You don't have to give students everything on day one. Each lesson can unlock a set number of days after someone enrols, and you decide who can see the course and when new students can join.
Steps
- Open Revenue › Courses and choose your course.
- On the Curriculum tab, select a lesson.
- In Unlocks after, enter the number of days after a student enrols that the lesson opens. Use 0 for straight away. You can set up to 365 days.
- Repeat for each lesson. For a weekly course, for example, use 0, 7, 14 and so on.
- To let anyone sample a lesson from the course page before buying, turn on Free preview for that lesson.
- To stop new people joining, choose Close enrolment at the top of the course. Current students keep access. Choose Publish again to reopen it.
Remove or restore a student's access
- Open the Students tab.
- Find the student and open Student actions (the three dots).
- Choose Remove access and confirm. The student is marked No access.
- To undo it later, open Student actions again and choose Restore access.
Tips
- Drip timing is counted from each student's own enrolment date, so someone who joins later still gets lessons in the same rhythm.
- Quizzes also control pace: students must pass a quiz to move on to the next lesson.
- Free preview lessons are a good way to show your teaching style on the course page.
Troubleshooting
- A student says a lesson is locked: check its Unlocks after value and when they enrolled (shown on the Students tab), and whether an earlier quiz still needs a pass.
- New buyers can't enrol: the course may be closed. If you see Publish instead of Close enrolment, the course isn't open for new students.
- A student lost their link: open Student actions and choose Resend link.