Keyboard shortcuts for staff

Press ? anywhere in the app to see the shortcuts that work everywhere. They work when you are not typing in a field. On a Mac, use ⌘ for Ctrl and ⌥ for Alt. Press Alt combinations with the left Alt key (on a Lithuanian keyboard the right one, AltGr, types digits).

Everywhere

Action	Keys
Search	Ctrl K
Show or hide the sidebar	[
New tab / close tab	Alt N / Alt W
Go to tab 1–8, or the last tab	Alt 1 … 8, Alt 9
Previous or next tab	Alt [ / Alt ]
Reopen closed tab	Alt Shift T
Show keyboard shortcuts	?
Close a menu, dialog or side panel	Esc

The full list with the Mac keys is on the students’ shortcuts page.

Inbox and messages

Action	Key
Next or previous notification	J / K (↓ / ↑ in the list too)
Show the notification beside the list	Space
Open what the notification is about	Enter
Mark as read or unread	U
Archive	E or Backspace
Snooze	H
Close the notification	Esc

In Messages, move between conversations with J / K and send a reply with Ctrl Enter.

Progress sheet

Focus any tile of the sheet (with Tab, for example) and move with the keyboard:

Action	Keys
Neighbouring tile	← → ↑ ↓
10 students up or down	Page Up / Page Down
The student’s first or last tile	Home / End
The sheet’s first or last tile	Ctrl Home / Ctrl End
Open the best attempt (the one the tile shows)	Enter

Submissions and side panels

• Esc closes an open submission or a student’s panel.
• With the panel’s edge focused, ← / → change its width (bigger steps with Shift) and Home / End set the narrowest or widest; a double-click on the edge restores the usual width.

Topics

Action	Keys
Move a problem up or down (with its handle focused)	↑ / ↓
Save a topic’s new title	Enter
Cancel renaming	Esc

Problem and people pickers

In Add problems and in the people pickers (Add groups, Enrol students, Add staff), type a search first, then press ↓ to move into the results:

Action	Keys
Next or previous result	↓ / ↑ (↑ on the first returns to the search)
First or last result	Home / End
A page up or down (in the problem picker)	Page Up / Page Down
Choose or unchoose	Space
Choose or clear every shown result	Ctrl A
Add the chosen ones	Enter

While nothing is chosen, Enter chooses the highlighted result.

Trees (collections in the problem archive, the sources in the problem picker): ↑ ↓ move, → expands or goes in, ← collapses or goes up, Home / End go to the first or last.

Statement editor

The same editor is used for problem statements and wiki pages. While you type in it, the shortcuts for everywhere are off: Ctrl K makes a link here instead of opening search.

Action	Windows, Linux, ChromeOS	macOS
Heading	Ctrl Alt 2	⌘ ⌥ 2
Subheading	Ctrl Alt 3	⌘ ⌥ 3
Bold	Ctrl B	⌘ B
Italic	Ctrl I	⌘ I
Inline code	Ctrl E	⌘ E
Bulleted list	Ctrl Shift 8	⌘ ⇧ 8
Numbered list	Ctrl Shift 7	⌘ ⇧ 7
Link	Ctrl K	⌘ K
Equation	Ctrl Shift E	⌘ ⇧ E
Move the block up or down	Alt Shift ↑ / ↓	⌥ ⇧ ↑ / ↓
Paste as plain text (a wiki page’s address stays an address)	Ctrl Shift V	⌘ ⇧ V

While typing:

Type	What happens
/	The block menu opens: sample test, equation, code, hint, image, note, warning, headings, lists (wiki pages have no sample tests or hints). Pick with ↑ ↓ and Enter or Tab.
[[	Searches the wiki; the page you pick becomes a link.
# or ## and a space at the start of a line	A heading. ### and a space make a subheading.
$ … $	An inline formula.
$$ and a space on an empty line	A display formula.

• Enter opens a selected formula. In the formula field, Enter finishes (in a display formula Ctrl Enter, since Enter starts a new line).
• Enter on the empty last line of a note or hint leaves it; Backspace in an empty note or hint removes it.
• In the toolbar, move with ← → and Home / End.
• Moving the caret onto a wiki link with the arrow keys shows the page’s preview; Esc closes it.

Question banks

In the question form, Ctrl Enter saves the question.