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The Workshop Tour

A short, optional walkthrough of Workshop mode, offered the first time you work in Workshop and replayable from Settings.

The Workshop tour shows you where everything for running a session lives. Like the Diagram Tour, it works on the real editor rather than screenshots: it spotlights each part with a highlight ring and a short explanation. It adds nothing to your canvas, takes under a minute, and you can leave at any point.

When It's Offered

The first time you work in Workshop mode on a tab you can edit (switching a tab to Workshop, opening a document whose tab opens in Workshop, or making a retro or a Blank Session), a centred Welcome to Workshop card asks whether you'd like a look: Yes starts it, No dismisses it.

It's offered on its own, whether or not you've taken the Diagram Tour, which belongs to Diagram mode and never shows in Workshop. The tour isn't offered on a locked tab, in an embed, or to someone who can only view or take part.

The offer appears once ever. However you answer (decline, skip midway, or finish), it won't come back on its own, and if you're signed in the answer follows you to every device. Turning on Power User Mode in Settings marks it as seen too.

What It Covers

  1. Collaborate: Ask and Session at the end of the palette, the session kit: Ask holds votes, polls and quizzes, and Session the tools, records, reactions, selection modes and places to go. See Collaborate. The rest of the palette is the Diagram Tour's.
  2. Run the room: the Timer, Vote and Poll buttons in the bottom-right corner, which run for everyone without placing anything. See Session Tools.
  3. Bring people in: the Share button, where a Participant link lets people add notes, vote and answer without changing the rest. Left out where there is no Share button.

Each step has Next, Back and Skip tour. The last card, You're ready to run a workshop, links to the Workshop mode article and ends the tour with Start a workshop. If you leave Workshop mode or switch tab mid-tour, it ends as skipped.

Replaying the Tour

Open Settings from the editor and go to Tours.
Switch Workshop Tour back on.

Close Settings. If you're in Workshop mode the tour's welcome card shows straight away; otherwise it's offered the next time you work in Workshop.

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