Products
Courses, communities, consulting, podcasts, newsletters, downloads.
Product basics
- Products overview: types, the Catalog and product detailsThe six product types, the Catalog list, creating a product that isn’t a course, and changing a product’s title, description and thumbnail.
- The member experienceWhat your students see when they sign in, how to preview a course as a student, what a preview can’t show, and the emails students get as they learn.
Courses
- Create a courseThe course setup step: start from scratch, with AI or from an outline, choose Evergreen or Cohorts, and land in the course builder.
- Generate a course outline and lesson drafts with AILet AI propose modules and lessons from your title, review the draft, then have it write lesson text one module at a time.
- Import an existing course outlinePaste, upload or fetch an outline you already have, review the modules and lessons we find, and create the course in one go.
- Build your course outline: modules and lessonsAdd modules, submodules and lessons in the course builder, edit and reorder them, set them Live or Draft, and remove them.
- Write and set up a lessonThe lesson editor: write the lesson text, set its status, release, free preview and comments, move it to another module, and attach files.
- Add video to a lessonUpload, replace or remove a lesson video, choose its thumbnail frame, and how YouTube, Vimeo or Loom videos come in through the importer.
- Free preview lessonsChoose which lessons people without access can watch, so they can try your course before they buy.
- Add a quiz to a lessonBuild an auto-graded quiz with single- or multiple-answer questions and a pass mark. Passing marks the lesson complete.
- Drip and schedule course contentRelease a lesson a set number of days after each member starts, or after a cohort’s start date, and what members see meanwhile.
- Set the time dripped lessons unlockOne workspace-wide hour, in UTC, when every dripped lesson opens on its unlock day.
- Cohort coursesRun a course on one shared schedule: create it as Cohorts, set the cohort start date, and drip lessons from that date.
- Publish or unpublish a courseMake a course available to the members who have access, take it offline again, and how Live and Draft lessons fit in.
- Customize the course homeSet a course’s accent colour, a welcome message, and whether the progress bar shows on the course home.
- Certificates of completionTurn on a certificate for a course, choose its wording, details, logo and background, and what members get when they finish.
- Course announcementsPost updates on a course home for its members, and optionally email them once.
- Lesson comments and moderationTurn comments on, off or read-only per lesson or for the whole course, reply as the instructor, and moderate in the Manage comments queue.
- Customers and progressSee who has access to a course, how far each member has got, who earned a certificate, and export the list to CSV.
- Duplicate a courseCopy a course’s modules, lessons and settings into a new draft, and what does and doesn’t come across.
Community
- Create, preview and publish a communityCreate a community product, name your community, preview it as a member, then publish it and sell it through an offer.
- Spaces: your community channelsAdd spaces, pick a format and layout, make a space read-only, hold posts for review, and rename, reorder or delete spaces.
- Access groups: the groups inside your communityWhat an access group is, why you would run more than one, and how to set one up, name it and edit it.
- Community members, roles and bansSee who is in your community, export the list, give members roles like Leader or Moderator, and ban or unban someone.
- Moderate posts: the review feed, reports and guidelinesApprove or reject held posts, pin, hide, lock or delete posts, read member reports in the log, and set community guidelines.
- Brand your communityLogo, cover, welcome banner and promoted offers for each community product, plus the tagline, share link and social links for the whole community.
- Show, hide and rename community featuresSix member features you can switch on or off per community product, rename for the whole community, and what switching one off does.
- Meetups and live roomsSchedule one-off and repeating meetups members can RSVP to, delete them, and run a live room from an external link or, where available, inside the community.
- Challenges, points and the leaderboardCreate, edit, promote, export and delete challenges, and set up points, titles and the leaderboard.
- Set up Community AITurn on the Community AI assistant, give it sources to draw on, and set its name, voice, posting schedule and reply rules.
- Community AI: activity, flags, insights and billingReview and delete what the assistant posted, resolve flags it raises, read community insights, and manage its usage, allowance and your own Anthropic key.
Consulting
- Create a consulting programSet up a 1:1 or group consulting program: the creation form, the Details tab (coach, location, colours), publishing it and selling it.
- Build a consulting program's session outlineAdd, edit, rename, reorder, duplicate and delete the sessions in a consulting program, with an agenda and resources for each session.
- Consulting: booking rules and availabilityLet clients book sessions: set session length, timezone and booking rules, open weekly availability, or send clients to an external scheduling link.
- Sync consulting bookings with your calendarConnect Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook or Calendly so busy times block bookings, or subscribe to a program’s private calendar feed.
- Consulting dashboard, clients and private notesSee upcoming sessions across all your coaching programs, look up any client’s bookings, keep notes about clients, and export your client list.
Podcasts
- Create a podcast and publish episodesCreate a podcast, add episodes with audio and show notes, and publish, unpublish or delete episodes.
- Podcast settings, public feed and private feedsAdd your show’s artwork, set its host, category and availability, submit a public feed to Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or give each paying member a private feed.
Downloads
- Add a downloadCreate a download (a File product): give it a title and description, upload its first file, then add the rest. It starts as a draft.
- Manage a downloadRename, reorder, replace and remove a download's files, edit its title, description and thumbnail, preview it as a member, and unpublish it.
- Sell files as a download productPublish a download, sell it with an offer at the price you choose, share its checkout link, and see what buyers get: a download page with secure links.
Media Library
- The Media Library: upload, check and preview your mediaUpload videos, audio and files, find them with search, filters and sort, rename them, see when a video is ready to stream, and preview what you have. Lesson videos, downloads and imported videos are listed here too.
- Check where media is used, and delete itRead the Usage column, know what it counts, and delete an unused video or file (owners and admins).
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