If you're editing a course that's already been published, you can set individual lessons to draft status to prevent students from seeing them until you are ready!
Setting a piece of content as draft means that site/course admins will be able to edit it (and even preview the content as a student), but your real-life, existing students won't have access to it until it's published and ready-to-go! Draft content does not count toward course completion until you've published it for your students.
Use Cases for Draft Content
- Updating existing courses - Draft content allows you to edit your course without existing students being able to see the work-in-progress, meaning you are able to update/create content at any point to give extra value to your students.
- Pre-selling your course - You can also use draft content to manage prelaunch sales for your course; selling the course at a special early-bird price whilst you're still working on the finishing touches to your content.
When you add draft content to a course, it won't appear in the course's Curriculum Site Pages Section, on the course landing page, until you publish it.
How to Set Your Lesson to Draft
- Go to Manage Learning Content
- Select Courses
- Click on the image of the course you want to edit
- Click on the Lesson that you want to edit
- Check off Draft on the top right
- Click Save
Any lessons set as draft will say Draft next to their name in the Course Builder:
How to Set New Lessons to Draft by Default
You also have the option to automatically set new lessons added to your chapter to Draft!
- Go to Manage Learning Content
- Select Courses
- Click on the image of the course you want to edit
- Click on the Chapter title that you want to edit
- Check off Set new lessons to draft by default (New lessons added to the Chapter will automatically be set to draft)
- Click Save
