Guides
A guide is a short reference piece. Unlike a lesson it has no stages, and nothing records whether a candidate read it — though it can end with a button into a drill, or into asking Coach.
Filed as Resources in the CMS
This page and the candidate-facing site both say "Guides". The CMS section, its route, and its table are named "Resources" — the content is identical, the name just differs by surface. Look for Resources in the CMS navigation.
The fields
| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| Slug | Unique across all guides |
| Title | Sentence case |
| Summary | One line, shown in the list |
| Category | Strategies, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, exam day, listening, speaking |
| Level | Beginner, intermediate or advanced |
| Minutes | Reading time |
| Module | Optional — see below |
| Question kind | Optional |
| Body | Paragraphs |
Module is deliberately optional
Guides in the listening and speaking categories should have no module set — the editor only offers Reading or Writing for this field, even though Listening and Speaking are both practisable modules now. A listening or speaking guide sits in the guides list and is readable with no module attached, which is the only option the schema currently allows.
Category is not the same as the drill link
Setting a guide's category to listening or speaking files it correctly. It does not, and currently cannot, wire a "Practise this" button into the Listening or Speaking module the way a reading or writing guide's module field can — write the guide as advice rather than implying a practice link that is not there.
Listed but not drafted
A guide with a title and no body shows in the list without being readable, the same way an unwritten lesson does. It is a legitimate placeholder for something planned.
Choosing between a guide and a lesson
Write a lesson when there is a technique to be shown, tried and then drilled. Write a guide when there is something worth knowing that does not need practice — a reference list, a checklist, an explanation of what separates two bands.