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Using Docs and Conversation Tabs to Help Students in the Editor
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.

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Written by Jeremy Keeshin
Updated over a week ago
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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. This can be found in the top right corner of any code editor under the Docs menu.

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The Docs tab contains documentation for many of the concepts they learn in the course, including examples they can use to write their code. Students can also view the full documentation for a language by clicking See full documentation.
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Click Here to browse the full documentation for all our programming languages. Languages can be selected from the left-hand drop-down menu!

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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 page. Click Code Review in the left-hand menu to view student questions:

Image 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.


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