Tech Review: Doceri

Are you often stuck behind the podium, managing your content, when you’d rather be moving freely in the classroom, interacting with students? Doceri [dō-SAIR-ee] can help you do that, and more.

Doceri is an interactive whiteboard and screencast recorder that helps you to:

CREATE hand-drawn lessons, presentations, and graphics on your tablet and share your content as still images, PDFs, or audio-video screencasts.

PRESENT your content to your classroom or audience with a built-in remote desktop control. You can annotate your content as you present.

CONTROL your computer from anywhere in the room, wirelessly. Doceri’s remote desktop viewer displays an exact copy of your computer’s screen, so you can open, edit and save your documents from anywhere in the room.

Dr. Cristian Morosan and Dr. Agnes DeFranco from Hilton College have used this tool extensively and this is what they had to say:

How do you use Doceri?

  • For screen-casting content for online classes
  • For designing short videos that summarize concepts through dynamic animations and sound
  • As a presentation platform during classes

What are some of the features you like?

  • Screen-casting is easy to do and results in higher quality content with a smaller file size
  • The wide array of easily-customizable annotation tools that integrate seamlessly with PowerPoint slides or other type of content
  • Choice of different backgrounds, including a blank page, just like a whiteboard
  • Ability to choose different screen resolutions allowing varied amount of information on different slides
  • Ability to use the stylus that can be customized for different sizes and colors
  • Highlighter tool that highlights without covering the material
  • Option to save content as PDF or image files that can be shared on Blackboard

How has it changed your experience as an instructor?

Dr. Cristian Morosan:

“It radically changed the classroom experience for me. I no longer use PowerPoint or Keynote in live lecturing, as I rely on the superior annotation and illustration capabilities of Doceri. It also changed the way I explain things in the classroom…it allows me to expand and provides me with a canvas to go deeper into parts of the material, which was not possible before given the restrictive linear structure of the PowerPoint.”

Dr. Agnes L DeFranco:

“First, having these extra videos and resources, students can review the subject material at times that are convenient for them.  For the shy students who do not want to ask questions, again, they have the resources at their finger tips.”


Doceri is available for free for iPads and for $4.99 for Windows 8.1 tablets. The desktop license is available for $30. Check out their website for a free download and more information.
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