Audience: Teachers
The Creative Canvas is a fun, easy-to-use tool that allows you to engage your students and stimulate all types of learners in the classroom!
Here's everything you can do with the Creative Canvas!
Left Side of Canvas
- Trash Can: Delete and start over
- Magnifying Glass: Zoom in & out
- Hide Tools: Hide creative tools from view
- Undo & Redo: Undo previous action, or revert previous action
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Instructional Tools:
- Flexcards: Flashcards with up to 40 sides
- Read-with-Me: Words are highlighted as audio plays
- Image search: Search for images and illustrations
- YouTube: Embed a YouTube video
- Label: Add a label with text
- Draw and Record: Use the synchronised Draw and Record feature
- Camera Tools: Use the Photo, Video, or Upload tools
- More Tools: Add shapes, widgets, backgrounds, links, or voice labels
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Caption: Caption with a text or voice description of the current page
Right Side of Canvas
- Save as Draft: Premium tool. Save work as a draft without posting to the journal or sending to the teacher.
- Save Final Work: Finish working on the post to post to the journal or send the student post to the teacher for approval, depending on class settings and user role
- Hide Pages: Hide page sidebar
- Page Settings: Duplicate current page (premium only) or set the page size
- Colour Selector & Eyedropper Tool: Change colours of objects on the Creative Canvas and Annotate & Draw tools
- Add a New Page: Premium only. Add a new blank page
Bottom of Canvas
- Annotate & Draw: Use the pencil, pen, highlighter, glow pen, or eraser tools
Editing multiple objects at once
Objects on the Creative Canvas can be changed in bulk by using the multi-select tool option. To select multiple objects simply click and drag your mouse over the objects you want to change. This allows teachers to:
- Bulk select and move a single object or group of objects, including locked objects by pressing the command key
- Bulk select and align groups of objects to centre, left, right, top or bottom.
- Bulk select and reorder groups of objects.
- Bulk select and change lock status on groups of objects (unlocked, lock all for students, move only).
- Bulk select and change colour on groups of objects.
- When bulk selecting items of the same type (ex: all labels), change Styles like font, text style, border type, etc.
- Multi-select is not supported on touch-only devices. If the device has a keyboard attached, you can hold shift and tap items to multi-select.
A Note on Accessibility
If you have a student or family member who uses assistive technologies in your class, please be sure to add alt text captions or voice captions to all multimedia posts.
When using the Creative Canvas, consider adding captions to your drawing to make it accessible.