Activating Lucid Whiteboard in MyClasses

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Interactive, Collaborative Activities via Lucid

The Lucid Education Suite is now available in MyClasses offering instructors a simple integration to access two types of collaborative online tools: Lucidspark and Lucidchart. Lucidspark is a virtual whiteboard application that enables teams to ideate, design, and build better ideas. Lucidchart is an intelligent diagramming application that allows you to visualize complex ideas, systems, and processes.

With this integration, you can embed Lucid documents directly into the Rich Content Editor in Canvas, allowing for increased engagement and collaboration. You can also create assignments that automatically make a copy of a Lucid document for each individual student—and it’s compatible with SpeedGrader!

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Step-by-Step Instructions:

Activating Lucid in MyClasses

Select the Lucid (Whiteboard) link in the course navigation menu on the left of your browser.

Lucid (Whiteboard) Link in Navigation Bar
You will be directed to the account activation process. If you have not done so, set up an account with Lucid.

a. Click sign up to create an account on Lucid

b. Click Register on the next page

c. Once you have created your account and registered, you will be directed to your lucid homepage

If you have a lucid account you will be directed to the Lucid Login page to connect your Myclasses course to your account

a. Click continue and you will be redirected to your lucid homepage.

Once the set up has occurred, you will be directed to your Lucid Homepage anytime you click the Lucid (Whiteboard) link in your navigation bar.

Lucid Homepage

Students will also need to set up a Lucid account in order to access documents you create or collaborate within Lucid assignments.

Navigating Your Lucid Homepage

When you are directed to your homepage in Lucid you have a variety of options to create and organize the Lucid documents you will use in your course.

The +New button in the top left corner allows you to create a new document using either Lucidspark (whiteboards) or Lucidchart (diagramming tool). This can be built from scratch or using a template.

Create New Lucid Documents

The Home tab below the +New button gives you access to templates and documents you have recently created.

Lucid Home Tab

The Documents tab allows you to go directly to

a. recent documents,

b. starred/favorite documents, or

c. all documents you have created previously.

Access Lucid Documents