In this video, you will learn how to share your Lucid Spark whiteboard with students in order to invite them to live collaboration. There are a couple of things to know about sharing within Lucid. Up here at the top, you can see a very prominent Share button. When you open that menu, you can give individuals access much like you do with Google products. You can also determine what permissions they have once they access your file. You can also turn off or on a sharable link. You could post this link somewhere, maybe in a newsletter if it was appropriate for that, or perhaps in your Canvas course. Anywhere students would be able to access hypertext, you could post this sharable link, and you could also give specific permissions to specific users. In additional settings, you can determine whether or not you want a passcode on the board, whether you want it to expire at a certain time, and what particular view you want to pop up when the link is clicked.

I'm going to go up to this vertical menu here and point out something that could be very useful. In this menu, you have the choice to enable a Join ID. This is what you can use to make sure students navigate to your board. So, when I click Enable Join ID, this panel pops up in the background and instructs students to log in at this URL. They can copy that and paste it into their browser, and when they log in, they’re going to need this code. So I’m going to enter that ID, and notice I am now in as a guest collaborator because my other credentials have been used to log in as the author. But as a collaborator, I can also make changes to this document because of the way that the share settings were designated. Again, posting the sharable link in a Canvas course is one way to get them there. Embedding the Lucid Spark board inside your Canvas page or assignment is another way to get them there, as long as the share permissions are set to allow students to edit. Using that Join ID is a third way to help students find their way to your board where collaboration can take place.