Toddle’s Workbook is a dynamic tool designed to help teachers unleash their creativity and make learning enjoyable and engaging. It is the ultimate solution for all your virtual learning needs, simplifying the creation of interactive assignments and enhancing student engagement and collaboration, all within the platform!
This article provides a detailed walkthrough of the workbook features on the tablet app.
Workbook interface on the tablet
Brush Bar
The brush bar in the workbook enables annotations and houses a number of amazing features, explained below:
Selection tool: The first icon with a pointing hand represents the selection tool. Using this tool you can select, move, and manipulate objects or text within the workbook.
Eraser tool: The eraser tool can be used to remove unwanted marks or annotations.
Pen tool: The pen nib icon, is used for drawing or writing freehand, making it ideal for note-taking, sketching, or creating diagrams.
Highlighter tool: The highlighter is perfect for emphasizing important text or areas in different colours, helping to make key information stand out.
Glow Pen Tool: This tool allows you to create vibrant and thicker lines with a shiny glow effect. Ideal for bold writing or drawing, it adds a luminous emphasis to specific sections of the workbook, making them stand out distinctly.
Colour picker: The colour picker, allows you to select different colours for pen, brush, highlighter, or marker. This tool helps in customizing the colour of the writing or drawing tools. The circles of different sizes are for selecting the thickness of the lines, giving you more control over your annotations.
Top bar
The top menu bar offers the following features:
Delete Icon: The trash icon allows you to delete the created workbook assignment.
Add/remove pages: The second icon opens an outline panel on the left where you can manage your workbook pages. Here, you'll find options to navigate through existing pages. You can copy a page to another workbook, or duplicate or remove a page using the three-dot menu, and add new pages using the plus icon. You can add up to 20 pages to a single workbook.
Full-Screen icon: The third icon toggles full-screen mode where all other controls on the screen like the menu bar and brush bar are hidden. You can toggle between the two views using the icon in the top bar, as shown below.
Undo-redo icons: Use the undo icon (arrow pointing left) to reverse your last action and the redo icon (arrow pointing right) redoes the last action you undid. It restores any changes you accidentally reversed.
‘Save’ Checkmark icon: This icon is used to confirm or save changes you have made to the workbook. If you close the app or switch to another app without clicking this icon, your changes are retained, allowing you to resume exactly where you left off.
Zoom-in and zoom-out: Simply pinch in and out on your screen to easily adjust your view. This allows you to seamlessly focus on details or get a broader perspective of your work.
Menu bar
The menu bar on the right can be used to add new elements such as text boxes, images, shapes, or other objects to the workbook. The size of each of the icons has been increased to match standard touch targets, making them more accessible for early years' users. You can use the following tools from the menu bar:
Text tool: Use the text tool to add text to your workbook, as shown below. Additionally, it provides options for choosing text styles and color, rotating, layering, locking, duplicating, attaching audio, or deleting the text.
While entering new text, the rich text editor intuitively recognizes when an RTL(right-to-left) keyboard is being used and automatically aligns the text to the right side of the text box. This smart alignment eliminates the need for manual adjustments, making the content creation process more efficient and natural for RTL language users, ensuring that educators can focus on crafting their content without worrying about text alignment issues.
Insert Image (camera icon): This tool can be used to introduce multimedia elements, such as pictures or videos into your workbook. It includes the option to either capture new photos and videos directly using the device's camera or to upload existing images and videos from the device's storage.
Once you've selected your image, click the three-dot menu and select ‘Crop’ to open the editing interface. Now, you can easily resize and crop the image. Use the guiding dots at the corners to crop, or adjust the sliding scale to resize. These simple tools allow you to quickly customize your image for your specific needs. Click on the ‘Done’ button next to the sliding scale, or click anywhere outside the selected image to save the changes to your image.
Screen recording: The record icon in the menu bar allows you to embed audio instructions in the workbook while simultaneously recording the screen. This helps learners directly engage with their teacher's voice.
You can use the pause button to stop the recording at any time and resume when ready without starting a new recording session.
Use the pointer tool during recording to highlight specific screen sections. To use it, select the pointer tool and hold down the mouse click. For touch screen devices just move your finger on the screen and the pointer tool will make itself visible. The recorded video will show the pointer tool. You can also resize the video frame using resize handlers at the corners.
Shape tool: Using the shape tool, you can add different shapes in the workbook and adjust their size, colour and angle. Clicking on the 3 dots gives you additional options including choosing outline styles, colour, layering it, locking it, duplicating it, attaching audio to it or deleting it.
You can also add text directly into any shape with ease. As soon as you insert a shape into the workbook, a cursor will appear automatically, allowing you to add text without the need for extra steps.
Furthermore, the resize tool adjusts the number of resize dots based on the shape's size. Smaller shapes display four dots for basic resizing, while larger or zoomed-in shapes provide eight dots for more detailed adjustments, enhancing your control over the shape's dimensions.
Please note that we have minimum size restrictions for media, shapes, and text elements when resizing. This feature ensures that these components remain visible and usable, even when minimized. This makes it easier for younger students to interact with the workbook content. The minimum size threshold prevents accidental over-reduction of elements, maintaining legibility and accessibility.
Below is an example to demonstrate how even elements at their minimum size are clearly visible.
Backgrounds: You can add creative backgrounds for your workbook using the option highlighted below. You can choose between plain backgrounds, backgrounds with patterns, pastel colours, or solid colours.
Voice Recording (microphone icon): Use this tool to record audio notes or instructions directly into your workbook. The interface shows a waveform that represents the audio's loudness. You can add audio independently or link it to any text or shape using the audio icon. Feel free to either record or upload the audio.
Link tool: Use this icon to insert hyperlinks into your workbook, such as videos or articles. Clicking on it provides additional options, including layering the added link, locking it, duplicating it, attaching audio to it, or deleting it.
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