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The Insert tray
Everything you can drop into a piece of question content, one click away.
Click the field first. Then the chip.
What it is
The Insert tray sits above the content fields throughout the editor. It is how a variable, an expression, a fact or a smart add-on gets into a stem, a choice, a hint, a solution step or a learning block, without you typing a token by hand.
It works two ways: click a chip to insert at the cursor, or drag a chip onto a field. The hint when nothing is focused says it plainly — click a text box, or drop a chip straight onto it.
The six dropdowns
| Dropdown | Holds |
|---|---|
| Values | Your dynamic variables and computed facts. |
| This format — … | What the current question format needs: blanks, choice references, slot markers. |
| Logic and repeats | Inline conditions and loops, for the small cases that do not deserve a named add-on. |
| Smart add-ons | Your saved add-ons. Empty until you have made one, and it says so. |
| Recipes | Ready-made combinations for common patterns. |
| Expressions | Build an expression over your variables, with the guide to what is available. |
The quick row above them carries your shortcut placeholders — the handful you place constantly.
The guides inside it
Three of the dropdowns carry their own help, and it is better than most documentation because it sits beside the thing it describes.
- The expressions guide lists the functions available and marks which evaluation tier each uses.
- The formats guide explains what this particular question format expects in this particular field.
- Tooltips on the individual chips say what each token becomes.
The habit worth forming
Insert values rather than typing them, every time, even when the value is a single digit you could type faster.
A typed 7 is right in the version in front of you and wrong in every other version the type generates. It is the single most common reason a parametric question type produces questions whose answer does not match the stem, and it is invisible until a learner meets it.
Generating a few samples on the Review stage catches it immediately: a number that never changes while everything around it does is a typed one.