Courses & curriculum

Structure a course with modules and items, and organize your catalog with categories, tags, and difficulty.

A course in CourseGlade is a container for a curriculum — modules (sections) that hold lessons and quizzes in the order you choose.

The building blocks

Course — title, description, thumbnail, price, and taxonomy
Module — a named section inside the course (labeled “Module” in the curriculum builder)
Item — a video lesson, audio lesson, text lesson, quiz, or assignment (assignments require the Pro Assignments addon)

See Create your first course for the exact builder steps.

What a course holds

The course editor is organized into tabs beyond the curriculum:

General — title, slug, short and full description, thumbnail, intro video, duration, difficulty, categories, and tags
Pricing — regular and sale price (0 = free), plus whether the course accepts one-time purchases, subscription plans, or both; see Payment gateways
Access & Visibility — visibility (Public, Private, or Password protected), start/end dates, enrollment deadline, access duration, per-course overrides for Course Reviews, Q&A / Discussions, and Sequential Learning, and (with the Pro Certificates addon) the certificate design
Enrollment — Maximum Students (0 = unlimited), optional Fake Students Count, and a Featured Course toggle
Instructors — assign instructors and set revenue splits; see Instructor profiles
Advanced — Learning Outcomes, Target Audience, Requirements, and Downloadable Resources

Item types

Inside a module you can add:

Video Lesson — YouTube, Vimeo, or a self-hosted file; see Video lessons
Audio Lesson — an uploaded audio file or direct audio URL played inline; see Audio lessons
Text Lesson — rich-text content with attachments
Quiz — any of the eight question types
Assignment — student submissions (the Pro Assignments addon)

Each lesson has its own settings — Allow Preview, Make Mandatory, and Enable Comments.

Organize the catalog

CourseGlade registers three taxonomies:

Course categories (courseglade_course_cat)
Course tags (courseglade_course_tag)
Difficulty (courseglade_difficulty) — Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, All Levels are created for you

These give you clean, SEO-friendly archive URLs and let you group your catalog.

Catalog filtering

The [courseglade_courses] catalog page shows a search box, a sort control (newest, oldest, title A–Z, title Z–A, most popular, top rated, price low–high, price high–low), and filters for category, difficulty level, and price (free vs. paid, or a price range). You can scope the catalog to a category with the shortcode’s category attribute or the ?course_category= URL parameter:

[courseglade_courses category="design"]

The shortcode also takes attributes to control which filters show, hide individual ones, and set what each starts on — useful when embedding a narrower catalog view on a landing page.

The Courses Per Page and Grid Columns for the catalog are set in Settings → Course → Catalog Layout.