Toddle’s Workbook is a dynamic tool designed to help teachers and students 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 Toddle web.

You can create a new blank workbook through the workbook library. This option becomes available when you choose to add a workbook to an assignment, learning experience (LE), or portfolio post. Once you begin, your canvas will appear as shown below.

To add a new page to your workbook, click on the plus icon on the bottom left of the screen. You can add up to 20 pages in a workbook.

By clicking on the three dot menu next to the page thumbnail, you can copy the page to use it in another workbook on the same browser, duplicate the page for your current workbook, or even delete the selected page.

The workbook is equipped with a wide range of tools designed to support your creativity and enhance your teaching experience. Let’s explore all of these:

The brush bar in the workbook enables annotations and houses a number of amazing features, explained below:

The circles of different sizes are for selecting the thickness of the lines, giving you more control over your annotations.

The top menu bar offers the following features:

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. 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, double-click 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.

This is what your newly cropped image would look like:

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.
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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. Additionally, it provides options for choosing text styles and color, rotating, layering, locking, duplicating, attaching audio, or deleting the text.

You can also add text directly into any shape with ease. As soon as you insert a shape onto 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. Simply double-click on the shape of your choosing to resize it. 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 Toddle web has a 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 colors, or solid colors.

Add audio (microphone icon): Use this tool to record audio notes or instructions directly into your workbook. 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 or deleting it.

The workbook library is a powerful tool that allows you to quickly access ready-made workbook templates created by your school admin or fellow teachers. This promotes collaboration and allows for seamless sharing of resources within the teacher community. Whether you’re planning an assignment, creating a portfolio post or Learning Experience (LE), the workbook library puts a variety of resources right at your fingertips.

When you need inspiration or a template that’s already structured, head over to the ‘School templates’ section in the workbook library. Here, you’ll find templates that have been created by other teachers or your school admins . You can easily browse or search by the creator’s name to find templates that suit your lesson needs. Once you’ve selected a template, you can customize it to fit your teaching style or the specific needs of your students. Just keep in mind that while you can make modifications to the copy you use, the original template can only be edited by the creator or a school administrator.

As a teacher, you have the flexibility to create your own workbooks and share them with your colleagues by adding them to the school library. Choose to start with a blank workbook or build upon an existing template.

Once your template is ready, click the ‘Save as template’ button to save your workbook as a template in the school library.It’ll start appearing in the Workbook library in the ‘School Templates’ section for all teachers of your curriculum. Now, your colleagues can access, use, and modify a copy of your template for their classes. However, only you (the creator) or your school administrators will be able to modify the original template.

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