Working with Hints
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Overview
The students that are not sure of themselves may view hints. The hints are created by the educators.
Hints appear in a separate pop-up window.
The contents of this page is intended for the educators and for the students.
The following functionality is intended for the educators!
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 on the context menu, choose Add answer placeholder.
- In the Add Answer Placeholder dialog box, specify the answer placeholder text.
- In the Hints section of the dialog box, type the text that will appear in the student's project in a separate pop-up window.
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 box, use the buttons to navigate to an extraneous hint.
- Click .
Editing hints
The hint appears in a dedicated pop-up 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 .
This action is available for the students only!
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.
Last modified: 15 December 2017