Cohorts let you run the same Course for separate groups of members. Each cohort has its own Access Group, Channels and copy of every lesson, so you set release dates for each cohort on its own.

How to create a new cohort

You need an existing Course first. Open it, click the 3-dot menu and select Create another Cohort.

• New Cohort Name
• Set a Course Abbreviation, up to 5 characters. It's added to the cohort's Channel names, for example discussions-c2.
• Create Discussion Channels for the cohort's own conversations.
• Due dates: if the previous cohort has an assignment due date or an Event, set the first one for the new cohort and every due date and Event moves by the same amount.
• Access: Set up One-Time Purchase, Bundle with a Paid Membership and Offer Free Access are filled in from the most recent cohort. Remove the earlier cohort's groups so its members aren't sent to the new one.

Click Create.

What a new cohort copies

A new cohort copies the most recently created cohort, whichever cohort you're viewing: its modules, lessons, text, files, videos, assignment settings and Events. It doesn't copy instructors, embed cards or Require Lesson Completion, so set those with Edit afterwards.

Every lesson starts Unpublished, with no release schedule. Editing a lesson in one cohort doesn't change the other cohorts.

These are shared by every cohort: the Course title, header and cover image, the Course's section and completion Workflow, and the push and email choice for new-lesson notifications.

Releasing lessons

• Drip counts days from when each member joins the cohort, so members who join on different days get lessons on different days.
• Scheduled Date releases a lesson to the whole cohort at once.

Release times are set in the time zone of the device you use.

Who joins which cohort

When a member selects Start or Start Course, they join the newest cohort they have access to, as long as it has at least one Published lesson. If it has none, the Course isn't offered to them.

Once members join a cohort, they don't see newer cohorts. Admins with Manage Courses see every cohort.

Instructors

Instructors approve submissions and ask for retries in their own cohorts. Only members with the Manage Courses permission can be instructors. They can open submissions from every cohort, but Approve and Retry only work in the cohorts they instruct.

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I make my cohort-based Course into an evergreen one? 

Currently, it's not possible to convert cohort-based Courses into evergreen. Our recommendation is to create a new cohort and use this latest cohort for any new members. This way, if you don't create any subsequent cohorts, all incoming members will have access through the same cohort Access Group.
 

I need to delete a cohort I created previously, how can I do this? 

It's not possible to delete a cohort individually. To remove a cohort, you would have to delete the associated Course as well.