Templates and reusable pieces

Compose can save three things to portable files so you do not build them twice.

File	Extension	Carries
Course template	.cetemplate	A design plus blocks pinned to the top of a new course’s first lesson
Design preset	.cetheme	The design only — colours, typefaces, shape
Shared block	.ceblock	One block, with its content

All three live next to your projects, in folders Compose creates for you:

~/Documents/Mauvely Compose/
├── Templates/     .cetemplate
├── Themes/        .cetheme
└── Blocks/        .ceblock

Any media referenced by a saved file travels inside it, so a template or preset you send to a colleague works on their machine without a folder of loose images.

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Course templates

A course template is a brand plus a starting structure. Use one when every course your team produces should open the same way — a welcome banner, a standard objectives block, house colours already applied.

Creating one

Set the course up the way you want new courses to start: apply the design, and put the blocks you want carried forward at the top of the first lesson. Then Course ▸ Save as template….

Using one

• From the welcome screen — From a template starts a new course from it.
• Course ▸ Apply template… — applies a template’s design to the course you already have open.

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Design presets

A .cetheme is the look and nothing else: accent, background, surface and text colours, the three typefaces, corner rounding, content width and light/dark. Any background image is embedded, so the file stands alone.

Manage them in the Design tab under Your presets:

Action	Where
Save the current design	Save current…
Apply a saved one	Click it
Send one to a colleague	Right-click ▸ Export / share…
Bring one in	Import…
Remove one	Right-click ▸ Delete preset — deletes the file

Use a preset when you want to restyle a course that already exists; use a template when you want a new course to start correct.

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Shared blocks

Any block can be written to a .ceblock file with Edit ▸ Share block as file…. Files in your Blocks folder appear in the Blocks tab of the left panel alongside the built-in catalogue, and insert like any other block.

This is most useful for custom code blocks, which carry their own HTML, CSS and JavaScript — a shared .ceblock containing one is effectively a portable interaction, and the closest thing Compose has to a plugin.

File ▸ Import block… brings in a .ceblock from anywhere on disk. An imported block is given a fresh identity when inserted, so you can use the same one many times in a course without conflict.