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Using Docs and Conversation Tabs to Help Students in the Editor

Students can reference coding concepts in the Docs tab and use the Conversation tab to submit questions directly to teachers.

Written by Jeremy Keeshin
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How Students Can Use the Docs Tab

The Docs tab is a great place to point students when they get stuck. Students can open it by clicking Docs in the top right corner of any Code Editor.

Image showing where to find the Docs tab in the Code Editor

The Docs tab contains documentation for the concepts covered in the course, including code examples students can use as a reference. Students can use the topic links at the top to jump between concepts, and a navigation bar stays at the top of the tab as they scroll so they can move between topics or return to the top.

To view the complete reference for a language, students can click See full documentation.
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GIF showing the full documentation page

Click Here to browse the full documentation for all our programming languages. Languages can be selected from the left-hand drop-down menu!

GIF showing all the programming languages available in the full documentations page


How Students can use Conversations to Ask Questions

In the Code Editor, students can click More > Conversation to submit questions:
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Image showing the more tab and the conversations feature

The questions that students submit will appear on your Code Review app. Click Code Review in the left-hand navigation menu to view student questions:

GIF showing conversations from code review page

Click on any question to write an answer. Students can see your replies on their main student page for that class.

Image showing multiple conversations from students


Students can also click More > Conversation in their Code Editor, right where they submitted their questions!

Image of in assignment conversation

Hiding the Docs Tab

To hide the Docs Tab from students so they can't access it through the Code Editor, navigate to your Section's Advanced Settings.


Still have questions? Contact our team at support@codehs.com to learn more!

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