# Copying student sketch from one slie slide to the next

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**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** sketch\
**Created:** [January 8, 2021, 2:48am UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/copying-student-sketch-from-one-slie-slide-to-the-next/2335 "2021-01-08T02:48:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Katrina\_Mancuso](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/cl.desmos.com/katrina_mancuso/32/1892_2.png) [@Katrina\_Mancuso](https://cl.desmos.com/u/Katrina_Mancuso)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 2:48am UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/copying-student-sketch-from-one-slie-slide-to-the-next/2335/1 "2021-01-08T02:48:02Z")

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I want the students to create a sketch and on the next slide see their sketch and be able to add to it.

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**Author:** ![Daniel\_Grubbs](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/cl.desmos.com/daniel_grubbs/32/719_2.png) [@Daniel\_Grubbs](https://cl.desmos.com/u/Daniel_Grubbs)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 4:38am UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/copying-student-sketch-from-one-slie-slide-to-the-next/2335/2 "2021-01-08T04:38:39Z")

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Something like this:  
`background: sketchLayer(sketch1.sketch)`

For more than one sketch:  
`background: sketchLayer(mergeSketches(sketch1.sketch,sketch2.sketch))`

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**Author:** ![JSelvaag](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/cl.desmos.com/jselvaag/32/3088_2.png) [@JSelvaag](https://cl.desmos.com/u/JSelvaag)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2021, 4:23am UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/copying-student-sketch-from-one-slie-slide-to-the-next/2335/3 "2021-10-09T04:23:20Z")

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I use background: sketchLayer(sketch1.sketch) often to carry over student work, but it only carries over the drawing and not any text that students type in. If I want students to add typed values on a sketch, how can I get that to carry over to the next screen?