Publish course

The publish page shows the checklist, What goes live and the fee. The first publish charges your card $3.00 plus $0.10 per gigabyte of files in the course, once, free courses included. Publish course then puts the course live and takes you to its marketplace page.

How to publish

1. 1.

   Open Publish in the Editor.

2. 2.

   Clear every line of the checklist. See The pre-publish checklist.

3. 3.

   Read What goes live: price, visibility, category, skills, certificate, trial, enrolment cap, regional pricing and prerequisites, each linking to where it is set.

4. 4.

   Choose Publish course. If your bank wants to approve the charge, it asks on a Stripe page and sends you back.

What happens next

• The course is listed, or its link starts working if it is private.
• Its room is made, named after it, with an announcements channel and four others to start: general-chat, questions-and-help, study-lounge and resource-sharing.
• You get an email that the course is live, and a receipt for the fee.
• Nobody is enrolled; the first student is whoever joins first.

Rules and limits

• Once live, the Editor's button reads Update listing. On the publish page, Release new content puts lessons still in draft live.
• Republishing is free. The fee is not refunded if you retire the course.
• Settings go live when you save them in Course Settings, not here.
• You accepted the Creator Agreement when you switched to a creator account.

If something goes wrong

"Not ready yet: the publish checklist has open items…"

Clear the lines still open.

"No card on file…"

Add a card in Creator Dashboard → Payouts.

"Switch to a creator account in Settings → Account to publish."

Your account is a student account.