Course Settings

To access the course settings, go to Content -> Courses in your Simplero Dashboard and then click on the settings icon next to the course:

Below, we explain the different sections inside the settings:

Course Name

• Title: The public name of your course, the one that your customers will see
  
• Internal name (optional): The name on your admin side. This can help you differentiate courses internally when you have, for example, the same course every year or different cohorts
• Labels (optional)

Course Card

Shown at the top right of the Course page and in the Course Directory. This includes:

• Card Image: Shown in the Course sidebar and in the Course Catalog.
• Description: Only shown to people who have access to the course. 
• Description for Course Directory: Optionally provide a different description for the Course Directory page.
  
  See below an example of a Course Directory:
  
  
  
  Inside the course, you will see:
  
  

Publish State

Who can see your course? This is determined by the Publish state, which controls the overall course access.:

• Draft - Only admins can see that the course exists
• Published - Means viewable all the time to anyone who has access to the membership site.
  
• Dripped - Means that you control when someone who has access to the site gets access. You will need to grant access via product, list, automation, trigger, or manually. Otherwise, they will not be able to see the contents of the course, even if they have access to the site. You can let them see a preview of some lessons by using course preview settings inside each lesson.
• Schedule - Choose the date when your course will be published. This will be the same date for all of your customers. 

Community Features

• Site Group - When a member gets access ot the course, they will become members of the group
• Event series - Upcoming events for this series will automatically show at the top of the course page
• Bots - When a member gets access to the course, they will get access to that bot

Lesson Presentation

Decide whether to show the course overview as a list of lessons or modules and lessons, the author and the latest time it was updated. You can also choose a default card image for lessons, which will show if you haven't set one for the lesson.

Preview

Here, you decide how people can (or can not) purchase access to this course once they already have access to your site (this could be through a different product, list, or you can simply have an open site).

You have two options:

1. Show selected lessons for preview -
   • Note: You will then need to go to your lessons settings and choose which ones you want to show 
2. None -
   • Don't show anything. Members will not see this course at all

If you choose to show selected lessons, you will then see the option to choose:

• The message to people that doesn't have access yet
• Button label
• Button link 

*We explain in detail what it looks like for each of them in the lesson Course Preview.

Settings

This includes a few settings that are specific to courses, and you might not have seen them anywhere else in Simplero. We are going to walk you through those in detail below:

• Disallowing participants to mark lessons as completed will make this button below invisible at the end of each of the course lessons (Note: it is ON by default, if you turn on the toggle you will remove the button):

• Requiring the lesson to be completed will force the end-user to mark the lesson as complete before they can access the next lesson. Lessons further on in the course will be locked until the previous lesson has been marked as completed. 
  
  In the example below, I have completed Lesson 1, so I have access to Lesson 2. Since I haven't completed Lesson 2 yet, I do not have access to Lesson 2 yet.
  
  
  We keep record on completed lessons per member and lesson on the Members and Lessons Analytics tabs:Note: If you activate this setting after your customers begin the course, they will have to go back and mark every lesson as complete that they hadn’t already
  
  

• Disable autoplaying the next lesson after watching the main video - By default, if your customers watch the main video in the lesson they will be taken to the next one. If you don't want this to happen, turn this toggle ON. 
   
• Disallow users to leave private notes - By default, your customers will be able to leave private notes that only they can see. If you don't want this to happen, turn this toggle ON. 
  
  
• Hide from the Site Course directory, Dashboard, and Feed pages
  
  
• Exclude from "New Course content" blocks - You can exclude individual courses from appearing in the New course content sections shown on your site's Home, Feed, and Courses pages. 
  
  
  
  
• Add new lessons to the top of modules by default - When adding new lessons (either manually or automatically added by Zoom), they will be added at the top of modules
  
• Remove download links from videos, audios, and PDFs (You can also prevent downloads site-wide.) - This will remove the download links from ALL videos, audios and PDFs in your site. Note: You can still allow your customers to download some specific media files by adding them to the additional content of your lessons and choosing to allow downloads. 
  
  
• Disallow consuming your course as a podcast - By default, this section on the course sidebar will be available to listen to the course lesson as a podcast. If you don't want this to happen, turn this toggle ON. 

• Comments on course lessons
  
  
  Choose if you want to allow comments at the end of the lesson content.
  

Certificates

If you use Simplero, you don’t need to purchase separate software just to award certificates to the people who complete your courses. You can generate Certificates automatically in Simplero, thus saving money as well as making things simpler for you. Check how to do this in this manual.

Triggers

Like most places in Simplero, you can add triggers to your course. In this case, you can choose:

• When the member completed all lessons