Build your course curriculum on Dirassa+
The curriculum is the heart of a course: chapters, and in each one lessons, exams and live sessions, in the order you choose, with an unlock rule for every part. Above it, one card says in a sentence where the course stands and what is left before your students find something to learn. Every button on the page is explained here, with examples from a real course.
- About 12 minutes
- 10 steps
Who can do it: Requires “Edit lessons” together with “Edit own courses” (or “Edit any course”) in your role; publishing lessons or the course needs “Publish and price”, and deleting lessons “Delete lessons”.
Let Noqta show youIn 10 steps
- 1Open your course: Curriculum is the first tab; the header shows its status, its figures and the publish button.
- 2Read the card above the chapters: one sentence on what is left, one button to do it.
- 3Add chapters with “Add the first chapter”, then “Add chapter”, and name each one straight away.
- 4From “Add to section”, pick a lesson typed in place, an exam or a live session.
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- 5Click a lesson to open its editor; build it from blocks, its questions at the end.
- 6Reorder by dragging or with the keyboard, or with “Move up” and “Move to…”; on a phone, “Reorder”.
- 7Publish a lesson with “Published to students” in its options, or from its editor, now or “Later”.
- 8Choose when it opens: immediately, after a delay, on a date, after the previous one, or by hand.
- 9Announce what’s next with “Coming soon” and open a free lesson to visitors.
- 10Check it all through a student’s eyes in “As student”.
Before you start
- A course already created; if not, start with the lesson “Create a course”.
- The “Edit lessons” permission in your role, and “Publish and price” if you will publish.
- A rough plan of your chapters: what comes first and what opens later.
- Some of the content: a video, a PDF handout or the text of the explanation.
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The course page at a glance
Open your course from Courses; the first tab is Curriculum. The header shows the cover, the name and the course’s status: “Draft”, “Published” or “Archived”. Under the name are its figures: the lessons and how many are published, such as “12 lessons, 8 published”, then the length of the published lessons, the level and the format. At the end of the header sit the globe, “View public page”, when the sales page is visible, then “Page studio”, then the publish button: “Publish course” for a draft, and “Published” with an arrow for a live course, which opens “View as a student” and “Unpublish…”. Above the chapters, at the end of the page, a quiet row of tools: “Linked task”, “Marketing post”, which Noqta writes from your chapters and lessons, and “Collapse all” when the course has more than one chapter.
On screenCurriculumDraftPublishedView public pagePage studioPublish courseView as a studentUnpublish…Linked taskMarketing postCollapse allExpand allTipCollapse a chapter with the arrow in its head, or all of them with “Collapse all”, then “Expand all”: your device remembers what you collapsed, course by course. If some lessons have no description, Noqta offers a line such as “3 lessons without a description · Write them”.
Heads-up“Unpublish…” asks first: “Unpublishing stops new enrolments only; enrolled students keep their access.”, then “Yes, unpublish”. Without “Edit lessons”, the curriculum reads “You are viewing the curriculum read-only.” and the editing buttons don’t show.
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“Course status”: one sentence on what is left
Under the tabs, above the chapters, sits the “Course status” card: one sentence and at most one button, depending on where the course stands. With nothing published it says “One published lesson is enough for your student to have somewhere to start.”, with “Publish the ready lessons”; or “Write “…”” with the first draft’s name when no lesson is ready; or “Add a first lesson” when your chapters are empty. On a course that is already published the card turns to the warning colour: “Your course is published, but your students can't find a lesson in it yet.” A published lesson with no content is named, such as “A published lesson opens empty for your students: “Limits””, with “Open it and finish it”. When a draft lacks nothing it says “Your course is ready to publish.” and “Publish course” in the header becomes the orange button. An archived course: “Archived: it is not on sale, and its students carry on.”, with “Restore it as a draft”. And on a course that is ready or live, if something still deserves a look, a small button such as “2 notes” opens “Notes on your course”: each note with its reason, like “Description is too short” or “An offer with no payment method”, and “Fix it”, which takes you where it is fixed.
On screenPublish the ready lessonsWrite “…”Add a first lessonOpen it and finish itYour course is ready to publish.Restore it as a draft2 notesNotes on your courseFix itPublish (2)OpenBefore publishingPublish the course aloneTip“Publish the ready lessons” opens a popup with the course’s drafts: the ready ones are ticked, and the ones still missing something stay drafts, with the reason in words, such as “No content yet” or “A video is not ready”, and “Open” to their editor. Press “Publish (2)” and the count moves as you watch; then the popup says what went out and what stayed, by name.
Heads-upThe card blocks nothing: “Publish course” always works. But when no lesson is published, a “Before publishing” popup stops you first and offers the ready lessons: “Publish with 2 ready lessons”, or “Publish the course alone”. And if the course is paid with no payment method ready, “Your students can’t pay yet” asks before it goes out: “Add a CCP or BaridiMob account”, or “Publish now, I’ll add a payment method later”.
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Chapters: the structure of your course
A chapter is a large part of the course, such as “Functions” or “Sequences”. In an empty curriculum, press “Add the first chapter”, or “Suggest a plan” if Noqta is on: it suggests ordered chapters with the lessons of each, and adds them only once you approve. After that, “Add chapter” sits under the last chapter: the chapter is created at once with a name like “Chapter 2” and the cursor in its title, so type its name and press Enter; click the title to change it later. Under the name is a line such as “3 lessons · 2 published · 45m”; at the end of the head, the arrow to collapse it and “Chapter options” (⋯): “Add to section”, “Duplicate chapter”, which copies its lessons with content and settings into a new chapter at the end (without the questions), the “Opens” rule, “Coming soon”, “Move chapter up” and “Move chapter down”, then “Delete chapter…”.
On screenAdd the first chapterSuggest a planAdd chapterChapter optionsAdd to sectionDuplicate chapterMove chapter upMove chapter downDelete chapter…Move the lessons firstDelete for goodTipExample: a maths course in three chapters, “Functions”, “Sequences”, “Probability”; or a sewing course: “Tools”, “Cutting”, “Assembly”. Duplicating helps for a revision chapter that repeats the same shape.
Heads-up“Delete chapter…” opens a popup that says what goes with it, such as “Deleting «Functions» also deletes its 3 lessons and your students’ progress in them, for good.” To keep the lessons, press “Move the lessons first” and pick another chapter, then delete it empty. “Delete for good” can’t be undone.
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Three things a chapter takes
Under every chapter’s lessons, “Add to section” (also the first choice in “Chapter options”) opens a popup such as “Add to «Functions»” with three choices. “Lesson”: a “Lesson title” line appears at the end of the chapter; type the title and press Enter, the lesson is added and the cursor stays in the line for the next one; Esc closes it. “Exam”: the “New paper” popup, with its name — written for you, like “Test · Functions” — and its format (“Test” by default, or “Exam” or “Practice”), then “Create it and write the first question”: the paper is added at the end of the chapter and its editor opens on its first question, where you write your questions, paste them, or let Noqta suggest them from the chapter’s lessons. “Live session”: a numbered “Live session” row is added and you go straight to scheduling the stream; it is recorded and becomes a lesson.
On screenAdd to sectionLessonLesson titleEnter to add · Esc to closeExamNew paperFormatCreate it and write the first questionLive sessionTipA whole chapter of lessons in a minute: “Limits”, Enter, “Derivatives”, Enter, then Esc. Everything you add starts as a draft: your students don’t see it until you publish it.
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Inside a lesson: blocks and lesson questions
Click a lesson’s title in its row to open its editor, or “Open editor” in the lesson’s options; a double click on the title renames it in place, like “Rename” in the options. A lesson is built from blocks added with “Add a block”: video (uploaded and protected, or a link), text with maths formulas, image, PDF, audio, note, an exercise with its solution, a summary, and more. Your work saves itself as you type. At the end of the lesson, “Lesson questions” appear to students after the content; you open them from the lesson’s options too, and Noqta can write them from the lesson itself. An empty lesson can’t be published, nor one with a block you started and didn’t finish or a video whose upload didn’t complete; a block with nothing at all in it stays in your draft without reaching students, and doesn’t stop the publish.
On screenOpen editorRenameAdd a blockVideoTextImagePDFAudioNoteExerciseSummaryLesson questionsTipExample: “Lesson 1 — What a function is”: the video, a text with the definition as a formula, a summary, then three questions at the end. Every block is explained in the lesson “The lesson editor”.
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Order: by dragging or by arrows, and groups
On a computer, grab the handle at the start of a lesson’s row or a chapter’s head (“Drag to reorder «…»”) and drag it into place; a lesson can move to another chapter, or be dropped on a collapsed or empty chapter to land at its end. The order saves the moment you let go; if it can’t be saved it goes back as it was and a message says so. With the keyboard: focus the handle, press Space, move with the arrows, Space to drop, Escape to cancel. Without dragging: in the lesson’s options, “Move up” and “Move down”, and “Move to…”, which puts it at the end of the chapter you pick; its current chapter reads “Here now”. On a phone, press “Reorder” above the curriculum: two arrows beside every lesson and chapter, and a “Move to…” arrow, then “Done”. To gather consecutive lessons under a heading inside a chapter, choose “Start a group here” in a lesson’s options, then “Join the group above” for the ones below; click the group’s name to change it, and the × beside it is “Ungroup”.
On screenDrag to reorder «…»Move upMove downMove to…Here nowReorderDoneStart a group hereJoin the group aboveRemove from groupUngroupTipExample: inside “Functions”, a “Worked exercises” group holds three short lessons under the explanation lessons. A lesson can only join the group right above it, so a group stays in one piece.
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Publishing a lesson: from its row or its editor
Every row says its lesson’s state with a dot and a word: “Draft”, which students don’t see; “Published”, which they do; “Scheduled”, which will publish itself, with its time under the title, such as “Publishes Sat 7 Nov, 9:00”; and “Soon”, announced before it is ready. The word is not a button: to publish, open “Lesson options” and switch on “Published to students”, or press “Publish” in its editor, then “Publish lesson”. Either way, publishing checks that the lesson is ready and snapshots what students read; your draft stays free: what you change in a published lesson doesn’t reach them until “Update the published version” in the editor. To publish a ready draft at a set time, choose “Later” in the publish panel: a day and time in your school’s time zone, and it publishes on its own. A published lesson can’t schedule its update: it is updated now. In a course that is still a draft, nobody sees your lesson yet: the editor’s publish panel says “The lesson is ready. Publish the course so your students can see it.”, with “Publish the course”, which publishes it right there.
On screenDraftPublishedScheduledSoonLesson optionsPublished to studentsPublishPublish lessonUpdate the published versionLaterPublish the courseUndoTipA lesson that isn’t ready isn’t published, and a message says why, such as “«Derivatives» wasn’t published: the lesson is empty — add at least one block”, with “Open it”. In a live course, switching “Published to students” off doesn’t hide the lesson at once: “«…» is hidden from students.” stays for five seconds with “Undo”. When a lesson is published for the first time — from its row, its editor or at its scheduled time — the course’s students who turned on notifications get “New lesson published” on their phone, in each phone’s language, once per lesson; lessons published one after another share one notification, such as “3 new lessons published”. Updating a published lesson sends nothing.
Heads-up“Published to students” needs the “Publish and price” permission; without it the switch is greyed out with “Needs the permission to publish courses”. And an unfinished lesson can’t be scheduled: “Finish what's missing first — an incomplete lesson can't be scheduled.” If a scheduled lesson isn’t ready at its time, it isn’t published: it stays a draft, its editor reads “Missed its publish time”, and the course’s teacher gets a bell notice ““…” was not published on schedule”.
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When it opens: five rules
Publishing puts the lesson in the course; “Opens” decides when each student gets it. You’ll find it in both lesson and chapter options. “Immediately” opens it right away. “After a delay” opens it a number of days after the student enrolls or their group starts. “On a fixed date” opens it on a day and time, in your school’s time zone. “After the previous lesson” opens it once the student completes the one before, optionally with a mastery score they must reach on the previous assessment. “I open it myself” stays “Locked (manual)” until you switch it on: “Open (manual)”. The rule shows under the lesson’s or chapter’s title, such as “After 7d — after enrollment”.
On screenOpensImmediatelyAfter a delayafter enrollmentafter group startOn a fixed dateAfter the previous lessonI open it myselfLocked (manual)Open (manual)TipExample: “Functions” immediately; “Sequences” 7 days after enrollment; the functions test after the previous lesson at 60% mastery; the final revision session “I open it myself”, opened the night before the exam.
Heads-upA chapter’s rule and a lesson’s rule apply together: the lesson opens only when both are met. And “On a fixed date” is saved only once you pick its day and time; until then, the row keeps its previous rule.
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Coming soon, the free lesson, and lesson length
“Coming soon” is a switch in the lesson and chapter options that announces what isn’t ready: the lesson’s row turns to “Soon”, and students see the title and the expected date if you set one, such as “Expected 30 Oct”, but can’t open it; a chapter marked coming soon keeps its lessons closed. A “Free preview lesson” is open to any visitor before buying, from the course page, opens for your students without waiting for unlock rules, and is written under its title in the row. On your site’s course page, the “Watch “…” for free” link under the button goes straight to the first free lesson. Visitors open it without an account in new courses (“Open to everyone” in the “Course page” tab); in a course on “With a free account”, they first go through “Create your account to watch “…” for free”, then come back to the lesson. Lesson length is measured automatically and shows in the row, such as “12 m”; type it yourself if you want, or clear it to go back to the automatic measure.
On screenComing soonExpected date (optional)Free preview lessonLesson length in minutes — leave empty to auto-measureTipOne free lesson in every paid course convinces a visitor more than any description.
Heads-upTurning on “Coming soon” for a published lesson moves it back to draft, and in a live course you have five seconds to “Undo”; publish it again when it’s ready. Without “Publish and price”, you can’t announce a published lesson.
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Check it through a student’s eyes
The “As student” tab (on a live course, also in the “Published” menu at the top of the page) shows the curriculum the way an enrolled student sees it: pick the day (enrollment day, after 3 days, after 7…) and whether earlier lessons are done, and see which lessons are open and which are locked. The student sees a locked lesson with a padlock and a clear reason: its opening time in the school’s time zone, the lesson to finish first, or the score required.
On screenAs studentView as studentTipBefore you open enrollment, try day one and day seven: if you see what you expect, your rules are right.
After the curriculum
- Publish the course“Publish course” at the top of the page opens enrollment; with no published lesson, “Before publishing” stops you first.
- Follow your studentsEach student’s progress, in the Students tab.
- Read the analyticsEach lesson’s completion and where students stop, in the course’s Analytics tab.
- Polish the course pageThe sales page and the free lesson, in the Course page tab.
Questions
Why can’t my students see a lesson I added?
Every lesson starts as a draft. Open the lesson’s options and switch on “Published to students”, or publish it from its editor, then check its “Opens” rule and its chapter’s.
I edited a published lesson; why don’t students see it?
Publishing takes a snapshot. Your edits stay in the draft until you press “Update the published version” in the editor.
What’s the difference between “Later” and “On a fixed date”?
“Later”, in the publish panel, decides when the lesson itself is published; its row reads “Scheduled” until then. “On a fixed date” is an unlock rule for a published lesson: when the student can reach it. Use either, or both.
Why don’t I see the “Course status” card?
It only shows when it has something to say: nothing published, an empty published lesson, a draft ready to publish, or an archived course. An empty course starts with “Add the first chapter”, a sound live course doesn’t need it, and anything worth a look goes behind the “notes” button. In a school that reviews its courses, the review banner speaks instead.
I hid a lesson from my students by mistake. What now?
In a live course the lesson doesn’t disappear at once: “«…» is hidden from students.” stays for five seconds with “Undo”. After that, switch “Published to students” back on.
Which time zone do the dates use?
Your school’s, Algiers time by default, whatever the time zone of your device or your student’s.
Can a student open a locked lesson if they have its link?
No. The lock is applied on the server; instead the student sees why it’s locked and when it opens.
How does the mastery score work?
With “After the previous lesson”, the lesson opens only once the student reaches the required score on the previous lesson’s assessment, after grading.
Can I copy a whole chapter?
Yes: “Duplicate chapter” copies its lessons with content and settings into a new chapter at the end. Questions, of lessons and exams alike, aren’t copied with it.
Why can’t I delete a chapter that has lessons?
Deleting a chapter that holds lessons needs the “Delete lessons” permission, and the popup says so. Move its lessons to another chapter first, then delete it empty.
Can I undo deleting a chapter or a lesson?
No. Deleting a lesson asks you to “Confirm”, and deleting a chapter first says how many lessons and how much student progress go with it, offering “Move the lessons first” to keep them.