FigJam is a digital whiteboard that I like to recommend you progress to since Google Jamboard is being depreciated. FigJam is a collaborative area that may accomplish that a lot for facilitating a lesson. Listed below are some suggestions for organising a lesson in FigJam.

Free Figma FigJam Account

First, ensure you have been verified as an educator so you’ll be able to have free entry to FigJam, with limitless information. You will discover all your information at figma.com.

Setting Up a Lesson in FigJam

I often begin a brand new FigJam at figjam.new. Alternatively, you’ll be able to go to figma.com and click on on “FigJam board.”

This provides you a clean canvas you can begin designing your lesson from. For those who go to figma.com/@training you’ll be able to seize some prepared made templates if you happen to don’t need to begin from scratch.

Drag in a PDF

Since I’m shifting from Jamboard to FigJam, I might need some backgrounds or lesson construction already setup. I’ll export my Jamboard Jam file to PDF. FigJam makes it tremendous straightforward to begin with a PDF.

Drag a PDF proper onto the FigJam canvas.

Delightfully, every web page of the PDF is added as a separate picture that is ready to be simply dragged round an organized.

Drag Photos Onto FigJam

Not like Jamboard, you’ll be able to drag photos immediately onto FigJam.

IMPORTANT – Create Sections

The important thing to a FigJam lesson is to create sections. You may create a piece per pupil or a piece per “web page.” Down within the toolbar, discover the “Part” icon to attract rectangles onto your canvas.

Every part is numbered, however simply rename-able. I extremely advocate creating sections for every factor or web page of your lesson.

Sections Robotically Group

One among many causes to make use of sections in your FigJam is that something in your part is mechanically grouped. For those who drag the part, all the things within the part goes with it. For those who duplicate the part, yup all of the part parts duplicate additionally.

Disguise Sections

I’m into the lesson design mannequin of “Have interaction, Discover, Clarify, Prolong, Consider.” This implies I first need to have interaction college students have them discover earlier than explaining (or higher but, the scholars clarify.) I might not need all the weather of a lesson to be out within the open for the scholars. You may disguise sections simply by choosing the part, every nook reveals a resizing deal with, and just a little floating toolbar allows you to click on on a winky eye to cover or unhide the part.

Embed Google Slides

What’s nice about Figjam is it will possibly act because the canvas that pulls collectively a number of parts. Actually paste hyperlinks to different assets corresponding to Google Slides, YouTube, and so on… to embed them on the canvas. You may discover these assets inside FigJam with out having to depart the FigJam. Slides enlarges throughout the canvas to will let you embrace a quick presentation as a part of the general lesson.

Test Out the Timer

Constructed proper into FigJam is a lesson timer. Click on within the higher left on the timer icon to set a timer to assist preserve your lesson on tempo.

Design for Interactivity

A standard lesson is the trainer on the entrance of the room doing all of the work and all the pondering. We will rethink and redefine that dynamic after we use a digital software like FigJam. Assume interactivity and collaboration. FigJam allows you to be on the identical web page with college students, actually.

Begin Open Session

One possibility for sharing your FigJam is to click on on the Share button within the higher proper. This can will let you “Begin open session” to present edit entry to anybody with the hyperlink, however the hyperlink will expire in 24 hours. You may also manually disable the sharing possibility. Merely paste the open session hyperlink into your LMS.

Share with Your College students

For extra accountability than a generic hyperlink, paste the e-mail addresses of your college students into the invite part. Copy the hyperlink to the FigJam utilizing the “Copy hyperlink” possibility on the backside.

30 Scholar Areas

Do that template for getting all college students on the identical FigJam canvas. It has all 30 sections spaced out fairly a bit to permit for college kids to work inside their very own area and never be crowded subsequent to the area of different college students. Use the desk of contents within the heart to hyperlink to every particular person pupil area. Then have college students do a “gallery stroll” to every others areas, by means of utilizing the desk of contents, to depart feedback.

Set up File Location

By default your FigJam file is a “Draft.” On the high heart you’ll be able to rename your file and use the drop down arrow subsequent to it to “Transfer to mission” so it’s not a draft. Set up into your workforce folder.

Duplicate Earlier than Enhancing

FigJam fortunately has a model historical past to will let you rewind the collaborative canvas, however it would simpler to make use of a contemporary copy every time you utilize FigJam. Click on on the tiny arrow on the high heart to decide on “Duplicate to your drafts.”

You may also discover the ? within the url and delete it and all the things to the fitting of it to interchange with /duplicate to create a hyperlink that forces a replica.

You may also share this /duplicate hyperlink together with your college students if you wish to power a replica for them. They might want to share it again with you.