Themes

Learn how to create templates to speed up your content creation process inside of the creative portal.

Navigate to Library portal

Inside your Scholastic Network dashboard, navigate to your Library portal:

Click on the "Themes" tab:

This scope will show you all theme libraries that your group(s) has access to:

This scope will show you all theme libraries that the Scholastic Network provides and maintains for you:

Scholastic Network maintains hundreds of themes that are available for you inside the Global Themes Library.

To use the themes inside of a library, go to the Content portal and open the creative portal or click this link: Creative Portal

When you're building content inside of the creative portal, all themes are accessible under "More themes":

From there, I can select to use one of my local themes and start building my content piece:

Click on the "Themes" tab from within the Library portal:

Find the theme library you want to create a theme for, and then click "Upload" and select the type of theme, either Landscape or Left:

If there are no theme libraries showing for you here, please create a theme library first. Learn here: https://docs.thescholasticnetwork.com/library/libraries

Click "Use creative" to start building the theme inside of the creative portal:

The reason of making a theme is to keep everything consistent. Make sure to set all of these variables:

Upload a background image by clicking "Upload background". This will take up the entirety of the background:

Choose a text color that contrasts nicely with your background:

Position the text box in an area that doesn't distract from the text:

Choose a font style that is legible and fits your brand's standards:

From here, you can add more elements onto the theme such as images, stickers, or more text boxes by clicking "Add elements":

Once your theme is perfect, click "Create", select or create the tags, and then click "Done":

Adding tags to themes is great for organization and will help you find exact themes when searching for them later. Think of tags as categories.

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