Sermon editor as a lesson editor - results of testing

In using the sermon editor as a means of creating lessons rather than sermons, I've found the following to be the major drawbacks.

the metadata for liturgical date etc. which I know is coming but am impatient for
the ability to add footnotes (this is a biggie for me although I'm using a funky workaround)
the ability to import personal images
the ability to distinguish sermons/lectures/lessons (not critical but nice for clarity and retrieval)
the ability (unless I've just not found it) to switch off the automatic slides and only create slides on demand

In short, I think most of the things required for Lessons are things already asked for in sermons. It would take very little repackaging to advertise it also as a tool for Sunday School/Faith Formation teachers.

Nice job.

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Tim Hensler

I see some of MJ's suggestions are becoming a reality (thank you Faithlife) and I agree that this tool can work for lessons as well as sermons (which I am doing now).

I want to raise my hand for lesson-oriented functions since I am probably not the only person using Logos who teaches more than preaches.

Two other features that would be helpful (that could be used for both sermons and lessons):

Be able to manually embed hyperlinks to internal (logos resources and tools) and external (websites and files) resources. Sometimes while teaching (using my laptop) a link would be handy so I don't have to manually navigate to something, or as a reference to my sources, that I don't want or can't have quoted in my text or slides.
Have default values for sending sermons/lessons to SoundFaith. Two defaults would be helpful:

Should new sermons/lessons be automatically sent to SoundFaith? ("Yes" = a suggested date can be calculated as it is now and the sermon/lesson automatically sent accordingly. "No" = the sermon will not be sent automatically.)
Should sermons/lessons sent to SoundFaith be sent as Draft or Publish? (Any sermon sent (automatically or manually) should be sent with the status indicated by the default value - Draft or Publish.)
The sermon/lesson file would inherit the default values when the sermon/lesson file is first created.
The default selections should be reflected in the sermon/lesson file (like the checkbox that is currently there) which the user can override at will until the sermon/lesson is sent (automatically or manually) to SoundFaith)

Thank you, Faithlife, for this great Logos tool.