Public course pages, previews, and access levels

Overview

Every published, public course has a public course page — the marketing surface a prospect sees before they enroll. StretchLearn lets you shape that page with headlines and an overview, offer a limited preview of the curriculum, require a particular account level for full access, and add SEO metadata so the page can be found in search.

What lives on a public course page

The public page is built from fields you set on the course:

• Public headline and public subheadline — the hook at the top of the page.
• Overview body — the long-form pitch: who it's for, what they'll learn, why it matters.
• Cover image and hero image — the card artwork and the page header art.
• Learning outcomes — the concrete "after this course you can…" list.
• Instructor name — who teaches it.
• Curriculum — the module-and-lesson outline, with previewable lessons marked.
• SEO title and SEO description — the title and snippet shown in search results.

Set up the public page

1. Open the course in the Builder (select it in Catalog or Records first).
2. Click Edit course and fill in the public headline, public subheadline, and overview body.
3. Add a cover image and hero image so the page and card look finished.
4. Confirm the learning outcomes read as clear, benefit-led statements.
5. Fill in the SEO title and SEO description for search engines.
6. Publish the course (status published, visibility public) so the page goes live.

Tip: The overview body is your sales pitch. Open with the transformation ("Certify your operators in under an hour") before you list the mechanics.

Curriculum previews

A preview lets a non-enrolled visitor sample the course before committing. Two settings control it:

• Preview enabled — turns previews on or off for the course. It's on by default.
• Preview lesson limit — how many lessons a visitor can open for free. The default is 1.

With previews on and a limit of 1, a visitor can open your first lesson, get a feel for your teaching, and then hit an enroll prompt for the rest. Raise the limit to give away more, or turn previews off entirely for gated content.

Tip: Order your single strongest introductory lesson first so the free preview does the selling. The preview always exposes lessons from the top of the curriculum.

Access levels: preview vs full access

StretchLearn distinguishes what a visitor can see from what an enrolled learner can do:

• Visibility (public / internal) decides whether the course page is publicly reachable at all.
• Preview decides how much of the curriculum a non-enrolled visitor can sample.
• Member access level decides the account level a learner needs for full lesson access — for example, a registered account. This is what separates a browsing visitor from an enrolled learner.

Put together: a public course shows its page to anyone, lets them preview the allowed number of lessons, and requires the specified member access level to enroll and unlock the full curriculum.

A realistic example

Course: Operator Certification
Visibility: public
Public headline: Certify your operators in an afternoon
Preview enabled: yes
Preview lesson limit: 1
Member access level: registered
SEO title: Operator Certification Course | Payne Coaching Co.

A prospect finds the page in search, reads the overview, opens the first lesson free, and is prompted to create a registered account and enroll to continue. Everything beyond lesson one requires enrollment.

Tips

• Fill in SEO title and SEO description for every public course — a blank SEO description means search engines invent their own snippet.
• Keep the public subheadline to one line that names the audience ("For new floor operators and their supervisors").
• If a course is client-only or internal training, set visibility to internal and consider turning preview enabled off.
• Revisit the preview lesson limit if enrollment is low — giving away one more lesson can lift conversions.

Troubleshooting

• The public page 404s. The course must be published and public. Draft or internal courses have no public page.
• Visitors can see too many/too few lessons for free. Adjust preview lesson limit, or set preview enabled off to gate everything.
• The page looks bare in search results. Add an SEO title and SEO description; without them, search engines fall back to whatever text they can find.
• The hero image isn't showing. Confirm the hero image field is set on the course; the cover image is used on the card, the hero on the page header.

What to do next

• Promote featured courses with Publishing and managing your catalog.
• See the visitor's side in Browse and enroll within The Learner Experience.