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# Add, Organize, and Customize Courses in Your Academy

> Add courses from Explore, build your own, organize them into collections and modules, choose access, and publish when ready.

Fayne ships with a curated library of professional business courses, organized into thematic Tracks. You do not start from a blank page. Every course in the library is fully written, structured, and ready to use. Your job is to pick what fits your audience, add it to your academy, and customize from there.

## How content is structured

Content in Fayne follows a four-level hierarchy:

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Lesson" icon="file-text">
    One focused piece of learning content. A lesson can combine writing, media, questions, downloads, and interactive blocks. A [knowledge check](/docs/content/knowledge-checks) is a graded lesson.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Course" icon="book-open">
    A sequence of lessons in a logical progression, optionally grouped into [modules](/docs/content/modules). For example, "Cold Outreach Mastery."
  </Card>

  <Card title="Track" icon="layers">
    A group of related courses covering a domain, such as the Sales Mastery Track or the Leadership Track.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Academy" icon="graduation-cap">
    Your complete branded product. What students see as one unified destination at your URL.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Browse and add courses from the library

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Explore">
    In your owner dashboard, click **Explore** in the left sidebar. Courses are organized by Track. You can filter by Track or search by keyword.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Preview a course before adding it">
    Click any course to open its detail view. You will see the full lesson outline, estimated duration, and lesson count. Scroll through the outline to confirm the course fits your audience before committing.

    <Tip>
      Preview a few courses in the same Track to compare outlines. Tracks are designed to work together, but you can add individual courses without adding the entire Track.
    </Tip>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add a course to your academy">
    Click **Add to my academy** on any course detail page. The course appears in your academy immediately. Students can see and start it once you publish it.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## The Explore library and your copy

When you add a course, Fayne copies its content into your academy as your own private version. This is what lets you customize freely.

Here is how it works:

* **Adding a course copies its content into your academy.** From that moment, every lesson is your own copy. You edit it in place, by hand or with AI.
* **Your edits never touch the Library or any other academy.** Each academy has its own independent copies.
* **Library improvements apply to future additions only.** When Fayne improves a course in the Explore library, those updates flow into academies that add the course afterward. Courses already in your academy are not changed.

<Info>
  Copies are made per lesson when you add a course. Every lesson in an added course is an independent copy that you own and can edit.
</Info>

This gives you professionally authored content as a starting point, with the freedom to make any lesson sound exactly like you.

## Organize your catalog with collections

Collections group and order courses in your catalog. They help students browse by topic, but they never decide who can open a course.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Courses">
    Go to **Courses**. Your course board is grouped by collection. Courses that are not in a collection appear under **More courses**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Create a collection">
    Click **Create collection**, add a name and optional description, then save.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Move a course">
    Open the course's menu, choose **Move to collection**, then pick the destination.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Reorder everything">
    Click **Organize courses**. Drag courses within or between collections, reorder the collections themselves, then save.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose each collection's layout">
    Each collection can display as a **grid** or a **slider** in the student catalog. Mix them to give big flagship collections room and keep smaller ones compact.
  </Step>
</Steps>

Students browsing a catalog with collections get a sticky navigation bar that follows them as they scroll, so they can jump straight to any collection. On your side, the **Courses** page has a collection filter, which keeps a large library manageable.

<Note>
  Collections organize the catalog only. To control access, set a course to Free, Paid, or Members-only, or include it in an [offer](/docs/payments/offers).
</Note>

## The course menu

Each course card on the **Courses** page has a menu with everything you can do to the course as a whole:

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Course settings" icon="settings">
    Opens the course's settings dialog (see [Course settings](#course-settings) below) without opening the editor.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Edit thumbnail" icon="image">
    Opens the course settings on the **Design** tab, where you set the cover image and thumbnail.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Duplicate" icon="copy">
    Creates a content-only copy in the same academy, named with "(copy)", as a draft with your default access setting. Lessons, thumbnail, collection, and certificate settings come along; enrollments, pricing, and progress do not. Use it to build a new version of a course without touching the live one.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Copy to academy" icon="arrow-right-left">
    Shown when you own more than one academy. Pick a destination and the course is copied there as a draft, keeping its title. The collection is dropped because collections belong to each academy. The success toast offers **Undo** for a moment in case of a mis-click.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Move to collection" icon="folder">
    Put the course in a collection, or take it out.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Delete" icon="trash">
    Removes the course. Students who are already enrolled lose access immediately.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

Both copies count toward your course limits. Copy to academy is available to admins as well as the owner, as long as both academies belong to the same owner.

## Course settings

Open a course in the editor and click the gear in the top bar to reach its settings dialog. The tabs are:

| Tab | What it holds |
| - | - |
| **Access** | Free, Paid, or Members-only, and which offers include the course. See [Pricing Models](/docs/payments/pricing-models). |
| **Certificate** | Turn on the certificate of completion for this course. See [Certificates](/docs/students/certificates). |
| **Drip Schedule** | Release lessons over time. See [Drip scheduling](/docs/content/drip-scheduling). |
| **Design** | The course cover image and thumbnail. |
| **Source** | Whether the course is custom or based on a library course, and which one. |
| **Danger zone** | Unpublish or delete the course. |

Next to the gear, the chart icon (**Course insights**) opens the course's own analytics, including quiz and knowledge-check results. See [Analytics](/docs/analytics/overview#course-insights).

## Structure the lessons

Inside the editor, the lesson sidebar is where you shape the course:

* **Add lesson** creates a blank lesson. The chevron next to it also offers **Add knowledge check** and **Add module**.
* [**Modules**](/docs/content/modules) group lessons into named chapters that show on the course page and in the lesson viewer.
* [**Knowledge checks**](/docs/content/knowledge-checks) are graded quiz lessons with a pass mark that can lock the lessons after them.
* Drag lessons to reorder them. Lessons with a video or a check show an icon in the list.

## Build your own course

You are not limited to the pre-built courses in the library. You can create your own course from scratch and write its lessons, by hand or with AI, or [generate a whole course](/docs/content/ai-course-generation) from a brief.

## Courses in the works

At the top of the **Courses** page, the **In the works** row holds courses that aren't finished courses yet:

* **Drafts**: courses Fayne is generating right now, with their status ("Drafting the outline", "Outline ready for your review", "Writing lesson 3 of 8"). Click **Continue** or **Follow along** to open the generation screen.
* **Briefs**: the other courses Fayne planned for your academy during setup (see [Quickstart](/docs/quickstart)). Each brief shows the course's title, its promise, and how many lessons it plans.

Click **Open brief** to build one. The [course builder](/docs/content/ai-course-generation) opens with the brief already filled in, sized to what your AI credits cover (never fewer than 3 lessons). Adjust anything, then **Create outline**. Building from a brief works on every plan, the free trial included, and draws from your AI credits like any generation (about 10 credits per lesson). If a course needs more credits than you have left, Fayne tells you how many it needs so you can shorten it or add credits.

Don't want a brief? Hover it and delete it (**Delete brief**). It is removed from your academy plan; your courses aren't affected. Once you build a brief, it becomes a course and moves into your course list like any other.

## Set what students will learn

Each course detail page shows a "What you'll learn" box. By default it lists your course's lesson titles. To make the promise sharper, open the course's detail page editor and write your own learning points: add, edit, or reorder them as plain lines. Students and your preview see your version in place of the lesson titles. If you ever want the default back, use **Reset to lesson titles**.

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Can I write a lesson from scratch?">
    Yes. Inside any course, click **Add lesson** to open the block editor with a blank canvas. You can write entirely original lessons, use AI to help draft them, and mix them freely with library lessons in the same course.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="What happens to my edits if Fayne improves a course in the Explore Library?">
    Nothing. The lessons in your academy are your own copies. Improvements Fayne makes to the Explore Library apply only to courses added after the update. Courses already in your academy stay exactly as you left them.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Can I remove a course from my academy?">
    Yes. Open the course menu and select **Delete**, or use the Danger zone in course settings. Students who are already enrolled lose access immediately.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>


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