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Maximize your Canvas experience with Lucid’s intuitive tools.

This integration gives educators and students alike an elevated teaching and learning experience in Canvas through interactive assignments, collaborative whiteboarding, and more engaging activities.

The Lucid team has built a central space for Canvas + Lucid resources to help support the new integration. This site provides documentation, videos, FAQs, and more to help users get started maximizing Lucid tools within Canvas. This hub is intended to help educators and students alike to understand the features available, applications of Lucid tools, training offerings, and supporting documentation to help with any additional administrative needs.

Note that this page is organized by role, so please feel free to explore the various resources available for each role, with additional options to view video tutorials, explore the help center, and more.

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ClearTouch Troubleshooting

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A ClearTouch Technial Q & A Session was held at the ISC on Friday, October 4th.  Our friends at Nisewonger AV created and shared this excellent ClearTouch troubleshooting PowerPoint: Click the link below to download a copy of the…

Smart Search Now Available in Canvas

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Canvas Smart Search The Smart Search feature is now available for teachers to enable in their Canvas courses. Below is how Instructure defines the Smart Search functionality: “Our Smart Search feature relies on an AI-adjacent technology…

Updates to Read&Write

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Latest Updates for Read&Write are LIVE!  Read&Write is a dynamic Chrome Extension Available for all members of Hall County Schools to support literacy.  The tool can help with everyday tasks such as reading text aloud, understanding…

Using Book Creator with Canvas

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Did you know Book Creator revamped their Canvas integration early in 2024? Prior to 2024 the Book Creator / Canvas integration was primarily just single-sign-on.  The features below are now included in the new integration: Create Book…

Don’t Flop over Flip, Try VoiceThread!

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VoiceThread - Group Interaction For All Students Flip is no longer available as a standalone platform. Microsoft, the owner of Flip, has decided to integrate its functionality into Microsoft Teams for Education, leading to the discontinuation…

Canva Glow-Up for 2024/2025

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Canva Glow Up - Refreshed Look for Canva Homepage and Editor The Canva glow up includes a fresh homepage and editor designed for focused work. Canva made these changes to improve the way you create in Canva, and to make it easier to organize…