Units and files

Create the next unit of a course, add files to it, and open decks, documents, PDFs and images.

A unit is one numbered folder in a course: week3, session-2, module1. It holds the unit's deck, optionally an instructor guide, an assets/ folder for images, and its own sources/ folder.

New unit#

New week on the course screen (the label follows the course's unit word) opens this dialog.

• The number defaults to the last unit plus one.
• Topic becomes the deck's title and footer.
• Also create the instructor guide adds weekN-instructor-guide.md, a plan in six 20-minute blocks with facilitation notes, a minimum viable path and an extension.

Create week writes the folder and weekN-slides.md, a Marp deck with a title slide, an agenda, a recap slide for weeks after the first, a two-column concept slide, a summary, a preview of the next week and a closing slide with your contact lines. See Marp decks for what the scaffold contains.

New file#

The + button next to the file picker in the workspace header adds a file to the open unit.

• Type is Markdown (a document with the topic as its heading) or Marp deck (a full deck scaffold).
• File name gets .md added when it is missing.

The file picker#

The workspace header has two pickers: the unit and the file. The file picker lists every file the app knows in the unit, decks first. Files inside assets/ and sources/ are not listed; they are reached through the preview and the sources dialog.

What opens where#

A file with no text editor shows No text editor for this file in the editor panel; use the preview or open it in its own app from there.