Getting Started with the Canvas and Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite

[KevinMeredith]

On June 15, 2024, the Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite (LucidChart and LucidSpark) was made generally available to all Canvas LMS customers. This integration gives educators and students alike an elevated teaching and learning experience in Canvas LMS through interactive assignments, collaborative whiteboarding, and more engaging activities. For those who are interested in trying out some of the capabilities that Lucid can bring to your curriculum, we are excited to give the Community a set of videos that will help walk you through some of the basics with Lucid. These resources have been provided by our friends at Lucid, and they outline some of the basics.

To get started, we provide some step-by-step guidance on setting up the integration: 

Next, we give guidance on embedding collaborative activities within your Canvas LMS content: 

Lastly, we have a video that outlines how to create assignments with Lucid within Canvas LMS: 

For those who are curious for more information, please continue to follow the Product Blog in the Community as well as stay tuned for training resources (which will also be included in the Product Blog) provided by Lucid and Instructure.

[MARISSASCHRADER]

It seems the assignment creation video is embedded under the collaboration section and vice versa. Thanks! 

[dbrace]

May we please have the Canvas Studio embed code for each of these videos or is it Instructure's (and Lucid's) preference that we refer our users to this page?

[dbrace]

Would it be possible for a representative at Instructure and a representative at Lucid to host a Q&A webinar so that we able to ask questions in real-time?

[John__Lane]

I support @dbrace recommendation about a Q&A webinar 

[mmoore1]

This looks like a fun way to promote interaction.  We are taking a look at it currently.  Does anyone know what the accessibility needs are? 

[dbrace]

@mmoore1, check out the Exciting News: New Lucid Integration Available in Canvas LMS Beta! post. Apparently Lucid's VPAT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Product_Accessibility_Template) is only available with an NDA.

[VanessaCicero]

@mmoore1 if you are interested in learning more about Lucid's accessibility, you can email bdavis@lucid.co and she can provide you with Lucid's VPAT and accessibility roadmap.  The NDA is no longer required for in structure customers.

[VanessaCicero]

@John__Lane and @dbrace Lucid and Canvas are working on putting together a Q&A session that we will share out soon.  In the meantime Lucid has several webinars coming up and open office hours.  You can review the details here. 

[arovner]

@VanessaCicero Thanks for the info about the upcoming office hours but even that list of dates/ times isn't accessible. Could you perhaps post a bulleted list in this forum for folks to easily access, copy and share out?

[KevinMeredith]

Hi all, 

My sincere apologies for not posting the embed codes to the videos earlier, but here they are!

Accessing Lucid Through Canvas (Video 1): 

<iframe width="560px" height="320px" allowfullscreen="true" allow="autoplay *" title="Accessing Lucid with Canvas for the first time COPPA flow" src="https://productmarketing.instructuremedia.com/embed/938d4706-1d3e-482a-b84f-3dc4115f9f4f" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Embedding Lucid Content and Activities (Video 2): 

<iframe width="560px" height="320px" allowfullscreen="true" allow="autoplay *" title="How to embed Lucid content and collaborative activities in Canvas" src="https://productmarketing.instructuremedia.com/embed/457950fd-275d-4566-a9ae-ec9b330c50e5" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Creating a Lucid Assignment in Canvas (Video 3): 

<iframe width="560px" height="320px" allowfullscreen="true" allow="autoplay *" title="How to create a Lucid Assignment in Canvas" src="https://productmarketing.instructuremedia.com/embed/87af2661-b81d-4221-a7e6-30fa19f7f89f" frameborder="0"></iframe>

[Maggied62]

So apparently there is a cost involved for a "team" or school instance of Lucid with Canvas???  $360USD/year????

It would be nice to have that as part of the "spiel" on the collaboration of Lucid with Canvas.....

[sms2]

Yes, the cost would have been nice, as well as not having to go into every course and remove it from the navigation (120 + courses) since our instance won't use it because of the cost. 

[audra_agnelly]

Where are you seeing there's a cost???

[pray4]

Did the Q&A ever occur, and did anyone happen to ask why placement settings are hidden/locked for this one particular app that was enabled globally in our PROD instance with a course nav element?

Support couldn't explain that one to me, but confirmed the lack of placement options is correct. I deleted the app from our instance entirely, which is a shame as I'm sure our faculty and students would be interested in this otherwise.

[dbrace]

@audra_agnelly, I think that others are referencing that Lucid has different plans. Some of those plans are free and others are paid for. The plan that we all have as a standard in Canvas is a free version but with more features and functionality than a regular free plan. However, that plan is also is limited because more advanced functionality (such as central management) requires a higher-level (paid for) plan.

[bdavis0705]

Hi all, I'm Britney Davis, Head of Operations at Lucid for Education.

I'd like to clarify; there is absolutely no cost for Lucid for Canvas educators and students. @Maggied62 @sm2 @audra_agnelly @dbrace 

Any Canvas educator or student who accesses Lucid through Canvas will automatically receive the entire Lucid for Education Suite for free. This provides the highest level of Lucid product functionality; there are no product limitations.

To add more context to @dbrace's point, every Canvas educator and student receives an individual account. Thus, there is no central management and administrative panel control because there is no centrally managed account; all receive individual accounts. 

Potentially, Canvas users may have mistakenly been looking at Lucid's general offerings on Lucid's website - those do not apply to Canvas teachers and students because, if they connect to Lucid through their Canvas account, they will be given the highest level of product functionality we offer, for free. 

If you have more questions, please don't hesitate to connect with me: bdavis@lucid.co. Thanks!

[dbrace]

Thank you for posting this publicly, @bdavis0705 (Britney). While emailing your privately is possible (thank you for that option), I will continue to ask some questions publicly (not over email) because there is not enough public information that is readily available.

While Lucid accounts that are created from within Canvas are free, the highest level of Lucid product functionality, and without product limitations, how are institutions/organizations supposed to:

1. manage these accounts (we are responsible for accounts, just like for Google or Microsoft)
2. manage the data (we are responsible for data, just like in Google or Microsoft)
3. create user accounts ahead-of-time so that users do not have to go through the steps on their own

Are these addressed/answered somewhere in the Canvas Community or Lucid Help Center?

Douglas Brace

[pray4]

Thank you, @bdavis0705 . Can you please clarify your explanation for not providing any way to administer your tool in our Canvas instances? We have plenty of integrations where our students and faculty maintain their own individual accounts. I do not understand why placement options in the UI are masked/locked with your tool in particular. The benefits sound great, but it also sounds as though we have to accept an enabled course nav element across our entire instance to be able to leverage it. This not only causes confusion for our students and faculty, it also impacts support resources we've built to help our new students and faculty in particular navigate within our courses.