What’s new

You can now create and manage team libraries to share resources between colleagues within your organization. Learn more.

Class sessions can now be exported to PDF. Learn more.

Save time and generate lessons with Lumio AI Assist. Learn more.

As a teacher, choose to scan a QR code with your mobile device to sign in to Lumio. Learn more.

Teachers can now edit sessions in Review or Live-delivery mode by clicking and selecting Edit session. Learn more.

Dice and spinner widgets are now available in the Beta channel. Learn more.

Lumio AI Assist is now available for Free and Standard plan users. Learn more.

Users of Book Creator can now embed Book Creator links into their Lumio lessons. Learn more.

To make teaching even easier, a Lumio app is now available on SMART Board GX Plus series displays. You can now open Lumio directly from your display for faster and simpler lesson delivery. It offers the Lumio same experience teachers are already familiar with.

Now teachers can start a new live delivery or assign new work for students from a lesson in My Library, a new session (copy of the file) is automatically created to store notes, annotations, and student work. This makes it easy for teachers to reuse lesson files with different classes of students. Learn more.

Free plan users can now store up to 100 MB (~20 lessons) in their My Library.

Shout It Out! activities are now asynchronous by default. Independent work mode means the activity can be assigned to students to complete at their own pace. Learn more.

Editors can now add members to Shared Libraries. Learn more.

Widgets are now available in the Beta channel. Learn more.

Teachers can now attach external and lesson links to objects. Learn more.

Response activities are now asynchronous by default. Independent work mode means the activity can be assigned to students to complete at their own pace. Learn more.

Teachers can now delete lessons and folders from My Library. Lessons remain in the Trash bin for 30 days and can be restored a before then. Learn more.

You can now export data from Monster Quiz and Team Quiz as a CSV file. Learn more.

Lumio AI Assist moves out of the Beta channel and into the Spark Plan with some new features.

Teacher can now select the language, level of difficultly, and standard they want Lumio AI Assist to use when generating questions in Lumio’s quiz-based activities. Generated questions are fully editable. Learn more.

Lumio is now available in Portuguese (Brazil).

Teachers can now add Lumio lessons to course content and into assignments in D2L, allowing students to work on the lessons directly in D2L. Learn more.

Lumio is now available in Hindi.

User in the EU Service region can now sign in to their SMART Account by choosing Feide or VIDIS.

You can now lock an object but limit its movement either vertically or horizontally, or allow more movement and rotation. Learn more

Now you can attach web links to objects in lessons. Learn more.

Better contextual menu behavior to make formatting easier.

Students can access Lumio using lumioclass.com (hellosmart.com will still work, too).

You can now export student results as CVS data from Super Sort, Rank Order, and Match 'Em Up! Learn more.

Lumio is now available in Chinese (Traditional) and Japanese.

You can now turn on automatic tool switching on and off. Learn more.

Teachers can now assign asynchronous Lumio lessons in Schoology, allowing students to work on the lessons directly in Schoology. Learn more.

Lumio is now available in Arabic, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, and Vietnamese.

Users can now use Lumio’s AI assist to quickly generate assessments tailored to their curriculum. Generated questions are fully editable. This feature is available in Lumio’s quiz-based activities and is in Lumio Beta for a limited time for all users. Learn more.

Teachers can create Lumio lessons as embedded assignments and modules in Canvas, and students can complete Lumio lessons directly in Canvas. Learn more.

Teachers can now embed musical scores from Flat.io and ClickView into lessons. Learn more.

Teachers can now create Lumio lessons from their Shared Library just like they would in My Library. Learn more.

Teachers and students can access Lumio through Schoology without signing in to a different account. Lumio lessons are accessible directly from Schoology, reducing the need to use multiple platforms or browser tabs. Learn more.

Lumio has added a number of text formatting options, such as:

• indented paragraphs

• customizable line spacing

• numbered and bulleted lists

• automatic spell checking through your internet browser

Give students access to work in Lumio independently by assigning a file and sharing the file's access link. Learn more.

Teachers can now attach audio to individual objects or add audio to pages in a lesson. When viewing the lesson, students can play the audio clip at their own pace. Learn more.

Users can now embed musical scores from Flat.io into lessons. Learn more.

Users can now try Bing image search filters. Learn more.

Multiple teachers can now simultaneously make changes to lessons saved in shared libraries. Presence indicators show who’s working in the lesson and where. Learn more.

Teachers and students can access Lumio through Canvas without needing to sign in with a different account and can access Lumio lessons directly within Canvas, reducing the need to navigate multiple platforms or browser tabs. Learn more.

• Drag and drop to add images

• More graphic organizers and manipulatives when building lessons

• Toggle to show a persistent class ID in delivery mode

• Shared Libraries can now have up to 20 members

• Shared library resources now provide a share link

• Gallery for adding images, shapes, and links are now available in Delivery mode

• Bulk selecting lessons in My Library and shared libraries using the Shift and Control keys

• Equation editor now available in delivery mode for teachers and in activities for students

• Teachers can use arrow keys to navigate Shout It Out submissions

• Students can now see teacher question in Shout It Out on their devices

• Students can now see previously submitted responses in Shout It Out on their devices

• Sorting option in My Library now continues even after signing out

• Import graphs from desmos.com by copying and pasting the graph share link in the Lumio Desmos activity

Export a file in a shared library to a PDF so you can print it and share a paper copy with others. Learn more.

You now have an option to import Google Slides and Docs files and edit them after import. Objects in imported files can be manipulated, text can be edited, and Immersive Reader can read the imported text. Learn more.

Shared libraries enable you to share resources with your colleagues and collaborate in the same space. There are two types of shared libraries which may be available to you depending on the Lumio plan you are subscribed to:

• Shared libraries: create a shared library or join one created by a colleague. Every member can save a copy of a resource in the library to their personal library to edit and deliver to their students.

• Organization library: managed by your district, this type of shared library gives you access to resources chosen by your district. Save any resources to your personal library to edit and deliver to your students.

Learn more.

You now have an option to import PDF files and edit them after import. Objects in imported files can be manipulated, text can be edited, and Immersive Reader can read the imported text. Learn more.

Export a file in your library to a PDF so you can print it and share a paper copy with others. Learn more.

If you are a Google-integrated user, you can now organize files using folders in Lumio. Learn more.

Create a presentation in Canva and export it directly to Lumio. Once in Lumio, you can use Lumio’s features to add interactivity to complete the lesson. Learn more.

You now have an option to import PowerPoint files and edit them after import. Objects in imported files can be manipulated, text can be edited, and Immersive Reader can read the imported text.

Teachers and students can now use a OpenDyslexic font when adding or editing text to make lessons more accessible.

Simplified themes are now available for game-based activities such as Fill in the Blanks, Flip Out, Match 'Em Up, Rank Order, Super Sort, and Word Search.

Helping your students join the live lesson is now easier with the new URL and QR code feature. Send out a URL to your students or print the QR code to post in your classroom to make it easy for your students to join – no need to enter in the class ID!

Learn more.

Use the activity dashboard to see your students’ progress as they complete an activity. The dashboard gives you insights into how the class is doing with the activity overall as well as individual insights after a student has completed the activity.

The activity dashboard is available for the following activities:

• Super Sort

• Match ’Em Up

• Rank Order

Use the equation editor to quickly add MathType and ChemType equations to a presentation page that you can convert to a Whole-Class Whiteboard, Group Workspace, or Individual Handout activity. Learn more.

Lumio is now available in Ukrainian, Greek, and Russian.

We made improvements to the Lumio home page (now the My Library tab) to make it easier for you to add, import, organize, and navigate your library.