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Broadcast or turn off cursors

Keep focused on the content while collaborating in real-time.

Hide your cursors from everyone
Hide all cursors on the canvas
Demonstrate when you need to reveal cursors

Why hide cursors?

When you’re collaborating in a live class session, you can see everyone’s cursors moving around the mural. While some enjoy seeing everyone in the mural, others find the cursors distracting. As a collaborator or facilitator, you can help keep yourself and others focused. You will still see others adding content to the mural, but won’t see the names or cursors as you work.

Hide and show all cursors

Here’s how to hide and show all cursors:

  1. Go to your avatar in the mural
  2. Hover over the avatar to open an options menu.
  3. Select Don’t show me cursors in the menu. All of the cursors will disappear from the screen.
  4. To show cursors again, select Don’t show me cursors in the menu.

Broadcast your cursor

MURAL automatically broadcasts your cursor to your collaborators. However, you can turn off this option while working in the mural by hovering over your avatar and unchecking the broadcast my cursor option.

Hide cursors for collaborators

As a facilitator in a mural, you can also hide cursors for all collaborators to reduce distractions. Here’s how:

  1. Hover over your avatar in the bottom of the mural. This opens the options menu.
  2. Click hide non-facilitator cursors for everyone.
  3. To show cursors for everyone, click hide non-facilitator cursors for everyone again.

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Hello there. I'm Hayley Temple and let me talk to you about hiding and showing cursors in your mural. Seeing other people collaborate in a mural is awesome, but if you have lots of people working, it can feel a little bit overwhelming. 

Good news. You can hide and show cursors in a mural, and here's how I'm going to go down to my avatar down here and I have the option when I hover over my avatar to hide cursors. What happens is people's cursors disappear. This is handy if you're working with a large group and ah, lot of cursors can be hiding work or be a little bit overwhelming. 

You can still see I know who's collaborating in the mural and whose adding content but their cursors are out of the way to turn the cursor capability back on, hover over your avatar again and click show cursors, and now everyone's will be back on. Remember, you can also hide and show your own cursor by hovering over your avatar and clicking broadcast or hide my own cursor here, so recap toe hide or show cursors.

Go to your avatar, click high cursor or show cursor, and you can clean up or show all the collaborators in your working space. happy collaborating.