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Customizing Flipchart Toolbar

Hint: Sometimes, you may need to add or hide objects on the flipchart toolbar at runtime. That’s perfectly fine with this option.

A flipchart-based activity started

You can find the toolbar section on the left side of the screen. This is the place to start creating objects on the flipchart.

The toolbar on a flipchart-based activity

To start configuring the toolbar, click on the first button.

The “Configure toolbar” window page will open.

Toolbar sections configuration screen

On this page, you can do the following:

Change the order in which the objects will appear at startup. To do this, drag the items up and down the list from the dotted button at the beginning of each row

Change the order

Edit the section name by typing it in the respective field. For example, you may want the Notes object to be called “Creative Notes”

Edit section name in toolbar

Select the section type by choosing it from the drop-down list

Select section type

Section access: you can decide who can access this object while running the activity.

Modify section access

Set a specific flipchart object to open at startup

Open at start-up option

Collapse or expand the section in the toolbar

Collapse or expand section

Move up / Move down a section by a position within the list.

Change section position

Duplicate the section

Duplicate the section

Delete a section

Delete a section - Colltrain toolbar

You can add as many sections as you want by clicking on the blue “+” button at the bottom of the list.

Add a new section in the toolbar

Then you can undo changes, or you can apply changes to the room or only to the current team.

Apply changes - toolbar customization

Note: these changes will be temporarily applied for the duration of the activity. Once you restart the training activity, it will start with the initial configuration. To make it permanent, use “Save activity” from the drop-down list of the Design button.