Create your first course

A course has its own row in the menu: Courses — separate from Offers. That’s deliberate: the course is the content, the offer is the price and the access. The same course can be sold through several offers.

Create the course

1. Go to Courses.
2. Click New course.
3. Write a title and a few lines of description. The description is what a member sees before she clicks in.
4. Upload a cover image if you have one. 1280 × 720 pixels sits nicely.
5. Save.

Build the structure

A course has two levels: modules that hold lessons. The module is the chapter, the lesson is the content.

1. Click Add module and name it something you’d say out loud: “Week 1”, “Breathing”, “Getting started”.
2. Click Add lesson inside the module.
3. Choose what the lesson holds: video, text, or both.
4. Save.

You can drag modules and lessons to reorder them, and move a lesson between modules.

Keep modules small. Three to seven lessons each is plenty — a long list scares people off before they’ve started.

Add video

Upload straight into the lesson. Idun Blue converts the file into streaming video for you, so it plays smoothly on both phone and desktop. It takes a few minutes per film and runs in the background — you can keep working meanwhile.

Details in Upload video.

Before you publish

Check three things:

• Can anyone reach the course? A course doesn’t appear on its own. It becomes available through an offer — see Create offers. Without an offer, the course exists only for you.
• Should the content be released gradually? See Drip scheduling.
• Should members get a certificate at the end? Turn the feature on first in Settings → Features — it’s off by default. See Certificates.

Publish

Click Publish at the top of the course. It’s now available to everyone who has access to it.

Test it as a member before you invite anyone: create a free offer for yourself, log in to app.idun.blue with a different email address and go through the first module. It takes ten minutes and saves you from the lesson that turned out empty.

Tips

• One idea per lesson. If you want to say two things, make two lessons.
• Write lesson titles that promise something: “How to breathe when it hurts” beats “Lesson 3”.
• Make the first lesson in each module short and give a quick win. That’s where people decide to keep going.