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Welcome to the Lucid for Education group!

Welcome, educators, to the Lucid Community! We are thrilled to have you join us and utilize our powerful tools for visual communication and collaboration in the classroom. Lucid for Education ✏️ At Lucid, we understand the importance of education and believe that visual learning is an effective way to engage students and facilitate their understanding of complex topics. Lucidchart offers hundreds of editable, ready-to-use dynamic graphic organizers to help students process and organize new information. With Lucidspark, you can facilitate group brainstorming sessions and help your students generate creative ideas together. Get started with these resources 📚 Don’t have an Educational account with Lucid? Learn how to get a free upgrade here ! Need ideas for how to incorporate Lucid into your classroom? Check out these templates and starter toolkits ! Excited to integrate Lucid with your existing Learning Management System? Learn more about our integrations here ! We’re excited to hear from you 📣 We are committed to providing you with the tools you need to enhance your students' learning experiences and our team is always available to offer support and guidance whenever you need it. Visit this post to share your examples of Lucid in the classroom. We look forward to seeing the amazing things you and your students will create!

Share Your Examples of Lucid in the Classroom

If you’ve made a great template or have used Lucid to support your work in the classroom we’d love to hear from you! Comment below to: Introduce yourself to the Lucid for Education Community and let us know your name what you teach and how you use Lucid. Share your questions or feedback for us on how we can best support teachers and educators Inspire others and showcase how you use Lucid! Share a screenshot of your diagram or how you’re using Lucid products in the classroom.

Lucid icebreakers perfect for getting to know your students

The beginning of the school year is the perfect time to get to know your students with our pre-made icebreakers. Learn how to get started and explore Icebreaker templates made specifically for teachers . Last but not least don’t forget to check out posts from other educators and share your own icebreaker ideas or templates with the group.

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SamwiseBrave
Formula in a shape property working intermittently

I have a complex, but important formula that I have made to work in another context (Geogebra), but it seems to be generating a ‘Parse error’ at various points within my shape in Lucidchart. As you can see from the above images, various points within the code/formula are greyed out. More confusingly, the sections that are greyed out are not consistent. As you can see in the top image @’4N’ is blue in the first instance and black in the second instance. Vice versa in the second image. Similarly in the 2nd last image, we see @’3St’ sequentially blue, blue and grey; and in the last image @’4St’ is first blue, then grey. To be fair, there are 32 Properties in my shape. I could cut this down to 22 if it would help, it would just make the above formula about 10-15% longer.

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Vanessa C101
Vanessa C101Lucidite
How to copy or duplicate Lucid Canvas assignments

This article will walk you through how to copy and/or duplicate Lucid assignments from one course to another. To copy an entire course, navigate to Course Settings in the left sidebar of the current course and select Copy this Course . Note: Copied courses do not include any enrolled users. Copy one assignment to another course How to copy a specific assignment to a different existing course Assignments copied from one course to another will be added to a section called Imported Assignments A couple limitations to be aware of: Copying/duplicating a Lucid assignments within the same course is not supported. Any Lucid content embedded into an assignment or page using the RCE will not work if copied or duplicated. Keep in mind, if you copy a Lucid Canvas assignment from Course A to Course B, you will need to open the Lucid Canvas assignment in Course B before you would be able to copy the assignment from Course B into Course C.

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Vanessa C101
Vanessa C101
Vanessa C101Lucidite
Tips and templates for structured collaborative digital brainstorming and discussion boards

Lucidspark is the perfect tool for facilitating collaborative discussions and brainstorming. Students can jump right in and drag their ideas onto the board using sticky notes in a free form style or instructors can provide students with a more structured environment using one of our digital bulletin boards or brainstorming templates. In this article we will explore a few of these templates as well as highlight a few features that give instructors additional control during the session in order to ensure a successful collaborative learning experience. Tip #1 | Lock Size and Position, Not Content Select all of the stickies and use the advanced locking features to lock down the size and position, but not the content. This ways students aren’t moving the stickies around or deleting them, but they can still write their ideas in the stickies Tip #2 | Divide Up Larger Groups with Breakout Boards Too many students in one collaborative space can be chaotic and overwhelming. Breakout boards allow

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Kathy R
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Vanessa C101
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Ways to use Lucid for Formative Assessment

Formative assessment gives instructors a glimpse into student understanding during the learning process. This article will review several ways that instructors can use Lucid for formative assessment in fun, quick, easy ways. Drag and Drop Activities Use visual activities to collect data on student understanding: matching, sorting, likert scales and more. | Learn How Exit Tickets Use private mode to have students respond to an exit ticket prompt without being able to see other student’s responses. | Learn How Polls Use voting sessions during and after your instruction to get a quick pulse of student understanding. | Learn How Mind Mapping Get a peek into each student’s mind by having them create a mind mad laying out their understanding of what they are learning. | Learn How Fill in the blank Have students complete fill-in-the-blank diagrams in order to gauge student understanding quickly. | Learn How

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anyname
Where is the template data source

The templates are such an amazing feature. But often when I try a new one, it looks like there’s a data source associated with it. I start clicking around looking for it, I google for an answers and fine only seemingly out-of-date instructions and training components, then I give up and wish Lucid worked better. Please someone tell me how to find the existing data source in Lucid Spark, and where to find it in Lucid Chart?

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Micah
Vanessa C101
Vanessa C101Lucidite
How to allow multiple submission attempts for a Lucid Canvas assignment and tips for providing continuous feedback

Oftentimes students are working on long term projects/assignments and an important component to their success is continuous feedback from the instructor. Lucid is the perfect place for students to work on a long term project where the teacher can easily access and provide feedback while they are working. In this article we will walk through some tips on how to best set up long term projects and assignments. Option #1 How to set up long term assignments in Canvas Option #2 How to set up long term assignments with link sharing How to set up long term assignments in Canvas Step 1: Create an assignment in Canvas | How to Video Make sure to allow for multiple submission attempts in the Canvas assignment settings. You can either set unlimited attempts or choose a specific number of submission attempts. Step 2: Clearly outline each section of the assignment in the Rich Content Editor for the Canvas assignment. Look through the example below. Step 3: Students complete the assignment and submit

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Kathy R
Lucid Legend Level 4
Vanessa C101
Vanessa C101Lucidite
How to annotate and grade student work in Canvas

Instructors can quickly set up Lucid assignments in Canvas and easily grade, annotate, and provide feedback to students using Canvas’ Speedgrader. In this article we will walk through what this process looks like. Start by assigning students a Lucid assignment in Canvas | How to video Next, students open the assignment in Canvas, complete, and submit | How to video Then, go to the assignment in Canvas and open Speedgrader. Use Canvas’ speedgrader tools to annotate, provide feedback, and score student submissions. Then, use the drop down menu in the upper right-hand corner to move on to the next student.

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Kathy R
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SamwiseBrave
Formula shape references stopped working

Yesterday, my shape formulas were working fine. Today, none of my shapes can see each other. Example: All my shapes are identical rectangles. They have the property “Support” with a value like “#” or “0.6” They all have the properties “Upstream Test”, “Parent Test”, “Downstream Test” and “Children Test” Each ‘Test’ property contains a formula like this: =IFERROR(INDEX(CHILDREN."Support",1),'No Kids') No matter how I arrange the shapes (eg. within each other, dragging a line from one to the other), they always report ‘No Kids’, ‘No Parent’, ‘None Upstream’ and ‘None Downstream.’

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JamesHart
Vanessa C101
Vanessa C101Lucidite
Tips and Tricks for facilitating peer feedback in Lucid

Peer feedback is a powerful strategy that enhances the learning experience for students and increases student overall learning. In this article we will cover a few tips for facilitating peer feedback in Lucid. Tip #1 Students share their work with each other and use the comment feature to leave feedback. Tip #2 Use a visual activity rubric to gather student feedback (set to anonymous responders as needed). Tip #3 Use a peer review template to guide student feedback. Tip #4 Have students use private mode so that multiple students can add feedback using stickies without seeing each other’s stickies. Tip #5 Students can use the Loom integration to provide video feedback directly onto the student’s Lucid document. Share with the group: how have you used Lucid to facilitate peer feedback/review?

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Kathy R
Lucid Legend Level 4
Vanessa C101
Vanessa C101Lucidite
How to see which students participated during a Lucid activity

Teachers often wonder who contributed during class discussions and activities. There are a few ways that teachers can quickly determine who participated. Option #1 Highlight all of the stickies on the board and select filter objects. This will give you a list of everyone who added to the board and how many stickies they created. Option #2 Use collaborator colors to make sure each student uses their own unique sticky color to add their ideas to the board. Then, highlight the stickers and sort by color. Option #3 Last, but not least instructors can use the version history to view all of the edits and contributions made to the board during the activity.

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Kathy R
Lucid Legend Level 4
Vanessa C101
Vanessa C101Lucidite
Math Equations in Lucidchart

Hey math teachers! Did you know that there is a math equations editor in Lucidchart? This gives you access to additional math symbols to use in Lucid. Learn how to add the equations editor to your Lucidchart documents. Share with the rest of the community how you would use this with students. Got a template? Spread the love and share it with the group.

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Vanessa C101
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mrosenb1
CE-008-06 error when accessing from Canvas

We have Lucid integrated into Canvas. A student is unable to access his assignment even though everyone else in the class is able. He can log in to Lucid directly (and sees his copy of the assignment), but when he goes to the assignment through Canvas, he gets this error: We’ve tried clearing the cache and incognito windows - no luck. Anyone have any suggestions for us? Thanks!

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Vanessa C101
Vanessa C101Lucidite
How to transition from the old Lucidchart integration in Canvas to the new Lucid experience in Canvas (K-12)

The old Lucidchart Canvas integration is sunsetting to make way for the new and improved Lucid experience in Canvas. In this article we will cover how to transition away from the old Canvas integration. How to get free access to Lucid through Canvas All instructors and students get a free unlimited account to Lucid when you sign in or register for Lucid through Canvas. The easiest method for creating your Lucid account in Canvas is using the Lucid (Whiteboard) shortcut in the Canvas course navigation panel. Learn more here. If your courses don’t have a Lucid (Whiteboard) button in the Course navigation panel go to settings for your course and drag Lucid (Whiteboard) into your selected navigation options. If you don’t see Lucid (whiteboard) as an option in your Canvas course navigation settings, contact the Canvas administrator for your institution and request for it to be added. (while you wait for your institution to get Lucid (Whiteboard) added to the course navigation for your insti

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Vanessa C101
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friley.scholeacademy
Switching from Pen to Eraser

Is there an easier way to switch from the pen to the eraser and back with one click?

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makelley
Error in Canvas Assignment CE017

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Addie
Lucid Legend Level 8
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Share Your Examples of Lucid in the Classroom

If you’ve made a great template or have used Lucid to support your work in the classroom we’d love to hear from you! Comment below to: Introduce yourself to the Lucid for Education Community and let us know your name what you teach and how you use Lucid. Share your questions or feedback for us on how we can best support teachers and educators Inspire others and showcase how you use Lucid! Share a screenshot of your diagram or how you’re using Lucid products in the classroom.

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Zuzia S
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friley.scholeacademy
Clear Whiteboard

Is there a way to clear a whiteboard of all its writing, images, shapes, etc… Selecting the eraser and then Erase All does not work.

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Craig Mackie
Lucid Legend Level 1
Vanessa C101
Vanessa C101Lucidite
How to set up your Lucid Canvas assignments in a way that work with course copying and blueprinting

This article shows you how to incorporate Lucid assignments into your Canvas course so that you can also use Canvas’ copying and blueprinting features (The Lucid integration itself is not compatible with copying or blueprinting inside of Canvas). 1. Navigate your Lucid Dashboard by clicking on “Lucid (Whiteboard)” from your Canvas course navigation. 2. Browse through and customize one of Lucid’s templates or build your own template from a blank Canvas. 3. Once your template is completed, create a force-copy link for your template ( how to video ). Publish your Lucid document Add “New” after edit in the URL for the Lucid document 4. Now it’s time to add this force-copy link to a Canvas Assignment so that students will get their own copy of the template when they click on the link in Canvas. Create a new assignment in Canvas. Type the name of the template into the Rich Content Editor Highlight the name of your template in Canvas. Click on the link option in the RCE, Select “External Link

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jbang
How to use frames and path navigation using the Canvas integration with Lucid

Hello! I love the frames/path navigation option in Lucid. Wondering how I could use that with the Canvas integration. I know I could just give the link but I would love for students to be able to stay in Canvas rather than linking out. Is there a way for the Lucid to be integrated in Canvas but pop up with the path link when students first open it?

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Vanessa C101
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mkpopecksnow
How to use Lucid to create Algebra 2 documents for classroom

Assistance with creating documents for Algebra 2

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Shira M
Lucid Legend Level 4
Vanessa C101
Vanessa C101Lucidite
Visual Activities as Exit tickets

Watch this quick video to learn how to use visual activities for exit tickets. Then, share how you use Lucid for quick checks during class.

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Shira M
Lucid Legend Level 4
Vanessa C101
Vanessa C101Lucidite
How to embed PDFs into Lucidspark and send out as a Canvas assignment

Watch this quick video to get started and share any additional tips or tricks you have for adding learning materials to the Lucidspark board.

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Shira M
Lucid Legend Level 4
Vanessa C101
Vanessa C101Lucidite
How to use Lucid for inclusive assessment and equitable learning

Did you miss FETC this year? No worries, you can watch Shira’s presentation on inclusive assessment and equitable learning here.

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Shira M
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david.m
Allow admin/teacher approval of student posts

I would love to integrate Lucid whiteboards into my digital learning classrooms, but there is a feature that I would need before doing so. I want to be able to embed a whiteboard into my digital learning platform (Canvas), but I am concerned that some students may abuse open access to the whiteboard to post inappropriate messages or drawings. In order to use this tool safely and effectively I would like to see a feature added where students posts would require admin approval before they become visible to other students. I think this could be an incredible tool for asynchronous collaboration and group learning, but some features need to be added for student safety first.

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Shira M
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akshaya
Create a flowchart of respiratory system for class 10

for class 10

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