Share your examples of Lucid in the classroom

Hi everyone! I worked as a life coach and also taught fourth grade for three years. I use Lucidchart all the time specifically to make diagrams that are easy to read and understand.

Here's one of the projects I did last year to outline the Relationship Continuum for my team and everyone loved it. It's pretty easy to use shapes and text to make any kind of diagram. Excited to get new ideas from everyone else too!

I've been a middle school teacher for 9 years and one of the things I've been trying to incorporate more is remediation based on weekly formative assessments. Lucidchart helps me do this with its Data Linking feature. Using this feature I am able to import data from my gradebook and see visually on my seating chart how my students scored using conditional formatting. Here is an example:

With Lucidchart I can create a seating chart that shows me visually where each student is at with their proficiency on our most recent content. The cool thing is that I can quickly refresh this data (on the same Lucidchart diagram) and quickly see each week what progress/changes have taken place. Here is an example of the exact same seating chart with refreshed data:

The initial setup of the conditional formatting rules takes a minute but after that first time it takes less than a few minutes to refresh the data each week. I use this chart for so many things on a daily basis such as:

• Creating data-based groups for focused instruction
• Helping me know which students to focus on during independent work
• Giving a substitute some insight on the students
• Guiding discussion during IPLCs
• Comparing progress from week to week or tracking the success of remediation

Hi my name is Beth! I have taught 2nd and 3rd grade as well as summer tutoring. I have been using Lucid to create seating charts graphic organizers and a classroom newsletter!

Creating my newsletter was quick and easy using Lucid and has made delivering classroom news a bit more exciting than a generic email. Once it was created I was excited to learn that I could save my document as a template! Now I can easily use the template to create each week's newsletter! 

Hey my name is Vanessa.  I love using Lucid for Education to encourage creativity in the classroom!  I love how you can start from a blank canvas or template and create anything you can think of using the tools inside of Lucid.  Here are a couple of my favorite activities. 

I love having students create 3 step comics to practice their vocabulary.  It's fun and the kids have to think deeply in order to create their mini vocab comics.

For this example I give students a rubric and they create a diagram. #thinkdeeplyaboutlearning

This example is a click and drag activity that I used with my 1st graders.  

I love having students share their learning by creating brochures they can print out.

Hey Everyone!

I'm Kris Zebarth from Ottawa ON Canada. I teach Computer Science for Grades 10 11 12. I've used LucidChart for Flowcharts over the past couple of years but this year I've started using LucidSpark for Gantt Charts with my Grade 12 students. Gantt charts allow them to properly plan and manage their time while working on large programming projects. The templates are great for starting off and the students love how easy it is to add new tasks organize based on time assign work to different people add milestones and dynamically change the view of their chart with just a few clicks. I know I'm just scratching the surface of everything you could do with this but I'm loving it so far!

Hi teachers! Thanks for posting these great examples of your boards and giving us some new inspiration! It's great to see what everyone is up to.

If you haven't already be sure to follow this thread (top right corner of the page) so you get an update whenever someone posts a new idea. Also check out our templates videos and training designed specifically for K12 teachers!

I'm Val a high school and concurrent enrollment English teacher.  I love using Lucidchart and Lucidspark to create graphic organizers for my students.  Although I have used Google Docs in the past I prefer Lucid because of the ever-increasing canvas and better functionality for shapes and layering while still maintaining all the collaborative elements I was used to with Google.  Students get their own copy of the Lucidspark and get to work.  I love that I can have them add a PDF of the text they are working on and annotate it before working on the graphic organizer.  

Hi All! My name is Lindsey and I'm a high school English teacher. I use the Lucid whiteboard ALL the time. I love how easy it is for my students to access and add to whatever I have planned for the period. I regularly use it in my AP Language & Composition course as I teach students to norm their scoring around the Collegeboard free response rubrics. I will assign students to read and score three example essays provided by Collegeboard. I name the three essays so we're not calling them Essay A B or C so in the screenshot you'll see we read essays by "Bluey" "Bingo" and "Chili" (if you've got littles you know where those names came from). I provide them with this blank template LucidSpark:

Then in groups of 2-4 they discuss their scoring of the three essays negotiate discuss and come to a final decision on scoring. Once this is done they pick a post-it color & share their thoughts on the whiteboard so it looks like the screenshot below.

 Once every group has posted we talk through the strengths and weaknesses. We point out where the groups were aligned in scoring and where they disagree. Then eventually we share the actual scores of the essays received from Collegeboard. Before the digital whiteboard I did this on my physical whiteboard and wasted an ungodly amount of post-its. I LOVE not only the ease of collaboration through the digital option but also the sustainability aspect. 

Hi Lindsey thanks for posting this great example of how you use Lucidspark to facilitate discussions in the classroom! In case it would be helpful to you or anyone else we have a brand new Training Lab on Creative Facilitation available! It's designed to teach how to guide a group from complex problems to creative solutions. There's also new templates and best practices from other expert facilitators that can support the way you approach facilitation. Thanks for sharing your ideas! 

I use Lucid to create hands on math lessons.  I love the locking mechanism that allows for somethings to be changed while other things are locked.  For example in the top left box of the example below the circles are locked and can only change style thus you are able to fill in the correct shape.  As you can see the next box is empty but can be used to draw in shapes to create the desired fraction.  The zeroes in the last boxes can only have their content changed allowing the students to write the fraction in the box.

I really like it most for making it easier to create manipulatives and an endless workspace for students to share their learning with each other as well as the teacher.