Courses & programs · Course building
Create your first course
Set up a new course from scratch: title, descriptions, category, instructor, cover images, and visibility — then add the daily content. Takes about ten minutes with videos you've already uploaded.
Before you start
Upload the videos first. A course doesn't store video files itself — it points at classes already in your library, so having them uploaded and titled makes course building much faster.
Think in days, not videos. A day can hold a video, a text lesson, or both a video and supporting reading — and members complete one day at a time.
Descriptions that sell the course
The short description appears on the catalog card and gets skimmed, so lead with the outcome ('Build a daily practice in 14 days'). The full description supports rich formatting — headings, lists, and links — and appears on the course page itself.
There's also a separate marketing pitch field (max 140 characters) shown to people who haven't joined yet — covered in the article on access and selling.
Step by step
- Go to Settings → Pages and sections and make sure Courses is turned on.
- Open the Collections area in your admin and click 'New collection'.
- Under About, enter a title — the URL slug fills in automatically — plus a short description (shown on catalog cards, about 200 characters) and a full description in the rich-text editor.
- Under Organize, set a category, pick the primary instructor (plus any additional instructors), enter the number of days, and set a sort order to control where it appears in the catalog.
- Add a thumbnail for catalog cards — upload one, pick a frame from one of your videos, or generate one with AI. Optionally add a larger featured image for the course page hero.
- Choose visibility: Published (visible to members), Unpublished (saved as a draft), or Scheduled with a publish date and time. You can also set an optional 'Hide after' date.
- Click 'Create collection'.
- Back on the course page, use '+ Add day' to build the daily content — see the article on adding days.
Good to know
- Attach downloadable resources (like PDFs) to the course from the Resources section of the course form.
- Fill in the SEO fields (page title, meta description, keywords) so the course page can be found on Google.
- With the LMS enabled, a 'Duplicate as template' button appears on the course edit page — it deep-copies the course, all its days, and any quizzes into a new unpublished draft.
- You can ask the AI assistant to create the course and add the days for you — for example 'make a 7-day beginner course from my newest classes'.
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