Create courses and modules for your members to learn from right within your community.
Access to creating courses
Dashboard admins can create, customize, and publish courses. Collaborators and those with event, content, or club permissions cannot.
Create the course
From the admin dashboard, navigate to the Courses page to see all the courses you've created, and build the new course.
From the admin dashboard, navigate to the Courses page to see all the courses you've created, and build the new course
Select the +Create a Course button in the upper right hand side of this page
List the course's name (can be up to 100 characters)
Select the course category (category must be created first to appear in this drop down)
Select 'Create' to save your work
Customize the course's details
From the course's dashboard, you can customize all the details and add chapters, lessons, and contributions. In the General Info tab, you can add and edit the main components of the course.
Name, Subtitle, and Description
The name, subtitle, and description are important to inform members about the course and what it entails. Keywords, phrases, etc,. are important to include as courses are included in the federated search of the community.
The name is capped at 100 characters, the subtitle at 300 characters, and the description can support rich text, images, code, etc. The description editor is similar to the blog editor.
Here is where the course name and subtitle appear on the Courses landing page
Here is where the course name, subtitle, and description appear on the specific course's landing page.
Course Cover and Page Banner
The course cover is the image used on the course landing page to brand the course and on the course completion sticker. There is a default cover loaded in the dashboard, but you can also customize and add a cover that works with your branding and community design. This cover must be a JPG file, and can be up to 5MB in size.
Course Cover on Courses Landing Page
Course Cover on completion sticker for the enrollee
The course page banner sits atop the specific course's landing page. There is a default banner loaded in your dashboard, but you can also customize and add a banner that works with the cover image and matches branding. This banner must be a JPG file and can be up to 5MB in size.
Access for members
Each course module can be set to Public, All Members, or Selected Spaces Only.
Public course: This course is visible to visitors and those members logged in.
To enroll in the class, the user must log in or sign up.
All Members: This course is visible to members who are logged in only.
To enroll in the class, the user must log in.
Selected Spaces Only: This course is visible only to members who are logged in and assigned to the space allocated.
To enroll in the class, the user must be logged in and assigned to the same space.
Publish the Course
To publish the course, the admin can select the green Publish button in the lower left-hand side menu, or select 'Publish' from the Actions drop-down in the upper right of the General Info page in the course dashboard.
To unpublish, simply select 'Unpublish' from the Actions drop-down in the upper right of the General Info page or the Course Content page in the dashboard.
Delete the Course
To delete a course, the admin must remove all enrollees in the course first, and then select 'Delete' from the Action drop-down in the course dashboard's General Info page.
This cannot be reversed and all course data: lessons, chapters, etc. will be deleted by this action.
The system will prompt the admin to delete all enrollees first before allowing the course to be deleted.
I want to get started!
Courses are available as an add-on module, so reach out to the Gradual team if you'd like to learn more.