BoardSnap is an iOS app that turns whiteboard photos into structured summaries in ten seconds. For professors, that means lecture boards, seminar discussion frameworks, and research brainstorm sessions produce clean written materials — the kind that become course resources, not blurry photos in a student's camera roll.
Snap the board in the last minute of class. By the time students are packing up, BoardSnap has produced a structured lecture summary. Post it to Canvas or Blackboard before you leave the building.
Build the discussion framework on the board as students contribute — the key tensions, the theoretical positions, the examples. Snap at the discussion's conclusion. The summary captures the collective intellectual work as a course artifact.
Working through a research problem with grad students or collaborators at the whiteboard. Snap when the session reaches a natural stopping point. BoardSnap documents the ideas explored, the hypotheses generated, and the direction chosen.
Advising a graduate student on their thesis — the argument structure, the methodology decision, the gaps. Snap. The student receives a structured summary of the session — the guidance in written form, not their memory of it.
BoardSnap AI reads complex conceptual diagrams — theoretical frameworks, argument maps, taxonomies, causal models. It produces written descriptions of the conceptual structure — useful for academic disciplines that build knowledge visually.
Paste your course syllabus page or your department's research area page. BoardSnap AI learns the discipline's vocabulary, the course framing, and the field's terminology — summaries are academically appropriate, not generic.
One project per course. Every lecture board, seminar discussion, and research session accumulates in the project — the searchable course archive your students access for review.
Pin the course syllabus, the unit's learning objectives, or the reading list. Every board session chat already knows the course context — the AI can answer questions that are grounded in the course's intellectual frame.
University WiFi is inconsistent in older buildings. BoardSnap queues the capture on-device and processes when signal returns — the lecture is documented regardless of the network state at capture time.
Yes. BoardSnap AI reads conceptual diagrams — argument structures, causal models, taxonomies, process models — and produces written descriptions of the conceptual content. The richer the annotation on the diagram, the more detailed the output. Professors who label diagram components clearly produce significantly better AI output than those who draw unlabeled boxes.
For discipline-specific notation (chemistry structures, formal logic, linguistic trees, mathematical proofs), BoardSnap AI handles standard notation reasonably well but works best when key concepts are also written out in natural language alongside the notation. Mixed notation-and-text boards produce better summaries than pure notation boards.
Copy the summary text and post it to your LMS — Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace. Most professors add it as a 'Lecture recap' document or add it to the week's module. There's no direct LMS integration; the text copies cleanly into any rich text field.
Yes — snap the board at the end of a thesis advising session. The student receives a structured summary of the session guidance — the argument feedback, the methodology decisions, the next steps — in written form. Over time, the project's board history becomes a record of the advising arc.
Yes — a project per course, used consistently over a semester, produces a complete lecture capture library. At the end of the semester, the project contains structured summaries of every lecture, every seminar, and every significant research session. Students review the project's history at finals; you use it to rebuild the course the next semester.
K-12 teachers using BoardSnap for classroom lesson capture and student notes.
TAs and grad students using BoardSnap for recitation sections and research.
Students using BoardSnap to capture lecture boards and build study materials.
How to capture academic whiteboard content and build a course resource library.
Snap a whiteboard. Ship the action plan. In ten seconds.