Theme Library

How it works

A theme doesn't belong to a content: it lives in your workspace's theme library, and each content uses one of them. Several contents can use the same theme, and then changing the theme changes every content that uses it. Whatever you changed in a specific brick is kept: a brick only stores what you changed in it and takes the rest from the theme.

Two themes in the library can't have the same name (capitalization doesn't matter).

Choose a content's theme

Open the theme editor with the Theme button in the content editor. In the header, the Theme selector shows the themes in the library; the one that new contents use by default is marked “(default)”.

When you pick another theme, the app asks you to confirm (“Change theme”). Only this content changes: the theme you stop using isn't changed or deleted, and whatever you changed in each brick is kept.

Next to the selector, the Theme actions menu offers:

• Rename — changes the theme's name (for every content that uses it).
• Duplicate — creates a copy of the theme, with its files, in the library. If the name is taken, the copy is called “Name (2)”.
• Use a copy only in this content — see below.
• New theme — creates a new theme and this content starts using it.
• Go to “Themes” — opens the library page.

When several contents share a theme

If more than one content uses a theme, the editor shows a fixed notice at the top: “This theme is used by N contents”. Show the contents expands the list (contents in the trash are marked “In the trash”). Theme changes are saved automatically and apply to all those contents.

If you want to change the look of a single content, use Use a copy only in this content (in the Theme actions menu): it duplicates the theme with its files and this content starts using the copy; the others keep the previous theme. Then you can edit the copy without affecting anyone else.

If two people edit the same theme at once and touch the same section, the app warns you (“Someone else changed this theme; their version has been loaded.”) and loads the saved version. If they work on different sections, there is no conflict.

The “Themes” page

Themes, in the sidebar, is the whole library: each theme with its colors, how many contents use it, and the Default tag on the default theme. From each theme's menu you can Edit, Rename, Duplicate, Set as default, Export and Delete.

• New theme — asks for a name and a starting point in Start from: “The default values” or one of the presets (for example, Microlearning, with compact navigation, linear progression and quick content). The preset is only used to create the theme; after that the theme is yours and you change it however you like.
• Import theme — creates a new theme from a .zip or .json file you exported earlier. If the name is taken, it is called “Name (2)”; if you already have an identical theme, nothing is created and you are told which one it is. See Import & Export Themes.
• Edit opens the same theme editor, with the preview of the most recent content that uses it. If no content uses it, the preview tells you it will appear once one does.

The default theme

New contents (courses, microlearning, and those created with instructional design, the matrix or the course generator) start with your workspace's default theme. The first time, one called “Default theme” is created with the product's default values. Microlearning modules start with a theme called “Microlearning”, created the first time it's needed.

To choose another default theme, use Set as default on the Themes page. Only the owner and administrators can do it; existing contents don't change theme.

Anyone who can edit contents in your workspace can create, edit and delete themes.

Delete a theme

A theme that some content uses can't be deleted directly. The dialog tells you how many contents use it (the trash counts) and asks you to choose, in Move its contents to, the theme they move to; then, Change theme and delete. The default theme can't be deleted until you set another one. Deleting a theme doesn't affect the saved versions of contents (snapshots), which keep their own copy.

What happens to the theme when you do other things

• Duplicate a content — the copy uses the same theme as the original, not a new one. If you want to separate them, use Use a copy only in this content on the copy.
• Send a copy or copy a content to another workspace — a theme from another workspace can't be linked, so it travels with the copy. If the destination workspace already has an identical theme (for example, because you received it before), that one is used; otherwise a new one is created with its files, with the same name (and “(2)” if it's already taken). A theme that already existed at the destination is never modified, and the original stays where it was.
• Import a Rise course — a theme called “Rise · course title” is created with the course's colors (if an identical one already exists, it is reused).
• Snapshots — they remember which theme the content used. When you restore a version, the content uses that theme as it is now, not as it was when saved. If that theme was deleted, it is recreated with the name “Name (recuperado)”. See Snapshots.
• AI translation — doesn't touch the theme, neither in place nor with Duplicate and translate. See Translation.

What already published or exported material sees

And MCP

An assistant connected through MCP can do the same with the library: see MCP Server.