Toon Doo Instructions
Note: Remind students this is a CLASS account-not to be used at home for personal cartoons.
SETTING UP A CLASS ACCOUNT on TOON DOO*
*Note: Your tech coach can set up an account for you or you might already have an account from a previous year---check first!
1. Go to the toon doo web site http://www.toondoo.com/
2. Click Register
3. Use your school initials and your STI
homeroom number for your username and
password (because that is how the video
tutorials show students to log in)
Use your school e-mail address
(click REGISTER)
LOGGING IN AS A STUDENT
4. Students will log in using their school initials
and homeroom code-all lower case and no
spaces (if that is how you set it up). The
password is the same-school initials and
homeroom code-no spaces.
5. Students click SIGN-IN
YOUR school initials
and homeroom #
here!
6. They should see themselves signed in up in
the upper right corner.
7. Remind students NOT TO BROWSE the
other cartoons---you never know what
could be out there. Have them click
TOONDOO MAKER in the upper right and
get started creating!
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8. It will start loading. If it does not start
loading, a message window may pop up. If
so, have students look for a light yellow bar
at the top of the screen. Have them right
click it and then click Always Allow Pop ups
from this site.
9. Students select a layout for the cartoon.
10. When students are ready to save, click the
TOON DOO in the upper LEFT corner and
choose SAVE.
11. Students should give it a title. In this
example, they were using the vocabulary
word for the title and by: their name.
Tags are important. Should use the school initials
and homeroom number with NO Spaces between
for first tag and first name and maybe vocab or the
topic for an additional tag. This will make them
easier to find.
Keep it private if they are not finished.
Publish to the world if they are finished.
Either choice, students still click PUBLISH.
12. Close the cartoon
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13. To edit later….
Go to TOONS and My Toondoos
14. Click EDIT in the top right of the cartoon
(will show up when you hover over it.)
15. Click Re-Open in Creator.
(Note: If pop up blockers mess this up, use CTRL key
before you click, turn them off, or right-click the
yellow bar message at the top to fix-as in step 8.)
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Creating a Toon Book
1. Click the Toon Book Creator in the top
right corner next.
2. You will drag and drop the cartoons
your students created from the bottom
of the screen up to the book.
3. When you are done adding all of the
cartoons, click PUBLISH.
4. Give your book a title
5. Add a title and description and don’t
forget the tags!
6. Click VIEW it NOW to see it.
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7. To embed in your wiki, click the bottom
icon to the right of the book.
8. Copy the embed code and paste it into
the embed widget html box on your
wiki.
On your wiki, edit page and click the embed widget
icon.
Click other HTML, paste code in box and click SAVE
9. To VIEW or EDIT the book later, click
BOOKS and My ToonBooks.
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