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To create your own beautiful lesson plan cover, you can follow the instructions below from Mytour.
Before creating a cover for your lesson plan, you need to check the paper size to see if it matches the standard size you intend to print. Most lesson plan books are A4 size, so if you want to create a cover, you need to adjust it to A4 size for accuracy.
Open the ribbon Layout and click on Size. Here, you can choose different paper sizes for your document.
After adjusting the paper size, the next step is to create a border for the lesson plan cover. Decorating the lesson plan cover requires a border that is almost like a 'golden frame' for all current lesson plan covers.
To create a border for the lesson plan cover, switch to the ribbon Design right next to Layout.
Then, click on Page Borders in the Page Background group at the top right corner of this ribbon.
At that point, the Borders and Shading function window will appear, it will automatically switch to the Page Border tab for you so you don't have to switch tabs anymore.
Click on Box in the Setting section to choose to create a border for the entire page, then change Apply to to This section - First page only to only create a border for the first page.
Next, click on Art to choose from various border shapes that suit your aesthetics. Adjust the Width to increase or decrease the thickness of the border, the higher the number, the thicker the border.
Click OK to create the border, then you will see that your first page has been bordered.
After creating the border, the next step is to create the content on the lesson plan cover. Mytour advises you to write all the content from start to finish first, then edit the format of each one later to have an overall layout for the entire cover page.
After filling in the content, select all the content and adjust the formats that need to be synchronized, such as center alignment, font, etc.
All formats are located in the Home ribbon, you just need to click here. To center-align the lines, click the Center icon in the Paragraph group of Home or use the Ctrl E shortcut.
Now, start editing the spacing between the lines. As you know, the spacing between lines in the lesson plan cover is usually large, such as the title often being in the middle and far from other lines.
To adjust the spacing between lines, many of you may choose the manual method of pressing the space bar multiple times. This method is also quick and convenient, but sometimes it cannot be accurate to each line, so you should adjust the spacing between the lines above and below for each line to have the proper position.
Highlight the line that needs adjustment, for example, the title of the lesson plan, then right-click and select Paragraph.
The Paragraph function window appears, adjust the Before and After parameters in the Spacing section to change the line spacing. Where Before is the spacing of the selected line with the line above (top space) and After is the spacing of the selected line with the line below (bottom space).
With a spacing of about 200pt for Before, you can push the title of the lesson plan to the center of the cover page.
After adjusting the position of the lines, start adjusting the font size and formatting. Highlight the text and adjust the font size in the Home ribbon, or click Increase Font Size to increase the font size incrementally.
Adjust other lines similarly on the cover.
Another tip for lines of text that you don't want to center but align evenly to the left in the middle of the line as shown below, you can select them and align them to the left, then adjust the Left Indent on the ruler. Click and drag the square below to adjust the left margin for all selected lines.
Currently, you only need an iconic image to decorate your cover page, you can insert an image by clicking the Pictures icon in the Illustrations group of the Insert ribbon.
Select This Device to insert an image from your computer into the cover page.
After inserting the image, click on the image to switch to the Format ribbon of Picture Tools. Then click on the Wrap Text icon in the Arrange group.
Select In Front of Text so that the image can overlap the text above rather than being inserted in the middle of the text, this way you can adjust its position without affecting the content arranged on the cover.
Then, move the mouse to adjust the position of the image accordingly.
If you need to print in black and white, you can adjust your image to black and white by clicking on the image to open the Format ribbon of Picture Tools.
Continue to click on Color in the Adjust group and select black and white for the image.
Finally, you have completed a beautiful lesson plan cover for yourself.
Thank you for reading the article 'How to make a beautiful, professional lesson plan cover' from Mytour. Our lesson plan cover tutorial ends here, see you in other articles on the site.
