Once you've created your Course and carefully crafted your course landing page, you're just about ready to publish your course. Take a few minutes to go through the checklist below to make sure you haven't missed anything!
Use this checklist as a general guide to determine what steps you will want to consider before publishing your first course.
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Check lessons with warnings
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Make sure that you don't see any red warnings of missing content in the Curriculum tab.
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Uncheck Draft on all the chapters and lessons you want to available to your students
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Even if your course is published, the Draft setting will keep content hidden until this setting is removed. Learn more about draft content: Creating Draft Content for Your Course
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Set up a payment integration
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Don't forget to link to Thinkific Payments, Stripe, and/or PayPal to accept payments. Learn more about the different payment integration options:
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Take a run-through of your course as a student
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Preview your course as a student (by hitting Preview from the top right-hand corner of the course builder) to see if there's anything you've missed. Learn more about previewing your course: Previewing Your Course as a Student
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Customize your site home page
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You can add branding to your site and home page. Learn more about this here: Build Your Home Page
If this is your only course, and you would prefer your course landing page is the only page visible when visitors come to your site, you can add a home page redirect to your course landing page. Learn more about this here: Home Page Redirects
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Add a Free Preview
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Create a Free Preview of your course to generate leads. Learn more about this here: Create a Free Course Preview
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Enable discussions
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Add a discussion component to your course. Learn more about this here: On-Lesson Discussions
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Customize your site notifications
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Customize the emails students will receive when they sign up for your course. Learn more about this here: Automated Email Notifications
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Got all of this covered? Huzzah! You're ready to publish your course! Learn more about how to publish your course: Publishing Your Products
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Still have questions about publishing your first course? Feel free to reach out to our Support team!