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Open the dock and tap Wallpaper
The background picker opens with solid colours, gradients, patterns and images.
The dock · Board basics
Wallpaper
Set the scene — colours, patterns, photos, even video.
The backdrop behind everything on your board. Calm gradients for focus time, a beach for the last week of term, subtle graph paper for maths — swap the mood in two taps.
Also called: board background · backdrop
- Free for teachers · no login required
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How it works
Three steps, zero setup
No setup screen, no import wizard — Wallpaper lives on the same board as everything else and it's running before the class has sat down.
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Pick a mood
Soft solids for everyday, patterns like dots and graph paper, your own photo, or an animated scene.
Tune it
Blur or dim any wallpaper so your widgets stay the star and the backdrop stays backstage.
Classroom ideas
Try it tomorrow
Three ways teachers actually run wallpaper — steal one for tomorrow morning.
Focus mode vs fun mode
A calm gradient for work time, something joyful for golden time. The backdrop tells the room which class it's walking into.
Theme the unit
Space wallpaper for the space topic, ocean for the ocean one. When the room commits to the bit, so do they.
Ambience days
A rainy-window video behind silent writing, a crackling fireplace for December reading time. The cheapest atmosphere upgrade in teaching.
My class actually cheers when the Boardee background loads. Transitions that used to eat five minutes now take five seconds.
Same dock, one tap away 
Pairs well with
Every tool lives on the same board — these turn wallpaper into a whole routine.
…and the rest of the dock is one tap away:
FAQ
Good to know
Can I use my own photo?
Yes — upload or link an image and choose how it fills the screen.
Won't a busy background be distracting?
That's what the dim and blur sliders are for — keep the picture, soften it behind your widgets.
Can it play video?
It can — set a YouTube video as a live backdrop for ambience days: fireplaces, aquariums, gently falling snow.
Do I need an account to try it?
No — no login, no install. Your wallpaper saves with the board on this device; an account only matters across devices.
Set the scene on your board
Open a board, tap the dock, and it's there. That's the whole setup.