Courses are the foundation of your online school. In LearnWorlds, creating and managing high-quality courses is intuitive and flexible. This guide offers a general overview of how courses are structured, accessed, and configured, with links to explore each area in more detail.
You will find more information on how to create a course in LearnWorlds, in this article.
Types of Course Access
LearnWorlds offers six course access types: Paid, Draft, Coming Soon, Enrollment Closed, Free, and Private. Each serves a specific purpose depending on your goals and pricing model.
| Access | Description |
| Paid | Paid courses are accessible to those who purchase them or are manually enrolled. |
| Draft | Draft courses remain unpublished and invisible while under development. This mode allows you to work at your own pace, gradually adding content. Users cannot see or purchase these courses until they are published. |
| Coming Soon | Coming Soon courses are visible to users, but they cannot enroll in or purchase them. This generates anticipation among your users for your upcoming course. |
| Enrollment Closed | Enrollment-closed courses remain visible in catalogs and on course layout pages, but enrollment is not allowed. This feature is useful for limiting course participation. Users cannot purchase these courses; manual enrollment is required. Existing users retain access to the course content. |
| Free | By offering free courses, registered users can access and become familiar with your content, increasing the likelihood that they will purchase one of your premium courses. |
| Private | Private Courses are accessible only to those who have been manually enrolled in them. Since private courses are not published, they are not listed in course catalogs, so users cannot locate them. |
You can find more details about each option, aiding you in selecting the best setting for your course based on your specific requirements, in this article.
Paid, Draft, and Coming Soon courses are available in all our plans. Enrollment Closed, Free, and Private courses require upgrading to the Pro Trainer plans or higher. Course Structure
Courses are built using Sections, each of which can contain multiple Learning Activities (e.g., videos, quizzes, PDFs).
Sections within the course platform can be assigned various statuses, including draft, soon, free, or paid. These statuses enhance the organization and management of your course content. 
Learning activities form the core content of your course and are categorized into different types. Find more information on the supported learning activities here.
Creating a course outline with our AI (Artificial Intelligence) assistant can save a lot of time in terms of generating a course structure that can organize the learning material and facilitate the students' learning process. You can find out more in this article. Don't forget that you can also bulk upload material for your courses. You can check more details here.Course Settings
Within each course, you will discover settings options that allow you to customize your preferences. These provide the flexibility to adjust each course individually, ensuring it meets your specific needs. Some of them are:
- Course Page Layout: The cover of your course that introduces your users to the content and allows them to enroll.
- 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, learning programs or Subscriptions.
- User progress: Review and modify the completion rules for each learning activity.
- Video Library: Upload videos.
- Automations: Create automations related to that 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 further details on the process, refer to our relevant guide.
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.