Lucid Education Suite consists of virtual whiteboarding applications which allow students to actively ideate, design and collaborate visuospatially on a shared infinite canvas. The suite includes two integrated applications with different emphases: Lucidspark for freeform creative thinking and Lucidchart for diagramming.
Lucid is available on the Canvas course site.
- Virtual whiteboard with a wide selection of ideation tools for brainstorming and note-taking
- Collection of ready-to-use customizable templates, including graphic organizers, process diagrams, analysis frameworks and many more
- Real-time collaboration functionality with reactions and emojis to enhance social presence
- Gamification features: pre-built icebreaking games, timer and voting tools to promote engagement
- Collaborative AI to extend thinking, uncover key themes and summarize content efficiently
For warm-ups: Use Lucid’s visual activities to focus attention and boost motivation.
For learning activities: Students can use Lucid’s virtual workspace for a wide range of synchronous or asynchronous group activities, including brainstorming ideas, analysing cases, comparing documents, mapping processes and much more.
For scaffolding your teaching content: Use Lucid to structure your learning session and guide students through specific tasks using frames and paths.
For facilitating discussion: Set up question prompts in Lucid to invite responses in real-time, and use student reactions to gauge sentiment and identify topics of interest.
For group projects: Lucid’s canvas can be a project workspace for student groups and serve as a virtual forum for showcasing and sharing work with instructors and peers.