Canvas Objects

To add different elements to a Scoop canvas, you use the toolbar that appears on the left in canvas edit mode:

The following are the different types of objects that can be placed onto a Scoop canvas in the order that they appear in the toolbar:

• Scoop Summary (data charts or tables)
  These objects are created with Scoop Explorer, where you can create great chart or table visualizations and summaries of datasets
• Sheetlets
  These elements display open windows into Scoop LiveSheets. You can name a range in your spreadsheet and then display that on a canvas. The sheetlet is bi-directional. If you change a value in a cell in a sheetlet, it is updated in the underlying LiveSheet. That means any calculations based on that LiveSheet will automatically be recalculated allowing for very rich and interactive calculations.
• Process Diagram
• Frame
• Visual Object
  • Rich text box: A powerful rich text editor that allows you to edit/format text objects. You can, among other things:
    • Change font style (bold, italic, underline, font size, color, background and many other items
    • Justify text (left, center, or right)
    • Change line spacing and indentation and other paragraph options
    • Insert hyperlinks, images or tables
  • Arrows: You can draw arrows on your canvas to highlight specific elements as part of your story
  • Images: You can embed images into your canvas
  • Videos: You can embed videos into your canvas

In addition, the toolbar allows you to do the following:

• Edit the frame and wrapper of either individual objects or all of them to apply things like background colors and borders.
• Turn snap to grid on or off
• Capture a thumbnail based on the current view of the canvas (you can also select a single frame and make it a thumbnail)
• Change the background color of the entire canvas
• Manage the current frames for the canvas
  • Change their presentation order
  • If they were created from a slide import, you can edit the slide in Google slides and update your frame with any changes made either on a single slide or all of your slides. This allows you to continue to use Google Slides as a slide editor for your frame backround.