Set a start date for dripping courses
Kai Lossgott
Dripping is from date of sign-up. There is no option to set a start date. This means, it will not work for cohorts, only on-demand "evergreen" courses. It requires manually scheduling every lesson, sometimes over a number of weeks.
Case study: I ended up manually scheduling each of 75 lessons of a daily challenge over 6 weeks. Then I had to create a parallel schedule in threads and post there at the same time, so that the community discussion cards from the course had a counterpart participants could actually leave comments on. No integrated calendar, no automated recurring schedule. Big frustration. I probably spent six days just doing this.
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Improved Cohort Drip
Julius Popp
The problem:
I set the lessons of a course to specific dates.
When I create a new cohort, I have to set each lesson's day one at a time again.
The suggestions:
I'd love to set the day 1 / starting day of a new cohort, and then have 1 lesson be published every day.
Possible solution:
Set start date / day zero of the new cohort, and let the dripping start at that day (day zero) and then drip.
Alternatively: drip 1 day after previous lesson.
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Course start date (cohort start) and lessons dropping
Kateřina HEALLO®
I don't know if this already exists, but I haven't been able to figure it out. I would like to start a course on November 10, 2025. Then I would like to open each lesson one day at a time. I don't know how to set this up. So that it would be possible to enroll in the course on November 10, 2025, the first lesson would open on that day, then the second lesson the next day. I know that lessons can be set to open a certain amount of time after enrollment.
But they may enroll in the course today, for example, but the course will not start until November 10, 2025, and they should receive the first (and only) lesson on November 10. I also don't understand what the option to publish a module and lessons means—does that mean that if I select a module, the settings will apply to all lessons in that module? That's not clear to me.
Marc Scheff
Absolutely this. In mailchimp I can set a date for email one. Then tell every other email to go “one day after the last one” which would save me hours. Hours.
Charlotte Salvanes
yes very important !