MURAL

Note

This guide is provided for a tool that is not centrally funded or supported by Monash University. While a limited free tier may be available, full functionality typically requires a paid licence. Consult your faculty contacts regarding support, access, or funding before adopting this tool.

MURAL is a collaborative whiteboard that allows you and your students to work in a digital workspace both synchronously and asynchronously. MURAL has many pre-made templates and also allows you to create your own templates that you can use to structure and coordinate a wide range of multimedia learning activities.

Whether supporting interactive class activities or online teaching environments, a shared digital workspace allows students to be active and collaborative in their learning by getting them on the 'same page', and facilitating group work, presentations and discussions.
Students can see, learn from, and comment on their peers' work and as well as engaging with showcased great examples of student work.

How would you use MURAL in teaching?

In online teaching environments, a collaborative digital workspace allows students to be active and collaborative in their learning by getting them on the 'same page', making group work visible and engaging. MURAL makes it easy to guide collaboration and let everyone participate — rather than just broadcast and inform. You can also highlight great examples of student work, allowing students to learn from what their peers are doing.

Watch Ari Seligmann present how MURAL was used as an online studio in MADA (20 min)

Access MURAL

Single sign-on is enabled for MURAL, meaning any Monash user can log in to MURAL using their Monash authcate account. Use your Monash account details to log in. MURAL works best with Google Chrome, and is also supported for Firefox, Edge and Safari.

You will need to manually add students to your workspace before they can access your boards. This can be done as outlined in this link:

Invite and remove members from your workspace

Additional resources