Lesson settings
Names, status, access, language, theme and scoring of a lesson.
Open a lesson and click an empty spot next to the cards: with no card selected, the inspector on the right shows Lesson settings. All settings are on one page (the Settings tab) in four sections — Name and description, Access, Player and Appearance. Click a section's title to collapse or expand it; MiniSlide remembers your choice. Labels with a dotted underline have a short explanation: hover over them, or move to them with the Tab key.
Changes save automatically: switches and choices right away, text when you pause typing or leave the field. The bottom of the inspector shows when the settings were last saved (Saved 2 s ago). If something can't be saved, a message tells you why. To delete the lesson, use ⋯ in the editor header → Delete.
Name and description
Internal name and public title
- Internal name — what your team calls the lesson in the admin. Short, abbreviations are fine. Learners never see it. Rename it by clicking the name in the editor header.
- Public title — what learners see in the player, on your public page and in invitations. Leave it empty to use the internal name (the empty field shows it in grey).
- Short description — learners see it in their list of lessons and in the library. The counter next to the label shows its length; keep it under 160 characters so it fits.
Status
Change the status in the editor header, or for many lessons at once from the Lessons page.
- Draft — visible to the team only.
- Published — available to learners.
- Archived — unavailable to learners; kept with its results.
Access
- Who can take it — whether the lesson works without a personal invitation: Assigned learners, Verified email, Name and email or Anyone with the link. A short line under the choice says what it means. See Who can take a lesson.
- Show in learner library — every learner sees the lesson in the Library section of their My overview page and can take it whenever they like, without a deadline or reminders. See Learner library. Duplicate, Translate and Copy to account create copies outside the library.
Reminders
A lesson has no deadline of its own — you set the deadline when you send it, in Share or in a sequence.
- Completion reminders — on by default. Learners who haven't finished the lesson get your account's reminders. Turn it off for optional lessons. Lessons with a deadline are always reminded.
Duplicate, Translate and Copy to account keep this setting.
Player
Scoring
- Pass mark — the score a learner needs to pass (default 80 %). The score comes from quiz, matching and ordering cards; next to the field you see how many of these questions the lesson has.
- Shuffle answer options — quiz options appear in a different order for each attempt (except questions with Keep option order).
- Show progress bar — the card number and progress bar at the top. When hidden, learners only see the back and exit buttons.
Lesson language
The language the lesson is written in (the Language row). Buttons and messages in the player ("Continue", "Submit"…) are in this language too, unless a learner has their own language set. Changing it doesn't translate the cards — use Translate for that. The lesson language also decides which lessons can go into a sequence.
Appearance
Theme
The colors and fonts of the lesson. The Theme field shows the theme the lesson uses: three dots in the colors of its Light, Dark and Color palettes and its name (Default when the lesson uses the account default). Click the field to open the list of themes: click a theme under Team themes or Presets to apply it right away, or create a New theme; Undo puts the previous one back. Use the account default removes the lesson's own theme. See Themes and fonts.
Heading font and Text font
By default the lesson uses the fonts of its theme (Theme font). To use other fonts in this lesson only, click Heading font or Text font and pick any Google font or the System font; the weight is at the top of the font list. The lesson's own fonts take priority over the theme's fonts, even when you change the theme later. Pick Theme font to go back to the theme's font. The cards in the editor show the change right away.
Lesson length
You don't enter how long a lesson takes — MiniSlide estimates it from the cards: the text learners read (about 200 words per minute) plus a little time for each answer, and about a minute for each video. The estimate is rounded to whole minutes and updates as you edit the cards. Learners see it in the lesson list and on My overview, and you can use it in invitations as {course_minutes}.