Distance Learning

1. If you’re using a free Lucid account make sure it’s an education account. If your district has Lucid for Education premium account be sure to use your integrated account to access the assignment creator and other features!
2. Leverage template ideas from other teachers in the gallery. Don't be afraid to make mistakes! We promise there's almost nothing you can't undo. Share what you learn to help others on their journey.
3. Decide how you’ll distribute assignments and lessons with your students: 
   • Through an email or newsletter
   • Directly from the Lucid platforms
   • If you’re using a paid account, be sure your integrations are set up with your LMS
   • Link sharing in the classroom chat
4. Locate feature find, it will be your best friend going forward. You can ask it how to accomplish anything in Lucid.
5. Be brave, “borrow” liberally from existing templates leveraging work other teachers have made.

Use Lucidchart and Lucidpress templates as an anchor for your existing lesson plans. Consider what you want to teach, focus on one key idea and then use the template to easily express that idea during your call. Teaching online requires a place to focus, and Lucid templates are designed to provide that while being quick and easy to create.

Choose one key idea or skill you want to teach. Embed a video introducing the content in the document, keeping the duration less than three minutes. You can learn how to do concisely express ideas in a video in the link below. Provide links to study resources in the document using sticky notes or other attention-drawing callouts. Then use an LMS integration to quickly distribute to students or send them a direct link to the document. Hear how →

Consider how a document may behave with limited online access and leverage Lucid’s accessibility features.

1. For young students without the internet, communicate through images and limit text-heavy sections. You can leverage public television segments and printable Lucid documents to help students digest their new knowledge. Do not forget to press for parental support to encourage these younger students. You'll also want to prioritize document content by what is going to reach the broadest cross-section of students. Be sure to distribute information to students on how to download the document and use it offline. 
2. For older students, reference textbooks they may have at home or paste snippets into the Lucid document so they can download and reference information where they have access.

Use a Lucidchart or Lucidpress document as an anchor for interaction. Place students into groups to work together and communicate frequently on the material. Frame topics in ways that are relevant to their age group and provide interesting images to pique curiosity. Remember to spend less time talking and more time showing. Let students vote on what learning method they want to use so they can take ownership of their own learning. For example, to cover a new concept in math ask students "Would you rather work on problems in your own Lucidchart tab or work on one problem as a group?" Hear how →

Leverage Lucid's collaboration and sharing features to benefit from each other's experiences. Share subject folders with templates and instructions so that teachers can adapt them to their classrooms. Don’t worry about polished perfection, great ideas are more commonly formed as a team! Use idea sparks and toolkits to quickly disseminate how-tos and workflows. Use social media to share your lesson plans you create with the broader educator collective!

1. Bring all conversation back to one key point. Reference Marzano's work or standards-based grading to determine what is essential. 
2. Take risks and plan to fail, learn and try again. You can't expect from your students what you're unwilling to risk yourself
3. Show more and talk less. Let students create their own narrative within the lesson structure you've laid out.
4.  Choose an anchor activity to bring attention back to your chosen key point.

Absolutely! You could create posters, presentations and flowcharts for a bot chat. Now is the time to let your students' creativity shine and pursue things that interest them in the way only digital natives can! For example, create a bot chat for questions about how to solve problems using the FOIL Method. Hear how →