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Access Through an LMS

Accessing Visual Classrooms » Access Through an LMS

If your institution has a Learning Management System (LMS) like Blackboard or Canvas, Visual Classrooms can be integrated seamlessly as an App/External Tool within that system. Contact us at support@visualclassrooms.com to get the launch url, secret, and key to enable…

Visual Classrooms

Visual Classrooms is a cloud-based discussion and collaboration platform designed to improve student engagement and support interactive learning and adaptive instruction in blended and online environments. Our web-based digital whiteboard encourages students to quickly…

Accessing Visual Classrooms

Visual Classrooms is designed for use in both blended and online learning. All you need is an internet enabled device – a laptop, phone, tablet, or iPad. There are two ways to access Visual Classrooms: directly from the Visual Classrooms website or through your…

Visual Classrooms Lingo

Visual Classrooms is an innovative computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environment to enable a broad range of collaborative knowledge construction activities. It provides a shared interactive white board where users can post, visualize, build on,…

Using Visual Classrooms

Visual Classrooms offers a variety of collaborative learning activities – discussions, multiple choice questions, and concept maps. The activity page provides an overview of the prompts for each Visual Classrooms session, as well as the notebook page, visual…

Visual Classrooms Use Cases

Educator Case Studies See how educators around the world are using Visual Classrooms to support blended and online learning. Dawson College — Use Case See how Dawson College physics instructor Sameer Bhatnagar uses Visual Classrooms to “flip his…

Visual Analytics

Additional Features » Visual Analytics

The Visual Analytics function provides visualizations of data about activity and interactions taking place in a session. The visualizations can be displayed as either a word cloud or vocabulary list. Word Cloud The word cloud is a function that can be found within…

Direct Access

Accessing Visual Classrooms » Direct Access

Sign up for on our website for a Student Account. Student accounts require a subscription, as detailed on our pricing page. Many institutions will purchase student subscriptions in bulk and distribute an Access Code that allows students to join Visual Classrooms…

Participating in an Activity

Using Visual Classrooms » Participating in an Activity

Here’s what a Visual Classrooms activity looks like: Visual Classrooms has four types of activities: discussions, homework, labs, and quizzes. Activities in Visual Classrooms are made up of a series of what we call “prompts”. Prompts are…

Joining a Group

Accessing Visual Classrooms » Joining a Group

To join a group, the instructor will need to give you a Join URL or Join Code. You will need to create a student account first. Join group via URL Your instructor will give you a URL that looks like this: …

Troubleshooting Guide

Contact: support@visualclassrooms.com Launching from Learning Management System (Canvas, Blackboard, etc) Problem: When I click the link in my LMS, I don’t get logged in, it just sends me to the login page Fix: Ensure that cookies are enabled. When embedded…

Collaborating

Using Visual Classrooms » Participating in an Activity » Collaborating

Responding To and Tagging Ideas Highlighting and Comparing Ideas Arranging Content Organizing Ideas

Creating a New Idea

Using Visual Classrooms » Participating in an Activity » Creating a New Idea

A “new idea” is like a post-it note where you can contribute your ideas in response to activity prompts. You can add new ideas in many different ways: typing text, uploading a file, taking a picture or making a video with a webcam, and creating a sketch…

Additional Features

Student Notebook Visual Analytics

Privacy Center

You are entitled to access, rectify, change, update, delete, revoke, or improve upon your personal information at any time. We may ask you to provide further information to confirm your identity before considering your request. For most requests, your information will…

Using the Webcam

Using Visual Classrooms » Participating in an Activity » Creating a New Idea » Using the Webcam

Here’s how to use your computer’s webcam to add a photo to a new idea. To begin using the webcam, select the Webcam icon under Attach Media. Through your Adobe Flash Player, Visual Classrooms will request access to your webcam. Selecting…

Responding To and Tagging Ideas

Using Visual Classrooms » Participating in an Activity » Collaborating » Responding To and Tagging Ideas

Responding To Ideas To respond to the idea of a classmate or classmates, simply click the button in the bottom right of the desired Idea Box. You will then see the idea of your classmate or classmates at the top of a new idea box. You may respond with text, an…

Highlighting, Color Coding, and Comparing Ideas

Using Visual Classrooms » Participating in an Activity » Collaborating » Highlighting, Color Coding, and Comparing Ideas

The compare and highlight features – found by clicking on the icon on the top right of an idea – allow users to enlarge one or two ideas to discuss. Highlighting Ideas The process of highlighting ideas is simple. Click the three lines at the top right corner…

Student Notebook

Additional Features » Student Notebook

The Student Notebook feature includes all of your answers across all of the prompts in an activity. It also shows your ideas, replies to your ideas, and various statistics about your performance in the activity. To access your Notebook, select the Icon on a…

Copy and Paste to a New Idea

Using Visual Classrooms » Participating in an Activity » Creating a New Idea » Copy and Paste to a New Idea

You can “copy and paste” an image or file into a New Idea. This feature will only work when using Google Chrome. To copy and paste an image into your New Idea, first, select the under Attach Media. This will bring you to the Paste Display. Then,…