Cacoo. Tool to create online schemas

Last updated on 11 February 2025

Cacoo is an entirely online drawing tool that allows to create, share and publish schemas alone or with others.

Cacoo is a real success and deserves to be in your TICE toolkit. A modern and joyful graphical interface and user-friendly ergonomics without any real flaws make it an ideal service to easily create diagrams, diagrams and other heuristic or mental maps.

Creating a schema is simple thanks to an impressive number of models and pictos provided by the service. Simply drop the pictograms where you want and add the links or connectors between the different elements if necessary. Cacoo takes care of almost everything. For example, it will save all the changes to allow you to go back. He will also take care of harmonising your drawing graphically. When you move an object, it will automatically align with the objects around it. Cacoo also offers advanced functions such as having a uniform distribution of all your objects.

Cacoo’s other real strength is the possibility of working together in real time on a diagram. A real collaborative drawing tool. A schema created with Cacoo can be edited in real time by several people. You will be able to see other people’s changes live. The tool is offered with a live comment and chat system to facilitate communication.

With Cacoo it is easy to share your creations. Once saved, your schema can be shared through a unique URL by email or on social networks Twitter and Facebook. You can even allow editing to allow readers, such as your students, to edit it. Your creations are also exportable in PDF and SVG format.

In the classroom.

Cacoo is an ideal tool for creating simple or complex diagrams for your course materials . It can also be used to introduce your students to mind maps that help organise thinking. Its joint work functions are also a good approach to collaborative work.

Cacoo offers a free, but limited version. However, it makes it possible to test the tool and simple creations. For intensive use, you will have to pay a subscription of a few euros per month. Cacoo offers education rates with a discount of 50 % in relation to the public tariff.

Link: Cacoo