Conceptboard is a virtual whiteboard toolkit used by the School of Architecture for effective online visual collaboration with Faculty and Studentsbetween and among faculty and students. Conceptboard allows students and faculty to design, sketch, create collages, markup files, and participate in virtual pin-ups and reviews.
It also allows students and lecturers to track their design process, the history of changes made (by individuals or groups) and manage their design teams to make creeate a more effective only online learning environment. It is easy to share work and has a plethora of features which may be used to kick-start your the virtual design process.
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Get Started
Conceptboard is pretty simple to navigate.
If you are using concept board on a laptop or computer devicedesktop, it is recommended that you to use a mouse or keyboard to navigate. Track-pads Trackpads are not effective as a navigation tools tool within this platform, as it causes slight glitches and errors in selection, however precise selection is difficult; however, if you don't have a mouse or keyboard available, it a trackpad can be used. When using a mouse, Left left and right click, and scroll and zoom will give you much of the same functionalities that you are used to in other architectural design software. If you are using a Tablettablet, spread your fingers to zoom and use two fingers to move. Using a tablet will also give you the ability to create quick, free-form sketches.
How to navigate on a computer
How to navigate on a Tablettablet
Name Your Boardsyour boards
Name Your Project Boards your project boards and keep track of all your files by selecting the "Unnamed Board" title at the top of the page.
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Drag & Dropdrop
You may drag and drop a “png” and “jpeg” images directly into Conceptboard from your computer. Please note that concept board has Conceptboard has a limit of 25MB per image 50 mb per image or upload.
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Forgot to save? Don't worry!!
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
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quick collages
You can create quick collages by importing sketches and stock images. These can quickly and effectively demonstrate your schematic and conceptual ideas to your lecturers in the initial stages of the design project.
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Sketching or Scribblingscribbling
Scan your hand drawings or develop your sketches from scratch with within Conceptboard. This feature is most effective when done with a Tablet tablet or wide screen phone device with a designated pen feature.
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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 email 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
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students &
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professors
Students may use concept board to Conceptboard to manage their design teams more effectively. Conceptboard allows you to:
- Make comments on a drawings,
- @ mention someone (like on twitter Twitter or Instagram),
- Create and assign tasks for your group members,
- Send alerts when a task has been completed.
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Streamline your
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design process &
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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.
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Are you
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unorganized? Let’s fix it!
Sections are a great way to organize your boards.
You can create Sections by using
- Shapes,
- Sticky notes, or
- Image Files
You can use them to:
- Create an overview of the board
- Create/Format presentations from board content
- Change where the board opens when a user joins.
- Create custom exports (as image or pdfPDF)
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Embedding animations or videos
You can embed a video or animation by dragging and dropping the content onto the board, much like you would do an image OR , or if you have internet Internet content to that you would like to share, you can copy the website link from websites like YouTube or Vimeo.
Go to the Insert Tab > Select Embed Audio/Video > Paste the Link > Resize to your Liking.
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Webconferencing & Conceptboard
Tips for Effective Remote Meetings
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Conceptboard has a built-in zoom conferencing feature. webconferencing feature, but PLEASE DO NOT USE THE BUILT IN WEB CONFERENCING TOOLS!! This service is not covered by the School of Architecture & will be charged seperately!!INSTEADIT. This feature offers a very limited number of hours per month per user, and the school is charged extra once this limit is reached. We have no way to prevent this so ask everyone to please use Zoom or other webconferencing tool instead.
USING ZOOM: In order to collaborate with other students and professors, Log log into your Syracuse University Zoom account, ; you may start a regular audio or video conference meeting there. Once logged in, share your Conceptboard page, through the "Share Your Screen" feature offered in Zoom.
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Log into your Syracuse University Zoom account here:
This option is the standard Zoom login for SU Architecture Students, Faculty, and Staff.
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Preparation: Organizing your Studio boards
Share the Conceptboard workspace to be used for the zoom Zoom meeting ahead of time. Have Students / Faculty students and faculty import their content and videos into the board at least 24 hours prior to the meeting start time. These boards may be quickly organized by each member using the align/grid method.
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Lock the Boardboard
Once the presentation content is loaded, if you are the meeting host, ensure make sure 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 settingsunder Board Settings.
Only invite up to 50 participants
Conceptboard will lose its effectiveness after 50 participants log onto the board. To ensure a smooth and effective experience, cap participation at 50 people per meeting where possible.
Hide user cursors
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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Full Length Tutorials
Watch these Full Length full length tutorials of an Architecture Student student using Conceptboard.
Tutorial Part 1 - Introduction, Create Quick Sketches & Collages
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Tutorial Part 2 - Sharing, Organizing your boards , Working Collaborativelycollaboratively
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Tutorial Part 3 - Creating Templatestemplates, Sections, Embed Videos videos & Share with Others others
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