FigJam

An interactive whiteboard for student collaboration, FigJam is ideal for brainstorming, developing and organizing ideas. Use it for meetings, live  sessions and asynchronous activities including planning, diagramming and research. FigJam helps you to collaboratively organize thoughts, solve problems and align everyone’s understanding.

Explore ideas together

Add a variety of objects into the board. Structure your boards for live meetings and asynchronous collaborations. Use the tools bar to create a customized space on FigJam.

Give every student a voice

Provide more ways for students to participate in class conversations and activities with features like Stamps, Widgets, Commenting, Emotes and Voting Tools. Take your classes, collaborations and whiteboarding experiences to the next level.

Facilitating engaging meetings and workshops

With facilitation tools like timers, music paired with engagement tools like emotes and voting, FigJam offers features that you can use to lead engaging meetings.

Participants can vote on ideas with stamps and stickers, or react to ideas in real time. You can use FigJam’s builtin timer, audio chat, and cursor chat to communicate with your team without switching between FigJam and video conferencing tools.

Frequently Asked Questions

• How do I log in to FigJam 

  • Visit www.figma.com/figjam and log in using your SJSU Gmail credentials and password. Alternatively, you can download the Figma desktop app for convenience.  Once logged in, click the purple FigJam board icon at the top right of your screen to access the FigJam whiteboard.

    

• How much does FigJam cost?    
  • FigJam is free for education accounts. Faculty and students at SJSU can access Figma and FigJam with their campus credentials. To verify your education account visit the following link: www.figma.com/education/  or you can look at this reference: Get Started with FigJam
• How do I get started with FigJam?
  • You can view our "Get Started with FigJam"support document. Explore more guides at Figma's support site.
• How do I migrate Jamboard files to FigJam?

  • You can transfer your Jamboard Files into FigJam according the steps in this guide:
    Migrate Google Jamboards to FigJam – Figma Learn - Help Center

     

     

• How do I share FigJam Files?

  • You have two ways to share FigJam Files you created.

    1. Share a Link: You can click the share and copy the link, then send it out to students.

    2. Send an email invitation: You can enter their email address to invite them to the FigJam file by entering their email address just like you share a Google Doc.

    For more sharing and permission information please check the sharing guide from Figma.