You can choose to color or highlight text within your session blocks to give more context for yourself and to your collaborators about your session plan.
Simply highlight the section of text you wish to edit and the formatting menu will appear, where you can choose either the color picker or color background picker to change your selected text.
You can find the color formatting options useful in your session design in a number of ways:
Highlight text by status: you can mark certain information to indicate whether they are in their final, or waiting-for-feedback stage
Highlight by collaborator: when collaboratively editing an agenda, you might feature the input you added with a different color, so your collaborators can easily see the updates you made.
Highlight by type of information: you can mark certain type of information (e.g. tech instructions) with a specific color.
For instance, in the above example you can see a Note made on the top of the session, where three co-facilitators agreed on the color coding convention, so they can easily oversee who adjusted specific parts in the session plan.
Text colors and formatting can be applied in the Description, Additional Information, Background, Instructions and Goal fields of your session blocks, and are available for all users of SessionLab including those on the free, Basic plan.
How will my highlighted text look on the Word export?
There are some limitations in the Word export, related to the color options that MS Word offers. MS Word only offers a limited set of highlight colors, therefore the highlight colors will not look the exact same as within SessionLab, when you export your session into Word.
Your text colors and highlights will look the same on PDF exports.