We heard from our educators that for some students the text formatting experience was too distracting, difficult to navigate, and overwhelming.

Providing you with the ability to configure a text formatting toolbar that meets the needs of your students.

Library Settings - Student text edit controls

This feature is available to all users. To configure the student toolbar, open library settings, navigate to the Student Text Editing controls and click the cogs to set the tools, fonts, colour picker and writing mode.

You know your students best and you can choose what options should be available for them, custom configuration will show for all students editing text within the books of the library, according to the library settings.

Students will see a simplified version of the formatting toolbar according to your settings.

By default the student experience is the same as the teacher experience. An inline text editor with controls available from one menu bar.

The text editing toolbar allows you to control each formatting tool available for your students at the library level. Younger students might need a very simple toolbar with basic edit controls, allowing them to concentrate on the letters on the page and not be distracted with choice. To control which tools are available for your students check the control boxes to enable the tools available to your students.

The students will see the simplified toolbar according to the options checked on within the library settings. In this example, the students can increase the size of the text with a simplified size adjuster and change the colour of the font.

The font size picker has two options available for your students, simple and default.

With your library settings set to 'default', students have greater control and choice of how to adjust the text size on their page.

The student will see a plus and minus controller with a font size number along with a scrollbar of available font sizes to choose from.

With your library settings set to 'simple', students have a simple button click controller to adjust the text size.

The student will see a simple controller to change the font size to small, medium and large by a single button click.

Custom color picker - 'off'

With the custom color picker toggled off, the students see a simpler color pallet to choose from. Clicking the colour changes the color of the font.

Custom color picker - 'On'

With the custom color picker toggled on, the students will see a plus button on the color toolbar. Clicking the plus button offers a color pallet and custom adjustor. Recently used colors are added to the text color options for easy re-selection.

Distraction free writing mode - 'on'

With distraction free writing toggled on - when students are actively entering text on to the page, they will see a color filter that fades background distractions. When the students clicks out of the text box the color filter is automatically removed

To test the controllers and try the student experience for yourself, click 'authors' on your library.

Then click on 'Sign in as a student' this will log in as a test student.

Once you are logged in as a test student, add or edit text on any book to experience the student's custom toolbar for yourself. To log back in as a teacher, click 'Sign out'

Log in with your teacher account when you have finished testing the student experience.