Editing a live course

A published course can still be changed. An edit to a lesson that is already live shows to students as soon as it saves. A new lesson stays a draft until you release it.

How to release new lessons

1. 1.

   Choose Publish N lessons in the Editor's top bar, or Release new content on the publish page.

2. 2.

   The drafts go live: "1 lesson is now live." or "N lessons are now live."

3. 3.

   A lesson with nothing in it, or with a quiz that has no questions, stays a draft. The Editor names it after Still drafts.

What students see

• Students who enrolled before a new lesson see a dot on it until they open it. The course shows New material on their Dashboard.
• The course page's Updated date moves when lessons are released, not on every edit.
• Nobody is emailed about edits. To tell students, post an announcement: see Announcements.

Rules and limits

• Every saved version of each block is kept, to restore from Version history.
• If a lesson was changed somewhere else meanwhile, the Editor stops saving and asks you to reload, so nothing is overwritten.
• Search reads the title, skills, category, description and modules, not lesson text.
• Never cut the core content students paid for. Fix broken content and confirmed errors within 14 days of notice (Course Content Policy).