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When you apply a theme to your lesson, your lesson automatically acquires a modern, professional appearance with a header, footer, navigation bar and options for sidebars. Designer  
Designer headings and callout boxes will match the style properties you have chosen for the lesson.  

Apply a theme

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  1. Log into your SoftChalk Cloud account.

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2. Open Create Online.

  • Under My Contents>Lessons,

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  • click the Edit (pencil) icon at the right of the lesson title to open an existing lesson in Create Online

  • Click the 'plus' icon at the right of a folder

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  • title to

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  • create a new lesson in that folder using Create Online.

  • Click Create Lesson in Create Online under the Actions menu at the right.

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3. In the toolbar, click on the Properties (gear) icon.

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4. Click on Themes.

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5. There are 15 default Themes available in SoftChalk

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. Select the Theme that you would like from the

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drop-down menu.

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6. Click OK.

7. Then Save and Preview the changes.

Apply a theme using the SoftChalk Create app:

  1. Open a lesson (if a lesson is not open already).
  2. Choose Properties/Lesson Properties.
  3. There are 15 default Themes available in SoftChalk Create 11. Select the Theme that you would like from the dropdown menu.
  4. Click OK.
  5. Then Save and Preview the changes.

Set additional options for your theme.

  • Layout: There are 3 Layout options available: Horizontal, Vertical and Classic.
  • Lesson Title: The Lesson Title and Subtitle appear in the lesson header in a web browser.
  • Footer Text: Choose to display a print all button, allowing your students to print all the images and text on each page of your lesson. Within the Footer Custom Text area you can add an Image, Hyperlink or Widget.
  • Sidebar Layout: Choose the default appearance of the Sidebar and Table of Content options for Sidebar.
  • Navigation: Control whether the top or bottom navigation links are displayed and choose to display the table of contents in the Sidebar.
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The theme will not display in the editing mode of SoftChalk. But if you preview your lesson page in your browser, you will see the theme applied to your lesson page.

Learn about additional Lesson Properties information in the Theme section of the the  SoftChalk Cloud Guide.

Also see FAQs I want to add a title to my lesson. How do I get text to display in the heading area of my lesson page? , How do I add a Table of Contents to my lesson? What are other Sidebar options? , and How do I add a Footer to my SoftChalk lesson? .