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. Page templates are shared with everyone in your organization.
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, then choose a template under Saved page templates. A new copy of it is added after the selected page.
To remove a saved template, open the menu on its card and select Delete. Pages already created from that template don't change.
Lesson templates
An organization Admin can make an entire lesson reusable:
Open the lesson's More options menu.
Select Make Template.
It then shows up under Organization templates in the Templates section when you create a new lesson, next to Mindsmith templates. When you pick a template, choose how to use it:
Duplicate: makes an exact copy of the template that you can edit.
Reference: AI builds a new lesson modeled on the template.
To turn a template back into a normal lesson, open the same menu and select Remove as Template. This doesn't delete the lesson.
Organization Media Library
Select Media Library in the organization dashboard sidebar to manage shared images, videos and documents. Supported formats:
Images: PNG, JPG/JPEG, WebP, GIF and SVG (30 MB or smaller)
Videos: MP4, MOV and WebM
Documents: PDF, DOC/DOCX, PPT/PPTX, TXT, MD, XLS/XLSX, CSV and VTT
Select Upload or drag files onto the page. Files go into the folder you have open. Unsupported files are skipped, and a progress bar shows while files upload.
Organize assets with folders
Folders keep large libraries manageable.
Select New folder to create one. Folders can be nested up to three levels deep.
Use Move to to move files or folders to another folder.
Rename a folder from its actions menu. You can only delete a folder when it's empty.
Find and organize assets
The library supports:
Grid and list views
Search by asset name or description
Filters for images, videos, documents and organization tags
Sorting by Newest, Oldest, Name A–Z or Largest
Preview, rename, tag and edit-description actions on each asset
Selecting several assets at once to tag, move, download or delete them
Download saves a single asset directly. If you select several, they download as one ZIP file.
Use a library asset in a lesson
When an image, video or other media picker shows a Library tab, select it to browse your organization's assets without leaving the editor. Open folders, search or filter, then select an asset to place it in the tile.
Delete assets
Deleting a Media Library asset is permanent. It doesn't go to the Trash used for lessons and courses.
Before you confirm, Mindsmith shows which lessons and courses use the asset. Only an organization Admin can delete an asset that's still in use. Once it's deleted, the file is no longer available in that content. Videos stop playing, and any poster or still image taken from them stops loading.
If content outside your organization also uses the same file, Mindsmith keeps the file for that content.