Creating Course Lessons and Adding Course Content

Your courses can have as many Lessons (and Sublessons) as you like!

If you want to dive right into the lesson walk-through video, go ahead and do that below. You'll learn how to add images, PDFs, videos, and other content in your Teachery course.

Important note about adding any written content in Teachery: We DO NOT recommend using Microsoft Word and copying + pasting your content from Word into Teachery. If you want to use Word to write your course content, please copy + paste into a simple tool like EditPad, then copy + paste from EditPad to Teachery. 

These are the editable sections of a Lesson

• Lesson Name

• Lesson Title

• Intro Text Section (a large text area)

• Lesson Resources Box*

• Add Content (Video/Audio, etc)

• Transcript Section (just another large text area)

• Add Comments with Disqus (learn more here)

• Completed Button

• Next Lesson Button

All of these different sections of a lesson are editable and will save automatically while you are making updates or changes (yay!).

*The Lesson Resources box in the Sidebar Template will display in two places in a lesson. You can always hide it and use the Intro or Transcript sections as places to share lesson resources if you don't want to use the Lesson Resources box.

START HERE: An introduction to our Lesson Pages in Teachery

Lessons are going to be the core of your amazing online course, so let us walk you through how they work in our online course platform. The video below breaks down the basics of lessons and lesson controls, including:

• Adding new Lessons and Sublessons

• Editing the Lesson Name or Lesson URL

• Copying the Lesson URL (remember, someone has to have access to your course to view a Lesson URL or your course has to be publicly available)

• Editing the Lesson Drip Schedule (Locking Lessons)

• Duplicating a Lesson

• Deleting a Lesson

• Previewing a Lesson

How do you change the Lesson name in the left sidebar?

Once you've created a Lesson (or Sublesson), if you want to edit the name of it in the left sidebar of Teachery's course editor:

1. Click into edit that Lesson

2. Click the Actions (purple) button

3. Click "Edit Lesson Name/URL" and update the name!

How to use our friendly editor to add/edit content in various sections of a Lesson

Our lessons have a simple layout and structure to them. Watch the video below to get the hang of editing a lesson, adding content to it (images, videos, etc), as well as a bunch of other helpful tips.

NOTE: The light blue sections you see anywhere in Teachery denote those are editable. If you want to add your own language to your course, just type in your own language and you're good to go!

How to add images to your Lesson Pages

Using our built-in image tool is a breeze!

• Click into any text area

• Hit enter/return on your keyboard to start a new line

• Click the Quick Insert button and then the image icon

• Select the image from your computer

• Ta-da! (See the GIF below as an example)

Read our help doc on uploading images if you want to learn about adding images from external URLs, creating image thumbnails on the Overview page of your course, and more!

How to Upload Files for your customers to download

If you want to create links to PDFs, spreadsheets, or any other files for your students to download, simply highlight any text and upload a file to it. Below, we have a quick GIF and an additional short walkthrough video for you.

The maximum file size we allow you to upload is 10MB per file. If you need to share large files, host those yourself (via Google Drive, Dropbox, etc) and just add the file URL as a text link to any text .

How to add videos to your Lessons (we do NOT host your videos in Teachery)

We let the video hosting pros handle this task in Teachery (Wistia, YouTube, Vimeo, etc). There's an example video shown below for Vimeo.

Read our full help doc on adding videos for more information, as well as walkthrough videos for YouTube and Wistia.

How to Sort Lessons (two options)

If you want to change the order of your lessons, we give you two ways to sort your lessons.

Sort Lessons Option #1: Drag and Drop

Drag and drop lessons directly in the left sidebar. If you are using Sublessons, you can drag these to new parent Lessons.

Sort Lessons Options #2: Lesson Drip Options

Use the Lesson Drip Options Page if you have more lessons or just want a larger viewing experience to drag and drop lessons.

Bonus Tip: Want to Add Lesson Image Thumbnails on the Overview Page of Your Course?

While Teachery lessons aren't designed out of the box to have image thumbnails on the Overview Page of your course, you can accomplish this very easily:

Step #1: Click into the Lesson you want to edit

Step #2: In the "Lesson Title" field you'll want to add an image below the Lesson Title text (or you can remove the text if you don't want text).

Once the image is uploaded, click it and use the Style button, and set the image to Full Width to fill the entire area nicely!

Step #3: Click back to the Overview Page of your course OR click the "Preview Course" link in the top left of the sidebar to see your course overview page in action!

That's it! You now have lesson preview images on the Overview page of your course. You can read our related help doc on Lesson Preview Images here.

️ Advanced Tip: Want to hyperlink to other sections within the same page?

We can't ensure support for any custom code you add. We'll do our best to help, but know that custom code can cause issues if not added properly. Proceed at your own risk! Please be sure to preview your page to ensure everything is working and appearing as it should.

You can link content on a page to other sections within the same page by making use of “anchor links”. This is how you can go about it in your course overview page or any lesson page. Please only proceed if you’re comfortable with coding in HTML.

️ Create an anchor

Switch to “code view” in the content block to which you want to link by selecting any text, clicking the (+) icon in the menu widget that appears, and then the code view (bracket) icon.

Add paragraph syntax and give it an ID (in other words, an obvious and simple label) e.g. “contact”, if you want users to jump to a content block with contact details. To switch back to normal view, click the bracket icon indicated below.

<p id="contact">section text goes here</p>

Link to the anchor

Return to the content block in which you want to insert the link that will jump to another section. Select the text you want to hyperlink, click the (+) icon in the menu widget that appears, and then the link icon.

In the URL field provided, simply insert a hashtag followed by the label you decided on in the initial step e.g. #contact. Important: remove the option to open the page in a new tab.

You’re all set! Preview your page to ensure everything is working as expected.