𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗔𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 — 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝘁 Long posts don't always arrive at a convenient moment. Read Aloud puts a speaker icon into the post header, right next to the bookmark icon: click it and the post is read to you — the title first, then the text. Classroom lessons carry the same icon in their action row, so a written lesson can be listened to instead of read — there too, a folded text is unfolded before it is read out. In the feed the icon sits on every post card alongside the bookmark, so a post can be heard without opening it; both appear only while the mouse is over the card, and stay visible whenever they show a state — a post being read out, a bookmark that is set, a card that was auto-translated. The voice comes from your browser, so there is nothing to set up and nothing to pay for. Which voices exist depends on your operating system and browser; Read Aloud picks the one matching your Skool Extensions interface language. If the post is still folded behind a "Show more" link, it unfolds first, so you hear the whole thing instead of just the opening. A second click stops it — while a post is playing, the icon stays green. Moving on to another post ends the playback too, so a post you left behind never talks over the one you are reading now. Hovering the icon opens a small menu with two settings: speed between 0.75× and 2×, and every voice your system has to offer, grouped by language. The group at the top is the language the text is actually in — the one the community writes in, or, while auto-translation is on for that community, the language it translates into. Your interface language only decides the labels. The groups are collapsed, except the one holding the voice currently in use — a machine with two dozen voices would otherwise fill the whole menu with names you never pick. Above them sit the cloud voices, a Premium addition. They come from OpenAI instead of your operating system and sound markedly more natural, German included — useful when your machine has no voice for the language at all. They are not tied to a language: each of the six speaks every language, which is why the group is labelled "all languages" rather than sorted like the system voices. A cloud voice has to be fetched before it can play, which takes a moment. Picking a voice stops the current reading straight away and the icon shows a spinning ring until the new voice takes over at the passage you had reached. Each Premium account gets 66,000 tokens a month, one token per character read out, which is roughly forty-five average posts. Listening to the same post again is free and does not count: once a post has been read aloud, its recording is kept and shared, so the second person to play it pays nothing. The counter at the bottom of the menu shows what is left, and it resets at the start of each month. Both take effect right away. Clicking a voice starts reading immediately, and if a post is already playing it carries on at the passage being read rather than starting over — that also holds when switching between a browser voice and a cloud voice. The choice stays on the device you made it on, because which voices exist depends on the machine.

𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 C𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 — 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺 Skool hands out screenshare in a live call one person at a time, and only someone with host rights who is actually sitting in that call can do it. A call without an admin therefore means nobody can share anything — the members wait for someone who never shows up. Auto Screenshare solves half of that: it grants everyone automatically, but only while a host is present. This is the other half. As the owner you open screenshare for your community once, and from then on every member gets it the moment they enter a call there — with nobody from your team in the room, and without you being online at all. There is no separate switch for it. The "Auto Screenshare" toggle in the Live Call settings is the unlock: turn it on and screenshare opens for every community you own, turn it off and the permission is withdrawn again. Ownership is verified on our side, so nobody can open a community that isn't theirs. It runs on your own Skool access, so you need to have used the extension yourself — otherwise there is nothing it could grant in your name with. For members it happens quietly. On entering the call the extension asks once, for that one person, and only for the call they are in — no dialog, no message, no waiting: the share button is simply there. Leave and come back and it asks again for the new call. Nobody else's permissions are touched, and the requests are capped per member so a reload loop can't hammer anything. One limit is worth knowing: the permission can only be handed out for calls that were created under your own account. Skool gives that right to whoever created the call, so if another admin scheduled the event in their name, screenshare stays closed there. Members also need the extension running — without it nobody asks, and Skool's normal rules apply. Opening screenshare for a community is a VIP feature. Using it costs members nothing; they just need the extension. --- 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 — 𝗠𝗶𝘁𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗱𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗺, 𝗮𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗵𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗱𝗺𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗺 𝗥𝗮𝘂𝗺

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𝗦𝗸𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 — 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 Skool shows you a thin row of stats under your community header and leaves it at that: a number for today, no history, no context, nothing you can arrange. The Skool Dashboard replaces that row with a full view of how your community is actually doing — open it as a side panel next to your work, or as a popup that fills the screen. The layout is yours. Drag any tile to where you want it, group tiles into blocks you name yourself, collapse the ones you rarely look at, and reset the whole thing whenever it has drifted. Your layout and your revenue goals travel with you — they are cloud-synced, so the dashboard looks the same on your laptop and your desktop. On top sit the curves: members and revenue over time, projected 30 and 90 days ahead from your own trend, plus 15 milestones on the way to the revenue goal you set — each with the amount still missing and the date it is on track for. The member curve is there from the first day, because Skool keeps that history; the revenue curve is built from daily snapshots the Extension takes for you, so a fresh install needs a few days before it has a line worth reading. Below that, the numbers that explain the curves. Where your members come from — visitors, signups and new revenue split by acquisition channel — next to premium and VIP members, running trials, engagement and your ranks in the Skool Finder by category, language and overall. Tiles from your own panels join them: open tasks including the overdue ones, pipeline contacts, tagged contacts, bookmarks and text templates, each one a click away from the panel it belongs to. Your own numbers are part of it too: the streak flame, your longest streak, the points still missing to the next level, what you did today across all your communities, and your contribution grid. Run several communities and the dashboard adds them up by default — every community you administer in one set of figures — with a filter in the header to drop down to a single one. Goals follow that filter, so an overall target and a per-community target can exist side by side.

𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 — 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗸𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗱𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼 Skool ships one page background, and it is the same for everyone. The Background feature replaces it with something you pick: thirteen ready-made gradients and mesh blends (Aurora, Sunset, Ocean, Midnight, Candy, Mint and more), a two-colour gradient you mix yourself with a free angle, an image you upload, or a photo that changes every single day. Four daily-photo sources are available: Bing Daily, Windows Spotlight, Wikimedia Picture of the Day and NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day. Each fetches a fresh image once a day, so the page looks different every morning without you touching a setting. Preview thumbnails load for all sources up front — including the ones you have not selected — so you see the actual picture before choosing. The feature unlocks with your level in the Skool Extensions community. Level 3 opens the Background itself along with all gradients, your own colours and your own image. The daily-photo sources follow: Bing and Spotlight at level 4, Wikimedia and NASA at level 5. Locked tiles stay visible with a grey wash and a level badge — click the badge and you land on the community leaderboard, where you can see your standing and what the next level takes. Two sliders control how the page sits on top of the image. Transparent cards sets how much of the background shows through Skool's cards and panels, and Blurred controls how soft the photo behind them gets. Both update live while you drag, and dark mode keeps its own slightly stronger opacity so the balance between the two modes survives a single slider. On photo backgrounds, readability is handled for you: the text colour is chosen by real WCAG contrast against the image rather than a rough brightness guess, and text sitting directly on the background — native header links, the pin strip footer — gets a fine outline so it stays legible over busy areas. Gradients and mesh blends are left alone; they do not need it.