Courses will not be visible on your site until they are published. When you are ready to start accepting enrollments, you can publish your course!
In this article:
How to Set Your Course to Draft
How to Publish Your Course for Pre-Order
Course Publish Status
There are 3 course publish status options that you can choose from:
- Draft: Students cannot purchase or enroll in the course and it will not appear in any smart sections on your site pages.
- Pre-order: Students can pre-order and enroll in the course, but cannot access any content. Student will see that the course is coming soon in their Student Dashboard.
- Published: Students can purchase, enroll in, and access the content of the course.
Check out the instructions below for how to adjust your publish state!
How to Set Your Course to Draft
When you originally create your course, it will be set to draft by default. This means that students cannot purchase or enroll in the course. It will also not be visible in any smart sections on your site pages.
If a course was previously published and then you return it to a draft status, students will no longer see the course listed in their Student Dashboard.
You can see how to update that here: How to Unpublish Your Course or Bundle
How to Publish Your Course for Pre-Order
If you want to sell your course for pre-order, then you can use the pre-order publish option! Learn how to set this up here: How to Create a Pre-Order Course
How to Publish Your Course
Use this option when you are launching your course and want students to access your lesson content! Students can purchase, enroll and view your lessons once your course is published.
- Go to Manage Learning Products
- Select Courses
- Click on the desired Draft course
- In the Course Builder, select the Publish tab
- Select Published
- Click Save
How to Publish Your Bundle
When a bundle is published, students can purchase it and will be enrolled in all courses included in the bundle. Courses included within the bundle will also need to be published in order for you students to access them.
- Under Manage Learning Products, select Memberships & Bundles
- Click on the desired Draft Bundle
- Select the Publish tab
- Click Publish