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 headings and callout boxes will match the style properties you have chosen for the lesson.
Apply a theme using the Create Online:
- Log into your SoftChalk Cloud account.
- Under My Contents>Lessons, click the 'plus' icon at the right of a folder or lesson title to open a lesson in Create Online.
- Choose the Properties (gear) icon.
- Click on Themes.
- There are 15 default Themes available in SoftChalk Create 11. Select the Theme that you would like from the dropdown menu.
- Click OK.
- Then Save and Preview the changes.
Apply a theme using the SoftChalk Create app:
- Open a lesson (if a lesson is not open already).
- Choose Properties/Lesson Properties.
- There are 15 default Themes available in SoftChalk Create 11. Select the Theme that you would like from the dropdown menu.
- Click OK.
- 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.
Learn about additional Lesson Properties information in the Theme section of the the SoftChalk Cloud Guide.