Working with hints
Overview
The students that are not sure of themselves may view hints. The hints are created by the educators.
Hints appear in a separate popup.
The contents of this page is intended for the educators and for the students.
Creating and deleting hints
To create a hint
Select a fragment of the exercise code to be replaced with some text.
Right-click selection, and from the context menu, choose Add answer placeholder.
In the Add Answer Placeholder dialog, specify the answer placeholder text.
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In the Hints section of the dialog, type the text that will appear in the student's project in a separate popup.
If you need to add more hints, click on the toolbar.
To delete a hint from an answer placeholder
In the Add/Edit Answer Placeholder dialog, use the buttons to navigate to an extraneous hint.
Click .
Editing hints
The hint appears in a dedicated popup frame that features a toolbar with the following buttons:
.To edit a hint, do one of the following
Edit an answer placeholder, and change hints as required.
Place the caret to a placeholder of interest, then in the Task Description tool window click , navigate to the desired hint and click .
Viewing hints
To view hints
Place the caret to an answer placeholder you want to get information for.
In the Task Description tool window, click button.