Welcome to the asset library - a centralized home for all of your media, designed to save you time and give you a single place to find and reuse the content you've already created.
About the Asset Library
The asset library is your centralized hub for storing, organizing, and reusing media - videos, images, and documents - within your Thinkific courses. Each file you upload is saved as an individual asset with its own title, description, and metadata, making it easy to find later.
- Upload once, use anywhere: Reference the same asset across multiple lessons and courses without having to upload it again.
- Update in one place: When you replace an asset, every course that uses it gets the updated version automatically.
- Organize at scale: Search, sort, and filter through all of your assets without losing track of what you've uploaded.
How the Asset Library Works
You can work with the asset library in two primary locations - as a standalone management hub within your Admin Dashboard and directly within the course builder while designing lessons. With the asset library, you can upload images, videos, and documents to be used and reused across your courses.
At this time, the asset library is only available with the new course builder. Learn more about new course builder availability and its features here: Introducing Thinkific's New Course Builder
- Standalone management hub: Accessed from your Admin Dashboard, this allows for high-level organization, including bulk uploads and comprehensive metadata management like adding titles, descriptions, and tags.
- From the course builder: While building lessons in the new course builder, you can select existing media from the library or upload new files directly from the lesson. Any file uploaded within the course builder is automatically added to the asset library for future reuse.
Whether you are performing dedicated content maintenance or actively developing a curriculum, the asset library ensures your media remains a single source of truth across your entire platform.
Important Considerations
- The asset library replaces the video library. All of your existing assets from the video library will be transferred to the asset library, and you will be able to manage them from here.
- The asset library can only be accessed within courses. At this time, it is not supported in the learner hub or in other products such as digital downloads and coaching & webinars.
Accessing the Asset Library
- From your Admin Dashboard, select Products
- Select Asset Library
Here you can upload new assets as well as manage any of your uploaded assets, including editing and replacing them.
Uploading Assets to the Asset Library
To upload new assets to the asset library:
- From the asset library page, click Upload assets
- Drag and drop your desired asset(s) (or browse and select a file from your device)
Supported file types: Videos (mp4, mov, m4v) up to 2 GB, images (png, jpeg, gif) up to 20 MB, PDFs up to 25 MB, or audio (mp3, m4a, ogg, wav, aac) up to 25 MB - Click Upload x assets
- Optional: Click + Add more to add more assets
And that’s it! Your assets will be uploaded to the asset library and are ready to use in your courses.
A maximum of 10 assets can be uploaded at a time.
Using Assets in Courses
While creating lessons in the new course builder, you can add any assets you have added to your library.
To add assets to a lesson in the course builder:
- Select the lesson you would like to add your assets to
- From the content menu, select Asset Library
- Search for your desired asset(s)
- Select the checkbox next to the asset(s) you want to add
- Click Add x asset(s)
Each asset will be added to your lesson as its corresponding content type based on its file type - for example, an image from the asset library will be added as an image in the lesson. Once added, you can then configure them within the lesson as you’d like!
Learn more about the different types of content you can use in the new course builder: How to Add Content and Configure Your Course in the New Course Builder
Viewing and Managing Assets
From the asset library, you can view, edit, and replace any of your uploaded assets. The asset library includes the following columns:
- Title
- Type
- Size
- Uploaded by
- Tags
- Date uploaded
By clicking on any of the above columns, you can sort your content in the library by ascending or descending.
To view and manage an individual asset, simply click on an asset to open the asset details modal, where you can see information about the asset such as its type, when it was uploaded, which course(s) it’s being used in, and view its edit history.
When viewing an asset’s detail, you will also be able to make the following changes:
Edit asset name and description
To edit an asset’s name:
- Click the pencil icon next to the asset name at the top of the page
- Enter a new name into the Title field
- Click Save
To edit an asset’s description:
- Click the + icon next to About under the asset’s thumbnail
- Enter a description into the Description field
- Click Save
Asset titles can have a maximum of 50 characters and descriptions can have a maximum of 255 characters.
Add alt text
Alt text can be added to your image assets for screen readers and better accessibility.
To add alt text to an asset:
- Click the + Alt text button on the asset thumbnail
- Enter your alt text into the Alt text field
- Click Save
Asset alt text can have a maximum of 125 characters.
Add tags
Tags can be added to your assets for better searchability when adding them to your courses.
To add a tag to an asset:
- Click the + icon next to Tags
- Click the tag dropdown
- Select a tag from the menu or search for a specific tag
- To create a new tag, enter your desired tag then click the + icon next to the tag dropdown
- Optional: Click the tag dropdown again to add additional tags
- Click Save
Replace an asset
You can easily replace an asset that has been uploaded which will be updated everywhere that it’s used.
Before replacing an asset, you can check where it’s currently being used under “Used in x courses” on the asset details page.
To replace an asset:
- Click Replace asset at the bottom of the asset detail page
- Click Replace asset on the modal
- Drag and drop your desired asset (or browse and select a file from your device)
- Click Upload
Once an asset is replaced, your learners will see the new asset right away everywhere that it’s used.
Assets can only be replaced by another asset of the same type - for example, an image asset can only be replaced with another image asset, but not with a video or document.
Managing Your Video Files
From the asset library, you can view and manage the video files that you have hosted with Thinkific. To manage a video’s settings, click on any video in your asset library then expand the Video settings section in the asset details page to adjust the following settings:
- Update the thumbnail image
- Enhance video security with the Private setting
- Add closed captions
- Change the color of the video controls
- Remove students’ ability to fast-forward through the video
Having issues with your video? Check out our troubleshooting guide: Video Troubleshooting Guide