Collaborate elements

Elements that ask the room a question and keep the answer.

Most elements show what one person drew. These are the ones that collect what everybody thinks, and keep it on the canvas afterwards.

This page is the map. Each element has its own short article, so you can link somebody straight to the one they need.

Finding them

They are Collaborate elements, in Facilitate mode's palette: Ask on the strip for the ones that put a question to everybody, and Record, one of Session's groups, for the ones you leave behind on the canvas, the comment and action panels among them.

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Ask on the strip, and Session with its groups down the side. The elements on this page sit in Ask and Record.

The other four hold the elements that do something when pressed (timers, reactions, Selection Mode buttons, portals): you reach for both kinds while running a session, so they sit side by side. Ask also holds the dot vote and poll buttons.

These categories are part of the Facilitate mode palette; Diagram keeps the comment and action panels in its Write category. In Plan mode the palette's Tools category carries the temperature check, the estimate card and the idea box. In any mode you can add any of them by name from the editor's Search panel.

Who can use them

Editors and anyone on a Participant pass can answer, add ideas and notes, and vote on the Q&A board. Someone on a view-only link sees every card and its answers, but the controls that would change them stay inactive.

The presses that run a round (Reveal, New Round, opening an idea box, taking the roll, starting an agenda segment, starting or revealing a quiz) belong to the facilitator while somebody holds that role. When nobody does, any editor can press them. Answering stays open to everyone who can take part.

Answers aren't undoable: your Ctrl+Z should never retract somebody else's answer. Setting a card up (its label, an estimate's scale, an agenda's segments, a decision's status) is an ordinary edit, and undoes like one.

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