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  • November 17, 2025
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Hello!

I'm a Doctoral Student of Social Work and I have a presentation this Thursday and I created a Board for a closed Card Sort (4 Groups/12-20 Cards) as an activity during my presentation (7-9 classmates will share the board). Now that I've created the Board, I don't know what to do next. Can some help me with how to go about checking to see if will work properly. Initially, I thought that my classmates could sort their own card deck simultaneously on the same board, is this capable of being done or do they have to share the same deck of cards to sort?

 

PLEASE HELP!!!

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    • Hannah Green
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    • November 18, 2025

    Hi there - I’ve never done a closed card sort before so I don’t know that activity but if you share your board with your classmates, they will all have access to the same materials that you put on the board. If you want each classmate to sort their own deck, you’ll need to make them each their own deck. You can duplicate frames and materials easily with [CMND+D]. I’d suggest testing by either opening an incognito window/separate browser and opening the board in two sessions or just invite one of your classmate to test it out early with you. good luck! 

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    • tyjonesee
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    • November 18, 2025

    THANK YOU...THANK YOU SO VERY VERY MUCH!!

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    • Kenneth Ritley
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    • November 18, 2025

    Hi ​@tyjonesee 

    When I am using Miro even today, what often causes troubles is “people new to Miro, trying to start Miro.” You didn’t give too many details: do you have a private license? Educational license?  And how do you intend to share the board: with the people by entering their email addresses - or just by setting the board to Edit and sharing the link (which is BTW what I do because it is so easy and rarely causes problems).

    So I definitely recommend what ​@Hannah Green suggested - but even then, don’t panic if sometimes people get stuck trying to open the board.

    If you have the right license, you’ll even be able to start a countdown timer and play music in the background!

     

    A few more tips:

    (1) People new to Miro WILL screw things up. So by “locking” anything that they should not modify, for example, the 4 categories - this ensures they will only be able to move e.g. stickies

    (2) Be sure to set up the “Set Start View” - this enables you to customize exactly what they will see when they load the board. Could be you want to show the whole board, as shown above.

    (3) When I am working with people new to Miro, I sometimes find a short ice-breaker helps.  Here is one idea I’ve used: https://miro.com/templates/character-mix-and-match-icebreaker/. You can have your participants each create their own “persona” - or if they are working in teams, they could create a team persona.  The key idea here is to allow for a few minutes of “getting-to-know-Miro-fun-play” before going into the exercise itself, so the newness effect will have worn off.

    G O O D   L U C K

    PS. If it works out, you might consider publishing your board as a template in the Miroverse, so other people could profit!


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