Everything you need to run your academy

Short, step-by-step guides for academy admins, from creating your academy to your students’ first certificates.

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How courses work — Sections, topics, and Draft, Published and Archived.
Create a course — Title, description, cover, level and how it shows on your website.
Build the curriculum — Add sections and topics, and put them in order.
Add a video — Upload a lesson video and add chapters.
Add a quiz — Questions, passing score, attempts and time limit.
Create questions from Excel — Write a whole quiz or test in the Excel template and upload it.
Documents and links — Notes, worksheets and further reading.
Publish, clone, archive or delete — Preview, publish or unpublish a course, start a new one from it, retire it, or remove it.
Course health — See where students stop and how quizzes go.
Certificates — How certificates are issued and checked.
Free courses and free lessons — Make a whole course, a section or a lesson free for any student.

How online tests work — Question papers students take online, free or paid, without lessons.
Create an online test — Add tests, order them, give some away as free samples, and publish.
Test results — Every student's best score, ranked, with categories, and a download.

How batches work — A group learning between two dates, with classes added as they happen.
Create a batch — Dates, classes, recordings, attached courses, and telling students about a new class.
Students in a batch — Add and remove students, what they are told, and what they see.
Batches on your website — A batch page with its dates, an outline you write, and enquiries.

How instructors work — Teachers who work only on the courses you give them, with the permissions you choose.
Invite an instructor — Invite, edit, unblock, deactivate, and change an admin into an instructor.
Assign courses and set permissions — Assign one or many, use presets, copy access, and set end dates.
Ready for review — Instructors say a draft is ready; admins publish it or send it back.
Student progress — Each student's progress on a course, and who is falling behind.
Instructor activity — What instructors changed, what they were refused, and when they signed in.
What instructors see — For instructors: your dashboard, your courses and your account.

What visitors see — Your academy's public website and course list, before anyone signs in.
Show course details — Let visitors read each course's curriculum and meet its instructor.
Enquiries — Questions sent from your public page.

Add a student — Create a student account and send the welcome email.
Let students sign up — Turn on student sign-up, and what happens when someone uses it.
Find and manage students — Search, filter, edit, deactivate and restore.
A student's progress — Courses, activity and quiz results for one student.

How enrollment works — What an enrollment is, and its statuses.
Enroll students — Put one student, or many at once, on a course.
Track and remove enrollments — Follow progress, and take a student off a course.

Your students' experience — Activation, My Courses, lessons, quizzes and certificates.

How pay-as-you-go works — What you are charged for, and what is free.
Add balance — Top up your academy's balance.
Refer & earn — Earn credit when academies you invite make their first payment.
Limits and alerts — Spending limits and low-balance emails.
When your balance runs out — What pauses, and what keeps working.
Fixed plans — A 1-year or 3-year plan instead of pay-as-you-go, and what happens when it ends.
Statements and invoices — Usage, transactions, statements and tax invoices.

Set up course payments — Your payout account, and switching on online payments.
Sell a course — Price a course and see what you receive.
Sales & payouts — On a fixed plan: what students paid, Paatya's commission, and what Paatya has paid you.
Refund a student — Offer refunds, choose which courses and for how long, and refund a student.

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