Setting Up a Lesson in FigJam

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 achieve this a lot for facilitating a lesson. Listed here are some suggestions for organising a lesson in FigJam.

Free Figma FigJam Account

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

Setting Up a Lesson in FigJam

I normally 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 offers you a clean canvas you can begin designing your lesson from. When you go to figma.com/@schooling 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 transferring from Jamboard to FigJam, I may 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 Photographs Onto FigJam

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

IMPORTANT – Create Sections

The important thing to a FigJam lesson is to create sections. You’ll be able to create a piece per scholar 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 component or web page of your lesson.

Sections Mechanically Group

Certainly one of many causes to make use of sections in your FigJam is that something in your part is robotically grouped. When you drag the part, all the things within the part goes with it. When you duplicate the part, yup all of the part parts duplicate additionally.

Cover Sections

I’m into the lesson design mannequin of “Interact, Discover, Clarify, Prolong, Consider.” This implies I first need to interact college students have them discover earlier than explaining (or higher but, the scholars clarify.) I’d not need all the weather of a lesson to be out within the open for the scholars. You’ll be able to cover sections simply by choosing the part, every nook exhibits a resizing deal with, and a bit of 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 may well act because the canvas that pulls collectively a number of parts. Actually paste hyperlinks to different assets reminiscent of Google Slides, YouTube, and so on… to embed them on the canvas. You’ll be able to discover these assets inside FigJam with out having to depart the FigJam. Slides enlarges inside the canvas to can help you embrace a quick presentation as a part of the general lesson.

Examine 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 maintain your lesson on tempo.

Design for Interactivity

A conventional lesson is the instructor on the entrance of the room doing all of the work and the entire pondering. We are able to rethink and redefine that dynamic once we use a digital device like FigJam. Suppose 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. It will can help you “Begin open session” to present edit entry to anybody with the hyperlink, however the hyperlink will expire in 24 hours. You may as well 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 Pupil 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 students 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 scholar area. Then have college students do a “gallery stroll” to every others areas, by utilizing the desk of contents, to depart feedback.

Arrange File Location

By default your FigJam file is a “Draft.” On the prime 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. Arrange into your crew folder.

Duplicate Earlier than Modifying

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

You may as well discover the ? within the url and delete it and all the things to the best of it to switch with /duplicate to create a hyperlink that forces a reproduction.

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