Widgit Online

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Email: support@widgit.com
Tel: 01926 333680

Video Tutorials

Creating and Managing Your Account

Getting Started

A short video to help you get started with Widgit Online. Explore all of the tools and features available to help you create symbol resources in your web browser.

Update Your Login Details

Learn how to update your Widgit Online login details, including changing your email address and password.

Enable and Manage Multi-Factor Authentication

Learn how to set up multi-factor authentication in Widgit Online to add an extra layer of security to your account.

Manage Permissions and Roles

This video shows you how to upgrade users in your Widgit Online account, giving them access to a variety of pre-made resource packs and shared folders.

Creating Resources

Communication Board Series

Rebecca Lynch, Symbol and Education Specialist, shares guidance on making Communication Boards work for different users and settings.

Create a Standard Communication Board

This video walks you through two ways to create a Communication Board – using a ready-made template or building one from scratch.

Create a Personalised Communication Board

Learn how to tailor Communication Boards to reflect individual interests and needs, from adding personal photos to changing symbol colours and using the Web Image Library tool.

Create a Folding Chart

A quick tutorial on creating a folding chart using a ready-made template. See where to find it and how to customise it for your needs.

Create a Tabbed Lanyard

Follow this quick tutorial to build a symbol-supported tabbed lanyard in Widgit Online, ideal for daily routines, outdoor activities or classroom use.

Create a Placemat

Learn how to build a symbol-supported placemat from scratch, drag and drop symbols, add vocabulary and print it for home, school or care use.

Create Restorative Justice Discussion Cards

Create your own symbol-supported restorative justice discussion cards. Add your own prompts, tailor the language and support calmer conversations.

Create a Gap-Fill Exercise

Learn how to create a gap fill exercise in Widgit Online. This video shows how to add gaps within sentences and include visual clues to support learners as they complete the activity.

Create an Insect Identification Activity

This video shows how to combine photographs, symbols and colour clues to encourage observation, vocabulary development and discussion.

Create a Dual-Language Matching Activity

Learn how to create a bilingual matching activity in Widgit Online. This video shows how to combine symbols and translated vocabulary to create an engaging matching activity.

Quick Tips

Resources Section

Did you know your Widgit Online account includes loads of ready-made packs?

From the Classroom Pack to the Autism Support Pack and Puberty Books – they’re all ready for you to install from the Resources section. Once added, they’ll show up in your Documents area.

Varied Skin Tones

Creating resources for a group of learners? It’s important that everyone can see themselves reflected in the materials you use.

We recommend keeping the ‘Show varied skin tones in symbols’ setting ticked in Widgit Online – it’ll automatically show a mix of skin tones when a symbol has more than one person.

For symbols showing just one person, try using the Skin Tones tool to add variety across your resources. These small details can go a long way in helping everyone feel seen and included.

Formatting Frames

Customise the default frames in Widgit Online templates to suit your learners and setting.

With just a few clicks, you can adjust the shadow, corner roundness, border thickness, border colour and background colour.

This is especially useful for supporting colour coding, enhancing visual clarity and adapting resources for learners with sensory or cognitive needs.

Changing Symbol Colours

Personalise your Widgit Symbols with custom colours.

Whether you’re using a learner’s favourite colour, supporting visual needs, or matching the look of real-world objects, small changes like this can make your resources feel more more relevant and engaging.

Just highlight the symbol you want to update, click the ‘Edit the symbol colours’ button, and pick the colours that work best for you.

Populating Frames

The Populate Frames tool in Widgit Online is a huge time-saver for filling pages with symbols.

Just paste your words into the tool and it will automatically populate the frames for you. And if a generated symbol doesn’t quite work for your context, you can quickly choose an alternative from the symbol picker.

Pro tip: prepare your list of words on a separate sheet first, so you can easily copy and paste them in.

Adding Images

You can add more than just symbols to your Widgit Online resources.

Upload any images from your device using the Image Library, or choose from thousands of ready-to-use options with the Web Images tool.

Perfect for personalising your resources and adding extra context to support understanding.

Adding a Second Symbol to a Frame

You can add a second symbol to a frame in Widgit Online templates.

It’s a great way to reinforce meaning, show two objects side by side, or give learners richer visual context.

You can even use it with images, making resources more accessible for learners with different processing needs and communication preferences.

Dual-Language Templates

Widgit Online includes over 70 dual-language templates, supporting more than 100 languages.

From flashcards and vocabulary sheets to timetables, word maps and communication books, these templates make it easy to create symbol-supported resources for multilingual classrooms.

To create a dual-language resource, open Templates, select the ‘Dual-Language’ category, and choose your desired template. Select your language, add your words, then highlight the sheet and click the Google Translate button to translate everything in seconds. Find out more.

Shared Folders

You can easily share resources with colleagues using Shared Folders in your Widgit Online group account.

For example, if someone in your school creates a resource, they can make it available to others by saving it in 'Shared Folders' instead of 'My Documents'.

Users in the same group account can then view it, download it as a PDF or make changes. This makes it much easier to collaborate and saves time when building resources. Find out more.

Pro tip: We recommend creating your own copy in 'My Documents' when editing shared resources. That way, you can make changes freely without affecting the original version.

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