The lesson editor

The editor shows every card of the lesson as it will look on a phone, in the lesson's theme. You edit text directly on the card. Changes are saved automatically.

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While you edit a lesson, the left menu is collapsed to icons to make room for the cards. Expand it with Expand menu; it collapses again in the next lesson you open.

• Folder path — before the name; click it to go back to the folder. When the full name doesn't fit, only … is shown before it (hover for the full path).
• Lesson name — click to rename (this is the internal name; see Internal name and public title). Hover over it to see who created the lesson.
• Status — Draft, Published or Archived.
• Who is here — when colleagues have the lesson open, their profile photos appear next to the status (see Editing together).
• Ask AI — opens the AI assistant for this lesson. See MiniSlide AI.
• Comments (speech bubble with the number of open threads, shown only when the lesson has open threads; black, or yellow when a comment is waiting for your reply) — opens the Comments tab of the lesson in the inspector, with all threads. See Comments.
• Play (play icon) — go through the lesson as a learner (Preview). Answers aren't saved. It starts on the card you have selected (with the title card or no card selected, from the beginning; with the end card selected, on the last content card). When you start in the middle, the result at the end counts only the questions you answered. To try it on your phone, see Preview on your phone.
• Share (forward arrow icon) — send the lesson to learners. See Sharing lessons.
• ⋯ — QR code, Translate, Duplicate, Results and Delete.
• Show inspector (panel icon) — shown only while the inspector is hidden. See Inspector.

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In the preview, click Open on your phone at the top right and scan the QR code with your phone's camera. The lesson opens on your phone exactly as learners see it — you don't need to sign in there, and it works for drafts and lessons only for invited learners too.

• It starts on the card you previewed from.
• Nothing is recorded: no results, no points, nothing in Learners or Sequences.
• Changed something in the editor? Reload the page on your phone to see it.
• The link works for 24 hours, and only while you have access to the lesson. Anyone with the link can see the lesson including the correct answers, so don't share it with learners — use Share or the QR code in ⋯ for them.

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The inspector on the right shows the settings of what you're working on:

• A card is selected — the settings of that card: image, layout, quiz answers and so on. The header shows a path: Lesson, then the card type with its icon and the card's position, e.g. Quiz 8/14. Click Lesson to go back to the lesson settings.
• No card is selected — Lesson settings. A lesson always opens this way. Click an empty spot next to the cards (or press Esc) to get back here. See Lesson settings.

The inspector has two tabs:

• Settings — all settings of the card or the lesson on one page, always in the same order: what the card says and shows (Content), its Image, how it's laid out (Layout — image placement and height, Text position, Colors), the logo on the title card, then how it works for learners (Required, Make video mandatory, Keep option order, Start screen, Allow taking it again and so on). The bottom of the inspector shows when the card was last saved (Saved 2 s ago).
• Comments — the comments on the selected card, or with no card selected the comments on the lesson and all its cards. The number next to it counts open threads. See Comments.

Each card shows only the settings it has. Settings are grouped into chapters — card settings start with all chapters collapsed — click a chapter's title to expand or collapse it. Chapters you expand stay expanded for all cards. The editor remembers the tab you're on. Labels with a dotted underline explain themselves when you hover over them or move to them with Tab.

When the card's content doesn't fit on the screen, a yellow bar at the top of the card settings says so. On a card with an image on top or at the bottom, Shrink image to … makes the image just small enough for the content to fit; Show brings the card to the middle and highlights the part that doesn't fit.

Content puts everything the card says in one chapter. On text, button and title cards it lets you edit the card's heading and text right in the inspector — the same as clicking them on the card. The text field has its own toolbar: Bold, Italic, Bulleted list, Numbered list and Link (to a website, another card, another lesson, an email address or a phone number); you see the formatting, not the marks. Next to Text you see how many characters it has — in orange with long when the card's content doesn't fit. The switches next to Heading and Text hide that part of the card, the same as Show / Hide heading and Show / Hide text above the card; what you wrote is kept (greyed out), so you can show it again later. The title card always has a title.

On question cards, Content starts with the Question (Task on matching and ordering cards) — the same text as on the card, so you can edit it in either place — followed by what belongs to it: Options or Correct answer (quiz, Yes / No, poll), Pairs and Extra items on the right (matching), Steps in the right order (ordering), the answer box (open answer), the scale (rating) or the items (checklist), and Feedback shown after answering.

To get more room for the cards, hide the inspector with the panel icon at the top of the inspector. To show it again, click Show inspector in the editor header, click a card or press Enter. Your choice is remembered in this browser. MiniSlide AI opens in the same place and covers the inspector; clicking a card or an empty spot brings the inspector back.

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Each card shows its number in the top-right corner. The selected card has a blue border. A yellow warning triangle next to the number means the card's content doesn't fit on the phone screen and learners would have to scroll — shorten the text, make the image smaller or split the card. Click the triangle and AI can fix it for you: Make shorter, or on a text card Split into 2 cards.

• Add a card with the + between cards or at the end, then choose the card type. A lesson can have up to 50 cards.
• Edit text by clicking it. In a heading, Enter starts a new line; press it twice for an empty line. Basic formatting works: **bold**, *italic*, and a line starting with - becomes a bullet. Line breaks show exactly as you type them — each empty line adds one line of space. You can also add links to a website, another card, another lesson, an email address or a phone number.
• Card settings — select a card and its settings appear in the inspector on the right.
• Card toolbar — above the selected card: Improve with AI, Show / Hide heading and Show / Hide text, Comments, Duplicate and Delete (on the end card Passed / Not passed and Play again).
• Answered — under a selected card with an answer (quiz, matching, ordering, poll, form, rate, checklist): tick it to see the card as learners do after answering, with the correct answer and your comments.
• Move a card by dragging it, duplicate it or delete it from the card toolbar. Deleting a card also deletes learners' answers to it.
• Improve with AI — ask the AI to change a single card.

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The bar at the bottom of the editor is a map of the whole lesson. Each card is a small gray box; questions (scored cards) are darker and the selected card is blue. A colleague's profile photo shows the card they have selected while they're editing the lesson, a yellow dot means a new comment on the card is waiting for your reply, and a yellow triangle means the card's content doesn't fit on the screen. The blue frame shows which cards you're looking at right now.

• Click a box to select that card and bring it to the middle of the screen. Hover over a box to see the card's number and title.
• Drag the blue frame to scroll through the cards.
• Scroll with the mouse wheel or the trackpad over the cards or the bar, or use ← / →.

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In the card settings, click Add image in the Image chapter. Images come from Media. The chapter then shows the image with its file name and size — Change picks another one, Remove takes it off the card, and a click on the thumbnail shows its details. Add Alt text describing it for screen readers. If the image is too small (narrower than 720 px) or its shape is very different from the space on the card, a note below it tells you which size fits best.

In Layout, Image placement puts it on top, at the bottom or as a background (hover over an icon to see its name), and Image height sets how much of the card an image on top or at the bottom takes. With a background image you can turn on a dark Overlay and White text so the text stays readable.

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In the card settings, Layout → Text position moves the card's content to the top, the middle or the bottom of the card — click one of the three icons (hover over an icon to see its name). It's available on the title card and on text, quiz, poll, form, rate, checklist and button cards.

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By default the title card uses the theme's title card palette and all other cards use its content card palette. To make a single card stand out, open its settings and choose one of the options next to Colors (in Layout):

• Auto — follows the theme (default).
• Light, Dark or Color — uses that palette of the theme, including its buttons, links and background image.

Every card has the option. On the title card, the choice also applies to the lesson's start and end screens. On a card with a fullscreen background image, the text color still follows the image (White text); the palette sets the buttons and accents. A linked video (YouTube, Vimeo) keeps a dark frame on Auto and gets the palette's background with another choice; an uploaded video fills the whole card, so the palette applies to its buttons and accents.

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Several people can have the same lesson open in the editor at once. Their changes appear in your editor within a second, so you don't need to reload the page.

• Who is here: the header shows the profile photos of everyone who has the lesson open (initials if they have no photo), you first. Hover over a photo to see the person's name and the card they're on, and click it to scroll to that card. With four or more people, click +N to see everyone.
• One person edits at a time: the first person to open the lesson can edit it. Everyone else sees a bar above the cards — "Anna Novak is editing this lesson. You can view it and leave comments." — and the whole lesson is read-only for them: cards, card and lesson settings, the lesson name and status. Ask AI is hidden. The Comments tab works as usual.
• When the lesson becomes free: as soon as the person editing leaves the editor or closes the tab, the next person who has the lesson open can edit it — no need to reload. If the person editing does nothing for 5 minutes (no mouse or keyboard), or the tab stays in the background, the lesson is freed for others too.
• Take over: need to edit right now? Click Take over in the bar and confirm. Your colleague's last edits are still saved, and from then on they see the lesson read-only with the bar showing your name — and can take it back the same way.
• Where they are: in the bar at the bottom, the profile photo of the person editing shows on the card they have selected.
• Their changes: a card a colleague has changed briefly flashes in their color, with a note such as "Anna Novak edited card 3." While they type, you see their changes as they're saved.
• Connection drops: if the live connection to your colleagues drops, the header shows Reconnecting… instead of their photos. Your own changes are still saved. Once it's back, the editor loads any changes your colleagues made in the meantime and checks who is editing.

Viewers appear in the editor too, but they can't change anything.

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Editors of the space and account owners can edit. Viewers see the editor read-only and can still read and write comments.