- MichaelQ Todd Last Update: March 31, 2017

Get Creative With Diagrams with the Help of Creately

Creately is an online app tool that lets you create public or private projects. It has a variety of plans including a free or public plan.  

Creately specializes in chart design and you can create everything from flowcharts, graphs, mind maps, Gantt charts and many more. It’s a great tool for teachers, students to show their work, and anyone else who wants to organize their thought processes into visuals.

 10 Steps to Getting Started. 

1 Sign up using your email, Google, Twitter, or Facebook.

2. Go To App and give it a minute to load.

3. Click on New Document. A pop up search box appears from the cosmos asking you what are you planning to draw. It even helps you–click on the search icon with the down arrow for ideas. It looks like this:

4. Make your selection. Once you do, you will be offered a template or blank design. We chose Templates which opened a variety of designs as you can see below

5. Choose one and name it. You get a pop up that looks like this:

6. Click on Create Document and have fun!  You can make many shapes, many colors and have many fonts to explain and organize your thoughts.

7. Once you are finished, click publish on the right side. See it here:

8. Publishing gives you several ways to get it online. You can embed it on your website or share it on Facebook and Twitter.

9. You can also Export is as an image, PDF for printing, as a SVG file, Creately file or send as an email.

10. Be sure to share it with your friends!

Here’s the finished diagram for WebToolsWiki:

Check out the WebToolsWiki Video Tutorial of Creately here:

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