The Editor

The Editor is where a course is built. New Course in the Instructor Dashboard opens one, as a draft called Untitled Course with a number. The course tree is on the left, what you selected is in the middle, and the top bar holds Edit and Preview, Settings, Save without publishing and Publish.

What's on it

The tree

Modules and their lessons. The + at the top adds a module, and the + on a module adds a lesson. Drag to reorder, and drop on the bin to delete.

Edit, Preview

Preview shows a lesson as students see it, and you can click through it. Nothing done there is sent: no vote, answer, submission or tick.

Settings

Course Settings: the landing page, media, disclosures, price, questionnaire and collaborators. See Course Settings.

Save without publishing

Saves the course title and the open module or lesson now, rather than a moment later, and publishes nothing. Draft lessons stay drafts, and a draft course stays a draft.

Publish

The publish page. Once the course is live it reads Update listing.

Publish N lessons

Puts draft lessons live without opening the publish page. A collaborator sees Publish my lessons, for the lessons they can edit.

When things save

• A lesson saves 1.2 seconds after you stop typing, and when you leave it. Closing the tab with unsaved changes asks first.
• Each block keeps its versions, to restore from the block's Version history.
• If the lesson was changed somewhere else meanwhile, saving stops and Reload lesson brings in the newer copy, so nothing is overwritten.
• A module's title, description and colour save on their own. If someone else changed one meanwhile, yours is not saved and the Editor says so.
• Course Settings has one Save, at the top, for every tab.

Rules and limits

• Only the course's instructor adds, deletes and reorders modules and lessons. A collaborator edits what their role allows and sees the rest read only.
• An unpublished course is a draft, seen only by you and your collaborators, and flagged in Alerts after 14 days.

If something goes wrong

"Your last changes to "…" were not saved: the lesson was changed somewhere else."

Choose Reload lesson, then make the change again.

"Only the course's instructor can reorder or move lessons."

Ask the instructor.