If you’re a teacher and you’re looking for simpler ways to create materials for your
lesson plans, Lucidchart provides you with many powerful tools to help, especially if
you’d your students to complete your activities on their own computers.
After watching this video you’ll be able find and use dozens of Education-specific
templates that Lucidchart has created for you to get started with.
You’ll learn how to create custom libraries to help you save time, make your own material
and save it as templates so you and your students can use them over and over again and how to
assign and turn in assignments through Lucidchart.
First, let’s look at some the templates Lucidchart has created for you.
To access those templates first log-in to Lucidchart.
You’ll be taken to the documents page and from here you can click More Templates in
the templates banner here at the top page.
Then under Categories, select Education.
There are over 60 different templates that we’ve created just for educators, these
templates can help you get started on lesson plan materials quickly and easily.
In fact, the rest of the videos in this series will walk you through how to adapt some of
these templates for yourself, and teach your students how they can edit and submit them
back to you.
You might find that as you create and adapt materials for your lessons you create certain
shapes and groups of shapes over and over again.
For example, in our Family Tree template, there’s no name or date field, which could
be a problem if you wanted to print this assignment out.
It’s rather simple to create them, just double click anywhere on the screen and type
out Name or Date and then use underlines to create the line.
Change the font style or size, and then resize the textbox until you’re happy with how
it looks.
Creating this every time would become a little tedious, however and Lucidchart has a solution.
If you open the Shape Manager here, this gives you access to all of our shape libraries.
There are hundreds of shapes in dozens of libraries to choose from and if you find a
lot of shapes you like to use, or have others like our Name and Date fields that you have
to create yourself you can actually create a Custom Library to store all of your favorite
shapes.
Just scroll to the bottom of the manager, type in a name for your new library, then
click the plus button to create it.
Then click Save.
Now you have your custom library here in your toolbox!
Now just drag any shapes from your canvas that you want to add and drop them in the
library!
Now when you open a new file, you can open the Shape Manager, find your Custom Library,
and then drag your favorite shapes straight onto your canvas!
Now, let’s say you’ve created the perfect assignment for your students.
If you want them to complete it themselves on their computers, things can get a little
tricky.
An quick and easy solution is to make this assignment its own template, that way when
a student opens it, they are just opening their own copy of the file.
To do this, just find the assignment in your documents page, click the More options button
here, and select convert template.
Select a category for your template and give it a description if you like.
Voila!
Your assignment is now a template!
Finally, you’ll want to share your template with your students!
How?
Well, just click More Options on your new template again and click Share!
Here you can enter the email addresses of all your students.
Make sure they have Edit and Share permissions and then click Share.
Your students will now be able to access your Templates from the More Templates option in
the Templates banner and then looking under Team templates.
As you can see, Lucidchart provides you with a lot of powerful tools that will help you
more quick and easily create materials for your lesson plans.
Let us know in the comments if you have any questions or if you want more features or
how-tos!
Check out the rest of our EDU videos to learn how to adapt some of our most popular templates
for your own purposes!