When creating a Drip Schedule for your course, you have the option to set it to a specific calendar date and time. This gives every student the same start date/time and release schedule!
About This Feature
When Drip is based on a specific date, every student will have the same Drip Schedule regardless of when they enroll into your course. This option is great for cohorts that need to progress through a course together!
How It Works
Within your course Drip settings, you will be able to specify what date/time should the content be released at and specify the release date for every lesson in your course.
The course content will begin the release at the date and time you specify in the Drip Schedule setting.
If you customize individual lesson drip schedules, students will have access to the content at the same time that is set in the main Drip Schedule settings. For example, if you set your Drip Schedule to begin releasing content on Jan 1st, 2024 at 4:00pm PST, and you set Lesson 2 to release at Jan 2nd, 2024, Lesson 2 will also release at 4:00pm PST on that day.
Content will be available at the same moment for all students around the world. For those in New York, it would be 7:00pm EST on Jan 1st, 2024 and for Vancouver, it would be 4:00pm PST on Jan 1st, 2024.
Students who sign up after 4:00pm PST on Jan 1st, 2024 will immediately have access to your content.
How to Set a Drip Schedule by Calendar Date
- Go to Products
- Select Courses
- Click on the course you want to edit
- Select the Drip schedule tab
- Click Create a drip schedule OR if you have an existing Drip Schedule, go to Step 6
- In the Drip Type section, select On a specific date
- Click OK in the warning prompt: Are you sure? This will clear your course's schedule
- Under Begin releasing content on: select your desired release date and time. This will apply to all lessons in the course. Individual lessons can later be customized one at a time.
- Click on the chapter titles you see on the left side of the screen to start customizing the Drip Schedule for each lesson
- For any lessons that require a unique release date, edit the calendar date under the lesson title
Note that the individual lessons will be released at the same time that is selected in the main drip settings.
- Click Save
To learn more about how Drip works and what your students will experience, check out: Drip Schedule
Frequently Asked Questions
What happens if I enroll a student after the initial start date?
Any student who is enrolled in the course will immediately have access to all lessons released on a previous date, even if they sign up after the drip schedule is already underway.
For example, if you have been releasing weekly content starting on August 1st, and a student is enrolled on the 24th of August, they will have access to all the lessons released up until that point: August 1st, 7th, 14th and 21st.
What happens when a student is re-enrolled into a course with a Drip Schedule based on a Calendar Date?
The drip schedule will continue to release lessons based on the specific calendar dates that were set. If the content has already been dripped, the student will have access to it.