Update and Maintain Course Content

Courses age—gear changes, techniques evolve, links break. Small fixes belong in the existing lesson; major restructures may deserve a new course slug so enrolled students are not mid-curriculum when you rearrange everything. Communicate meaningful updates so returning students know what changed.

Prerequisites

Dashboard → Portal Manager → Overview → Courses → open course → lesson → Save

Announcements: email students externally or portal messaging when available

What you're looking at

Lesson editor: title, short description, video, rich-text notes, attachments—same fields as initial creation.

Lesson list: drag handles to reorder without recreating content.

Course status: draft / published / archived on the course shell (not a separate per-lesson publish toggle in the current editor).

Implementation steps

1. Open the course editor and identify the outdated lesson.
2. Edit lesson notes, replace a video, or swap attachments from Media.
3. Save and immediately check the client portal as a test student.
4. Optionally add a short note at the top of the lesson describing what changed.
5. For significant updates, email enrolled students or post a portal announcement when messaging is available.
6. Prefer editing in place over deleting lessons students partially completed—deletion can affect progress rows.
7. When replacing an entire curriculum, create a v2 course with a new slug and sunset the old one after a transition period.

What you'll see

Enrolled students see updated content on their next visit. Progress for unchanged lessons typically remains intact when you edit in place.

Verifying your setup

• At least one lesson was updated and verified in the student portal.
• Students were notified when the change materially affects their workflow.
• No broken links or empty lessons after the edit.