CourseGlade

Create your first course

Build a course end to end — details, curriculum, lessons, a quiz, pricing, and publishing — with exact screens.

This walks the real editor, screen by screen, from an empty course to a published one.

1. Start a new course

In wp-admin, open CourseGlade → Courses, then click New Course (top-right). You land in the course editor on the General tab.

The editor has seven tabs down the side: General, Curriculum, Pricing, Access & Visibility, Enrollment, Instructors, and Advanced.

Course Management list with a New Course button top right, bulk action and filter controls, and a table of courses showing thumbnail, title, instructor, category, price, status and created date
CourseGlade → Courses. New Course sits top right; the row actions edit, preview, and delete.

2. Fill in the General tab

  • Course Title (required) — e.g. “Masterclass in Advanced Typography”
  • Course URL Slug — the page URL (auto-filled from the title)
  • Short Description — the catalog blurb
  • Course Description — the full rich-text description
  • Sidebar cards: Thumbnail, Intro Video, Duration, Difficulty, Categories, Tags

Set the status in the top bar (Draft, Published, Pending Review, or Private) and click Save.

Course editor General tab with the tab sidebar on the left and fields for course title, course URL, short description and a rich-text course description, with a course thumbnail card on the right
The General tab. The Course URL is generated from the title and editable via the pencil.

Save before building the curriculum. The Curriculum tab is locked until the course is saved — until then it shows “Save the course first to start building your curriculum.”

3. Build the curriculum

Open the Curriculum tab. Content is organized into modules (sections), each holding lessons and quizzes.

  1. Click Add First Module, enter a Module Title (e.g. “Module 1: Introduction”), and click Add Module.
  2. Inside the module, click Start building (or Add Lesson or Quiz) to open the Add New Content dialog.
  3. Under Select Content Type, choose:
    • Video Lesson
    • Text Lesson
    • Quiz
    • Assignment — needs the Pro Assignments addon; the option is visible but disabled until it’s active
  4. Click Add to Module.
Add New Content dialog over the curriculum builder, offering Video Lesson, Text Lesson, Quiz and Assignment as selectable content types with Cancel and Add to Module buttons
The Add New Content picker, shown here with the Assignments addon active. Add to Module stays disabled until you choose a type.

Reorder modules and items any time by dragging the grip handles — including moving an item into a different module. Add more sections with Add New Module.

Curriculum Builder with Module 1 expanded showing three video lessons, drag handles, Add Lesson or Quiz, and an Add New Module drop zone
The Curriculum Builder. Drag the grip handles to reorder; the footer buttons step through the course tabs.

4. Add a video lesson

In the Video Lesson Editor:

  • Lesson Title (required)
  • Estimated Study Time, Status (Draft/Published), Description
  • Video Source — pick Upload File, YouTube/Vimeo, or External URL. For YouTube/Vimeo, paste the URL; for uploads, drop an MP4/WebM/MOV (up to 500MB).
  • Lesson Settings toggles — Allow Preview (watch without enrolling), Make Mandatory (must finish to progress), Enable Comments (Q&A below the video)
  • Attachments — attach downloadable files
Video Lesson Editor with title, estimated study time and description on the left, the Upload File / YouTube-Vimeo / External URL source picker below, and Lesson Settings toggles plus attachments in the right sidebar
The Video Lesson Editor. The Content Drip control in the sidebar appears only with the Pro Content Drip addon active.

Click Save Lesson. A Text Lesson works the same way with a rich-text Lesson Content field instead of video.

5. Add a quiz

In the Quiz Builder:

  1. Give the quiz a title, then click Add Question to Quiz.
  2. Pick a type from the question-type menu — Multiple Choice, Single Choice, True / False, Fill in the Blank, Short Answer, Matching, Ordering, or Essay. (Short Answer and Essay are marked “Manual grading required”.)
  3. Enter the question text, answers, and per-question Points, Hint, and Explanation.
  4. In Quiz Settings set Passing Grade (50% by default), Time Limit (blank = unlimited), and Max Attempts (blank = unlimited), plus toggles like Randomize Questions and Show Correct Answers.
  5. Click Publish Quiz.
Quiz editor listing questions by type with an expanded True / False question showing points, hint and explanation fields, beside a Quiz Settings panel of passing grade, time limit, max attempts and toggles
The quiz builder. Per-question settings sit under each question; quiz-wide rules live in the right-hand Quiz Settings panel.

See Quizzes & grading for the grading workflow.

6. Set pricing

On the Pricing tab:

  • Regular Price — the base price shown to students
  • Sale Price — optional; must be lower than the regular price

A price of 0 makes the course free. Payment gateways are configured globally, not per course — see Payment gateways.

Course Pricing tab with a Standard Rate card containing Regular Price and optional Sale Price fields
The Pricing tab. Revenue splits between co-instructors are set on the Instructors tab, not here.

7. Access, enrollment, and extras

  • Access & Visibility — set visibility (Public, Private, or Password protected, which reveals an Access Password field), scheduling dates, and per-course toggles for Course Reviews, Q&A / Discussions, and Sequential Learning. With the Pro Certificates addon active, choose a Certificate Design here.
  • Enrollment — Maximum Students (0 = unlimited) and a Featured Course toggle.
  • Instructors — assign Course Instructors and set Revenue Splits.
  • Advanced — What You’ll Learn, Target Audience, Requirements, and Downloadable Resources.

8. Publish

Set the top-bar status select to Published and click Save. The course appears on your Courses page. (New courses default to Published, so a first Save may publish it right away — switch to Draft first if you’re not ready.)

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