Lucid: Video - KCS Collaborative Workspaces

Written By Mark Slacin

Updated at August 19th, 2024

Transcript

Hello, in this video you will discover how to use Lucid boards as a collaborative space inside of Canvas. So here in my Canvas course, I'm going to pretend that I am about to have my students work on something, and I am going to have them do that work through my Canvas course on a page. So I'm going to call this "Goods and Services." I'm teaching a social studies lesson, and just a note: you can use a page for this; you could also use an assignment container for this, but I'm using a page for this example. So what I'd like for students to do is I'd like for everyone in the class to be able to come to this page and participate in a group brainstorming activity. The way Canvas is set up, I can't do that naturally just by using the onboard Canvas tools, so I'm going to utilize Lucid, Lucid Spark in particular, to make this activity happen. So I'm going to toggle over to my Lucid Spark board, and I have a space here that I've set up to hold a sorting activity. What I'd like for students to do is list things they can think of that are goods and things they can think of that are services, and I want all students to work on this and be able to see each other's work so that we can learn from each other. So what I would do is embed this board in my Canvas course. In another video, you may have seen how to do this already, but I'm going to demonstrate once more. Here in my Canvas Rich Content Editor, I have an "L" up here, which is a place where I can go to embed Lucid documents. I'm going to open this, and it is connecting to my Lucid account and it's asking me to grant it all the access that is needed, and now we're ready to go. This is my Lucid dashboard. If I were to toggle back over here and go to the home page, you would see the same thing, so it has pulled in exactly what I needed it to pull in. So again, this is the board that we want to embed. So over here in Canvas, I'm going to look for that one. Right here it is, "Social Studies." I'm going to hit continue, and I want to make sure that students can edit this board. I want them to be able to add things to it. I could set it for comments or view only if that met my needs, but for this example, I want to set it to "Edit." So as soon as it loads, you're going to see that same activity loaded here on your Canvas screen. I'm going to hit save and then we'll see what students are able to do. Okay, I used the trackpad here or a mouse to kind of rearrange my labels to make it a little bit easier for students to use, but what I would ask them to do is use the toolbar here on the left, which would appear for them as well, to add their thoughts to these two categories. There's a couple of ways they could do it. They could hit text and they could just type in an entry, or they could use a sticky note. I really like sticky notes because look what it does here: it puts the user's name on the bottom, so I can see who commented what. So a student may, on their sticky note, write something like "babysitting," and now I can see whether or not this student has really grasped the concept. To embed Lucid collaborative spaces in your Canvas course, you need to first make the board over in Lucid, then you would come to Canvas in the editing pane, you would embed the Lucid Spark board by using your little "L" again. You'll have the opportunity to select the board you want to apply. You can also do that same thing here, but this is just a little bit simpler in my opinion, and then make sure that you have this page published so that students can participate.

 
 

 

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