Courses
Update, unpublish or retire a course
Edit a live course without disrupting students, and know what happens when you unpublish, archive or delete it.
You can change a published course at any time. What matters is knowing which changes students see straight away, and which ones take the course away from them.
When to use this
- Fix a typo, swap a video or add a new lesson to a live course.
- Take a course down for a while to rework it.
- Retire a course you no longer offer.
Edit a live course
| Change | How | What students notice |
|---|---|---|
| Title, description, cover | ⋯ → Edit details | Updates immediately. |
| Price | Course details → Course settings → Price → Edit | New buyers only. Enrolled students keep access. |
| Add a lesson | Content builder → module → New Lesson, then Publish Lesson | Appears as soon as it's published. |
| Change a lesson | Open it, edit, Save Changes | Updates immediately. |
| Hide a lesson | Open it, Unpublish | Disappears for everyone until you publish it again. |
| Reorder | Drag the handles in Course Structure | Updates immediately. |
| Delete a lesson or module | ⋯ → Delete | Gone for everyone. |
Working on a big change? Build the new lessons as Draft, then publish them all at once when they're ready. Students never see the work in progress.
Take a course down
| Option | How | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Unpublish | Unpublish at the top of the course page (or Move to Draft from the list) | The course disappears from your portal and nobody can open it, including enrolled students. Publish again and their access and progress come back. |
| Archive | ⋯ → Edit details → Status → Archived | Same as unpublishing for students. The course stays on your list under the Archived filter. |
| Delete | ⋯ → Delete course | Permanently removes the course. "This action cannot be undone." |
There's no way to stop new enrollments while keeping the course open for current students. Unpublishing or archiving cuts off everyone. To wind a course down gently, tell students in advance with an announcement to the course's enrollees, give them time to finish, and only then unpublish.
Good to know
- Don't delete a course people have paid for unless you've told them and sorted out any refunds. See Refunds.
- Changing visibility to Private stops non-subscribers from enrolling. People already enrolled keep their access.
- Deleting a module deletes the lessons inside it.
What your members see
Edits appear the next time they open the course. An unpublished, archived or deleted course is no longer available: anyone who opens its link sees "This course may have been unpublished or is no longer available."