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How to Publish Your Courses on Heartbeat

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Once you've built your course, publishing it makes it visible to your community so members can enroll and start learning.

Steps to Publish a Course

  1. Go to the Courses tab on your left sidebar.

  2. If you haven’t created a course yet, click Create New Course in the top-right corner and follow the prompts.

  3. Select your course and click View.

  4. Locate your first lesson — it will show as Draft.

  5. Click the dropdown next to the draft label and choose one of the following:

  • Publish – Makes the lesson live immediately

  • Schedule Publish – Sets a specific future date/time for release

  • Drip Publish – Releases the lesson X days after a member starts the course

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Once at least one lesson is published, your course is considered live, and the “Unpublished” banner will disappear.

💡 Tip: Publish just your first lesson to launch, then drip or schedule future lessons to give yourself time to build while students begin learning.

What Members See

  • Members will only see published lessons

  • Draft or future lessons remain hidden from them

  • They can see the titles of scheduled future lessons and assignments, but not the content
  • This lets you build your course while students are taking it, without showing incomplete content

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