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.
The Home ribbon
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.
Shown only when the paper is published/read-only (in place of Save/Approve). Creates an editable copy so you can make changes without altering the published original.
A non-clickable badge showing the paper credit cost of this paper: 1 credit per 50 questions (ceil(questions / 50), minimum 1). Hidden when read-only.
A transient status indicator that appears while the canvas is recalculating page layout and pagination. Not a button — purely informational.
Clipboard group
Only shown while editing (hidden when read-only) and only when undo/redo history is available.
Reverts the most recent change to questions, settings or layout (Ctrl+Z). Disabled when there is nothing to undo.
Re-applies the last reverted change (Ctrl+Shift+Z). Disabled when there is nothing to redo.
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.
A spinner (▲/▼) that sets the base font size for all question text. Clamped to 8–32px; the value shows a px suffix.
Paragraph group
Line/question spacing spinner. Adjusts vertical whitespace between questions in 0.1 steps from 0.1 to 2.0. Higher values add more breathing room.
Horizontal gap between the question number and the question text (0–60px). Larger values push the text further right.
Spacing between MCQ options (0–40px) — controls how far apart (a), (b), (c), (d) sit from each other.
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
Scales every image (diagrams, figures) in the paper. Clamped to 10–200% in 5% steps; shows a % suffix. Affects how large images appear when printed.
View, AI & Templates
Toggles the Paper Outline side panel, which lists every question for quick navigation and drag-to-reorder. The button is highlighted (active) while the panel is open.
Opens the AI generator to create questions from uploaded documents, images or YouTube videos. Hidden when read-only.
Opens the template library to apply an exam template (JEE, NEET, CBSE, etc.) that pre-configures sections and marking. 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 manual creator). Edit mode only.
Rewrites the question with AI while keeping its slot on the paper.
Adds an alternative "or" question so students get a choice at that slot.
Swaps this question for another picked from the library — the fastest fix for a flagged or out-of-syllabus item.
Opens the full question editor to change the text, options, marks, difficulty or solution.
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.