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February 7, 2023 By Karen Kenjosian

Tip Tuesday: How to Rename the Title of a Source

It’s Tuesday, so you know what that means! Another Tip Tuesday to help you get the most out of Scrible!

Today’s Tip: How to Edit the Name of a Source
Scrible is a fantastic tool for compiling and citing sources, editing annotations, creating outlines, and writing papers. However, sometimes you pull an article or document into My Library with a name that does not reflect the content. No worries! Here are two ways to change the name of your Source.

When you Know the Name

If you know what you want to call the Source, you can change the name in three easy steps.


When you Need to Find the Name in the Source

Happy Scribling!

Your Feedback Makes a Difference

Please let us know what kinds of tips you would like to see! 

Thank you for using Scrible!

Filed Under: Tip Tuesday, Training and Support Tagged With: apa, bibliography, citation generator apa, department of education, education, format apa citation, mla citation, mla citation generator, mla format

January 31, 2023 By Victor Karkar

Introducing Scrible Tip Tuesday

Tip Tuesday is something new! On Tuesdays, we’ll send a brief tip to help you get the most out of Scrible, discover features you might’ve missed and learn tricks to maximize the ones you love. We might even include tips on streamlining your research workflow, improving your writing process and more. Please let us know what kinds of tips you want!

Today’s Tip: Pin the Scrible Extension in Your Browser

To avoid Scrible being “out of sight, out of mind,” pin the Scrible Extension in your browser so it’s visible and you remember to use it. Learn how to do this for your preferred browser here:
How to Pin the Scrible Extension in Chrome
How to Pin the Scrible Extension in Edge
How to Pin the Scrible Extension in iPad Safari
How to Pin the Scrible Extension in Mac Safari

High fives 🖐️,
Team Scrible

Filed Under: Product, Tip Tuesday, Training and Support Tagged With: product, tip

May 16, 2019 By Victor Karkar

Scrible Overhauls How-to Guides and In-App Tours

We’re excited to announce a major refresh of our How-to Guides and in-app Tours. These are 2 distinct types of self-help and training resources available under the Help menu when you’re signed into your Library.

New Scrible How-to Guides and in-app Tours under Help menu

How-to Guides

Our new How-to Guides replace our previous Scrible Edu Guides, which were a set of PDFs containing screenshots and captions on different topics to help guide you through various aspects of using Scrible Edu such as signing up, installing and using the Scrible Toolbar Chrome Extension, connecting/syncing with Google Classroom, etc. Those guides were launched a year ago and became increasingly outdated with major product updates we made in May and November of 2018.

The new How-to Guides are better because:

  1. New Interfaces. They’re updated to cover those product changes and show our current interfaces.
  2. More Topics. There’s more of them covering more topics. This is an ongoing effort. Our library of How-to Guides will grow over time and cover an increasing number of topics. Let us know what’s missing that you’d like us to cover next.
  3. Bite-Sized. They’re more succinct and focused. Some of the previous PDF Guides were long and covered multiple topics. These new Guides are shorter and easier to digest quickly.
  4. Webpages, not PDFs. They’re built as responsive webpages instead of PDFs. So, their size/layout automatically adjusts to the screen size you’re on. This prevents you from having to constantly zoom in and out if you’re viewing a guide on a phone or tablet.
  5. Personalized to You. The Guides are automatically grouped and shown to you based on who you are and the Plan you’re on so that you see the guides that are most relevant and useful to you. For example, if you’re a student on our free Edu Plan, you’ll be shown the student guides for our Edu Plan. If you’re a teacher, you’ll see How-to Guides (Edu Pro Plan Teachers) under your Help menu. Selecting that will navigate you to a page listing Guides for Edu Pro Teachers, which looks like this:
How-to Guides Page displaying list of Guides for teachers on the Edu Pro Plan

From there, you’ll see the list of guides relevant to you and can click on any of them to view the particular guide of interest.

In-App Tours

Our in-app Tours provide in-context guidance to help you understand how to use Scrible while you’re signed into your account. They walk you through key features in different interfaces of our system. Each Tour is presented as a set of steps, with each step highlighting a particular feature and showing explanatory text and, in some cases, a screenshot or animated GIF to clarify how the feature works. For example, if you want to understand how our Outline Editor works, under the Help menu atop your Library, select Tours > Outline Tab Tour.

In-App Tours available under the Help menu atop the Library

This’ll navigate you to the Outline Editor in the Outline Tab of your Library and launch the first step of the Tour. In the top left corner, you’ll see the 1/3 in a small green box indicating that you’re on the first step of a 3 step Tour. In any Tour, you can click Next>> or <<Prev to move to the next step or previous step, respectively, in the Tour or Ok, got it to end and exit the Tour.

As with our How-to Guides, this is ongoing effort. Our library of in-app Tours will grow over time and cover more interfaces and features. Let us know what’s missing that you’d like us to cover next.

Step 2 of 3 of the Outline Tab Tour, which walks you through the Outline Editor

We’re excited to update these self-help and training resources. Please let us know what you think! We welcome feedback and requests for additional Guides and Tours and even other types of resources!

-The Scrible Team

Filed Under: Product, Training and Support Tagged With: guide, help, product, resource, support, tour, training

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