Answer Palette Help

The Buttons Area

The Buttons Area provides a student with various tools for building, modifying, and resetting
their answer in the Answer Field.  A help button is also available to show an overview of the
features and functionality for the Student View of the Answer Palette.  

The Buttons Area can be broken down into three categories: Object Buttons, Action Buttons,
and Help Button.  These categories are described below.

Button Type	Button Description
Object Buttons	Object Buttons allow a student the ability to answer mathematical questions that require a more than a simple plain text response.  Some questions' answers may require fractions, radicals, exponents, etc., and without the accessible Object Buttons, it would be difficult for students to formulate a consistent formatted answer.   There are a variety of Object Buttons that insert a specific type of mathematical element into the Answer Field.  Each Object Button may have one or more editable fields for a student to fill in. Power Root Fraction nth Root Scientific Notation Integral Limit Parenthesis Pi Plus/Minus Subscript Infinity Multiplication Right Arrow Less than or Equal to Greater than or Equal to Super and Subscript Vector Valence 1 Lewis Electron 2 Lewis Electrons
Help Button	The Help Button will show an overview of the features and functionality that the Student View of the Math Palette has to offer. Help button

The Answer Field

The Answer Field is the student's working area for building their answer to the Math Palette's
corresponding question.  An answer can consist of plain text, an object from the Buttons Area,
or any combination of the two.

Depending on the type of question the Answer Palette is associated with, there are two different
states the Answer Field can be in.  These " default states" are described below: