Creating lessons

Lessons live on the Lessons page of a space. Only editors of the space (and account owners) can create them.

Click Create new…. A window opens in the middle of the screen and walks you through it. First choose how you want to start:

• Create: build the lesson yourself, from a blank lesson or a template.
• Describe: plan one lesson or a whole series with AI, from a template or just from your goal.
• Upload: add a handbook, presentation or notes and AI turns them into one or more lessons.

← Back returns to this choice. If MiniSlide AI isn't available in your account, the window opens straight on Create.

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Create and Describe offer the same templates on two tabs: By use case and By teaching approach. A click on a template takes you on right away.

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Pick the use case that fits: Onboarding, Product training, Sales & customer care, Communication & leadership, Health & safety, Compliance & security, Procedures & tools, Change & culture, Knowledge check, Reinforcement after training, Feedback & research or Internal news & updates. Each one is built on a proven teaching approach and has its own lesson outline. Each template says what the use case is for and which approach it uses; Learn more opens its page with the full outline and tips. See all of them in Use cases.

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If you already know how the lesson should work, pick a teaching approach directly: Explain a topic, Solve a real problem, Practise decisions, Explore first, Bust myths, Reflect & build a habit, Step-by-step how-to, Tell a story, Review & recall or Ask & listen. Each template says how the lesson flows; Learn more opens the approach's page.

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Choose Blank lesson at the top, or a template below it. MiniSlide creates a lesson called "Untitled lesson" and opens the editor with the lesson settings in the inspector, so you can set up the lesson first. Click a card to edit it. Rename the lesson in the editor header whenever you like.

• Blank lesson starts almost empty.
• With a use case, the lesson starts with its outline: placeholder cards in the right order (for Sales skills, for example, the customer, decisions in the conversation, how to handle objections and a checklist). Each card says what to write on it. Replace the texts and add or remove cards as you need.
• With a teaching approach, the lesson starts with the approach's outline — the cards from the table on its page (for Bust myths, for example, three beliefs, each with a Myth / Fact question and the truth).

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Choose Let AI decide at the top, or a template below it. A chat with MiniSlide AI, the AI assistant for the whole space, opens. Tell AI what you're preparing, attach your materials (a handbook, a presentation, notes) and brainstorm the plan together. AI creates the lessons only when you tell it to, for example by replying "Looks good — create the lessons". See MiniSlide AI.

If you picked a use case, AI asks about your training with it in mind and builds the lessons on its outline. If you picked a teaching approach, AI asks what the training is about and builds every lesson on that approach. With Let AI decide, AI suggests a fitting teaching approach for each lesson in its plan — you can ask for a different one.

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1. Drop your files into the window or click to browse: PDF, Word, PowerPoint, text or images (see Attachments for the limits).
2. Under What should AI make? choose One lesson, A series of lessons or Let AI suggest.
3. Optionally, tell AI more in Anything AI should know? — who the lessons are for, what people should be able to do afterwards, what to leave out.
4. Click Continue with AI. The MiniSlide AI chat opens and your materials go to AI right away.

AI reads the materials and suggests a plan first. As with Describe, lessons are created only when you say so.

New lessons are created in the folder you have open, as drafts.

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• Check it in Preview.
• Set the lesson's status to Published.
• Decide who can take it. New lessons are open only to invited learners.