Workbooks 101: Create an amazing workbook for your students

1. Introduction: Welcome to workbooks one-o-one. In this class, you are going to learn how to design teaching materials that are more than teaching materials. We are going to learn how to turn them into exciting experiences for our students. And you'll then use this knowledge to create your own workbook for your students as a class project. Hi, I'm Veronika and I'm a brand strategist and designer for coaches and independent teachers who run their own businesses. And I have designed thousands of pages of learning and teaching materials, workbooks, planners, checklists, worksheets and anything that you can imagine for my clients and my clients' clients. And in this class, I would like to share with you what I have learned along the way. This class is perfect for teachers, coaches, experts, and anyone who can benefit from learning how to design amazing teaching materials for their students and clients. So I really hope you will join us. 2. Your project: Welcome Inside. I'm so excited that you are here. Now let's talk about your class project. You are going to create your own printable one book for your students. So the topic is totally up to you. I just want you to choose something that you are really passionate about, curious about. Because that's where we, teachers and coaches tend to start over-delivering theory and information because VR is so excited, so full of it and we want to share it. Which is not really the point. I'm teaching and developing teaching materials. So I want you to choose a topic you are passionate about. And then turn it into a simple, simple, actionable, printable one book for your students. Now, the workbook should be five to ten pages and include at least three activities and at least one multimedia alignment. So this will be your audio message, video message, a short audio or a video lesson embedded in the workbook. And the final product will be a PDF to upload into the project gallery together with a short information, please tell us, why have you chosen this topic and who is it for? And I can't wait to see what you've all come up with. So let's get started creating the workbook. 3. Workbook workflow: Before we get started, I'd like to give you a quick overview of my workbook workflow. So my process of developing a workbook has the pilots and so does this class. So the idea is to separate the process into three different parts, and each part, you will have a different role. So in the first part, when we talk about teaching strategy, you will think like a teacher or an expert. And your task will be to write the word loop breve, which is what you can already do now, this is simply the main topic of your workbook and a working title. And you don't need to know any details this stage. And then I will ask you to answer a few strategic questions and I will give you the exact questions and talk about this more later. And in the first part of the class, we will also talk a little bit more about the philosophy behind creating great teaching materials, like turning them into experiences, holding space for your students, things like that. And I would also like to give you some example activities to get your creative juices flowing before we get to the second part, which is content creation. So here is where you well be a teacher and a writer and you will, shall we put together the content of the workbook using my six-step process. And then you will finally be ready to design the workbook. In case of this class, we are going to be designing it using free tools. Okay, so let's get started talking about the teaching strategy and how to turn teaching materials or learning materials into experiences. 4. Turn learning materials into experiences: Now, how do you turn teaching materials into experiences? I have a few tips for you here. And my most important tip that I will keep repeating throughout the whole class is making it about your student, not about you. So this includes holding space for your students as opposed to holding them by the hand and over-delivering theory. And we'll talk more about this later. Don't worry. This also means making it super easy for your students to use. Is it to download, easy to print out, and easy to actually use the word book. This also means making sure that the workbook is actionable, that it's not about theory, it's about taking action. And in the following lesson, I will share with you the magical aggression that will help you make this happen. And finally, I have talked about making the workbook about your student, not about you, but to help them learn from the workbook and experience the workbook in the right way. You need to build trust with them and show them your personal idea so that they can connect with you. So this may look like including things like audio or video lessons so that people can actually see you and hear your voice, but also writing in your own voice inside the workbook. Talking like human note, like a boring professor. So in summary, make it about your student not about to you. And to note about the subject you teach as such, focus on who your ideal student and make its person. This is what separates the kinds of teaching materials that we are creating here from traditional classroom materials that we all have to deal with whenever you are a students. Okay, so now let's talk about how to set yourself up for a success with some smart questions that you should answer before you start developing the word book. 5. Set yourself up for success: So before you start creating the warm book, here are some important questions I want you to answer first. And please take the time to actually answer them, to write down your answers into our workbook or the worksheet that you will find in the class resources. So the first question is about the premise of the Wallenberg. Why are you creating it? What's the benefit for you or your business, or you're teaching? Why do you want to create the workbook? And also, is it a stand alone thing or is it a part of a bigger context like your online class or your lessons or your coaching sessions. This will help you design the workbook in the right way. Second question, really, really important is about your ideal student. And here I want you to think about a specific person. Think about how old they are, what gender they are, how are they going to use the warm water? And why was their motivation? What's in the workbook for them and where and how they are going to use it. And also, I want you to think about what they need from you other than information and to have some suggestions and prompts in the worksheet. And third question really important is the following one. What is one thing you want your ideal student to be able to do once they finish their workbook. So this is the magical question that will help you keep the workbook simple and actionable. Because notice that I'm asking, what do you want them to be able to do? No, to do one of them to know. So this will really help you to take the focus from what you as an expert know and want to share to whatever a student actually needs from you. And we are just focusing on one thing, one thing you want them to be able to do. So this will help you narrow down your focus and keep things sweet and simple. 6. Workbook anatomy: In this lesson, I'd like to talk about what a book anatomy, what belongs into a modern printable workbook to make it look professional and pretty and may make it work for your students or clients. So let's take our org is the cover page, the copyright page TOC, which stands for table of contents. Then we have instructions or a welcome note, text areas, activities and external resources, and an outer. Let's talk about each in more detail. The color page is the first page of the file of the workbook, and it consists of the name of the Wallenberg, probably a subhead to give people more information. And the name of the author. Typically. And the point of the cover page is to help people get motivated and get excited and learn about the value of the workbook, what's in it for them. That's why it's really important to make this look exciting and inviting. And we will talk about this more when we talk about designing the one book. The second page, this is more boring, but it's necessary is the copyright page. And you need this in case you are using your workbook for commercial purposes. It's very important to include the copyright node and to set your boundaries around who and how can they use and share the workbook. Then we have the table of contents. I think this is especially important if you're a workbook, it's longer. If you have more sections to help people navigate through the workbook, you don't need this for. Smaller, simpler workbooks were to definitely need is a page of instructions or a welcome anode. This is really important because here you explain how people are supposed to use the word book. And you also humanize the whole experience by showing your own personality. And I think it's a good idea to maybe not do this by only using text. But you can also include welcome video or welcome audio message. Then we have the body of the workbook, which consists of text areas, activities, and external resources. So a text area is simply that includes text. Usually we have a little bit of theory, but we always want to make sure that because it's a work book that most of it is activities, not theory. I would say 60, 70 probably, in my case is usually more than 90 percent of the workbook is activities because I wanted to make sure that the students are the clients are a dual hands who are doing the work? No, to me. So we will talk about developing activities later. And we also have external resources. So these are links to video content, audio content, anything external that people can find online. And we'll also talk about how to include this in the most accessible and the easiest way. Finally, we have an outro. Here's really need something at the end of the book. Now this again depends on the purpose of your workbook. So this might be your bio, it might be some further resources or a call to action. And I think it's always good to include a call to action at the end of the word book to tell people what their next step is, what they should do next after they finished that workbook. 7. Hold space for your students: In this lesson, I'd like to talk about the most important idea here. And that is the idea of holding space for your students as opposed to holding them by the hand. Now, this may sound like a very abstract conserved for teaching. But what I love about Warren books and teaching materials is that we can literally see it on the page. We can see how much of the content is our words, our theory, and how much of it is whitespace that really for our clients to use and to fill in with their ideas, their dreams, their skills, their mistakes, whatever hubs them, move forward and to learn. So a warm book isn't about what we experience wanted to share with our clients. It's about our clients because at the end of the day, they are the heroes of their stories. And that we are just there to inspire them and to show them what they are capable of. And from my perspective, this is the whole point of teaching and coaching and creating better lessons, better coaching sessions and better learning materials, which is what we are doing here. So in the following lesson, I would like to show you some examples and give you some tips on developing activities that help you hold space for your clients and students. So let's take a look. 8. Activities: Ideas and examples: Before you start brainstorming ideas and activities for your own workbook, I'd like to give you a few examples of creative activities. So this is not one of them. This is just to show you something that we all remember from our school wearing books. And this is to provide practice to what we are learning. This kind of activity might have its place in your workbook. But I also believe that we teachers can so much more for Arab students than just providing information and practice. So let's take a look at some other kinds of activities. Questions are really important. So you can include reflection questions. You can include some questions that help people think strategically about what they are doing and why. This is an example from my Instagram workbook. Or you can help people take notes and stay focused on what they are learning. This is an example of a note-taking sheet. So in case your workbook is Part of all, let's say a webinar or a life event, or an online class, or an audio cores. You can include note-taking sheets. You can also help people set the right intentions for learning and then reflect on their learning. These are other kinds of questions. This is my very favorite example, is an example of a vision board. And as you can see, it's basically just a blank page. But what I love about this is that with 0, work on your part, you can provide a lot of value for your student because you can help them visualize their future self, which will have them stay motivated, wire learning and giving people permission to dream about their future. It has a lot of value. So this is another form of the same idea. Making people write a letter from for their future self, again, can have them stay motivated. Speaking of motivation, I really like including quotes in my workbooks. So these are not really activities, but what they do is that people can take them out of the context of the word book and keep them somewhere where they can see it as a reminder of the work we are doing together. So when you have something like this, you can infect frame and pin it to your wall or cubing workbook. And these literary took me like three seconds to make because I have these quotes in Canberra. So real area is simple idea. And this is another idea. Speaking of taking parts of the workbook and using outside of the workbook, you can also create things like bookmarks. So people can always have a reminder of the thing they are learning together with you. You can also create things like blank checklist. This is another form of checklist from one of my workbooks, and that includes 120 writing prompts. So this helps people keep track of their progress. Another thing really simple that you can include, but it has a lot of value, is a habit tracker that helps people keep track of the habits of their learning habits or whatever you are doing together. People also need learning structure. So it's a good idea to create a learning plan template or an actual learning plan. I think you will agree with me that coaching questions are often great, great value for our students because they have them set the right goals in this example or said the right intentions. Again, this is of great value, very helpful for people. You can also help them plan by including just blank planners. Is it to do? And you can have them stereo reverbs stay focused by including things like coloring pages. So this is from a totally different contexts, but people really loved these and we will talk more, coloring bridges, the clouds because I really love including them. Another thing that I like, our relaxation activities, like guided meditations, breathing exercises. So in this case, it's a link to an audio that and help you meditate and relax as you are learning. Another type of value that you can provide is making learning more fun. And one of the ways to do this is to take something from a totally different context. So in this case, I took an employment agreement template that I found online, but used it in self-care Born book for self-employed people. So these are people who don't have an employment agreement, but anything that they need to learn for themselves to set the boundaries. So I want you to think about what other thing from a different context and then the thing you teach, you can use in your workbook to make it more fun. For example, I've seen people using recipes in language learning. We're book. So this is just to give you an idea to get really creative and think about what else other than information and practice you can provide to your students. 9. Multimedia: Ideas and examples: In our workbook, we are going to be including multimedia. So this is any content that lives outside of the world MOOC somewhere online. It might be articles for the reading, tools, recommendations. It might be video lessons. Are there lessons, tutorials, video messages, audio messages, anything like that, anything that helps you deliver the content from the workbook in a different form or go deeper and give your paper something extra. Now, IRLS command that you include at least one multimedia, ulama and Larry, people can hear your voice or a C or a phase. So this may be an audio lesson and video lesson and audio message or a video message. And this is especially important if the world work is for people who don't work with you personally, who don't know you. So these are not your one-on-one clients or your classroom of students. But let's say you are creating an online course or workbook to sell on your website or a freebie, anything like that. It's really a good idea to show your personality and to show yourself to help people connect with you on a personal level. 10. Workbook content: The 6-step process: Now let me show you my six step process of developing the workbook content that helps me put together a workbook here fast. First, I brainstorm ideas, then I reduce and simplify them. Then I organized them. Then I choose activities and multimedia for each of the main ideas, each of these sections. Then I write a detailed outline for my workbook. And finally, I tried everything into a text document. And if I need, I also record my audio and video. So this is what happens before I actually start designing the workbook. And I would like to show you how exactly I do this. 11. Brainstorm: Now at this point, I'm sure you're a head is already full of ideas and I want you to get them out of your head. And on a paper or a whiteboard or a digital tool, whatever you love using for brainstorming. So please set a timer for 10 minutes and give yourself permission to really get creative here. And without filtering them, just put them out on the paper. Good or bad ideas. It doesn't matter at this point. We will sort them out later. 12. Reduce and simplify: As a second step, once you have your ideas, I want you to go back to your answers to the questions about the purpose of the workbook and your ideal client and the outcome. And use your answers to reduce your ideas only to those that actually make sense, that make your idea client do the thing you want them to do. So remove everything that doesn't fit, and just keep your best ideas. And we will organize them in the next step. 13. Organize: Okay, now we have our ideas and we need to organize them into a logical order. So I want you to think again about your ideal student and whether they are now, what they already know about the topic and where they want to be. And this will help you organize your content into journey. Your main goal from the simplest ideas, concept, activities to the most complex ones. Or you can mix them up if it makes sense for your subject. So if you, for example, have some activities that require some deeper thinking, some hard work, you may mix them up with some relaxing exercises. So think about how you can take your student on a journey throughout the workbook. 14. Add activities and multimedia: So we have already talked a lot about the activities and multimedia that you can include in your workbook. So now it's time to make sure that most of your workbook is activities is not you talking. So think again about the ideas and the journey that you already have and make sure that for each part there are enough activities and then spice it up with multimedia. So what you may include our audio, VMS, Video us, and like I said before, it's always good to show yourself. Or you may find other people's content that goes deeper into some of the concepts and give people some further resources, videos to watch or something else to read. So now it's time to think strategically about which activities and multimedia to include for each of the parts. 15. Create an outline: Now that you have all your ideas, activities, multimedia, and everything you want to include in your workbook. I want you to write a detailed outline of your workbook. So please and give the workbook and name and write down all the parts that you want to include, including the technical parts here are the copyright page, your bio than the exact chapters and activities. You may do some sketches to help yourself visualize the whole workbook. And don't forget about the outer. So now it's time to put it on the paper and have a detailed outline of your future workbook. 16. Write the content: Now this step is super important. I can't stress this enough. Once you know what you want to include in your workbook, please resist the urge to start designing and putting the workbook together right away. The reason is you keep switching the heads between being a teacher and a writer and a designer. It is very exhausting and it takes a lot of time. So the point here is to separate different parts of the process. You have oriented, done the teacher's job when you developed the activities and the learning journey. Now, you do the writer's job when you will write everything down word by word as it will appear in the workbook, including care of bio, the copyright page, your outro, everything you want to be in the workbook needs to be in a text document before you actually start designing. So that then when you switch their heads again and to become the Workbook Designer, you will just copy and paste the text and you, you will not have to think about how to put things into words. So let's get to writing now and next, we will finally get into designing the workbook. 17. Workbook design: Printing considerations: I want to make this one thing really clear. If you make it hard for people to print out your workbook, it doesn't matter how beautiful it is or how good the content is because they are, I'm going to use it. So this is what we are going to talk about in this lesson when designing anything printable, whether it's a workbook, worksheet, a checklist, a planner, anything that people need to print out at home to be able to use it. There are some things that you need to take into consideration when designing this thing. So let's talk about these in more detail. For the size of the paper, this is really easy because you basically only have two options and that's a four or a US latter. These are the default options for most people in the world. The easiest ones to print out at home. There is not much of a difference here. So if you have international students, if you hit online courses and you have students all around the world, you don't need to overthink this because even if you create an A4 of World Book, people in the USA will be able to print it out, especially if you stick to the other rows. So just choose A4 or US letter. You can do vertical, you can do horizontal. You just don't want to do an A5 or a square format or something crazy like that. Now as for the length of the word work, I would say that 20 pages is plenty. The thing is that most people wanted to save paper and they want to save the ink. So this really depends on your topic. So 20 pages may not be enough for you. I know that this depends, but I just want you to think about how to make the workbook shorter because less pages is always better. As for the colors, colors is better too. So just keep it simple. Keep it mostly black and white and don't make people print out a lot of color. If you want to add color, you can add some small colorful elements here and there. Maybe make the headings and different color. But just be aware of the fact that when you have colors in the workbook, many people when will end up printing it out in grayscale anyway, because they want to save the color of ink. So keep this in mind and don't rely on color when designing your workbook. What you can do is something like I did here. I like including coloring pages in my world works because then people can add their own colors without having to print out color heavy images. So this is a trick that you can steal from me if it makes sense for your students and your brand. Now as for the background, the rule of thumb here is just keep the background white. The reason is that if you do something like this and you put a photo or even a solid color in the background, it will be a pain to print out at home. It will be expensive and it won't look good anyway. People just want done to want to do this. They don't want to print this out. So just keep the background white. As for the images, I would stick to real simple outline black and white images, which are really easy to print out. If you do need some of photos or I didn't know paintings in your workbook as prompts or as a reference. If they have some purpose. What do you can always do is include links to these images so people can check them out online on their devices and they don't need to print them out. And now finally, let's talk about margins. This is the most common mistake that I see everywhere. In case you are insurer margins are these spaces in between the edge of the page and the actual content. Now, the problem is that if you don't have enough space here, some people can run into difficulties when trying to print this out. They may lose some of the content, or they may just find it hard to print this out. So to be safe, have at least one centimeter here without any important content. And I would say without any content at all, just keep it clean and white. People were worried, I appreciate this. 18. Brand your workbook: Now I know that branding your workbook, my seem really scary, big concept, but we will keep things really simple and intuitive here. So my most important branding tip is always think about your ideas to them, is it is the same in other lessons, but I really want you to think about them and where and how they are going to use your workbook. So if your ideas to them is, let's say a manager who wants to use it honors work commute. The workbook will look very different from a workbook for a mom entrepreneur who will use it at home. So just really imagine your idea student and then use your intuition to choose the colors, fonts, and images. Speaking of colors, I don't really recommend using a lot of colors for a printable workbooks. But if you do want to use colors, use a ready-made color palette to make things simpler for you and go for a 35 colors. I will show you how to find color palettes in Canada. As far as the font. I would say stick to just one font here. It will make your workbook looks so much cleaner and better. So if you are going to design the workbook in Canada and Google slides with me, as I will show you in my tutorial, you'll want to choose a font that is available both in Canvas and Google slides. So I will give you some suggestions in the resource Section 2, this class. And as far as the fonts, don't forget that you want to use the same font, not just for the text, but also the cover and page for this patient numbers and everywhere. And finally, we have talked about the images for the Wallenberg. In the tutorial, I will show you how to find print friendly images. But I also want you to think about the style of the images that you want to use and stick to one style throughout your whole workbook. So on the cover and decorative elements, you want the images to look consistent. And again, I will show you how to find images by the same author in Canada out so that you always use the same style. So in a summary thing about your ideal student and be consistent. And just these two rules will help you make the workbook look so much better. Probably better than 92 percent of what you can find online. 19. Design the workbook using free tools: In the following part of this class, I'm going to show you how to put together the workbook using free tools, Canva and Google slides. Now, you don't have to follow this, you don't have to use Canva and Google Slides. The same rules apply even if you do have a professional software, such as InDesign or Affinity Publisher, can use everything that you have learned so far and use it in a professional software. And in fact, if you are serious about one books, if you want to solve them or create them for your clients, I really recommend that you invest in professional software. But because of this class is for a non designers, for people who just want to create a workbook for their students. I will show you a bit of a workaround that I have developed for my clients who also are teachers and coaches. They don't have the time to invest in learning InDesign or Affinity Publisher. They just need to be able to design and Goldberg in a simple way. And when they often do is that they use just Canva. And now Canada isn't a good tool for workbooks or anything that has pages. So what we will do is that we will use Canvas just as a supporting tool together with Google Slides. Because in kind of our pagination is really messy. Things like lines. It's really difficult to make them look clean. So we will do all of these things in Google Slides and only use for our cover and to add some backgrounds to the World Book to make it look more exciting. Instead of Google Slides, you can, of course use PowerPoint or other presentation software. Okay, so let's get started designing the workbook. 20. Create your master files: So because we are going to be using, at least for some of our pages in the workbook. The first thing I want to do is create my document in camera. So if you don't have your account, go to canva.com and create a free account. And then you want to search for an A4 document or a US letter document if that's what you want to do. The right dimensions are all our editor here. But if you don't see it here, you can always search for your format in the search bar, or you can click Custom Size and put the dimensions here. So I already have a four here. That's what I wanted to do. So I will simply click it. And I have a new document. And now I also need my master file in Google slides. So let me go to Google Slides. When you type slides, dad knew into the search bar of your search and chin and click Enter, it will open a new blank presentation are for you. So this is what you can do, but you also need to change the size of the page. So you do this by going to File Page Setup. And here choose Custom. And I want to do a four which is 2.7129. Apply. And now I have an A4 page here. 21. Design the cover: So for the cover of the workbook, I would definitely use camera as opposed to Google Slides, but it would, I wouldn't do is using their templates, at least not the default ones here for my format, which is a four, what I like to do is getting a little bit more creative and think about something else that I can use as a template. So for a, for a workbook, a good term plant may be magazine cover, a template, so I will see what they have here. I think that a magazine cover looks really luxurious through the exciting, which is what I'm after. So I can use one of their templates here. I kind of like this one. Now, I would obviously need to change the fonts to my chosen forms. And two, and also change the image here. Now, speaking of this image, I know I said before that you shouldn't use photos or a color heavy images inside your workbook. But I would say Then the cover of the workbook is an exception because we're related, trying to make this look exciting in our mockups or social media or wherever we are showing this to our students and trying to make them excited about owning into using this workbook. So if you do want to use photos or images on your cover, you totally can. When it comes down to it, people don't need to print out the cover. So this is my thinking behind that is I can use a photo on the cover if I alike and tell them in the instructions that they don't need to print out the cover. Now, in my case and in my experience, kind of up templates typically make my life harder, not easier, is hard for me to make them look the way I lie. That's why I'm not using templates for this, but I will try to use some of Canada's elements and come up with minimalist award book cover. So I will just remove this one. And I already have my idea. I want to use a black and white outline image on my cover. So I'll also leverage for outlined. And here I have the images and I kind of like this one. Now again, this depends on your brand and your target users. So don't choose the first image that you see. Really think about your topic and how it all goes together. That I have my dragonfly and now I can add my heading and premium blade subhead and my name and make it work together. Now, obviously I wouldn't need to change this font to my chosen font. But one thing I wanted to show you in Canvas is that if you like an image, you can click on it and go to Info and view more by the same author. And now you have a whole bank of images that are in the same style that you like. And you can use them as decorative elements inside the word book. Or you can even replace the first image with something else if you find something better. So this is an idea. Now, if you want to use colors, again, what you can do is to search for a term, something that you like, like, I didn't hell, just randomly choose flowers and see what I lie, I will remove this one. And the good thing here is that if you find something that you like, you will have the color palette. So if you do want to use colors in your workbook, you can still have some ready-made color palette from Canada as well. 22. Add backgrounds: Now once you have your cover, it means that you have decided on the type of images that you are using. And you can use this to add some backgrounds to your workbook. Now we are keeping the background mostly white, but we can add few decorative elements here and there in the corners of the world book, dew point is that the workbook will be less boring. There'll be some elements in the corners or in the center of the page. Some really simple ones that are easier to print out, but the page isn't Charles was, let's say a prompt and lines. Okay, so what we can do here is choose something that we lie. And we can put it in the corners of the page while keeping the margins clean. Now, you can see in that, I see the margins here in Canva. And the way you do this is going by going to files and your margins. So this is really cool because Canva can help us keep the margins clean and white. So we can put the elements in the corners on the page. And then when we add text here, we will have these decorative elements here. Or another thing we can do is putting them in the center of the page and then making them transparent. Now what I'm going to do is download these pages, not as PDF, but as PNGs. So this is page 4. And I also want to show you this one, page two. So again, PNG, page 2 and download. Now I will go to my slides and show you how to add them to the background. The easiest way. So simply go to background and choose image. And here you can upload the image. And two, you're down. And you have the image here with the right margins. And no matter what we are doing with the content here, it will stay in its place. So again, I will add a page at Ben ground down and I have this here and I can keep adding text or lines here. And the image in the background who won't move. 23. Add text and images: So again, the texts to Google Slides is as easy as copy and pasting it. But you want to check a few things and one of them is again, the margins. So you can see that the margin is really, really small here. So I would go to Slide, edit a theme. And here you can edit the margin. I said I wanted at least one centimeter on each side. So I will do this. Okay? And this ensures that it changes everywhere. So an angle here and I click Enter to create a new slide. It will already have the margins I need. And a good thing about Google Slides is also that you can rearrange this as you want. Now. Like I said, to add the text, you can simply copied from Google Docs or wherever you have it and pasted here. Now, you want to make sure that it's in the right font and in their head size. Because Google Slides sometimes changes the sizes of the fonts. So you always want to double-check. And I also wanted to add my head in here. So I'm pasting in here. And my font was this. And I want to make it bigger and I want to center it. And now maybe I can move this. Okay, and you can see that the background didn't change because it's actually in the background, is not, it is not paste it as an image. If you want to paste an image, you would go to Insert Image and uploaded from somewhere. So I will put a QR code here. We will talk about QR codes lighter. And now I can put it anywhere. Okay, so this doesn't War. I will make it left again. Okay, now it works. So you can see that you can move with this image that was inserted in this way. You cannot move with the background. And that's the whole point of inserting the background as background. Now let's talk about inserting lines and boxes the right way. 24. Add lines and boxes: One of the reasons we are using Google Slides is that it's much easier to add good-looking lines into your document here. And you don't need to be using Google Slides to do it this way. This works in any text document such as Google Docs or Microsoft Word, things like that. So I think you'll find this really handy whenever you need to design lines in a nice way, in a carnival way. So let's say we have our question here. And we want to add some lines. We don't want to just leave this white, although we can. But the way I do it is I insert a table. I only need one column and I want, let's say seven lines. So here you can see is a normal table. I maybe can drag it. So it's closer to the question. And let me just zoom in so I can show you what I do next. So I will select all the lines and click this little arrow here. Because I want to get rid of the left and the right border. So I click this and make this border transparent and do the same for this one. And probably also get rid of the top border, again, transparent. Now I want to make the inner borders build lie. And I also have the bottom border here that I want to keep and to make it black. And other thing that you can do is change the border right here, or change the border dash. I will just keep it at one pixel and a simple border because again, I'm trying to make this as simple as possible. Now. When I want to insert at Boggs, I would do it probably the same way in a table, just one cell and now I can play with it and again, change the border color, weight, and everything. So this is how you can add a really clean and nice lines and boxes into your document, not just in Google Slides but anywhere. 25. Make links and multimedia easily accessible: Now let's say I have my multimedia element. I have created assured welcome video using Loom, which is a free tool you can use to record yourself or your screen. And I want people to access it through my printable workbook. So if this was digital file, I would simply do something like this. I mentioned this video and here is the link and people can click this and excellent in the video. Now, obviously, once pupil print this out, they aren't able to click this. And you may be thinking, why am I even mentioning this, but I'm talking about this because I have seen people doing this too many times to count that they include something like this, like the lines they want people to write into. And then they, they include a link this way. Okay, So I think the only reason is that they didn't actually take the time to think about how their student is going to use the workbook. So what do you want to do here is to give people the URL. They can type on their devices to find the video or the resource. Now, if I include the actual Lane who can't see that this again doesn't work because no one wants to type this and I would say, it's impossible to get this right. So what you can do is to use Three link shortener like Bitly.com. So when you go to this address, you can create a free account and you can create a free link. So you would enter your long, ugly, who are L? Create a link. And here you can change it to something. One book, one on one. Welcome. Let's see if it's taken. Okay, it's not taken. So from now on, we can use this link in our workbook. Now, again, people don't really need this because even if they just on lead time this then we'll be able to find the video. Okay, these technical things are there by default and people don't need to type them to be able to access the thing and they make the one book look a little bit more messy, then needs to be. So I would just go with this. And then we can also add a QR code. So bitly again, allows you to create a QR code, but it's actually a paid feature. So we are going to use a different tool to do this. And did tool is called QR Code Monkey is totally free. And here is where you can add your alchemy along URL. You can change the colors and dove and offensive things like that. But you don't have to create the QR code and downloaded as a PNG. And then once you download it, you can simply inserted into your document as an image. So an a goal bag here. Here we have our QR code, which leads to the same address that we have here and here. Okay? So in any case, I would probably, even if I would use a QR code, I would still include the traditional old-school others. I mean, I mean this one, because the QR code may not work for some reason or some people may not be sure how to use it. So QR codes are really quick, really simple for people to use, but always have a backup plan for them and include the traditional URL that they can type in. 26. Add page numbers and footers: It might be a really good idea to include the name of the workbook or your name and the page numbers in the footer of your workbook? There isn't. Is that when you imagine how people are using your workbook, they have the sheets of paper everywhere. They no longer know in which order the pages are supposed to be or even where they belong. So you can help them by including this information in the footer of each of the pages. So in Google Slides, to insert page numbers or it's live numbers, you would go to Insert Slide numbers and click Apply. You can also apply only on a selected slides if you want. So I will just click Apply and you can see that the page numbers are here and they recruited are going. So I want to fix this and go to Slide, edit a theme. And you can see the level hashtag here, which is a placeholder for our our page number. So I will just protect somewhere else. I will change the font to the fund that I'm using everywhere and maybe make it black. This might work. And now you can see the page numbers here. Okay, I can see that there is not enough of a margin, but I can fix this later. If I want to include the name of the workbook in the photo, this is how I do it. Let me just duplicate this slide. And I will duplicate this text box and see how it looks in the footer. I am now we're just creating like a Hoping slide just to help me see how it looks. So this is a little bit to permanent. I've been I don't want this to be bored. Okay, this looks better. So now I can copy this. And again go to Slide, edit, theme, and paste it here. And I also wanted this page number to be right here. So let's see how it works. Okay, this was chosen to helping slide that I can delete now. And you can see that we have the footer on each of the pages with the name of the book and the name of the page. 27. Download and merge the files: Now let's see how we can merge the two documents. So let's say we have the cover in Canberra and we have the whole interior in Google slides. I have a really super small workbook here with just three pages, but I want to show you how this works. So here in Google Slides, I would have my full World MOOC with all the pages in the right order. And I will go to file and download as PDF document. And I have this. I would go to Canada when I where I have only my cover. And again, download as PDF because I want this to be in good quality. Okay, so now I have two things separately. I have the cover and I have the interior, and I need to merge them. So I like to use a tool called small PDF. It's free. And when you go here, you can find merged PDF. Put your files here and merge them. And now you can arrange them the way you want. You may have even more files here depending on how you created your workbook. So now I would clank managed PDF. And we have the ready PDF here. We can check it and we can download it. And now when I open it, you can see that I have all four pages in one PDF. So this is what you can do with your whole workbook to create one document. 28. Print and test the workbook: Okay, now you should have your workbook ready. And my final piece of advice here is to print it out at home and actually try using. I have learned this lesson the hard way because anytime I had some complaints about my workbooks, it was because I didn't take the time to actually test it. So please print it out at home and try to actually fill in the exercises to make sure that you have enough whitespace and ideally send it to a few of your friends so that they try printing into altered home to make absolutely sure that it's easy to branch out. And other people who don't run into any difficulties. 29. Thank you!: And you have made it. So thank you so much for taking the time to learn about workbooks with me. I hope that the idea of whitespace and holding this space for your students has resonated with you. And that you have learned how to design better teaching materials and also how to have the students be the heroes of the story. So please share your project in the project gallery because I can't wait to check it out. And thank you again for joining this class. I really appreciate it.