How to use Code Editor in Virtual Classroom

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Virtual Classroom comes integrated with a modern, sleek looking, feature-rich and collaborative code editor to teach programming online. It provides powerful IDE-like features along with support for scripting languages such as HTML, CSS, Python, PHP and many more letting the instructor to teach code with great speed and efficiency. This advanced code editor also support changing editor background for enhanced view. Instructor can pass controls to the students to code together.

The Code Editor offers contextual help and syntax highlighting for several programming languages.

Click on the 'Help' icon to view the supported keyboard shortcuts.

Lock/Unlock Code Editor tabs

When collaborating with students, the instructor can lock or unlock the code editor tab. When unlocked, the students can collaboratively code together.

Supported programming languages

The following programming languages are supported.

C
C++
C#
CSS
Go
HTML
Java
JavaScript
JSON
PHP
Python
Ruby
SQL

Color Theme

The background and text color can be easily changed with a click of a button. Every attendee has the ability to customize the theme based on their personal preferences.

Key Map

BrainCert offers key bindings that can be set based on individual preference. The default key bindings are plenty powerful, but if you prefer, they can be mapped to more closely emulate the bindings in Sublime Text or Vim.

Save/Export Code

The code from the editor tab can be saved locally to your computer by clicking on the export icon.

Expand/Collapse Code Editor on the Whiteboard

One of the initiative feature of this tool is the ability to easily expand and collapse the entire Code Editor on the whiteboard for better productivity.