Create a lesson

To create a lesson in a section and configure its settings, please follow the steps below.

Step 1: Click on the relevant program

Step 2: In the relevant section, click on "Add new lesson"

Step 3: Click on the pencil to configure your lesson settings

A new lesson entitled "Untitled lesson" appears.

Click on the pencil to configure your lesson settings.

Step 4: Name your lesson

Step 5: Add a drip delay if you want

The drip delay allows you to define when this lesson will be accessible when a member subscribes to your offer.

You can thus control the unlocking of lessons of your program.

Setting a drip delay is very useful when:

You want to unlock your content as you go along
You offer a money-back guarantee for X days (you unlock the rest of the program after the X days of guarantee)

Example:

If you set the "drip delay"of this lesson to 3:

Members will have access to this lesson 3 days after joining the program.
Between the day of joining and day 3, the member will not have access to this lesson.

Warning:

⚠ The lesson drip delay and the section drip delay add up.

If the section drip is 7 days and the lesson drip is 3 days, the actual drip on the lesson will be 10 days.

Step 6: Lock progress until complete

Sometimes, new members tend to click directly on the lesson/section that interests them, without even looking at the preceding content.

This can have an impact on the pedagogy of your program.

To avoid this, you can lock a member's progress in a given lesson.

The rest of the program will be locked until the member has validated all the steps in this lesson.

The member must therefore validate all the steps in this lesson to access the rest of your program.

Step 7: Publish your lesson

Step 8: Select the type of lesson

You can create 4 different types of lesson:

Text
PDF
Video
Audio
Embed

8.1 "Text" lesson type

You can write the content of your lesson in the "description" field.

You can format your lesson and insert illustrations.

Click on Save to validate the added content.

Tips:

The Description field is available regardless of the type of lesson selected.
You can add videos, images, audios and PDFs to your lesson description.

8.2 "PDF" type lesson

Click on "Choose a file" to open the window which will allow you to select the PDF of your choice on your computer.

This PDF will be displayed in "reader" mode for your members.

8.3 "Video" type lesson

Click on "browse files" to open the window where you can select the video of your choice on your computer.

You can also integrate a video hosted on one of these platforms by adding the link to your video:

Youtube
Vimeo
Wistia
Loom

Please note:

If you're hosting your video on another platform, make sure that its privacy settings are correct.

Do not hesitate to try a different privacy setting if your video isn't detected by SchoolMaker.

8.4 "Audio" type lesson

Click on "Choose a file" to open the window that lets you select the audio file of your choice on your computer.

8.5 "Embed" type lesson

Insert the code of your choice in the "Embed code" field.

Examples of possible integrations:

A Google Form
Genial.ly content
Your Calendly calendar
...

Step 9: Click on "Save" to save your lesson

Step 10: Add resources to your lesson (optional)

You can add additional resources to your lesson.

Indicate the name of your resource and then:

If you wish to refer your members to a web page, paste the link in the field: "Link url".
If you wish to refer your members to a file, click on Choose a file and select the relevant file on your computer.

Your members will see resources like this in the lesson:

If it's a URL link
If it's a downloadable file

Now let's find out how to create a step in a lesson.