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Building a course ​

A course on Klixey is a series of lessons grouped into modules. Modules are your chapters or weeks; lessons are the things students actually consume. You build both in the same editor — a phone-style preview on the left, an editor panel on the right, and a save indicator that ticks over as you type.

Quick answer

Open the course from Products. The Setup tab opens with a phone preview on the left and an editor panel on the right. Click + Add module, then add lessons inside each module. Click any module or lesson to edit it on the right. Drag to reorder, drag between modules to reorganize. There's no Save button — Klixey saves as you go.

Opening the course editor ​

From the Products list in the sidebar, click the course you want to edit. The course editor opens with three tabs across the top:

TabWhat you do here
SetupBuild the curriculum — modules, lessons, videos, written content.
CheckoutEdit the buy page that customers see before they pay.
SettingsCourse-specific settings. Lightweight today — more will land here.

Most of the work happens in Setup. The other two tabs come into play once your curriculum is in place.

Modules and lessons — what's the difference? ​

A module is a container. Think of it as a chapter, a week, a phase — whatever structure fits your material. Modules don't have video themselves. They group the things that do.

A lesson is the unit a student watches or reads. Every lesson belongs to a module. Lessons can hold a video, written content, or both. They can also be text-only — useful for short concept lessons, exercise prompts, or recap pages.

A sensible course usually has 3–8 modules, with anywhere from 3 to 20 lessons each. There's no hard rule — pick a shape that matches how you'd teach the material live.

The Setup tab at a glance ​

When the Setup tab opens, you'll see two halves:

  • Left — phone-style preview. A live view of the course as a student would see it on a phone. Module headings, lesson titles, lock icons, the whole thing.
  • Right — editor panel. Whichever module or lesson you've selected, this is where you fill in its title, description, and content.

Everything you change on the right reflects in the preview a beat later. You don't have to save and reload — it just updates.

Adding a module ​

In the phone preview, scroll to the bottom of the course outline and click + Add module. A new module is created with a placeholder title and the cursor jumps to the title field in the editor panel on the right.

Give the module a name. You can also add a short description — this shows up in the customer portal under the module heading, so use it to set context for what the module covers.

Adding a lesson ​

Inside any module in the preview, click + Add lesson at the bottom of that module's list. A new lesson is created and the editor panel switches to its fields.

A lesson has:

  • Title — what students see in the sidebar.
  • Rich text content — the body of the lesson. Format text, add headings, drop in links and images. This is where most of your written material goes.
  • Video — optional; upload a file or embed from YouTube, Vimeo, Loom, or a CloudFront URL. See Course videos.

Save isn't a button — keep typing and it just keeps saving. The indicator in the editor panel shows you when a change has landed.

Editing modules and lessons ​

Click any module or lesson in the preview to focus its fields on the right. Click a different one to switch. The editor panel always reflects whatever you most recently clicked.

A handy shortcut: clicking the title of a module or lesson in the preview jumps you straight to the title field in the editor. Clicking the description area jumps to the content editor. It's faster than scrolling through the panel tree.

Reordering modules and lessons ​

The whole outline is drag-friendly:

  • Move a module up or down — drag it by the handle to a new position in the outline.
  • Move a lesson within its module — drag it above or below other lessons.
  • Move a lesson into a different module — drag it out of its current module and drop it inside another.

The new order saves the moment you drop it. There's no "confirm" step.

Reorder before you write

If you know your course shape, lay out empty modules and empty lesson placeholders first, then write the content. Reorganizing skeletons is much easier than reorganizing finished lessons.

Deleting modules and lessons ​

Each module and each lesson has a small menu next to its title in the preview. Open it and pick Delete.

A few things to know:

  • Deleting a module deletes its lessons too. If a module had lessons inside it, those lessons go away with the module. There's no "move to another module" prompt.
  • Deleting a lesson removes its video. An uploaded video is removed from your storage as well; an embedded video just has its link removed.
  • Deleting is permanent. There's no undo step in the editor — if you delete a lesson, you'll need to rebuild it.

If you're not sure, hold off. Renaming or moving a lesson costs nothing; deleting it is the only step that can't be reversed.

Autosave ​

Every field saves itself as you edit. The indicator beside each field shows you what's happening:

StatusWhat it means
Saving…Your latest change is on its way.
SavedEverything is up to date.
Couldn't saveThe change didn't land. Klixey retries; if a real error blocks it, you'll see what to fix.

If two people on your team open the same course in two browsers and edit at once, Klixey merges the drafts so neither person loses work. See Autosave for the full story.

What students see ​

Once you publish the course and a student is enrolled, they see:

  • A welcome screen with an optional welcome video and the list of modules.
  • A lesson view with the video on top (if there is one), your written content below, and a sidebar listing every module and lesson.
  • Progress tracking — finished lessons get a checkmark; the progress bar fills as they work through.

For the full walkthrough of the student experience, see What customers see in your course.

The Checkout and Settings tabs ​

The Checkout tab is where you edit the buy page that customers see before they pay — the headline, the description, the banner image, and the payment area below. See Editing checkout and confirmation copy for the full guide. The same patterns apply to every product type.

The Settings tab is reserved for course-specific options. Today it holds a small set; more options will land here as we build them out. If you don't see what you're looking for, it's most likely in Setup or Checkout.

Who on your team can edit a course? ​

Anyone with the Owner, Admin, or Editor role on the workspace can build a course. Viewers can see the editor but can't change anything. See Roles & permissions for the full matrix.

Tips for working faster ​

  • Sketch the outline before you write. Modules and lesson titles first, then videos and bodies. The skeleton tells you whether the course flows.
  • Use the preview to click-to-edit. Click any title in the preview and the editor jumps to it. Faster than scrolling the panel.
  • Keep lesson titles short. They show up in a sidebar — long titles get cut off on smaller screens.
  • Don't worry about perfect order on the first pass. Drag-to-reorder is the most-used tool in this editor for a reason.

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