Every widget in the Content Studio, and when to use which

A section in TopperBatch is a page you build out of widgets. Students read them top to bottom. This is the full list.

Content

Heading — breaks a long page into parts. Use one every three or four widgets; a page of undifferentiated text is a page nobody scrolls.

Text — the workhorse. Title plus body. Leave a blank line between paragraphs and they render as paragraphs. The most common mistake is pasting an entire chapter into one Text widget; split it at the natural boundaries and students can find their place again after a break.

Notes / callout — a highlighted box. Reserve it for the two or three things students must not miss. If everything is highlighted, nothing is.

Media

Image — diagrams, scanned worked examples, photographs of a whiteboard. Add a caption in the body field; an unlabelled diagram is a puzzle.

Video — upload a file, or paste a YouTube or Vimeo link. An uploaded file plays inline with normal controls.

Audio — a clip students play on the page. Useful well beyond language teaching: a spoken walkthrough of a hard proof is often clearer than another page of notes.

PDF — opens in the browser and downloads. This is where lecture slides belong.

File download — anything else: a worksheet, a spreadsheet, a dataset, a starter project.

External link — a link out, with a title and a line of context. Say why you are sending them there.

Embed — an embed URL for a YouTube video, a slide deck, a form, a simulation.

Practice

Reading passage — a passage students read on the page.

Speaking exercise — a prompt students answer by recording their voice.

Listening exercise — a transcript plus audio.

Grammar note — a rule with examples.

Vocabulary list — one per line, as word — meaning.

Flashcards — one card per line, as front — back.

Word bank link — points students at the course's word bank.

The two things worth knowing

Everything is editable, afterwards

Every field of every widget can be changed later — including the link and the attached file.

Tick Remove this file to detach it, or choose a new file to replace it. You never need to delete a widget to correct a typo. (You used to. That was a real limitation and it is gone.)

Build one, then duplicate

If every chapter of your course has the same five widgets — objectives, notes, worked example, PDF, practice — build the first one properly and use the copy icon on the section. The duplicate arrives hidden, so students never see it half-edited.