Practice using Miro

• Use Miro on a computer rather than a mobile device. If you use Miro on a mobile device (phone, iPad/tablet), you won't be able to copy and paste images to a new location on the board (in order to select them and look at all the ones you've selected at once). Because Miro doesn't currently support pasting on mobile devices, you can only have a view-only experience of browsing through the pictures if you use a mobile device.

• It's recommended that you use Miro in a web browser, either Chrome version 1.8614.0 or higher or Firefox. There is also a Miro desktop app that you can download and install, but the problem with pictures disappearing and reappearing that's mentioned below and in the FAQ isn't any better with the desktop app.

• Watch the Miro Navigation Basics 3-minute Video.
  • Besides this Navigation Basics Video, windows might pop up and suggest that you do other Miro tutorials or learn about other Miro features. For the purposes of Pick a Picture, these other things aren't relevant, as we'll only need to know how to do what's listed here below plus what's covered in the Navigation Basics Video.

• Now, you're ready to practice. For the rest of the items on this page, you'll be using a Miro board that has been set up for people to experiment with (so don't worry about keeping it exactly the way it was before you began). Here's the link for it: meaningfulaction.org/sandbox

• Choosing pictures - Make a copy of the images you choose rather than moving the images you choose. (One reason for this is so that the original image won't get separated from its attribution.) Copy and paste the images to a different part of the board where you will be collecting the images that you've chosen. This way you'll be able to look at all of the images you've chosen at once.
  • Select a picture - The arrow icon at the top of the toolbar (on the left hand side of the screen) toggles between select mode and pan mode. In pan mode, your cursor will look like a hand and you will be able to pan around the board to navigate around it. In select mode, your cursor will look like an arrow. In this mode, you point at things with the arrow and click on them to select them.
  • Copy and paste the picture to a new location - Select a picture. Then, use Ctrl+C/Ctrl + V for Windows or Cmd + C/Cmd + V for Mac.

• Rearranging pictures - Some people gain a lot from spending time repositioning the images while they reflect on them.
  • Drag a picture to a different location - Select and hold while you move your cursor to drag a picture.

• Hide or show collaborators' cursors - Collaborators' cursors allow you to see what regions of the board other people are looking at. Clicking the icon shown in the picture below allows you to toggle between hiding and showing your collaborators' cursors. (Toggling between hiding and showing can also be done using the Settings dropdown menu. The Settings menu is accessed by clicking on the icon to the right of the blue Share button in the picture below. The Settings icon is made up of circles and lines.)

• Note that pictures may disappear - One very unfortunate thing that is currently true about using Miro is that not all of the pictures will always be showing. As you zoom in and out and navigate around the board, some of the pictures will disappear. Zooming in and out can help them to reappear.
  • This is a known bug for the Miro team. They are working on fixing it. In the meantime, here are their suggestions:
    • Close all unused tabs with Miro boards in your browser;
    • Open your browser settings and disable hardware acceleration (for convenience, please see third-party instruction: how to enable or disable hardware acceleration in a browser for a walkthrough on how to do this);
    • Refresh the active tab with the Miro board in your browser;
    • Make sure you are using Chrome version 1.8614.0 or higher.
    • Some users also reported that the issue appeared less in the Firefox browser, so you may try that as well.