Candle comes pre-seeded with several hundred textbooks including publishers Christian Light, Rod & Staff, Abeka, Gospel Publishers, and Pathway. Before adding a textbook manually, be sure that the book is not already entered. Most textbooks have chapter and lesson names pre-entered.

1. Go to Setup and under the title Curriculum, choose Textbooks.

2. You will see all the textbook currently entered in the system. Click the Add Textbook button in the upper-right corner.

3. Enter the A-title, B-ISBN (if desired), C-grade level, D-subject, and E-publisher. Finally select whether to use Christian Light's LightUnit template or to enter a generic textbook with the ability to customize the layout. Then click Next.

4. On the next screen, you will see options to customize the textbook layout:

    Chapters-select whether or not the book has chapters. This will slightly affect how the rest of the screen is laid out. Since with chapters is the most likely use case, we have those details here.

    A - Enter the total number of lessons in the book.

    B - What is each lesson or group of work prefixed with? Some publishers use Lesson, some use Group, etc. There are several options pre-filled for you. Be sure to include a space after the text you enter if you want a space between the lesson name and the number.

    C - Which lessons end the chapters or the units? Here we have a total of 90 lessons in the book, and every tenth lesson, a new chapter starts.

    D - How should the chapters be prefixed?

    E - Most textbooks start at Lesson 1 and continue on through Lesson 90, or however far they go. You can also choose By Chapter to re-start lesson numbering with each chapter.

    F - Some textbook publishers use lesson letters instead of lesson numbers. For example, Rod & Staff uses Group A, Group B, etc. for their Science curriculum.

    G - What lesson ends each unit/chapter? Often, the last lesson ends up being a chapter quiz, review or test. Here, you can specify that.

4, cont. Finally, when the details are all provided, click Preview Lessons.

5. This will generate the textbook as described. You will see a list of the lessons generated:

Here you can make adjustments like renaming lessons, changing titles, re-ordering lessons and changing their assignment types. The grid has standard data editing features. For some tips, see the section of Editing a Textbook.

Importing Pre-type Lesson Titles—Sometimes users will type the contents of a textbook into a program like Notepad. To import these lesson titles, click Import Text in the upper right-hand corner. Copy the lesson titles from the other program, then paste the text into the box provided. Click Import. This will insert the titles in their respective order into the grid.

Re-calculating Lessons—if you see that you've made a mistake in generating the chapter and lesson sequence, click Back in the lower-left corner. Tweak the textbook layout and click Preview Lessons. Repeat until you've achieved the desired results. Warning! This will remove any changes you've made to the lessons in the list.

Sometimes you may wish to edit an existing textbook. To do this go to Setup > Textbooks. (under the title Curriculum)

Select the textbook you'd like to edit. You will be presented with an edit page:

There are two sections available: Details and Lessons. Use the details page to change information about the textbook like its title, ISBN, grade level or publisher. Click Lessons to edit lesson information. See below.

Upon clicking Lessons in the sidebar, you will see an edit display:

A - Unit Selection. Here you can select which chapter/unit you are viewing in the lesson list. Rename. Rename the currently selected unit. Delete. Used mainly for removing dud units that were imported from Teacher's Timesaver.

B - Here are the lesson's details. Lesson. Correlates with the lesson number in the physical textbook. Title. The title of the lesson. Order. Which order this lesson comes in the book. Type. What type of the lesson this is. When this textbook is used in a course, this is the assignment type that will eventually appear in the gradebook.

C - Plus icon. Click here to insert a lesson before the current row. Move icon. Move this lesson to another unit. Trashcan icon. Remove this lesson completely.

D - paging tools. Use these tools to page through the lessons. Only used if lessons in a single unit exceeds 100.

There are several pointers for editing the lesson information.

Navigation - by clicking on a cell then using your arrow keys, you can navigate in any direction without using your mouse.

Editing data - to edit data in a cell, you can (1) click on the cell and start typing, or (2) hit enter after you've navigated to the cell using your arrow keys. You can also press backspace when a cell is highlighted to remove the cell's contents.

Finally, when you are finished editing, click Save in the upper right-hand corner.

There are two places to delete textbooks, on the main list page and on the textbook itself.

List of Textbooks

Click the trashcan on the textbook you'd like to delete.

While editing a textbook, there is a delete button in the toolbar in the upper right-hand corner.

Textbooks can be duplicated by click the copy icon to the left of the textbook's name on the list page.

Provide a new name for the textbook and click Duplicate to confirm.

Textbooks can imported from the standard Candle format or from Teacher's Timesaver.

1. Click Upload in the upper right-hand corner of the main textbook page:

2. Select the file to import. (These files are in CSV format. These means they would end in .csv.) Click Open.

The textbook should appear in the list.

If you've used Teacher's Timesaver or you've received a Timesaver course from a friend, Candle has the ability to import these formats also.

4. Select the publisher, then click Import.

The textbook should appear in the list.