Courses

Release lessons over time

Roll a course out week by week by publishing lessons as you go, and let members know when new ones arrive.

Members only see published lessons, so you can open a course with the first module and add the rest on your own schedule.

Automatic drip isn't available. Lessons can't be set to unlock on a date, or a number of days after someone enrolls. Everything below is done by hand. Every enrolled member sees a lesson as soon as you publish it, whenever they joined.

When to use this

  • You're launching a course before it's finished and recording as you go.
  • You want a group to move through the material together, one module a week.
  • You want to keep people from bingeing everything on day one.

Steps

Build the whole outline

In the Content builder, create all your modules and lessons up front, even if some are only titles for now. Members won't see draft lessons.

Publish the first module's lessons

Open each lesson in module 1 and click Publish Lesson. Leave the rest as Draft.

Say when the rest arrives

In the course description, or in a welcome lesson, tell people the plan: "A new module opens every Monday."

Publish the course

Click Publish course. People can enroll and start module 1.

Each week, publish the next lessons

Open the next module's lessons and click Publish Lesson on each. Enrolled members see them straight away.

Let members know

Post an announcement and pick your course's enrollees as the recipients, so only they're notified.

Make it feel automatic

  • Pair it with a Private Path. A Private Path sends scheduled text or email prompts, such as "This week: Module 2, Opening the Heart". It's the closest thing to a drip sequence on Soul. People join the path separately.
  • Set a reminder for yourself for each release day, so lessons go out on time.

Good to know

  • A lesson needs content before you can publish it. Titles-only lessons stay as drafts until you add a video, a block or quiz questions.
  • Unpublishing hides a lesson again. Use it if you published one too early.

What your members see

Only the lessons you've published, in order. New lessons appear in the course sidebar the moment you publish them.