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The use of lucidspark for supplemental instruction in neuroscience education
What do you like best about the product?
I really like how this gives us the ability to draw and instruct in a virtual learning environment. Virtual learning and teaching has been a challenging part of the pandemic, but lucidspark has made it more feasible. It is an amazing feature that multiple participants are able to contribute at the same time, while instructors are able to check their progress. Our students thought it was a great platform to apply the concepts they had learned in class with guidance from instructors. It is unlike any other platform I have used for online learning and is an extremely valuable resource. I appreciate that it offers the option to insert shapes and lines to create unique templates specific to certain classes.The team tools also make activities effective and fun. The containers and templates features also help to make the information very organized.
What do you dislike about the product?
With several people drawing at once, the appearance of everyones cursors can get confusing, but it may be a necessary feature. Several of my group members also received a notification that they had reached maximum number of drawings during the teaching session. There did seem to be a small lag when multiple people were drawing at the same time but it was not substantial enough to cause any problems.It may be beneficial to include a brief tutorial to familiarize individuals with the platform and how to most efficiently use it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This gives us the ability to give real time explanations while drawing complex concepts in neuroscience education since we can't be in person to teach. It prevents us from having to hold up pieces of paper up to a camera screen like we did before we stared using lucidspark. Lucidspark provides a platform that allows for some return to normalcy of education. This gives us access to a necessary part of instruction that was missing with strictly online lectures. This encourages active participation during class and really gets student's attention. This mitigates confusion that cannot be solved by words alone but needs explanation through demonstration.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would definitely recommend the use of lucidspark for any supplemental instruction to virtual learning.
MS Visio Alternative
What do you like best about the product?
Lucidspark is a simple to use graphic visualizer. The UI was very familiar to Google's suite of cloud-based software. For this reason, it was very easy to learn how to use it. Its ability to collaborate in real-time is absolutely essential for any inherently collaborative service.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its simplicity is the only aspect that I disliked, but it's not a deal-breaker.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I used Lucidspark to help my construction competition team generate a work breakdown structure for the planning of our project. It was easy for us to visualize our plan and translate it into an effective schedule.
A great app for international teams
What do you like best about the product?
What I really like was the option to share feedback, which helped us to improve our communication and move forward with our project. The chat option was also helpful. It felts as if we were communicating in real life. Because if that the brainstorming part of our project was done smoothly. Being able to integrate documents from other platforms is a great feature. It is a great feature and it saved us time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes when there are more people it was hard to navigate through the ideas each of us had shared. As other people can edit your thoughts, this resulted in some confusion in our team and we had to spet additional time discussing the changed other people in our teams had made.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We had a project and in order to solve the problem, we were dealing with, we had to share our thought. The option to do voting helped us with the brainstorming part of our project. One of the biggest benefits of this app is the customer journey map. Each of us created one and then it was more clear to us what we had to do. Also, we were able to measure the progress we were making as a team as well as as individuals. Another key feature is the integration option. As our team was an international one, this feature helped us to share each other findings and files.
Great whiteboard app
What do you like best about the product?
I like that you can duplicate things easily so that you don't have to recreate items. I love that you can color code to quickly see different things.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's a little complicated to come up with my own custom board. I think following the templates would be easier but there isn't a template for exactly how I want to setup my board.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am using Lucidspark to replace a physical white board on the wall. I am tracking projects based on timelines.
Great Diagraming Software
What do you like best about the product?
Lucidchart is a great diagraming and mind mapping software. I have used it to create multiple company wide documents particularly seating charts, org charts, and process flows. There's a bit of a learning curve with the platform, but overall, the tool is very intuitive. There are also a lot of great tutorials that will show you useful shortcuts and keystrokes that shave valuable time off your projects. Lucidchart also has a lot of great templates that you can use to get started, rather than starting from scratch. The self-help and feature search sections are also very helpful.
I particularly like how professional the final products are and I have received multiple positive comments on the diagrams I've created for internal training documents and announcements. I compare Lucidchart to Powerpoint and Google Slides which were my default programs I previously used to create diagrams. My biggest complaint about Powerpoint/Slides is that they have a limited amount of shapes and diagrams, and everybody recognizes their stock diagrams. Using Lucidchart will help you standout from the rest. Also, in comparing them to Powerpoint and Slides, Lucidchart is much faster to use. For example, I started creating an org chart in Powerpoint and it was very tedious and laborious to make minor adjustments vs. Lucidchart. I particularly like how the lines between boxes move with the box vs. power point where you have to manually move all the lines when the boxes are moved. In the long-run, this tool will save you and your team a lot of time.
I'm a big fan of their "free-mium" cost model. You are allowed to create up to 3 documents for free which can really get you by in a pinch, but switching to a paid account is seamless and not too expensive. I also appreciate how their sales team is not to pushy or aggressive. The integrations with Slack and Google Suite also run smooth and really helps from a collaboration standpoint.
Overall, Lucidchart is a great tool and once you master it, it will up your game. I highly recommend checking it out!
I particularly like how professional the final products are and I have received multiple positive comments on the diagrams I've created for internal training documents and announcements. I compare Lucidchart to Powerpoint and Google Slides which were my default programs I previously used to create diagrams. My biggest complaint about Powerpoint/Slides is that they have a limited amount of shapes and diagrams, and everybody recognizes their stock diagrams. Using Lucidchart will help you standout from the rest. Also, in comparing them to Powerpoint and Slides, Lucidchart is much faster to use. For example, I started creating an org chart in Powerpoint and it was very tedious and laborious to make minor adjustments vs. Lucidchart. I particularly like how the lines between boxes move with the box vs. power point where you have to manually move all the lines when the boxes are moved. In the long-run, this tool will save you and your team a lot of time.
I'm a big fan of their "free-mium" cost model. You are allowed to create up to 3 documents for free which can really get you by in a pinch, but switching to a paid account is seamless and not too expensive. I also appreciate how their sales team is not to pushy or aggressive. The integrations with Slack and Google Suite also run smooth and really helps from a collaboration standpoint.
Overall, Lucidchart is a great tool and once you master it, it will up your game. I highly recommend checking it out!
What do you dislike about the product?
Overall, I don't really have too many complaints or issues while using the tool, but if anything, I would like a better version control system. It would also help if there was a folder system within the tool to help manage all the documents you've created.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have used Lucidchart to create org charts, seating charts, and process documents all of which can get quite meticulous to create. Lucidchart helps simplify those tasks and has helped cut the time to create them drastically.
Great Product
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, extensive libraries, easy setup.
What do you dislike about the product?
Trial was not full featured, was not able to open support ticket,.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Business Processes
Recommendations to others considering the product:
n/a
Using Lucid Spark for Accelerator Design
What do you like best about the product?
The UI is intuitive and easy to use; I especially appreciate how easy it is to align blocks with other elements on the board. I especially liked how the arrows remain fixed when reformatting/moving sections of the diagram. The infinite canvas also made it convenient to edit.
Quick start/tutorial material also makes it easy to pick up how best to use the tools.
It was very easy to import/export/migrate the diagrams and data.
Quick start/tutorial material also makes it easy to pick up how best to use the tools.
It was very easy to import/export/migrate the diagrams and data.
What do you dislike about the product?
While there is an extensive list of diagram templates, I would have liked some more computer engineering related components, such as an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) symbol.
When moving blocks around, the transition arrows would often not follow along cleanly. While they would still be attached, I would have to return and re-align the intermediate paths again to ensure they did not overlap.
When transition arrows cross over each other, it would be nice if it were clearer which arrow is which (perhaps an option to have one of the lines show a "hop" over the other?).
While working within a project was seamless, it could feel clunky working around the projects. For example, exporting images (for use in presentations/documents) and loading projects could sometimes feel very slow.
When working with text labels on transition arrows, I wish it was easier to set up templates or format all of them in bulk. I think if I had the ability to create even just three options, it would have really helped.
When moving blocks around, the transition arrows would often not follow along cleanly. While they would still be attached, I would have to return and re-align the intermediate paths again to ensure they did not overlap.
When transition arrows cross over each other, it would be nice if it were clearer which arrow is which (perhaps an option to have one of the lines show a "hop" over the other?).
While working within a project was seamless, it could feel clunky working around the projects. For example, exporting images (for use in presentations/documents) and loading projects could sometimes feel very slow.
When working with text labels on transition arrows, I wish it was easier to set up templates or format all of them in bulk. I think if I had the ability to create even just three options, it would have really helped.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Explaining state transitions in a cache coherence protocol. This was previously done in a table, but a visual flowchart was much clearer for others to understand.
I also used Lucidspark to illustrate the design of a machine learning accelerator (at a high level), with a focus on the data flow through the hardware.
I also used Lucidspark to illustrate the design of a machine learning accelerator (at a high level), with a focus on the data flow through the hardware.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take the time to familiarize yourself with the new features; the online instructional material is excellent.
Love the shared whiteboard
What do you like best about the product?
we use the whiteboard as a team to keep people in the loop and brainstorm its amazing
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing yet. i have had a great experience with it so far
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
benefits are that our team has a place to throw ideas and we can keep up with peoples ideas and everyone can see it. but we dont use it anymore was great when we di
Essay and intuitive to use. Very useful for collaborative diagrams development
What do you like best about the product?
Live collaboration and intuitiveness......
What do you dislike about the product?
Mobile application limitations..........
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We used it for a course workgroup task related to diagrams production allowing for the collaboration of people across organizations and continents, expediting and simplifying a proceeds that otherwise would had to rely on back and forward emails
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Very useful, try it you will see how good it is.
Really easy to use and really helpful to explain examples
What do you like best about the product?
That it was used collectively by the team at the same time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Had to scroll across the screen to see the full picture.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using it as part of creating a marketing strategy for our company while working with the agency based in another city.
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