In this article, you will find information on all there is to know about creating courses. Once you create your school, you can start creating and selling your courses.
Different Statuses of Courses
You can have 6 different statuses for courses:
- Paid,
- Draft,
- Coming Soon,
- Enrollment Closed,
- Free, and
- Private.
You can find more about the different course statuses here.
Course Sections & Learning Activities
Courses are organized using sections that include learning activities. Each course can include multiple sections and multiple learning activities.
Sections can also have various statuses; you can set them as draft, soon, free, or paid depending on your needs. This can help you manage your course content better. Explore how to utilize sections and organize your courses here.
Learning activities are divided into categories:
Multimedia: Video, PDF, SCORM/HTML 5 Package, YouTube, SoundCloud, Audio
Live session: Live Meetings & Webinars With Zoom & Live Meetings & Webinars with Webex, 1:1 session, Group Session
Social: Activities related to the community of your school
Ebooks
Exams - Self Assessments: Self Assessments, Graded Exams, Graded SCORM package
Forms: Create surveys bound to your courses and receive feedback from your users.
Certificates: Certificate & Certificate of Completion
Embed: Embed, Slideshare & External Link
You can find out more information on the supported learning activities here.
Course Settings
Within each course, you'll find settings tabs that enable you to tailor your preferences. These tabs offer the flexibility to customize each course individually, ensuring it aligns perfectly with your requirements. In the course overview, you can find the following Course tabs:
- Course Outline: You can create, edit, and supplement your course with valuable content with learning activities.
- Course Page Layout: The cover of your course, which introduces your users to the content and allows your users to enroll.
- General: Customize your course card, add the course to a category, and manage course SEO.
- Access: Select the course's access type, find the URL, and set up an expiration date or drip feed.
- Pricing: Set up the course price and manage the related installment plans, Bundles, or Subscriptions.
- User progress: Review and modify the completion rules for each learning activity.
- Course Player: Change the course player skin, customize the course player, and specify the user navigation.
- Video library: Upload videos.
- Automations: Create automations related to that course
- Course insights: View an overall report of your course
Course SEO
The main purpose of the SEO configuration for your courses is to make the course pages more easily discoverable by search engines and properly index their information.
For more information about the process, you can check out our relevant guide: How to Configure a course's SEO.
Course Layout page Vs. Course player
The Course layout page is the welcome page of your course where users can find more information about the course, check the contents (according to the contents sections you have added), and enroll. If the course were a book, the layout page would be the book cover.
The Course player is the classroom where the course takes place. As soon as a user enrolls in the course, the course content (learning activities you have created) appears in the course player.
Once you create the course, add the content, and set up your preferences, you are ready to start selling it. However, what about some more useful tips? Check out the following links: