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In this article we will go over how to create a force-copy link for one of your Lucid document.  Force-copy links allow teachers to send out a link to students that will automatically generate a copy of the Lucid document for each student to work on.  

 

Step 1: Convert your Lucid document to a template | Navigate to the documents section of your Lucid dashboard and click on the 3 dots in the bottom right hand corner of your document and select “Convert to template.”

 

Step 2: Go to the templates section of your Lucid dashboard and click on “created by me.”

 

Step 3: Click on the “eye-ball” preview button on your template.

 

Step 4: Click on the link icon next to the title of your template.

 

Step 5: Choose the access permissions from the drop down menu | “Any logged in user” is recommended for sending out templates to students to avoid any permission issues.

 

Step 6: Click “Save and copy link” and send it out to your students | When students click on the link, they will each get their own copy of the template to work on.

 

 

Step 7: When students are done with the activity, they can share it with the teacher by copying the share link using the blue “share” button in the upper righthand corner of their Lucid document.

 

Great demo!  Thank you. I guess this is a “non-Google-Classroom” version of this thread:

The nut I would want to crack connected to this would be that students not have to share their copies back with teachers -- that the fact of copying the template is enough to either:

  • put their responses all in a folder the teacher could view, or
  • on copy, automatically share back with the teacher (who could then peruse the share messages). 

I’m thinking that since (in the above example) Lucid’s API lets Google Classroom auto-share student work with teachers after making copies for each student, then there must be a Lucid-native way to do this as well. 

Can anyone help put the cherry on top of this workflow for non-Google Classroom users?

-Bram

Thanks for sharing this - I hadn’t seen the ‘Templates’ section - I’ve always just dug through my Recent things and then changed the URL manually.  This is helpful!

Bram, I think the cleaner way of doing this would be with Canvas since it would be submitted as a Canvas assignment. However, my county currently doesn’t have this option set up yet, so my kids have been sharing it back with me.  

BUT, I’m wondering if ‘creating a team’ would help with this?  For me, it looks like would have to add my student emails manually (vs. sharing a join link).  Since I’m working with students 13 and under, I’m not going to play with this option.  But, I wonder if that could fix some issues with sharing back since everything would be in one place? 

Maybe all students would have access to all documents though, which may not be an option that we would want… making the clunker ‘return share with teacher’ easier in the end.  

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