Paper Canva — Home tab

Everyday editing: undo/redo, font, spacing, columns, bilingual translate & save, image scale, the on-canvas question toolbar, outline, AI generation and templates.

What the Home tab does

The Home tab is the default ribbon you land on. It holds the controls you reach for on every paper: undo/redo history, the base typography (font family and size), paragraph spacing and column layout, bilingual pairing, image scaling, the outline panel toggle, and the AI Generate / Use Template shortcuts. The persistent Save and Approve buttons sit on the top-right of the ribbon and are available from every tab. When a paper is published the whole ribbon is read-only — a Lock "Read Only" badge appears and the Save/Approve buttons are replaced by a single Duplicate button. Make an editable copy to change anything.

Quick actions (top-right of every tab)

Saves all changes to the server (Ctrl+S). Disabled — and shows "Saved" on a grey button — when there are no unsaved changes. When autosave is wired in, this button is replaced by a live SaveStatusIndicator (saving / saved / dirty). Always visible from every ribbon tab. Finalizes and publishes the paper. Once approved the paper becomes read-only and can be shared with students. Disabled while a save is in flight. Visible from every tab.

Clipboard group

Font group

Opens a dropdown to change the font family used throughout the paper. 14 print-ready fonts: Serif, Sans-serif, Monospace, Times New Roman, Arial, Georgia, Verdana, Inter, DM Sans, plus the student-friendly readable faces Lexend, Atkinson Hyperlegible, OpenDyslexic, Poppins and Nunito. The button label shows the current font, each menu item previews in its own typeface, and the active choice is highlighted. The chosen font now applies to all question and option text, including math — not just headings.

Paragraph group

A 3-way segmented control for column layout. 1 = single column; 2 = all questions split into two side-by-side columns; Mix = MCQ/True-False render in two columns while long-answer questions stay single-column. The active mode is highlighted. A toggle (ON/OFF) for bilingual papers. When ON, English shows on the left and a chosen secondary language on the right; a language select appears (Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Odia, Assamese) and a Translate & save button sits beside it. Independent of column count — when enabled the canvas forces a paired 2-column layout.

One click machine-translates every question in the paper into the chosen secondary language (via AI translation) and saves each translation as a linked sibling question in your question bank. It runs once: the paper is saved first so new questions get IDs, then reopening the paper — or switching the bilingual language back to one you have already done — loads the saved translation instead of re-translating. A toast reports how many were translated, reused or failed. (Assamese is not available yet.) Coverage is visible at a glance: while editing, each question in the right column carries a per-question badge — a green ✓ {language} when a saved translation exists, or an amber Not in {language} when it has not been translated yet. Run Translate & save to fill the gaps. For questions still without a translation, the right column follows the missingBehavior (defaults to primary only) set in the full Layout settings modal.

Image group

View, AI & Templates

Opens the full-page question editor empty, pre-filled with this paper’s board, class and subject — type a fresh question straight into the paper. The first save adds it to your bank and drops it onto the canvas (Ctrl+N does the same). All types are supported, including case-based (a passage plus MCQ / Multi-MCQ / Numerical / Subjective sub-questions). Hidden when read-only.

Editing a question on the canvas

Hovering a question on the canvas reveals a single merged toolbar row floating over it. The teal insert buttons (add a Section, Page Break, a question From Library, or a Blank question — each inserted above the hovered question) sit at the start of the same row as the purple question actions, so one hover surfaces everything. The old separate seam-hover insert bar between questions is gone. Ordered and unordered lists in question text now render on the canvas exactly as they will print.

Four teal buttons at the left of the hover row insert content above this question: Section, Page Break, From Library (opens the question picker) and Blank Question (opens the same full-page question editor as the ribbon’s New Question, inserting the new question above this one). Edit mode only.

Below the last question, a row of round buttons appends content at the end of the paper: New Question (type a fresh question), Section, Question Library, AI Toolkit (insert a lesson plan, notes or a warm-up) and Page Break.

Reports the question to moderators for review and removes it from the paper on success — use it when a question is wrong or low quality. Marks the question Out of Syllabus, which soft-removes it from the question library globally (see the Question Library guide). Removes it from the open paper too.

When a question carries a solution, its on-canvas card shows an Interactive Simulation button — an AI-generated, explorable visual of the concept you can open on your teacher copy (it never prints). See Interactive Simulations for how they work. Case-based questions render as the passage followed by lettered sub-questions and split cleanly across pages like any other question. The teacher / solution copies print the case’s combined solution under the question.

Common tasks

Watch the per-question badges turn from amber "Not in <language" to green "✓ <language" as coverage fills; any question still without a translation follows the missing-behavior set in Layout settings.

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