You might be itching to start your learning masterpiece, but there’s a few required steps before you dive right into it. This prep ensures that your document uses the right template and formatting for error-free publishing on the Designlab platform.

📚 Contents

What’s in a template?

Most lesson and how-to guides you’ll create follow the same general structure.

Below is the template we use for writing new lessons. It includes:

• Title and content type
• Whether the content covers a new topic, or is an edit of a current lesson/how-to guide
• Total content read time (based on word count)
• Markdown including any headers, body text, lists and links
• Notes and handoff guide
• Images and their captions
• Resources — additional links you’d like to supplement the content with for students. This can include references from your research, third-party information on adjacent topics/concepts, additional video tutorials and so on.

You’ll learn more on how to use Markdown and format your document in the next page. For now, let’s delve deeper into each template section: