{"id":6416,"date":"2024-11-01T10:20:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T17:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/?p=6416"},"modified":"2025-04-10T16:39:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T23:39:43","slug":"lucid-tech-teaching-tips-from-timothy-corvidae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/2024\/11\/lucid-tech-teaching-tips-from-timothy-corvidae\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucid | Tech Teaching Tips from Timothy Corvidae"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Are you so sad that they\u2019ve taken Jamboard away from us all?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Or are you thinking, what was Jamboard?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Either way, I\u2019ve got good news for you. Evergreen has an excellent, clear choice to replace Jamboard in our teaching. It\u2019s free to us and works inside of Canvas to keep the tech we\u2019re asking our student to use streamlined, secure, and easy to find.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But what is it? Lucid is a collaborative online whiteboard that you can use for both synchronous and asynchronous activities. You can also assign individual Lucid boards for students, if you want to use it for individual work. We and our students can create an unlimited number of boards, so go wild! Here\u2019s<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/helpwiki.evergreen.edu\/wiki\/index.php\/Canvas_and_Lucid_(Whiteboard)\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Evergreen\u2019s Help Guide to working with Lucid in Canvas<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Below are additional tips for how you might use Lucid in your teaching.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong>Signing in to Lucid for the First Time<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both faculty and students will need to jump through a few hoops to get Lucid working. Once you\u2019ve done this, it should work seamlessly with your Evergreen login.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Below are step-by-step directions for accessing Lucid the first time via Canvas:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/help.lucid.co\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/14559937492756-Integrate-Lucid-with-Canvas#setup-for-students\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">for Students<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/help.lucid.co\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/14559937492756-Integrate-Lucid-with-Canvas#setup-for-teachers\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">for Faculty\/Instructors<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong>Setting up assignments and activities in Canvas using Lucid<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To set up an assignment using a Lucid board in Canvas, follow instructions to<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/help.lucid.co\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/14559937492756-Integrate-Lucid-with-Canvas#create-canvas-assignment-with-lucid-document\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Create an assignment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. This will allow you to create an individual Lucid board for each student (or each group, if you make it a group assignment) based on a single board you set up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To create a collaborative board for the whole class, it\u2019s better to<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/help.lucid.co\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/14559937492756-Integrate-Lucid-with-Canvas#embed-lucid-document-in-canvas\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">embed a Lucid board<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in a Canvas page (or announcement, assignment, quiz, discussion, or syllabus). This<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vJqwCSayQv4&amp;ab_channel=LucidforEducation\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">short video<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (1:37) talks you through how to embed a collaborative Lucid board anywhere in Canvas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong>Navigating a Lucid Board<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here are some tips for using a Lucid board, once you have one set up:<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #008000\">Scale <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">can be one of the more confusing things about online whiteboards. These boards have infinite scale, and when you enter a board, it might be quite zoomed out. I recommend starting with the board at about 50-75% scale. This allows you to zoom out when you need to see everything on the board, and also allows for some zooming in if anyone needs to get to increase font size to be able to comfortably read something.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lucid boards are infinite. This means that you can scroll in any direction and add content. You can scroll and scroll and scroll, so give students guidelines about how far to spread out, so work does not get lost from view.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #008000\">Navigation tools<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> appear in a menu at the bottom right of the board. These allow you to scale, move around, view a mini-map of the board, and view a table of contents of what\u2019s on the board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #008000\">Writing, drawing, and upload tools<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> appear in a menu on the left of the board. This is everything you will need to contribute to the board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #008000\">Collaboration controls<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> appear on the top right of the board. If you click on the people icon, you can follow others or invite them to follow you (this is very helpful when a whole class is trying to look at something together). You can also adjust how contributors are viewed, add comments, set a timer or a vote, record a video as you move around the board (this might be helpful for making an instructional video for students), or make a presentation from the board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #008000\">How students can add to the board<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let students know if you want them to write their contributions on sticky notes, loose on the board, or in some other format.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #008000\">Sticky notes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These are great for containing\/equalizing the length of student contributions, and for allowing you or students to arrange notes into themes by moving or color coding them. If you want to make a discussion visual, this is a good choice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #008000\">Typing directly on the board<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you want students to be unconstrained in how much they write, and you want the focus on the text itself, you can direct them to click on the T in the left menu, click anywhere on the board, and start writing. The text box can be moved around.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #008000\">Adding images or pdfs to the board<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you want students to use the board to share their work, this can be done with pdfs or other forms of image files. We are not able to directly upload Word or PowerPoint documents, unfortunately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;color: #008000\">Use a template to organize contributions<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lucid provides many, many pre-made templates of different kinds of graphic organizers, from flow charts to concept maps to business model canvases and logic models. You can select a template and instruct students in how it can organize their collaborative work, or you might want students to explore the templates themselves and decide what could help them organize their ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you so sad that they\u2019ve taken Jamboard away from us all? 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