Standardizing Toolbars for Students

timothy_jump

I'm setting up Onshape for an engineering class I teach. I would like to have Onshape set the same for all student users when they connect to the app (toolbars, etc.). Is it possible to do this?

NeilCooke

It is not, however, the students would have to go out of their way to customize the toolbars differently so it will likely be the same for everybody.

timothy_jump

Students do all sorts of accidental and curious-exploration changes. It is fairly easy to find the edit toolbar options and start making changes. Once they find this there ensues the "fun" of having to figure out what they did vs. resetting all to defaults; all of which are inefficiencies in a classroom that can be avoided if the toolbars, et. al. can be set and locked to maximize engagement toward the target learning goals. Moving to online learning and support, this could be a management headache extraordinaire. But, no option to set the toolbar is not unexpected.

Thank you for the quick reply.

john_mcclary

The toolbars are locked by default. You need to right click and enter edit mode in order to make changes.
on top of that you can't do much else while in this mode, and you need to hit Save or Reset to have anything change.

I would argue there is no such thing as "accidental" changing of the toolbar. And extremely simple to undo and go back to default.
It doesn't get much more "in your face" than this.



I do however know there is a bug that crops up with my toolbars after some Onshape updates. That will scramble my toolbar and remove items.
Perhaps your student's experienced this bug.

NeilCooke

I would have them go to "My Account" under their name, top right, then Preferences, Toolbars, reset to defaults
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