# Looking to copy student graph over to another slide not as a sketch background

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**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** sketch\
**Created:** [March 26, 2021, 3:22am UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/looking-to-copy-student-graph-over-to-another-slide-not-as-a-sketch-background/3001 "2021-03-26T03:22:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sarah\_Schott](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/cl.desmos.com/sarah_schott/32/2070_2.png) [@Sarah\_Schott](https://cl.desmos.com/u/Sarah_Schott)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 3:22am UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/looking-to-copy-student-graph-over-to-another-slide-not-as-a-sketch-background/3001/1 "2021-03-26T03:22:20Z")

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Hello, I am pretty new to CL on Desmos. I’m trying to figure out how to ‘call’ a student’s previous graph to another slide. I know that you can do it with a sketch, but the problem is that I want them to be able to click on the graph and see their points. I haven’t figured out how to do this with the sketch method. Any pointers? Thank u 🙂

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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:** [March 26, 2021, 5:21am UTC](https://cl.desmos.com/t/looking-to-copy-student-graph-over-to-another-slide-not-as-a-sketch-background/3001/2 "2021-03-26T05:21:22Z")

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Simplest:

```auto
background: graphLayer(graphName.calculatorState)

```

It won’t carry over labels, and students won’t be able to adjust anything (unless it’s in the current actual graph).

Depending on the complexity of the graph, you can fairly easily define numbers, numberLists and functions in the CL.