The Lessons tab in Sanctumel Learning is where you prepare your teaching. Here you create a lesson, build it block by block (text, verses, image, audio, video), then publish it so it becomes visible to the students in the target class. A lesson stays a draft until you publish it, so you can work quietly, out of sight.
Finding and organizing your lessons
Open Sanctumel Learning, then the Lessons tab. Three views help you find your way:
| View | What it shows |
|---|---|
| By theme | Your lessons grouped by theme, to follow a curriculum |
| All | The full list, with Draft, Scheduled and Published filters |
| Stats | Student engagement: completion, views, average time |
In the All view, the filters at the top let you isolate drafts, scheduled lessons or already-published ones in a single click.
Tip: file every lesson under a theme as soon as you create it. The By theme view then becomes a real course plan, reusable year after year.
Creating a lesson
- Click New lesson.
- Enter a clear title and, if you like, an objective (what the student should take away).
- Add the Bible references: a main verse (through the built-in Bible search or by hand) and, for Message churches, a Prophet passage (search the sermons or type it in).
- Choose the lesson's theme and audience:
- All classes,
- a specific class,
- or a work group.
- Optionally, set a session date and attach an embedded quiz or an end-of-lesson quiz.
- Save: the lesson opens in its editor, still empty, as a draft.
Note: only the title and, for a specific class, the class are required. Everything else can be filled in later, at your own pace.
Building the content with blocks
In the editor, build the lesson by adding blocks. Click Add a block, pick a type, then fill it in.
| Block | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Text | Paragraphs and explanations |
| Document | Rich text: formatting, tables |
| Bible verse | A single verse highlighted |
| Prophet passage | For Message churches |
| Image | Illustration or diagram |
| PDF document | Activity sheet, exercise |
| Video | Short teaching video (file or YouTube link) |
| Audio | Sermon, song, recording |
| Bible passage | Built-in Bible search, text inserted automatically |
For an Image, PDF, Video or Audio block, add the block first, then upload the file from the editor. A Bible passage block lets you search the reference: the Bible shows in your church's language, the passage text is inserted for you, and you can add a monitor's note alongside it.
For a Prophet passage block (Message churches), a search takes you straight into William Branham's sermons: pick the quoted paragraph, and its reference and text fill in on their own, with nothing to retype.
Note: the editor is built for the phone as much as the computer: fields stack into a single column and the Bible search works at your fingertips, so you can prepare a lesson even without a PC in front of you.
Tip: for a large video, prefer a YouTube link over a file: it loads faster and plays more smoothly for students.
Ordering, editing and removing a block
Every block can be rearranged and reworked without redoing the lesson:
- Reorder: drag and drop a block, or use the up and down arrows.
- Edit: open a block to change its content; your entries are saved automatically.
- Remove: delete a block you no longer need. A short delay lets you undo in case of a mistake.
Warning: a deleted block disappears from the lesson once the undo delay passes. Make sure it is the right block before confirming.
The Bible, the songbook and The Message
Three reference sources open from the console ribbon, without leaving your screen:
| Source | What it opens |
|---|---|
| Bible | The biblical text, in your church's language |
| Songbook | Your church's hymns |
| The Message | The sermons, for churches of the Message |
The Message only appears if your church is a church of the Message. That is a church setting, not a school option: offering these sermons to a congregation that does not claim them would serve no one.
For churches of the Message, a The Message block is also added to the lesson blocks: the quotation then appears in the student's lesson, with its reference.
Note: the songbook is a source to consult while you prepare, not a lesson block. To have the class sing, quote the hymn in a Text block.
Previewing and publishing
Before publishing, click Preview to see the lesson exactly as the student will discover it. From this preview you can also generate a PDF of the lesson, handy for an in-person session or for parents.
When everything is ready, publish the lesson: it then becomes visible to the students in the target class or group. You can unpublish it at any time to return it to draft without losing anything.
You can also schedule publication for a date and time: the lesson stays hidden until then, and opens on its own at the chosen moment.
Note: once the lesson is published, a progress tracker appears: you see which students have viewed it, the time spent and, if there is a quiz, their scores.
Reusing a lesson the following year
A lesson prepared once plays again without redoing it.
- On the lesson, choose Duplicate.
- Pick which class (the same one by default) and which day (optional).
- The copy is born as a draft, with its blocks and quiz: review, adjust, publish.
Tip: this is the simplest way to build your library: one year's lessons become the ready program of the next, class by class.