The class roster and student boards on Circin Canvas

See your real roster on the side of the Circin Canvas board, and give each student their own labelled space to work in on the canvas.

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The panel on the right of the board is your real roster for the paired section. From it you can hand a student their own labelled space on the canvas, so several can work at the board at once and everybody can see whose working is whose.

How do I show or hide the roster?

  1. Tap Students on the left rail to show or hide the right-hand panel.
  2. The header reads Students with the count. Each row shows the student's initials, their name, Roll and their number, and a small green dot when they are marked present today.
  3. Tap Students again, or the › chevron in the panel header, to collapse it and win back 300 pixels of board.

The Students panel open on the right of the board, listing the class roster with green present dots The same board with the roster collapsed, giving the canvas the extra width

How do I give a student their own space?

  1. In the Students panel, tap the small board icon on a student's row.
  2. The board flies to that student's own space on the canvas and draws a labelled frame round it with their name. The icon fills in to show the space exists, and gains a ring while it is the one on screen.
  3. The student writes there with the normal pen. Their frame grows to fit whatever they draw.
  4. Tap another student's icon to hand the board on. A new space opens to the right.
  5. Tap the grid icon in the Students header to pull back and see every student's space side by side for comparison.

Student rows showing the board icon empty, filled and ringed for the space currently on screen One labelled student space with a worked problem written inside it The zoomed-out overview showing three student spaces side by side

Rules and gotchas

  • The spaces are labelled, not fenced. Ink is never clipped at the frame — the frame follows the writing.
  • A space is framed in the lower, reachable band of the panel rather than dead centre, because the top of a large panel is out of arm's reach for most students.
  • Tapping an icon that is already filled only flies back to that space. It never removes it.
  • With none open yet: No student boards yet — tap a student's board icon.
  • These spaces live on the panel only: nothing is saved to the backend, and signing out clears them all.
  • The Search students… label at the top of the roster is not a working search box, and the raised-hands group is not populated — the board has no live participation feed yet. Scroll the list to find a student.

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