If you are interested in a paid account, check Miro’s pricing plan page. However, those features seem to be more essential for businesses and may not justify applying for a paid account. video chat, integration with project management tools.
Some of the features accessible through paid team/enterprise accounts are non-existent on either free or education plans, e.g. In your Education Plan account, you will be able to organize all the boards into projects which make work with multiple boards more structured. The Education Plan allows you to create an unlimited number of editable boards, and grants you access to several helpful tools like a timer, voting, and custom templates. Students can apply for the Education Plan as well, which allows them to collaborate with up to 10 users for 2 years.Įven though the free plan will still do, it is quite limited with only three editable boards available and no option for unregistered guest editors (if you want to run an activity without making your students sign into their Miro accounts, they will only be able to view the board). I would recommend that you sign up with your institutional email to further be able to apply for a free Education Plan (which includes up to 100 users). Once you are on the website or in the app you will be prompted to create an account by providing your email or via your Facebook/Google profile.
You can use a web-based version of Miro or download an application on your Android/iOS device. Picture 1 – About the Miro Brand Starting Your Work with Miro Miro can be used to play board games virtually or even submit homework assignments and receive detailed feedback. It is a perfect platform for language practice as students can work together to write dialogues and texts, make stories or videos. Miro allows teachers to present material while students can be interacting and contributing in the same shared space. Originally created as a tool for project management and team collaboration, the platform boasts creativity, experimentation, and flexibility, and provides almost endless opportunities for implementation in an online language classroom.Īs more language classes are moving online, we need ways for language teachers and students to collaborate digitally. Miro, formerly known as RealtimeBoard, and named after the Spanish artist, is a rebranded interactive tool for team collaboration used by such innovative companies as Netflix, Cisco, Skyscanner with around 5 million users globally. Nameįree Plan (limited) | Free Education Plan (available through application) Sounds too good to believe? Let us see what the platform actually has to offer to a language teacher. Suppose you were in a real physical classroom with all your worksheets, books, cards, markers, video screening, and slides but now all in one digital, rather than physical space. The Miro team claims their product to be a visual collaboration platform: not just another online whiteboard, but rather an interactive tool that allows you to create, collaborate, share, and present.
Participate in comment discussions and get notified of important comments and mentions in the email, browser, or your corporate Slack.By Ekaterina Shutenko, Fulbright Teaching Fellow in Russian, Lehigh University To share your board, click the Share button in the top right corner. Invite co-workers and remote colleagues to hold real-time brainstorming and ideation sessions, or work at your own pace with people from different time zones. You can easily navigate the board using frames, and add different types of content. There is no need to start from scratch - just pick a pre-made template from our growing library. Each board is endless, and frames act like pages. Every board is saved automatically to your account. To kick things off, create a new board and add a frame to it.