Lumio Pros and Cons: Top 5 Advantages and Disadvantages

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Users love Lumio for its easy-to-use interactive templates, enhancing student engagement and creativity in lessons. (5 mentions)

Users love the customization options in Lumio, enabling unique and interactive educational experiences tailored to their students. (4 mentions)

Users find Lumio's ease of use invaluable for creating engaging and interactive lessons effortlessly. (4 mentions)

Users love the easy-to-create engaging content with Lumio, enhancing student interaction and learning experiences effectively. (4 mentions)

Users love Lumio for its ease of creating interactive lessons, enhancing student engagement through various formats. (4 mentions)

Users find the extra costs for tiered components frustrating, limiting access for teachers under budget constraints. (1 mentions)

Users find the extra costs for tiered components frustrating, particularly with budget constraints affecting access for teachers. (1 mentions)

Users are frustrated with the lack of integration with Canvas grade passback, affecting usability in educational settings. (1 mentions)

Users are frustrated with the lack of Canvas grade passback integration, affecting usability in educational settings. (1 mentions)

Users find the subscription costs for tiered components frustrating, particularly under tight school budgets affecting access. (1 mentions)

5 Pros or Advantages of Lumio

1. Student Engagement

Users love Lumio for its easy-to-use interactive templates, enhancing student engagement and creativity in lessons.

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Janelle A.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Lumio for Elementary, a must!"

What do you like about Lumio?

Lumio's templates for building interactive content make it extremely easy for educators to create engaging content for students, especially at the ele

ZORETTA H.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Lumio for Engagement"

What do you like about Lumio?

I like that you can create engaging lessons and activities for students to support the curriculum and reinforce skills. It also provides data on stude

2. Customization

Users love the customization options in Lumio, enabling unique and interactive educational experiences tailored to their students.

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Janelle A.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Lumio for Elementary, a must!"

What do you like about Lumio?

Lumio's templates for building interactive content make it extremely easy for educators to create engaging content for students, especially at the ele

Verified User

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Engaging your content for Students"

What do you like about Lumio?

Lumio is super easy to create an engaging gaming experience that will draw in students to learn the content used.

3. Ease of Use

Users find Lumio's ease of use invaluable for creating engaging and interactive lessons effortlessly.

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Janelle A.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Lumio for Elementary, a must!"

What do you like about Lumio?

Lumio's templates for building interactive content make it extremely easy for educators to create engaging content for students, especially at the ele

ZORETTA H.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Lumio for Engagement"

What do you like about Lumio?

I like that you can create engaging lessons and activities for students to support the curriculum and reinforce skills. It also provides data on stude

4. Engagement

Users love the easy-to-create engaging content with Lumio, enhancing student interaction and learning experiences effectively.

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Janelle A.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Lumio for Elementary, a must!"

What do you like about Lumio?

Lumio's templates for building interactive content make it extremely easy for educators to create engaging content for students, especially at the ele

ZORETTA H.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Lumio for Engagement"

What do you like about Lumio?

I like that you can create engaging lessons and activities for students to support the curriculum and reinforce skills. It also provides data on stude

5. Interactive Lessons

Users love Lumio for its ease of creating interactive lessons, enhancing student engagement through various formats.

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Janelle A.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Lumio for Elementary, a must!"

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Avital A.

Director of Educational Technology

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/3/2022

"Excellent tool for teaching and collaboration"

5/5

What do you like best about Lumio?

The ability to engage students, focus them, allowing for teaching with interactivity and creativity. Lumio is also connected to Google Drive which is a huge bonus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumio?

Nothing - what's not to like? It serves all purposes of a connected educator. I can't wait for all the possible features of SMART Notebook to be in Lumio...but I know that's coming.... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Lumio:

Give it a try - it has a free version. Look at SMART's videos. Connect with a SMART ambassador. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lumio solving and how is that benefiting you?

Lumio brings the content of teaching to life - it demonstrates to the student the objectives and lesson facts and engages students in real time. Students are amazed by the interactivity, gamification and ease of use as do teachers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manchuk D.

Ict teacher

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/5/2022

"Best for teachers"

5/5

What do you like best about Lumio?

Students like learning through games and Lumio gives us the opportunity to teach lessons more interestingly and productively! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumio?

Open question option is not available. If collaboration like in Nearpod existed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Liliana R.

ESE teacher

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/14/2022

"ESE teacher"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Lumio?

How the students can interact even they have a disability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumio?

It is hard to move around the classroom the board Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joy G.

Technology Coach

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/25/2022

"Lumio is an awesome tool."

5/5

What do you like best about Lumio?

I love how easy it is to find resources that are already made. There are wonderful resources created that I can quickly use across many standards and the ready-made templates are awesome. I love how I can game if I any less and quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumio?

I wish that there were more virtual reality tools to add like NearPod. I also wish there were more activities that would save the data like the response quiz. I also wish it was easier to embed links. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Donna W.

first grade teacher

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/12/2022

"i am a first grade teacher."

5/5

What do you like best about Lumio?

I like the variety of activities to choose from and can use it with all content areas. It is also very user friendly, even for first graders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumio?

I haven't really found a downside. I like all the features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/6/2022

"Instructional Technology Specialist"

4/5

What do you like best about Lumio?

I love how easy it is to create and use interactive lessons with students! So engaging! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumio?

I wish that Lumio was easier to integrate with Google resources in terms of movability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Military

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/28/2022

"Add engagement and collaboration to online classes and presentations!"

5/5

What do you like best about Lumio?

I've been using and training on SMART Lumio since 2020, and love that it adds interactivity (in the form of individual and team games, matching, sorting activities, etc.) as well as collaborative whiteboard spaces where separate teams can mindmap, draw diagrams, etc.; this has been particularly helpful while teaching on Zoom during the pandemic. For those already familiar with Notebook 16 and newer, the format is extremely familiar and it's easy to jump into porting lessons online. Students love the mobile-enabled features like Team Quiz and poll features, and it's easy for the facilitator to see what each team is doing on their separate screens. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumio?

I wish it was possible to make the font larger for certain interactive templates and that there were more typing space for the rank order like the older Flash-based version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

McKenzie G.

3rd-5th Grade Special Education Teacher for students with intellectual disabilities

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/25/2022

"Lumio is perfect for special education teachers!"

5/5

What do you like best about Lumio?

Lumio is fantastic for planning informal assessments on content-specific standards and/or goals and objectives. I use Lumio monster quizzes to encourage student engagement and quantify learning progress! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumio?

At this point, there is nothing I can find that I do not care for. Everything seems to be working well with this product, and I find there are not too many errors or malfunctions when using it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Lumio:

Dig right in! Change your usual pencil/paper assessments to a digital format for more engagement and feedback! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lumio solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use Lumio to perform quick progress monitoring checks for my students with disabilities. I use Lumio for informal "ticket out the door" style assessments or whole group goals and objectives checks! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jennifer H.

Blended Learning Coach

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/25/2022

"Increase Student Engagement with Lumio by SMART"

5/5

What do you like best about Lumio?

Lumio allows teachers to easily create interactive activities for students using available templates. This interactivity increases engagement for students in the classroom. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lumio?

I would like to see more templates for higher grade levels. Currently, some of these templates look more juvenile in nature. With upper level templates more high school teachers would be likely to use Lumio. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lumio solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have worked with EC teachers to take content that has been given to them in a paper format to Lumio. The content directed them to make multiple paper copies and cut out materials which was very labor intensive. We converted materials to lessons within Lumio that were adapted for student's abilities and interactive for students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.