Customize the student Sketch Board toolbar

Customize the student Sketch Board toolbar

The student Sketch Board toolbar is used by students to plot their response to a sketch question.

By default, the tools that are available to students on their Sketch Board toolbar are determined by the tools you used to author the correct answer.

As well, the number of times a student can use a tool is determined by how many times you used the tool to author the correct answer.

You can use specific syntax within the question's source code to customize what tools are available to the student and the number of times that the tool can be used.

This customization is ideal for assessing the ability of your students to use the appropriate sketching tool(s) to answer your sketch question.

Access the question source code

The available tools on the student Sketch Board toolbar are customized by editing the source code of a sketch question.

To access a sketch question's source code:

1. Navigate to an authored sketch question's Content Summary pane in the Content Repository and click the Edit arrow.

2. Click Edit Source.

3. Locate this component of the source code: "visible_buttons"

4. Edit the source code using the syntax provided in the Sketch Board tool syntax section of this help topic.

5. Click Save & Close to update the Sketch Board toolbar that's available to your students for this sketch question.

Sketch Board tool syntax

You can use the following Sketch Board tool syntax to customize which sketching tools are available to your students on their Sketch Board toolbar (Example — chooseregion):