Control Alt Achieve: FigJam for Schools Intro Webinar

Friday, October 6, 2023

FigJam for Schools Intro Webinar

I recently had the pleasure to host a webinar on FigJam for Schools.

As you have probably heard by now, Google has announced that they are shutting down Jamboard by the end of 2024. Thankfully Figma has partnered with Google to provide their tools absolutely free to educators and students.

One of their tools is FigJam which is an advanced collaborative whiteboarding tool with features including stamps, emotes, stickies, shapes, connectors, drawing tools, plugins, interactive widgets, and much more.

To help you get started with FigJam, and get the most out of it, I hosted a webinar with David Curran, a former teacher who has recently joined the Figma for Edu team. This was an introductory webinar to cover all of the basics of using FigJam in your school.

We will also be hosting a follow-up webinar on October 10th to go deeper into the tool and answer questions we did not get to in this first webinar.

See below for a recording of the webinar, resources from the session, and details on the advanced webinar coming up.

▶️ Webinar Video (1 hour)

🧰 Session Resources

Session Q&A document - Google Docs link

"FigJam FAQs for Jamboard Users" document - Google Docs link

Use FigJam for free in your school - http://figma.com/jamboard-edu

Self-paced course on FigJam basics - Resource link

Education templates - Resource link

More helpful videos - Jamboard to FigJam, FigJam 101, FigJam must knows, Classroom management, FigJam Playlist

📆 Next Webinar

FigJam for Schools - Advanced

October 10, 2023 - 6pm EST / 3pm PST
Join me and David Curran, for a follow-up webinar on FigJam where we will dive in deeper. In this second webinar we will follow up on commonly asked questions, address extra topics that came up in the introductory session, and explore more advanced features of FigJam for teaching and learning.
Live stream - youtube.com/watch?v=ovxXev0fONY
Google Calendar - Calendar link

The session is free, and although registration is not required, it will allow me to send out a friendly reminder and let you know if anything changes. You can register using the Google Form below.