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Conceptboard is a virtual whiteboard toolkit used by the School of Architecture for effective online visual collaboration with Faculty and Students. Conceptboard allows students and faculty to sketch, create collages, markup files, and participate in virtual pin-ups and reviews.

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Get Started

Conceptboard is pretty simple to navigate.

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Conceptboard will auto save your work at the last point you worked on it,  even if you forgot to assign a file name.  Just go to your Project Boards page and your last opened file will appear.

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Create Quick Collages

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Scan your hand drawings or develop your sketches from scratch within with Conceptboard.  This feature is most effective when done with a Tablet or wide screen phone device with a designated pen feature. 

Professors may also use these tools to sketch ideas in order to communicate their critique to the students more effectively.

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Share your board

From within a board, you can click the blue ‘Share board’ button located in the upper right-hand corner of the board toolbar. You can enter an email or select a user from the drop-down menu. Separate multiple emails addresses with a comma. Each time you share the board this way, an email notification is sent to the user.

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Collaborate with other Students & Professors

Students may use concept board to manage their design teams more effectively.  Conceptboard allows you to make :

  • Make comments on a

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  • drawings, 
  • @ mention someone (like on twitter or Instagram),

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  • Create and assign tasks for your

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  • group members,

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  • Send alerts when a task has been completed.  

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Streamline your Design Process & Research

Streamline your design process and research using pre-designed templates or building blocks.  Highlight important information that may become critical aspects of your design process in the future using one or several visual formats available within Conceptboard. 

TIP:  You can use these templates as a basis for creating charrettes in Kathleen’s research that demonstrate your design process for Kathleen’s ARC Research class.  It will help you to visually arrange your content in a simple, effective and clear way. 

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  • Shapes,
  • Sticky notes, or
  • Image Files

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You can use them to:

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Go to the Insert Tab > Select Embed Audio/Video > Paste the Link > Resize to your Liking

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Starting a Zoom Meeting

You may start an audio or video zoom meeting within Conceptboard by clicking on the phone icon at the top right corner where your picture is located.  If someone has already started a meeting, you may join by clicking the conference button under the video / audio stream.

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Tips for Effective Zoom Meetings

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Once the presentation content is loaded, if you are the meeting host, ensure to lock the presentation board before the meeting. This will prevent your collaborators from changing the content on the board during the meeting.  You can lock the workspace in the board settings. 

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Only invite up to 50 participants

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To optimize the viewing experience, it is recommended that you hide the user cursors prior to the start of the meeting. In order to do so click on the view tab within the board and uncheck "view user cursors."

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Remote Meetings: Moderators

For the purpose of leading your collaborators event or critique properly, turn on moderation mode during the meeting so that they students and lecturers can follow your screen effectively.  You can control what viewers look at on your screen through this mode.

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Changing Moderators:

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