Courses and video overview
How a course is organized in Zanfia, which lesson types exist, where the course editor, analytics, certificates and transcripts live, and what your clients see when they learn.
A course is a product of the type Course. It holds modules, and each module holds lessons: video, audio, text or a quiz. You build it in the course editor, sell it through a checkout like any other product, and your clients watch it in the client area on your own site.
Creating the product, its checkouts and prices is covered in Products. This category covers everything inside the course.
How a course is organized
| Level | What it is | What you can set |
|---|---|---|
| Course | The product your client buys. | Name, cover, checkouts, certificate, completion threshold, "Ask the course" |
| Module | A section of the course. Every lesson belongs to one module. | Name, description, thumbnail, status, drip, completion requirement |
| Lesson | One unit of content. Its type decides what the client sees. | Title, description, thumbnail, status, content, attachments, tags, drip |
Lesson types you can add from the Add menu:
| Type | What the client gets |
|---|---|
| Video lesson | A video you upload; it is encoded for streaming and played in the lesson. |
| External video lesson | A video hosted elsewhere, embedded from its link. |
| Audio lesson | An audio file with a player that remembers the position and speed. |
| Text lesson | A written lesson. |
| Quiz | Questions with an optional passing score. AI quiz drafts one for you. |
Where things live
| Screen | Route | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Courses | /courses | The list of your courses, in the Products group of the sidebar. |
| Course hub | /courses/<productId>/content | The Course tab: tiles, launch checklist, pulse and activity. |
| Course editor | /courses/<productId>/lessons | Full-screen editor for modules and lessons. |
| Course analytics | /courses/<productId>/analytics | Progress, drop-off and quiz results. |
| Certificates | /certificates | Issued certificates and templates, under Customers in the sidebar. |
| Media | /media, /media/transcripts | Your uploaded files and the transcripts of your videos. |
| Client library | /app/library on your site | My Products: what the client bought, with Continue watching. |
| Client course player | /app/courses/<course> on your site | Where the client watches lessons and takes quizzes. |
The Course tab of the hub
Opening a course lands on its Course tab. Two tiles are always there: Course content opens the course editor and shows the number of modules, lessons and draft lessons, and Analytics opens the full report.
While the course is a draft, the tab shows Get ready to launch: Add your course content, Create a checkout, Publish your course and Share your checkout link. Skip setup and show the normal view hides the checklist; Show the launch checklist brings it back.
Once the course is published, the tab shows:
- Needs attention: draft lessons your students cannot see, the lesson where most students stop, a quiz most students fail, failed renewals and past-due subscriptions. Each row links to the place where you fix it.
- Pulse · last 30 days: Revenue, New students, Completion rate and Active this week.
- Continue: the lesson you edited last, with Continue editing.
- Assistant suggestions and Activity: nudges you can hand to the assistant, and a feed of enrollments, renewals and completions.
What your plan affects
Course features in the editor are not locked behind a specific plan. Your plan does set how many products can be published at once (see Product limits), how much storage your uploads can use, and how many AI credits and transcription minutes you have each month. AI tools in the course editor and the "Ask the course" tutor use AI credits; transcribing videos uses transcription minutes. See AI credits and Buy AI credits, transcription minutes and storage for credits, minutes and add-ons.
Coming soon
Studio, the video editor that cuts Reels out of your recordings, is not available to all accounts yet. Until it launches, the Studio entry in the sidebar and the Reel buttons on a transcript page are marked as coming soon.
Articles in this category
- Build a course: modules, lessons, ordering, duplicating and importing.
- Lesson statuses and drip: publish, lock, release content over time, require a quiz pass.
- Video lessons: upload, encoding states, bulk upload, external video, thumbnails.
- Audio lessons: upload an audio file and what the client's player does.
- Transcripts, chapters and moments: transcribe videos, mark chapters, download captions.
- Quizzes: questions, passing score, attempts, statistics.
- Generate a quiz with AI: a draft quiz from one lesson, a module or the whole course.
- AI tools in the course editor: course outline, lesson summary, text lesson from a video.
- Course certificates: automatic and manual certificates, revoking, what the client receives.
- Certificate templates: design the certificate layout.
- The "Ask the course" AI tutor: let clients ask questions answered from your lessons.
- Course analytics: learners, completion funnel, export.
- What your clients see: the library, Continue watching and the course player.
- Troubleshooting courses and video: missing lessons, locks, certificates, the device limit, playback and quiz attempts.
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