Reusing templates and media
Mindsmith provides page templates, lesson templates, and an organization Media Library. Use templates for repeatable learning structures and the Media Library for assets your team needs across multiple lessons.
Page templates
Page templates preserve one page's tile layout and content.
Save a page
Open a lesson and find the page in the filmstrip.
Open the page's More options menu, or right-click its thumbnail.
Select Create Page Template.
Name the template and create it.
Insert or delete a page template
Select New Page and choose a template under Saved Page Templates to insert a new copy after the selected page. To remove a saved template, open the menu on its card and select Delete. Existing pages created from that template are unaffected.
Lesson templates
An organization Admin can make an entire lesson reusable:
Open the lesson's More options menu.
Select Make Template.
The lesson becomes available in the Templates section of the lesson-creation flow. Open the same menu and select Remove Template to return it to a normal lesson. Removing template status does not delete the lesson.
Organization Media Library
Select Media Library in the organization dashboard sidebar to manage shared images, videos, and documents. It accepts the same common resource formats used elsewhere in Mindsmith:
Images: PNG, JPG/JPEG, WebP, GIF, and SVG
Videos: MP4, MOV, and WebM
Documents: PDF, DOC/DOCX, PPT/PPTX, TXT, XLS/XLSX, and CSV
Select Upload or drag files onto the page. Unsupported files are skipped, and an upload progress bar appears while supported files are being added.
Find and organize assets
The library supports:
Grid and list views
Search by asset name
Filters for images, videos, documents, and organization tags
Sorting
Preview, rename, and tag actions on each asset
Multi-select actions for tagging, downloading, or deleting assets
The Download action downloads one asset directly or packages a supported multi-selection as a ZIP file.
Use a library asset in a lesson
When an image, video, or other supported media picker offers Library, select it to browse the organization's assets without leaving the editor. Search or filter the picker, then select an asset to place it in the tile.
Deleting a Media Library entry is permanent; it does not move the asset to the lesson-and-course Trash. Only an organization Admin can delete an asset that is still in use. Deleting it makes the file unavailable in the organization's content and can stop videos, posters, or extracted still images from loading. If the same stored file is also used by content outside the organization, Mindsmith preserves it for that external content.
