simpler version of the online whiteboard that you can use without signing up or signing in. Just go to miro.com/lite, create a board, and share the link with your team. 
:warning:  Please check out the Help Center article to learn all the specifics of Miro Lite.

 

As for the case with new/separate pages, there’s no this exact functionality in Miro, but we suggest you simply create several boards. Frames can also work here, but please note that frames are not available in Miro Lite.

I hope this is helpful!

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Did anybody find anything similar to AWW or are Miro taking onboard the above comments in order to attract former AWW users?

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I have been using the AWW app for over a year to create interactive lessons for my students with special needs.  One of the features of AWW I really liked was having multiple pages within one board, so I could direct the student to click over to page 3 etc.  Is this possible within MIRO?  I chose AWW initially because none of the other “simplified” white boards would allow me to upload images as backgrounds for the students to work on.  MIRO is much more complicated, and I’m not sure it’s going to work for me and my students. I’m feeling pretty disappointed.

Mural may be a simpler tool for the student.

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Scribblar is the closest I’ve found. Still missing several of AWWapp’s best features but works better than Miro for my purposes. 

https://scribblar.com/

Wow, thank you very much Paul! :thumbsup:

I was looking for an alternative to AWWapp for so long but I didn’t find scribblar. I did a very quick test only, but I think it will work for me. I only need the basic stuff: writing pen, upload jpg/png/pdf, multiple pages, guest doesn’t have to sign in to use the board

The pages on scribblar are not unlimited but limited multiplie pages are way better for me than a single unlimited page (with frames).

 

OK, one bigger problem is the price. :neutral_face:

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@whoever on the scribblar testing:

Really?

  • No stickies
  • no roalty-free pictures like unsplash inside
  • no icons / symbols
  • no arrows
  • no app-integration
  • no grouping
  • not possible to connect the elements together
  • not possible to choose the pages of a document
    (if I have a 60 Site PDF-file the whole document is been uploaded. When I only want to have page 5-8 I have to delete every other created site )

I take only the point fo the unsplash/icons/symbol thing:

Of course you can go onto the unsplash webpage seperately but allone this integration saves a lot of time.

Pictures are so important in my lessons / trainings / classes / to show something.

In former times i have spent a whole lot of money to buy pictures to implement them in my PPT-Slides.

I never ever have to take care about this …

I never ever have to leave my platform to open a seperate webpage

safe the file onto my computer and upload it into my board

same with icons/symbols

 

I know that you all like to have this - The answer for this is very simple:

Vote for this wish - so maybe in the future you / we will see this:

https://community.miro.com/wish-list-32/add-separate-pages-new-pages-unique-pages-coming-from-aww-app-3923?

Michael

Oh my goodness.  This is so much more complicated than the AWW whiteboard app.  I think I will be looking for a new platform to use.  If any of you former AWW app users have suggestions, please share.

Scribblar is the closest I’ve found. Still missing several of AWWapp’s best features but works better than Miro for my purposes. 

https://scribblar.com/

Thank you for this suggestion. I am a former AWW user and I’m trying Miro now while they’re offering a free trial. I’ve written elsewhere on the thread why I need separate pages for my tutoring students. I will check this one out!

I also need separate pages. I am an online tutor. With private clients, I can assign each one their own unique board and then add a new page for each session. Right now while trying out Miro, we have to find our way to the same place on the board for each new session. It’s simply messy and confusing.

I also offer drop-in online office hours sessions. I currently have to work with all the students on the same board rather than being able to create a new page for each student who comes to the session. Again, it’s messy and confusing.

As a former AWW user, I am on a free trial of Miro, though I did sign up for one of the upgraded plans to take effect later. I will finish out this school year on this platform, but I will find another for next year if the ability to add new pages within a single board is not added.

Userlevel 2

Hi everyone,
Welcome to Miro and Miro Community! :raised_hands_tone2:


I’m so sorry you have to switch to a completely new tool and experience these difficulties. This is always a challenge. And Miro is indeed a more complex tool.

 

I wanted to jump in and let you know that we also have Miro Lite. This is a simpler version of the online whiteboard that you can use without signing up or signing in. Just go to miro.com/lite, create a board, and share the link with your team. 
:warning:  Please check out the Help Center article to learn all the specifics of Miro Lite.

 

As for the case with new/separate pages, there’s no this exact functionality in Miro, but we suggest you simply create several boards. Frames can also work here, but please note that frames are not available in Miro Lite.

I hope this is helpful!

During an hour I may need 10+ pages and so that many boards. How could I and others quickly and simultaneously navigatge back and forward through various boards during a session? 

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Hi everyone,
Welcome to Miro and Miro Community! :raised_hands_tone2:


I’m so sorry you have to switch to a completely new tool and experience these difficulties. This is always a challenge. And Miro is indeed a more complex tool.

 

I wanted to jump in and let you know that we also have Miro Lite. This is a simpler version of the online whiteboard that you can use without signing up or signing in. Just go to miro.com/lite, create a board, and share the link with your team. 
:warning:  Please check out the Help Center article to learn all the specifics of Miro Lite.

 

As for the case with new/separate pages, there’s no this exact functionality in Miro, but we suggest you simply create several boards. Frames can also work here, but please note that frames are not available in Miro Lite.

I hope this is helpful!

Userlevel 2

Oh my goodness.  This is so much more complicated than the AWW whiteboard app.  I think I will be looking for a new platform to use.  If any of you former AWW app users have suggestions, please share.

Scribblar is the closest I’ve found. Still missing several of AWWapp’s best features but works better than Miro for my purposes. 

https://scribblar.com/

Thanks for this Paul. I agree it lacks a bit compared to awwaapp but at least it has seperate pages. The lack of infinite space compared to awwapp is slightly made up for by being able to insert pages inbetween. 

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Oh my goodness.  This is so much more complicated than the AWW whiteboard app.  I think I will be looking for a new platform to use.  If any of you former AWW app users have suggestions, please share.

Scribblar is the closest I’ve found. Still missing several of AWWapp’s best features but works better than Miro for my purposes. 

https://scribblar.com/

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@mlanders I am glad you see the value in what awwapp had but I would ammend the idea/wish to adding pages in general.

In awwapp we could do more than this. We could add snipets of pdfs images powerpoints etc, each onto a seperate page. The annotation for each page would remain with the page it was added to. 

Simply put it is a half way solution to what miro currently has and still lacks many of the advantages of pages. 

I created a wish for new pages. seperate pages/new pages/unique pages | Miro

 

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@mlanders I am glad you see the value in what awwapp had but I would ammend the idea/wish to adding pages in general.

In awwapp we could do more than this. We could add snipets of pdfs images powerpoints etc, each onto a seperate page. The annotation for each page would remain with the page it was added to. 

Simply put it is a half way solution to what miro currently has and still lacks many of the advantages of pages. 

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@Robert Johnson & @Isman Tanuri :

So bad it hurts - but the feature here everyone else is longing for is a big step forward and would be so cool to have.

I tried it to get the feeling of @jh92 & @Paul Johnson & @Manpreet Sambhi  & @cjsdarthvadar & @jamesm :

We never used it but as I saw it I can imagine how cool this would be to have it:

 

Just look onto the right bottom site … it shows something fascinating and makes clear what we’re missing:

An automatic framesetting when it comes to adding of an document:

 

This would be a timesaver!

Created a Wish out of this - so please vote for it:

https://community.miro.com/wish-list-32/automatic-frames-when-new-documents-added-into-a-board-3948

 

Michael

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In https://awwapp.com/ you could upload a pdf. Each page of the pdf would appear on a seperate page on the website and could then be annotated over wtih a stylus. The annotation for that page was unique to that page. If I upload a pdf in miro I can move through the pages but any annotation from one page remains when moving to the next.

I too am very dissapointed with miro and if I can find something better will not transfer from awwapp to miro. You can try to sell the single board approach all you want but nobody would want the contents of a book or even of a smaller document strewn across a single board. 

 

Please let me know if you find another company that replicates AWWAPP features. I tried Miro and it’s awful. I need a site that will allow multiple pages & ability to upload PDF to multiple pages

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@Katherine Harvey -

The only way to do that will be to extract all the pages from the PDF which can then be laid out horizontally or vertically in your board and the objects added to those pages would be unique to the page they are added to. 

Kiron

When I upload a multi-page document, I don't want the annotations I make to be on every page.  Rather, I want to write on one page and then flip to the next page and have it be blank (with just what's on the pdf).  My PDF is loading in multiple pages (if I click it, a toolbar pops up allowing me to move to the next slide) however, whatever I write on one slide is there on the next.  How do I prevent that?

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@jamesm 

Also I would stick with what I had before but unfortunately miro bought awwapp and are phasing it out. 

I had never heard of AWW until now and just read about the acquisition in the AWW blog. Hopefully Miro will incorporate some of the AWW features into Miro.

As for extracting a larger document and quickly finding your page, while it isn’t the most elegant, at least there is some logic in the extraction algorithm as it appears to be such that the document is extracted left-to-right at a count of ten.

To test this, I created an eleven page PDF (attached), uploaded it to a Miro board, extracted it, and sure enough pages 1-10 were in the first row and page 11 started on the next row. You would then have to use math to count down/over to find your page as the text in the PDF is not searchable on the board :rolling_eyes:

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@jamesm - You could extract your PDF pages and annotate them:

 

Please keep in mind that Miro is not promoting itself as a document editor/collaboration platform, so if another tool would work better you should definitely keep using it.

Thanks for the reply if I have a large document how would I navigate to say page 50 of a 100 without having to scroll across and look carefully for the exact page?

 

Also I would stick with what I had before but unfortunately miro bought awwapp and are phasing it out. 

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@jamesm - You could extract your PDF pages and annotate them:

 

Please keep in mind that Miro is not promoting itself as a document editor/collaboration platform, so if another tool would work better you should definitely keep using it.

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@jamesm:

You can extract pdf files ond other files into its seperate pages.

I find this a more userfriedly thing than getting my whole document seperated into its single pages i have choosen.

I often have classes but one document.

One group of the class should care about page 1-5

the other group has their task for the pages 6-11

and the last group should search for some elements in the pages 17 - 22

The PDF file has got 50 pages the other pages will be read in the next online session

But i extract seperately for each group their pages. And I do not need in this online session every single page of the document …

I choose what exactly the number of pages I need - thats it.

So here is described what to do to extract pages:

https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018109574-Work-Smarter-not-Harder#split

Michael

 

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In https://awwapp.com/ you could upload a pdf. Each page of the pdf would appear on a seperate page on the website and could then be annotated over wtih a stylus. The annotation for that page was unique to that page. If I upload a pdf in miro I can move through the pages but any annotation from one page remains when moving to the next.

I too am very dissapointed with miro and if I can find something better will not transfer from awwapp to miro. You can try to sell the single board approach all you want but nobody would want the contents of a book or even of a smaller document strewn across a single board. 

 

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@cjsdarthvadar:

the easiest way to work is to try it with frames.

If you once worked with it you never will go back to page oriented working:

https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018261813-Frames

 

https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017730973-Structuring-Board-Content

 

https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017731073-Presentation-Mode

 

https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017571954-How-to-Start-Collaboration-with-Miro

 

Michael

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Thanks for the reply. This is way too complicated to use to plan multiple lessons for multiple students on a daily basis.  I am really disappointed that AWW is being discontinued.

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Oh my goodness.  This is so much more complicated than the AWW whiteboard app.  I think I will be looking for a new platform to use.  If any of you former AWW app users have suggestions, please share.

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@cjsdarthvadar :

 

The answer lies in both former answerd questions:

https://community.miro.com/ask-the-community-45/pagination-and-saving-work-3825

and here:

https://community.miro.com/ask-the-community-45/is-there-a-way-to-make-a-new-page-within-boards-3795?postid=15868#post15868

 

Michael

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