New in May 2025, the Lucid Education Suite has been enabled in our instance of Canvas. This integration has been provided at no cost through a partnership agreement between the 2 vendors and allows instructors and students to use both Lucidspark, a virtual whiteboard application that enables teams to ideate, design, and build better ideas and Lucid Chart, an intelligent diagramming application that allows you to visualize complex ideas, systems, and processes. The Lucidspark integration can be used as a replacement for Google Jamboard.

Enabling the Lucid External App in a Course

To use Lucid in any course,  instructors need to add the external app integration though their course settings:

1. Open the Settings and then the Apps area:

2. Click View App Configrurations then click the +App button.

3. Change the Configuration type to By Client ID:

4. Enter the Client ID 170000000001855 and click Submit and then Install:

5. Once you refresh the page, you should now see that the Lucid integration is enabled for this course:

Using Lucid

The Lucid (Whiteboard) link in the course left nav area allows direct pass through access to the application for both students and instructors. When first passing across the link, users will need to SignUp and Register for an account and then confirm access to use Lucid through Canvas (which will also trigger a welcome email):

When users next launch the tool, there is a landing page with a number of built in help features for new users along with a button to launch the Lucid web interface:

The following guides are also recommended:

• Introduction to Lucidchart
  
  
• Introduction to Lucidspark
  
  
• Creating Lucid Assignments in Canvas