Case Study: Saint Mary's College achieves real-time collaboration and professional system diagrams with Lucidchart

Saint Mary's College - Customer Case Study

Saint Mary’s College, a women’s liberal arts college of about 1,600 students, needed an affordable, cross-platform diagramming tool for its Mathematics and Computer Science programs. Professors wanted a Visio alternative that supported complex notation (ERDs, UML, DFDs) and facilitated team-based, in- and out-of-class collaboration without tying students to campus computers or Windows.

Lucidchart’s web-based platform delivered the required shape libraries, an intuitive interface, Google Drive export, and real-time collaboration, and hundreds of students used it daily for capstone projects. The result: fewer versioning headaches, more instructor feedback during development, increased iteration, and stronger, more professional diagrams and teamwork.

Saint Mary's College

Steven Broad

Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science