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Conceptboard is pretty simple to navigate.

If you are using concept board on a laptop or computer device, it is  recommended that you use a mouse or keyboard to navigate.  Track-pads are not effective as navigation tools within this platform, as it causes slight glitches and errors in selection, however if you don't have a mouse or keyboard available, it can be used.  When using a mouse, Left and right click, 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 Tablet, 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.

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How to navigate on a Tablet

Name Your Boards

Name 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 & Drop

You may drag and drop a “png” and “jpeg” images directly into Conceptboard from your computer.  Please note that concept board has a limit of 25MB per image.

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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.

Create 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 Scribbling

Scan your hand drawings or develop your sketches from scratch 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 comments on a drawings, 
• @ mention someone (like on 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 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. 

Are you 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 pdf)
  
  

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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 if you have 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

Syracuse University Zoom

Tips for Effective Remote Meetings

Starting a Zoom Conference

Conceptboard has a built in zoom conferencing feature.  PLEASE DO NOT USE THE BUILT IN WEB CONFERENCING TOOLS!! This service is not covered by the School of Architecture & will be charged seperately!!

INSTEAD: In order to collaborate with other students and professors, 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. 

Log into your Syracuse University Zoom account here:

 Login to SU Zoom Account

This option is the standard Zoom login for SU Architecture Students, Faculty, and Staff. 

Preparation: Organizing your Studio boards

Share the Conceptboard workspace to be used for the zoom meeting ahead of time.  Have Students / 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.

Lock the Board

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. 

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."

Full Length Tutorials

Watch these Full Length tutorials of an Architecture Student using Conceptboard.

Tutorial Part 1 - Introduction, Create Quick Sketches & Collages