Miro's ability to show everyone's cursors made digital meetings feel connected in a way like never before

Since COVID, there has been a feeling of disconnect between staff members within our residence life department. I found Miro when considering whiteboard applications and had such success at a former university that I brought it here. With around 100 staff needing to engage within our meetings and training sessions, we needed a platform that would be easy to learn, simple to use, and beyond simple for department heads to understand and set up. Miro not only functioned as a digital whiteboard space to demonstrate a shared group thought process, but the ability to see others' cursors really separated it from the competition. This factor alone caused the significant feedback to be that people felt better connected and that the software was just outstanding. It led to countless spinoff uses from group collaboration to residential student engagement. Most enjoyable was our use of "org chart guess who" in which detail was read about leadership members in the division and then participants would move their cursor to whom they thought the detail applied. This was incredibly well-received, helped with the understanding of the org chart, and got quite a few laughs along the way.

As mentioned, Miro was the key to group engagement on a massive level. We honestly struggled with Zoom fatigue and digital meeting burnout before Miro. I won't say that Miro made people eager to still meet digitally, but it definitely made the meetings easier to sit through as people felt closer and more in touch with one another.