How Can Students Draw in Kiddom?

Kiddom includes a Drawing Question Type! Click here to learn about all the available question types in Kiddom.

Where can I find it?

When creating or editing an assignment, you'll find Drawing among the different question types. Begin by creating a new assignment or personalizing an assignment, adding a question to the activity, and selecting Drawing from the drop-down menu.

Once selected, you'll see a new field appear that will allow you to add a background image. This is not required, but can be very helpful for questions that require a graph.

How do Drawing Questions look for students?

When a student opens the assignment, they'll see the drawing tool. If you've uploaded a background image, it will appear to students in the canvas. If no background image was uploaded, then students will begin drawing on a blank white canvas similar to a white piece of paper.

Students will be able to expand the drawing window if needed while maintaining access to the drawing tools and to the question they are answering.

From here, students have a number of tools to assist them while drawing:

• Image Upload: students can upload a file from their device, like a handdrawn picture or a saved image on their computer.
• Magnifying tool: students can zoom in or out on their drawing.
• Undo & Redo: students can use these buttons to edit their image, as the keyboard shortcuts are not available.
• Selector: students can use this to move any drawn element.
• Eraser: students can use this to delete an element.
• Text box: students can add text to any drawing with size and color options.
• Shapes: students can create shapes with size and color options.
• Pencil: students can free draw with different size and color options.
• Highlighter: students can highlight over parts of the drawing with different size and color options.

Once students complete their drawing, they can submit their work by clicking "Submit" in the upper right-hand corner of the activity. If the student wants to resubmit, they can delete or edit their original drawing and click "Resubmit". 

Please note: The drawing will automatically save as they work, and students will see a message that says, "Your work has been autosaved" but the work still needs to be submitted when finished. 

Things to note:

• Image Upload for Students: Within the drawing window, students have the ability to upload an image in addition to creating a drawing using the tools. This can be helpful for any student who completes the assignment on paper or whiteboard. Students can upload jpg, jpeg, png, or gifs.
• Uploading PDF's: At this time, we don't support uploading PDF drawings, but we know how important this will be and plan to provide support soon.
• Grading: We don't currently display a preview of the drawing when grading, so you'll need to click the Student Response in order to see the student's answer.