How to Create a Concept Map

Concept map is a graphic method that can be used to organize and represent knowledge. It helps any individual or group to describe and structure ideas in a visual form. Concept mapping is used for many destinations — project management, strategic planning, market analysis, decision making, etc. Concept mapping is valuable technique because it helps people to think more effectively as a team however maintaining the individual ideas. It helps teams to manage complex knowledge keeping both general conception and details. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM allows you to build Concept Maps easily using the Concept Map solution. Generally, a concept map consists of circles, or rectangles representing concepts and connecting lines that indicate relationships between concepts.

1. Run ConceptDraw DIAGRAM.
2. Find “Concept Maps” in the Solutions panel.
3. Click the preview of the template.
4. Now you have a workspace and a set of corresponding libraries.

5. The template represents a single conceptual map node. You can easily customize it by adding new same nodes using the Clone tool or by dragging individual objects from the library.

6. The most important ideas should be put nearer to the center and less important ones closer to the edge.
7. You can add text to the diagram. To start adding text, select an object and then, type the text.
8. Identify the relationship between the concepts by adding text to connectors. Adding text to connectors the same as to other objects.

9. Use tools provided in the Format panel to customize the diagram appearance. Using the set of pre-designed styles allows you quickly format your diagram even including the text font.

Result: Since concept maps visually present the relationships among a set of a logically connected items, it is widely used as a learning and teaching technique.