Explore the major features that help you create, navigate, and collaborate.
Murals are the individual files upon which you add, create, and edit your content. These can be created newly from templates, or from a blank slate. Within a mural, you have the canvas. This is the space where you add content with collaborators.
The mural also contains features that help you move around, to manage collaboration sessions, and keep track of changes to your mural. Let’s explore the basic ways you can successfully use a mural and its features.
MURAL gives you the freedom to move, zoom in to see details, and zoom out to see all of the content on a mural. Think of it more like Google Maps than working in a document or presentation. When you’re working on your laptop or desktop, you can adjust your zoom settings for your device.
To change your zoom settings:
You can also use the outline to follow along in a mural. The outline breaks a mural into different sections, like chapters in a book. Open and click through the outline to view each section of the mural.
The avatar represents you while working in the mural. When others join the mural, you can see their avatars next to yours in the mural. Avatars contain additional features for helping you connect and follow the conversation in a meeting. For example, you can:
The toolbar is where you can add objects to the mural. These include:
You can also import files into the mural from your computer or other apps like Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox.
Plus, you can quickly save and add your frequently used content by saving it to the content library.
Hi there, I'm Hailey Temple and you are about to get a grand tour of a mural, which is the file where you get work done. I'll show you a blank mural and a mural that we've added some work to for some reference and creative flair. To start this blank space here waiting for you to add work is called the canvas. Now, to get around this canvas, you can use these navigation settings like this mini map and our zoom settings. So in this mural, I can use the mini map to see what content I'm looking at a given time. And that way I can zoom into the details or zoom back out for the big picture. Next, let me talk about avatars. So your avatar is your little person or animal and mural that represents you while you're working.
Your avatar is always the one to the left hand side, and your collaborators are next to you. So there are some really handy features on your avatar. So, test out and see how they work. This toolbar is actually where you can add elements to the mural, like sticky notes, text, shapes, icons, frameworks, images, so much to do sketches. It's crazy. So, that is how you start actually adding work and filling your canvas to something like this someday, I know you can. Now couple things at the top of this mural that I want to let you know this time timer, for example, will be running sometimes in a meeting. And it's really helpful to keep track of your group while you're collaborating. So you'll see when someone sets the timer, it starts ticking down. And when it ends, they'll hear a nice friendly noise letting you know. Now, magic in MURAL happens when you can share your work with others.
So, this Share button is where you find links to send people or you can invite them by email to come in and work with you. Plus, you can take your mural on the go by exporting it or simply exporting other pieces of the mural to a project management tool of your choice. A few more things I promise. Now. This activity log is great to keep track of something maybe you accidentally deleted or and you want to recover. You can also do that by clicking this Undo button over here always helpful for changing your work or misplaced something, you can add it back.
And then this outline feature. It's great for breaking a mural up into different chapters. And if you are working on a mural, it becomes a really handy navigation tool. Because anytime I click on these tiles I'm brought to a different part of the mural. Let's say you wanted to find something specific in a mural. You can use this fine feature to search for things by keyword or by color. Last but certainly last but certainly not least, if you need help in mural, our customer support team is here to help. So this question mark button will give you an ability to chat with customer support or to take a Look at our Help Center, and so much more. You are going to have an awesome time collaborating and mural. And if you think about this canvas, this mini map, the avatars, the toolbar, and the invitations as your space to work, then you are off to a great start. Happy collaborating.
